AstroAI Workshop 2026
Invited Speakers:
Keynote Speakers:
- Berthy Feng (IAIFI): Imaging at the Edge of Science: Integrating Scientific Knowledge and AI to Recover Hidden Structure
- Matthew Kopec (Harvard University): Including AI Agents on Scientific Teams: Some Open Ethical Questions
- Siddharth Mishra-Sharma (Boston University): Measuring and forecasting AI scientific capabilities
- Laurence Perreault-Levasseur (Université de Montréal): Data-Driven High-Dimensional Inverse Problems: A Journey Through Strong Gravitational Lensing Data Analysis
- Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University): The Evolution of Science in the Age of AI
Tutorials Led By:
- Phillip Cargile (AstroAI/CfA): Accelerated Computation with Auto-Differentiation: AD/PyTorch/JAX
- Rocco Di Tella (AstroAI/CfA): Introduction to Agentic Coding for Researchers
- Konstantin Malanchev (CMU / LINCC Frameworks): LSDB - A Tool for Scalable Analysis
- Manuel Perez Carrasco (AstroAI/CfA): Introduction to Transformers
Spotlight Speakers:
- Kaley Brauer (Harvard University): How Do We Know What an AI System Is Thinking?
- Alex Gagliano (Physical Superintelligence): Foundation Models for Science: Lessons from the Transient Sky
- Mike Smith (AstroAI/CfA): The Platonic Universe: Do Foundation Models See the Same Sky?
- Ana Sofía Uzsoy (AstroAI/Harvard University): Manifold learning for cosmic structures