| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, July 7th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Welcome and coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Opening Remarks: Cecilia Garraffo (Director of AstroAI) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 10:00 am - 11:30 am |
Keynote Speaker: Bill Freeman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Contributed Talks: Cosmology • Ashod Khederlarian (Deep Learning Photometric Redshifts for Roman) • Helen Shao (Signal-Preserving Diffusion Models for CMB Foreground Reconstruction) • Jack Grossman (A Diffusion-Based Machine Learning Model to Infer the Neutrino Effects from Large Scale Structure) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch | Pratt / Lobby / Atrium |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
Spotlight Speaker: Alan Hsu (Harvard University) Title: Reconstructing Galaxy Cluster Mass Maps using Score-based Generative Modeling |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: Disks/Exoplanets • Eddie Berman (Augmenting Spectra Emulation with Deep Evidential Regression for Biomarker Retrieval) • Sebastian Ratzenboeck (Learning with Gaps: A Domain-Adaptive SBI Framework for Mapping Young Stars) • Sayed Shafaat Mahmud (Inferring Planet & Disk Parameters Using a Variational Autoencoder) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm |
Poster Session Poster 1: Srinadh Reddy Bhavanam (MargFormer: Photometric Classification of Stars, Quasars & Compact Galaxies with Cross-Attention Vision Transformer) Poster 2: Rocco Di Tella (Building Honest Agents Through Introspection: Probe-driven Confidence Scores) Poster 3: Rosa A. Gonzalez (Using AI to Determine the Globular Cluster System - Stellar Mass Relation at z=0.4) Poster 4: Hossein Hatamnia (AI-Driven Cosmic Web Identification) Poster 5: Bradley Hutchinson (Sequential Unsupervised Learning for Large Multicolor Surveys) Poster 6: Naysha Jain (Exospore: AI-Driven Detection of Microbial Life) Poster 7: Rintaro Kanaki (Modeling Spatial Selection Effects in Photometric Redshifts) Poster 8: Fulya Kiroglu (When Stars Collide: Neural Network Reconstruction) Poster 9: Christina X. Liu (Exoplanet Habitability via Machine Learning) Poster 10: Carolyn M. Mill (Investigating Survey Systematics with Bayesian Statistics) Poster 11: Lorenzo Monti (Unveiling Hidden Structures with Semi-supervised Clustering) Poster 12: Andrea Persici (Blended Source Detection in Deep Fields) Poster 13: Ashwini Nagaraj Shenoy (Solar Flare Forecasting using ML/DL) Poster 14: Adiba Amira Siddiqa (Detecting Dark Star Candidates) Poster 15: Jared Sofair (Spectrophotometric Inference of Stellar & Binary Parameters) |
Library |
| 5:30 pm | Reception | Library |
| Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am - 11:00 am |
Keynote Speaker: David Alvarez-Melis (Harvard University) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: Miscellaneous • Yi Yang (AstroAgent: An Intelligent Assistant… MCP Protocol) • Markus Michael Rau (Hybrid AI-MCMC Inference) • Dimitrios Tanoglidis (Multimodal Models in Astrophysics) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch | Pratt / Lobby / Atrium |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Spotlight Speaker: Nayantara Mudur (Harvard University) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Demofest (Seamless Astronomy) | Library |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Hackathon Pitches | Library |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm |
Diffusion Models Tutorial: Philipp Frank (Stanford University) Title: TBA |
Library / Fishbowl / Pratt / Lobby / B-105 / B-106 |
| Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am - 11:00 am |
Keynote Speaker: Ashley Villar (Harvard University) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am - 1:00 pm |
Keynote Speaker: Elisabeth Sylvan (Brown University / RISD / TUM) Title: Responsible AI in Research |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch | Pratt / Lobby / Atrium |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
Spotlight Speaker: Kaylee De Soto (Harvard University) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: Galaxies/Cosmology • Aryana Haghjoo (Super-Resolving Galaxy Spectra with Diffusion Models) • Luca Gomez Bachar (Error-Bounded Physics-Informed NN Evolution) • Martin Ying (Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Emulator) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm |
SBI Tutorial: Ashley Villar (Harvard University) Title: TBA |
Library |
| Thursday, July 10th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am - 11:00 am |
Keynote Speaker: Viviana Acquaviva (CUNY NYC College of Technology / Columbia University) Title: Interpretability tools in scientific Machine Learning |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: AGN & Lensing • Ingrid Vanessa Daza Perilla (Neural Posterior Estimation for MYTorus Decoupled) • Sogol Sanjaripour (Galaxy SED AGN Identification & Correction) • Nandini Sahu (AI-Accelerated Gravitational Lens Modeling) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch | Pratt / Lobby / Atrium |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Spotlight Speaker: Matthew O'Callaghan (University of Cambridge) Title: Robust Simulation-Based Inference: Bridging the Gap Between Simulation & Observation |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
Contributed Talks: Stellar • Ilay Kamai (Multi-Modal NN Stellar Parameter Predictions) • Paul Gregory (Transformer-Based TESS Light Curve Classification) • Pablo Mercader Perez (Starspot Map Reconstruction via Deep Learning) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Interpretability Tutorial: Core Park (Harvard University) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| Friday, July 11th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am - 11:00 am |
Keynote Speaker: Marc Huertas-Company (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias / University of Paris) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: High Energy/Time Domain • Ann-Kathrin Schuetz (From LEGEND to Binary Black Hole) • Srinadh Reddy Bhavanam (Deep Learning for Compton Image Reconstruction) • Ole Koenig (Modeling X-Ray Photon Pile-Up with ML) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch | Pratt / Lobby / Atrium |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
Spotlight Speaker: Daniel Muthukrishna (MIT, AstroAI) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Hackathon | Library / Fishbowl / Pratt / Lobby / B-105 / B-106 |