The annual Donglu Astrophysics Forum is designed to strengthen the existing and to build new links and collaborations between the newly established SWIFAR (http://www.swifar.ynu.edu.cn/index.htm) and the domestic as well as the international community. This very first one of the series is to seek and build synergy of MEPHISTO (http://www.swifar.ynu.edu.cn/info/1015/1073.htm), a 1.6m multi-channel photometric survey telescope currently under development at SWIFAR, with other either already operating or planned national and international facilities, such as SkyMapper, Gaia, WFST and LSST in the optical, EP and SVOM in the X-ray and gamma-ray, and LIGO and VIRGO for the gravitational waves. 

　　Scientific Organizing Committee: James Binney (U. of Oxford), Zuhui Fan (YNU),  Zhanwen Han (YNAO), Taotao Fang (XMU), Jinliang Hou (SHAO), Biwei Jiang (BNU),  Yipeng Jing (SJTU), Xi Kang (PMO), Enwei Liang (GXU), Weipeng Lin (SYSU), Xiaowei Liu (YNU, Chair), Mathias Schultheis (UCA), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA), Nicolas Walton (U. Cambridge), Xiaofeng Wang (THU), Tinggui Wang (USTC), Christian Wolf (ANU), Li Zhang (YNU), Shuangnan Zhang (IHEP), Gang Zhao (NAOC), Jilin Zhou (NJU) 

　　Local Organizing Committee: Bingqiu Chen, Xinzhong Er, Xiaoming Guo, Yang Huang, Guangxing Li, Xiangyun Li (Chair), Dezi Liu, Xiangkun Liu, Xun Shi, Chun Wang, Yong Yang, Meng Zhang, Zhaojin Zi  

　　Preliminary program 

　　Day 1 (Monday, April 1): Large-scale sky surveys 

　　Session 1: Ongoing surveys 

　　Gaia, LAMOST, ZTF/NASA-ATLAS, LIGO/VIRGO, SkyMapper, DESI/BASS, FAST…... 

　　Session 2: Forthcoming surveys 

　　LSST, Einstein Probe, SVOM, CSS-OS, WFST, MEPHISTO…... 

　　Day 2 (Tuesday, April 2): Near-field cosmology 

　　Session 1: The Galactic (sub)structure and evolution 

　　Session 2: The Galactic gravitational potential and (dark) matter distribution 

　　Session 3: The chemodynamic properties of the Galaxy and evolution 

　　Session 4: The Local Group of galaxies 

　　Day 3 (Wednesday, April 3): Time-domain sciences 

　　Session 1: Supernovae 

　　Session 2: Gamma-Ray bursts/GW sources 

　　Session 3: AGNs/QSOs/TDEs 

　　Session 4: Galactic variable stars and exoplanets 

　　For registration and abstract submission: Pls contact Zhaojin Zi (zizhaojin@ynu.edu.cn) 

　　Submission deadline: February 15, 2019.