Friday, September 5

*More details will be added to the schedule as they become available.*

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Schedule for Friday, September 5

Time (CT)SessionLocation
8:00–9:00 a.m.Breakfast and registrationKitchen-dining area
9:00–10:25 a.m.Physics-informed architectures, interpretability, and ethics 3—Session chair: Aleksandra Ćiprijanović, Fermilab
Jack O'Brien, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—“Physics Informed Latent Space in Foundation Models of Transients”
Amanda Wasserman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—“Improving Supernova Cosmology with Active Learning Follow-up”
Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, University of Connecticut—“Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS) to model the impact of baryonic physics on cosmological structure formation”
Nolan Smyth, University of Montreal—“Towards the automated discovery of differential equations in (astro)-physics”
Aritra Ghosh, University of Washington—“Harnessing ML & Large Surveys to Probe Galaxy Evolution: from HSC Size-Environment Correlations to Rubin Unsupervised Discovery”
Auditorium and Zoom
10:25–11:00 a.m.Coffee break @ postersSkAI Hub area
11:00 a.m.–12:20 p.m.Inference and uncertainty quantification for large and complex data 4—Session chair: Ermin Wei, Northwestern University
Jimena González, University of Wisconsin–Madison—“Does Machine Learning Work? A Comparative Analysis of Strong Gravitational Lens Searches in the Dark Energy Survey”
Anirban Bairagi, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris—“PatchNet: GPU and Simulation is not the limitation anymore for Cosmological field-level inference”
Yuanyuan Zhang, NSF NOIRLab—“Lessons Learned from a Simulation-Based Inference Approach for Galaxy Cluster Abundance Cosmological Analysis”
Samuel Dyson, The University of Chicago—“Uncertainty Quantification in Time-Series Coincidence Detections”
Ana Sofia Uzsoy, Harvard University—“Bayesian Component Separation for DESI LAE Automated Spectroscopic Redshifts and Photometric Targeting”
Auditorium and Zoom
12:20–12:45 p.m.Closing: SkAI community Exploration of Emerging Research (SEER) program and Conference ClosingAuditorium and Zoom
12:45–1:45 p.m.LunchKitchen-dining area




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