Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

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The Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics is an international scientific conference currently held once every two years, intended for astronomers, astrophysicists, and other researchers interested in general relativity and its implications. These gatherings helped end the insularity of the specialists of these diverse subjects and marked the rise of modern astrophysics as a multidisciplinary area of research. Today, these Symposia are among the most well-known in the domain of gravitational physics. They originally met in Texas, United States. But they proved highly successful that they were later held in many other places internationally, retaining the name. A typical Texas Symposium has hundreds of attendees from around the world. Ivor Robinson, one of the organizers of the first few Symposia, likely coined the term "relativistic astrophysics" in 1963. Historians of science commonly mark the First Texas Symposium as the birth of the field.

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