Purpose

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are fleeting, millisecond radio flashes that continue to puzzle astronomers, offering tantalizing hints about extreme events in the universe. To catch these elusive signals, the Taiwanese FRB community built the Bustling Universe Radio Survey Telescope (BURSTT), a dedicated, wide-field instrument capable of rapid detection and precise localization of nearby bursts. BURSTT is expanding its reach through a network of global outriggers, enabling international collaboration and unprecedented localization of FRBs across the sky. The FRB Taiwan 2026 conference, titled “Wide-Field Survey of Fast Radio Bursts and Future Cosmology”, will be hosted by National Taitung University (NTTU). It provides a forum to showcase the latest wide-field FRB discoveries, explore their implications for cosmology, and foster global collaborations that will shape the next decade of FRB research.

Important dates:

• Abstract Submission and Registration Deadline: March 14, 2026
• Conference program announcement: March 21, 2026

Invited Speakers (confirmed; listed alphabetically)

• James Okwe Chibueze (University of South Africa)
• Junhan Kim (KAIST)
• Albert Lau (University of Toronto)
• Quang Nguyen Luong (CEA Saclay)
• Ryuichi Takahashi (Hirosaki University)