Fall 2025 Schedule

For Fall 2025, we will be organizing the seminar in persom in the KT 5th floor conference room (KT 501).

Date (Eastern Time) Organizer Long-Form Speaker Title/URL of paper/topic
Sept. 16
12pm - 1pm
Barry T. Chiang Aakash Patel (Yale) Neural Posterior Estimation for Cataloging Astronomical Images
Sept. 30
12pm - 1pm
Barry T. Chiang Aldana Grichener (Steward Observatory) Nuclear Neural Networks: Pathways to Modelling Massive Stars and Supernova Explosions
Oct. 14
12pm - 1pm
Yasmeen Asali Amanda Lue (Columbia) Cosmology with One Galaxy: Autoencoding the Galaxy Properties Manifold
Oct. 28
12pm - 1pm
Yasmeen Asali Amy Secunda (Flatiron) Mapping Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Disks with Transformers
Nov. 11
12pm - 1pm
Barry T. Chiang Simin Shekarpaz (Boston University) Machine Learning Surrogate Models for Space Plasma Kinetics
Dec. 2
12pm - 1pm
Yasmeen Asali Eric Koch (NRAO) Community and Infrastructure Roles at the intersection of Astronomy and Data Science

Fall 2025 Organizers: Barry T. Chiang and Yasmeen Asali.