| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, July 7th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am to 9:30 am | Welcome and coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am to 10:00 am | Opening Remarks: Cecilia Garraffo (Director of AstroAI) | Phillips Auditorium |
| 10:00 am to 11:30 am |
Keynote Speaker: Bill Freeman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Title: Exploiting the independence of the image from the sensor |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am to 12:00 pm | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |
Contributed Talks: Cosmology Speaker 1: Ashod Khederlarian (Deep Learning Photometric Redshifts for Roman) Speaker 2: Jack Grossman (A Diffusion-Based Machine Learning Model to Infer the Neutrino Effects from Large Scale Structure) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Lunch | Lobby/Atrium |
| 2:00 pm to 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 to 3:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: Disks/Exoplanets Speaker 1: Eddie Berman (Augmenting Spectra Emulation with Deep Evidential Regression for Biomarkers Retrieval) Speaker 2: Sebastian Ratzenboeck (Learning with Gaps: A Domain-Adaptive SBI Framework for Mapping Young Stars) Speaker 3: Sayed Shafaat Mahmud (Inferring Planet and Disk Parameters Using a Variational Autoencoder) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm |
Poster Session Poster 1: Lidiya Ahmed (Machine Learning for Faraday Cup Calibration) Poster 2: Srinadh Reddy Bhavanam (MargFormer: Photometric Classification…) Poster 3: Antoine Bourdin (Diffusing Galaxies onto Dark Matter Fields…) Poster 4: Rocco Di Tella (Building Honest Agents Through Introspection…) Poster 5: Steven Dillmann (Representation Learning for X-ray Transients) Poster 6: Rosa A Gonzalez (Using AI to probe globular cluster systems…) Poster 7: Hossein Hatamnia (AI-Driven Methods for Cosmic Web Environments) Poster 8: Bradley Hutchinson (Unsupervised Learning for Photometric Surveys) Poster 9: Baimam Boukar Jean Jacques (Explainable Asteroid Classification) Poster 10: Naysha Jain (Exospore: Detection of Microbial Life) Poster 11: Rintaro Kanaki (Modeling Spatial Selection Effects in Photometric Redshifts) Poster 12: Fulya Kiroglu (When Stars Collide: Neural Network Insights) Poster 13: Christina X. Liu (Exoplanet Habitability via Machine Learning) Poster 14: Kiera McCormick (Evaluating Large Language Models in Astronomy) Poster 15: Carolyn M Mill (Investigation of Survey Systematics) Poster 16: Lorenzo Monti (CLiMBing the Galactic Ladder…) Poster 17: Drew Oldag (Hyrax) Poster 18: Andrea Persici (Blended Source Detection via Max-Tree) Poster 19: Fiona Redmen (Variational Auto-Encoders for X-Ray Spectra) Poster 20: Ashwini Nagaraj Shenoy (Solar Flare Forecasting…) Poster 21: Abu Bucker Siddik (Pulsar Parameter Estimation via Deep Learning) Poster 22: Adiba Amira Siddiqa (Detecting Dark Star Candidates) Poster 23: Jared Sofair (Spectrophotometric Inference of Stellar Parameters) Poster 24: Nicolò Pinciroli Vago (X-ray Spectral Classification) Poster 25: Akash Vani (Emulator for Galaxy Formation Models) Poster 26: Jennifer Yee (LensNet: Microlensing Event Discovery) Poster 27: Dmitrii Zagorulia (Morphological Classification of Jets) |
Library |
| 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Reception | Library |
| Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am to 9:30 am | Coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am to 11:00 am |
Keynote Speaker: David Alvarez-Melis (Harvard University) Title: Data First: How Composition, Labels, and Adaptation Shape Model Behavior |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:00 am to 11:30 am | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am to 12:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: Miscellaneous Speaker 1: Yi Yang (AstroAgent: An Intelligent Assistant…) Speaker 2: Markus Michael Rau (Hybrid AI-MCMC Approach) Speaker 3: Dimitrios Tanoglidis (Multimodal Models in Astrophysics) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm | Lunch | Lobby/Atrium |
| 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm |
Spotlight Speaker: Nayantara Mudur (Harvard University) Title: Probing Generative Models for Inference in Cosmology |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Demofest (Seamless Astronomy) | Library |
| 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Hackathon Pitches | Library |
| 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm |
Diffusion Models Tutorial: Philipp Frank (Stanford University) Title: Probabilistic Inference in Astrophysics… |
Phillips Auditorium |
| Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am to 9:30 am | Coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am to 11:00 am |
Keynote Speaker: Ashley Villar (Harvard University) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:00 am to 11:30 am | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am to 1:00 pm |
Keynote Speaker: Elisabeth Sylvan (Brown University / RISD / TUM) Title: Responsible AI in Research |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Lunch | Lobby/Atrium |
| 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm |
Spotlight Speaker: Kaylee De Soto (Harvard University) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: Galaxies/Cosmology Speaker 1: Aryana Haghjoo (Diffusion Models for Galaxy Spectra) Speaker 2: Luca Gomez Bachar (Error-Bounded Neural Networks) Speaker 3: Martin Ying (Stellar Evolution Emulator) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm |
SBI Tutorial: Ashley Villar (Harvard) Title: TBA |
Phillips Auditorium |
| Thursday, July 10th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am to 9:30 am | Coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am to 11:00 am |
Keynote Speaker: Viviana Acquaviva (CUNY / Columbia) Title: Interpretability tools in scientific ML |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:00 am to 11:30 am | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am to 12:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: AGN & Lensing Speaker 1: Ingrid V. Daza Perilla (Neural Posterior Estimation…) Speaker 2: Sogol Sanjaripour (Unsupervised Galaxy SED Learning) Speaker 3: Nandini Sahu (AI-Accelerated Lens Modeling) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm | Lunch | Lobby/Atrium |
| 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm |
Spotlight Speaker: Matthew O’Callaghan (Cambridge) Title: Robust Simulation-Based Inference… |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm |
Contributed Talks: Stellar Speaker 1: Ilay Kamai (Spectroscopy & Photometry with NN) Speaker 2: Paul Gregory (Transformer-Based TESS Classifier) Speaker 3: Pablo Mercader Perez (Starspot Map Reconstruction) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Interpretability Tutorial: Core Park (Harvard) Title: Exploring Compositional Generalization… |
Pratt |
| Friday, July 11th, 2025 | ||
| 9:00 am to 9:30 am | Coffee | Phillips Auditorium |
| 9:30 am to 11:00 am |
Keynote Speaker: Marc Huertas-Company (IAC / University of Paris) Title: Representation learning & simulation-based inference |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:00 am to 11:30 am | Break | Phillips Auditorium |
| 11:30 am to 12:30 pm |
Contributed Talks: High Energy/Time Domain Speaker 1: Ann-Kathrin Schuetz (From LEGEND to Binary Black Hole)… Speaker 2: Srinadh Reddy Bhavanam (Deep Learning for Compton)… Speaker 3: Ole Koenig (Modeling X-ray Photon Pile-Up with ML) |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm | Lunch | Lobby/Atrium |
| 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm |
Spotlight Speaker: Daniel Muthukrishna (MIT, AstroAI) Title: Causally Motivated Foundation Models… |
Phillips Auditorium |
| 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Hackathon | Library / Fishbowl / Pratt / Lobby / B-105 / B-106 |