The first meeting in an annual series of international astrophysics conferences, co-organized by the Anglo-Australian Observatory and the Australia Telescope National Facility, is now scheduled for 15 to 20 June with the title, “Merging Black Holes in Galaxies: Galaxy Evolution, AGN and Gravitational Waves”. This topic represents a convergence of the research interests of Dick Manchester and Ron Ekers, two valued colleagues at the ATNF who will be reaching the end of their terms as Australian Research Council Federation Fellows, whose careers we celebrate with this meeting.