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AstroAI Workshop 2024

Details Invited Speakers Abstracts Register Schedule Venue Accommodations Code of Conduct
Monday, June 17th, 2024
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: 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 pm Break Phillips Auditorium
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Contributed 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 pm Lunch Pratt/Lobby/Atrium
2:00 pm to 2:30 pm Spotlight Talk: Gemma Zhang
Title: TBA
Phillips Auditorium
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm Poster Session Library
4:30 pm Reception - Wusong Tiki Bar
112 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
9:00 am to 9:30 am Coffee Phillips Auditorium
9:30 am to 11:00 am Keynote Speaker: Melanie Weber (Harvard University)
Title: Geometric Machine Learning and Applications in the Sciences
Phillips Auditorium
11:00 am to 11:30 pm Break Phillips Auditorium
11:30 pm to 12:30 pm Contributed 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 pm Lunch Pratt/Lobby/Atrium
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm Spotlight Talk: Aizhan Akhmetzhanova
Title: Data Compression and Inference in Cosmology with Self-Supervised Machine Learning
Phillips Auditorium
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Demofest (Seamless Astronomy) Library/Pratt
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Hackathon Library/Fishbowl/Pratt/
Lobby/B-105/B-106
Thursday, June 20th, 2024
9:00 am to 9:30 am Coffee Phillips Auditorium
9:30 am to 11:00 am Keynote 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 pm Break Phillips Auditorium
11:30 pm to 12:30 pm Contributed 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 pm Lunch Pratt/Lobby/Atrium
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm Spotlight Talk: Carol Cuesta-Lazaro
Title: Big data cosmology meets AI
Phillips Auditorium
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Contributed 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 pm Poster Session Library
Friday, June 21st, 2024
9:00 am to 9:30 am Coffee Phillips Auditorium
9:30 am to 11:00 am Keynote 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 pm Break Phillips Auditorium
11:30 pm to 12:30 pm Contributed 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 pm Lunch Pratt/Lobby/Atrium
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm Spotlight Talk: Laura Domine
Title: Multi-modal generalized class discovery for scalable autonomous all-sky surveys
Phillips Auditorium
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Hackathon Fishbowl/
Lobby/B-105/B-106
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Tutorial on variational Bayes presented by Tamara Broderick Phillips Auditorium

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