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AstroAI Workshop 2024

2024 Workshop

AstroAI Workshop 2024

Details Invited Speakers Abstracts Schedule Venue Code of Conduct

June 17–21, 2024

Talks, tutorials, and collaboration

The archived program from the 2024 AstroAI Workshop, held at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

  • 4session days
  • 9:00morning coffee
  • 2hackathon sessions
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Archived agenda

Schedule at a glance

Session titles and speaker names link to their archived abstracts.

The original visual schedule also includes a Wednesday, June 19 outing exploring Black history in Boston and Massachusetts. The published text agenda and graphic differ in some session times; both are preserved here.

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2024 AstroAI Workshop schedule, June 17, 18, 20, and 21
TimeSessionLocation
Monday, June 17, 2024
9:00 am to 9:30 amWelcome and coffeePhillips Auditorium
9:30 am to 10:00 amOpening Remarks: Cecilia Garraffo (Director of AstroAI)Phillips Auditorium
10:00 am to 11:30 amKeynote Speaker: Joshua Speagle (University of Toronto)
Title: AI SpAI with My (Little?) AI: Applications of Statistical Learning in Modern Astrophysics
Phillips Auditorium
11:30 am to 12:00 pmBreakPhillips Auditorium
12:00 pm to 1:00 pmContributed Talks: Stellar Astrophysics
Speaker 1: Nolan Koblischke (SpectraFM: Tuning into Stellar Foundation Models)
Speaker 2: Thibault Lechien (Accelerating neutron star light curve simulation and parameter inference through neural networks)
Speaker 3: Daniel Muthukrishna (Modeling Image Systematics Using Conditional Diffusion Models)
Speaker 4: Alexander Stone-Martinez (Improving Stellar Age Estimations with Normalizing Flows)
Phillips Auditorium
1:00 pm to 2:00 pmLunchPratt/Lobby/Atrium
2:00 pm to 2:30 pmSpotlight Talk: Gemma Zhang
Title: TBA
Phillips Auditorium
2:30 pm to 4:00 pmPoster SessionLibrary
4:30 pmReception - Wusong Tiki Bar
112 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
9:00 am to 9:30 amCoffeePhillips Auditorium
9:30 am to 11:00 amKeynote Speaker: Melanie Weber (Harvard University)
Title: Geometric Machine Learning and Applications in the Sciences
Phillips Auditorium
11:00 am to 11:30 pmBreakPhillips Auditorium
11:30 pm to 12:30 pmContributed Talks: Galactic Astronomy
Speaker 1: Gregoire Aufort (Inferring Star formation histories with neural density estimation and cosmological simulations)
Speaker 2: Tri Nguyen (How DREAMS are made: Emulating subhalo populations under alternative dark matter scenarios with Variational Diffusion Models)
Speaker 3: Lucas Pulgar-Escobar (COSMIC: Characterization of Star clusters using Machine-learning Inference and Clustering)
Speaker 4: Ethan Tregidga (Probing Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Interpretable Neural Networks)
Phillips Auditorium
12:30 pm to 1:30 pmLunchPratt/Lobby/Atrium
1:30 pm to 2:00 pmSpotlight Talk: Aizhan Akhmetzhanova
Title: Data Compression and Inference in Cosmology with Self-Supervised Machine Learning
Phillips Auditorium
2:00 pm to 3:30 pmDemofest (Seamless Astronomy)Library/Pratt
3:30 pm to 5:00 pmHackathonLibrary/Fishbowl/Pratt/
Lobby/B-105/B-106
Thursday, June 20, 2024
9:00 am to 9:30 amCoffeePhillips Auditorium
9:30 am to 11:00 amKeynote Speaker: Tamara Broderick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title: An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Check: Can Dropping a Little Data Change Conclusions?
Phillips Auditorium
11:00 am to 11:30 pmBreakPhillips Auditorium
11:30 pm to 12:30 pmContributed Talks: Cosmology
Speaker 1: Ashod Khederlarian (Deep Learning Photo-z's in Preparation for Roman)
Speaker 2: Core Francisco Park (Probabilistic Reconstruction of the Local Dark Matter with 3D Diffusion Models)
Speaker 3: Stephane Werner (Applying Machine Learning to Determine Galaxy Membership in Galaxy Clusters)
Phillips Auditorium
12:30 pm to 1:30 pmLunchPratt/Lobby/Atrium
1:30 pm to 2:00 pmSpotlight Talk: Carol Cuesta-Lazaro
Title: Big data cosmology meets AI
Phillips Auditorium
2:00 pm to 3:30 pmContributed Talks: Extragalactic Astronomy
Speaker 1: Anshuman Acharya (A Machine Learning Upgrade to GPR for EoR 21-cm signal extraction from LOFAR data)
Speaker 2: Joshua Fagin (Latent Stochastic Differential Equations for Modeling Quasar Variability)
Speaker 3: Trung Ha (Segmentation of Current Sheets in Magnetized Plasma Turbulence with Computer Vision)
Speaker 4: David Krejcik (Improving Fast Radio Burst Localizations Using Simulation-Based Inference)
Phillips Auditorium
3:30 pm to 5:00 pmPoster SessionLibrary
Friday, June 21, 2024
9:00 am to 9:30 amCoffeePhillips Auditorium
9:30 am to 11:00 amKeynote Speaker: Yuan-Sen Ting (Ohio State University)
Title: Expediting Astronomical Discovery with Large Language Models: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
Phillips Auditorium
11:00 am to 11:30 pmBreakPhillips Auditorium
11:30 pm to 12:30 pmContributed Talks: Extreme Universe
Speaker 1: Zachary Murray (Using neural networks to model Main Belt Asteroid albedos as a function of their proper orbital elements)
Speaker 2: Vishnu Balakrishnan (PulsarNet - Accelerating the Discovery of Binary Pulsars through Attention-Based Neural Networks)
Speaker 3: Gabriel Sasseville (Interpolation of Sagittarius A* multiwavelength data using a transformer based machine learning model)
Phillips Auditorium
12:30 pm to 1:30 pmLunchPratt/Lobby/Atrium
1:30 pm to 2:00 pmSpotlight Talk: Laura Domine
Title: Multi-modal generalized class discovery for scalable autonomous all-sky surveys
Phillips Auditorium
2:00 pm to 5:00 pmHackathonFishbowl/
Lobby/B-105/B-106
2:00 pm to 5:00 pmTutorial on variational Bayes presented by Tamara BroderickPhillips Auditorium

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