Fall 2021 Schedule

For Fall 2021, we will be organizing the seminar virtually until Yale guidelines allow for in person gatherings to resume. The zoom link will be sent via deptartment wide email. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.

Date (Eastern Time) Organizer Long-Form Speaker Title/URL of paper/topic
Sept. 20
12pm - 1pm
Aritra Ghosh Sasha Safonova Introduction & Overview of a variety of Neural Networks
Oct. 4
12pm - 1pm
Aritra Ghosh Yasmeen Asali Computer Generated Images and Detection
Oct. 18
12pm - 1pm
Yasmeen Asali Tibor Rothschild Emulating Sunyaev-Zeldovich Images of Galaxy Clusters using Auto-Encoders
Nov. 1
12pm - 1pm
Aritra Ghosh, Yasmeen Asali Viviana Acquaviva Understanding galaxies: The perilous road from simulations to data
Nov. 15
12pm - 1pm
Aritra Ghosh Miles Cranmer The Problem with Deep Learning in Astrophysics (and how to fix it)
Nov. 29
12pm - 1pm
Sasha Safonova Paula Sánchez Sáez Searching for different AGN populations in massive datasets with Machine Learning
Dec. 13
12pm - 1pm
Sasha Safonova NeurIPS Special Session Overview/Recap

Fall 2021 Organizers: Yasmeen Asali, Aritra Ghosh, Sasha Safonova, and Zili Shen.