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AstroAI Workshop 2025

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Tentative Schedule:

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
Speaker 1: Jakob Dietl (Uncovering the Giants in the Sky – Semantic Segmentation of Galaxy Clusters in Astrophysical Surveys)
Speaker 2: Helen Shao (Signal-Preserving Diffusion Models for CMB Foreground Reconstruction)
Speaker 3: 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
Title: Reconstructing Galaxy Cluster Mass Maps using Score-based Generative Modeling 		Phillips Auditorium
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Contributed Talks: Disks/Exoplanets
Speaker 1: Eddie Berman (Augmenting Spectra Emulation with Deep Evidential Regression for the Purposes of Biomarkers Retrieval)
Speaker 2: Sebastian Ratzenboeck (Learning with Gaps: A Domain-Adaptive SBI Framework for Mapping Young Stars from Incomplete, Multi-Survey Data)
Speaker 3: Sayed Shafaat Mahmud (Inferring Planet and Disk Parameters from Protoplanetary Disk Images 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 and Compact Galaxies with Cross-Attention Vision Transformer)
Poster 2: Rocco Di Tella (Building Honest Agents Through Introspection: Probe-driven Generation of Confidence Scores)
Poster 3: Rosa A. Gonzalez (Using AI tools to determine the globular cluster system – total galaxy stellar mass relation at z=0.4)
Poster 4: Hossein Hatamnia (AI-Driven Methods for Identifying Cosmic Web Environments)
Poster 5: Bradley Hutchinson (A Sequential Unsupervised Learning Approach for Large, Multicolor, Photometric Surveys)
Poster 6: Naysha Jain (Exospore: AI-Driven Detection of Microbial Life for Planetary Protection)
Poster 7: Rintaro Kanaki (Evaluation and Modeling of Spatial Selection Effects in Photometric Redshifts)
Poster 8: Fulya Kiroglu (When Stars Collide: Letting Neural Networks Pick Up the Pieces)
Poster 9: Christina X. Liu (Analyzing the Impacts of Stellar and Planetary Parameters to Exoplanet Habitability through Machine Learning)
Poster 10: Carolyn M. Mill (Investigating Survey Systematics with Bayesian Statistics)
Poster 11: Lorenzo Monti (CLiMBing the Galactic Ladder: Unveiling Hidden Structures with Semi-supervised Clustering Algorithms)
Poster 12: Andrea Persici (Blended Source Detection in Deep Fields: A Max-Tree Approach Informed by Survey and Simulated Data)
Poster 13: Ashwini Nagaraj Shenoy (Solar Flare Forecasting using Machine learning/Deep learning techniques)
Poster 14: Adiba Amira Siddiqa (Using Deep Neural Networks to Detect Dark Star Candidates in the Early Universe)
Poster 15: Jared Sofair (Spectrophotometric Inference of Stellar and 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
Speaker 1: Yi Yang (AstroAgent: An Intelligent Assistant for Astronomical Research Based on MCP Protocol)
Speaker 2: Markus Michael Rau (Leveraging Approximate Models for Exact Inference: A Hybrid AI-MCMC Approach)
Speaker 3: Dimitrios Tanoglidis (Multimodality and 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
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 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:
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Title: 		Phillips Auditorium
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch Pratt / Lobby / Atrium
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Spotlight Speaker:
Kaylee De Soto
Title: TBA 		Phillips Auditorium
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Contributed Talks: Galaxies/Cosmology
Speaker 1: Aryana Haghjoo (Super-Resolving Low-Resolution Galaxy Spectra with Diffusion Models)
Speaker 2: Ashod Khederlarian (Deep Learning Photometric Redshifts for Roman)
Speaker 3: Luca Gomez Bachar (Evolution of Linear Matter Perturbations with Error-Bounded Bundle Physics-Informed Neural Networks) 		Phillips Auditorium
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Interpretability Tutorial 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
Speaker 1: Ingrid Vanessa Daza Perilla (Neural Posterior Estimation for MYTorus Decoupled: Training on Observation-Driven Parameter Grids)
Speaker 2: Sogol Sanjaripour (Unsupervised Learning of Galaxy SED: AGN Identification and Contamination Correction)
Speaker 3: Nandini Sahu (Gravitational Lensing and the Need for AI-Accelerated 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
Title: Robust Simulation-Based Inference: Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Observation. 		Phillips Auditorium
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Contributed Talks: Stellar
Speaker 1: Ilay Kamai (Key Stellar Parameter Predictions with Multi-Modal Neural Networks: Extending Deep Learning to Spectroscopy and Photometry)
Speaker 2: Paul Gregory (A Novel and Scalable Transformer-Based Classifier to Automatically Process Millions of TESS Light Curves)
Speaker 3: Martin Ying (Flowing Through Stellar Model Uncertainties: The Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Emulator)
Speaker 4: Pablo Mercader Perez (Reconstructing Starspot Maps from Transits Using Deep Learning) 		Phillips Auditorium
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm SBI Tutorial 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
Speaker 1: Ann-Kathrin Schuetz (From LEGEND to Binary Black Hole: A Rare Event Journey Across Physics)
Speaker 2: Srinadh Reddy Bhavanam (Deep Learning for Compton Image Reconstruction in Gamma-Ray Astrophysics)
Speaker 3: Ole Koenig (Modeling X-ray Photon Pile-Up with Machine Learning: A Data-Driven Perspective) 		Phillips Auditorium
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Pratt / Lobby / Atrium
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Spotlight Speaker:
Daniel Muthukrishna
Title: TBA 		Phillips Auditorium
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Hackathon Library / Fishbowl / Pratt / Lobby / B-105 / B-106
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