The Yale Data Science X Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar is a methodical seminar focused on the intersection between data-science & astronomy-astrophysics. The seminar is aimed at discussing data-science techniques/methods that are being developed/employed to deal with ever-increasing data volumes in astronomy & also allow for the exchange of ideas between the different topical silos in astronomy-astrophysics.
The seminar meets every 2 weeks during the months of Sept. - Nov. | Jan. - Apr. | Jun. - Jul. During each session, there is a long-format presentation of 30-40 minutes. This presentation can be on an extended discussion of a paper; demonstration of a method/software/technique, or any topic that is of interest to this seminar. Besides this, members of the seminar use benty-fields (Look for “Yale Astro. Data Science”) to sign up for short (~10-15 minute) presentations of papers during each session.
Attendees are also welcome to discuss data-science-related challenges that they are facing in their work and want input from other attendees. This will be done in the latter half of each seminar besides the benty-fields discussion. If you are interested in this, just give a heads up to the specific day's discussion leader.
The organizers of the seminar solicit interest in giving long-form presentations at the beginning of every term. Based on the number of requests received and slots available, a tentative schedule is drawn up for each term. We are also happy to host speakers from outside Yale who want to give a presentation!
This seminar aims to be a welcoming place for all our attendees. Attendees are always expected to be respectful towards each other and follow the instructions of the discussion leader.
Benty-Fields (Search for "Yale Astro. Data Science" in benty-fields)
Discussion Ground Rules | Speaker Guide | Discussion Leader Guide
Spring 2025 Schedule
For Spring 2025, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The Zoom Link can be found above and the in-person session will be held in the KT 5th floor conference room. 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(s) | Long-Form Speaker | Title/URL of paper/topic |
March 25 12pm - 1pm | Jane Lee (Yale) | Distribution Learning and Inference using Incomplete Data | |
April 8 12pm - 1pm | Ebraheem Farag (Yale) | From Software Instruments to Stellar Evolution with Git | |
April 22 12pm - 1pm | Jeroen Audenaert (MIT) | From stellar light to astrophysical insight: automating variable star research with machine learning | |
May 6 12pm - 1pm | Viraj Pandya (Columbia) | Physics-Informed, AI-Accelerated Dynamical Modeling and Bayesian Inference for Galaxy Populations | |
May 20 12pm - 1pm | Kaley Brauer (Harvard) | Simulating Early Chemical Enrichment and Galaxy Formation |
Benty-Fields (Search for "Yale Astro. Data Science" in benty-fields)
Discussion Ground Rules | Speaker Guide | Discussion Leader Guide
Fall 2024 Schedule
For Fall 2024, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The Zoom Link can be found above and the in-person session will be held in the KT 5th floor conference room. 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(s) | Long-Form Speaker | Title/URL of paper/topic |
Sept. 3 12pm - 1pm | Journal Club | See “Yale Astro. Data Science” on benty-fields for papers | |
Sept. 17 12pm - 1pm | Direct Estimation of Galaxy Cluster Mass Accretion Rate using Machine Learning | ||
Oct. 1 12pm - 1pm | Navigating the Cosmic Library with Pathfinder (and why interpretable spaces matter) | ||
Oct. 29 12pm - 1pm | PopSED: Population-Level Inference for Galaxy Properties from Broadband Photometry | ||
Nov. 12 12pm - 1pm | Low Signal-to-Noise Resolved Stellar Spectroscopy at the Edge of the Local Group: Extracting Chemical and Kinematical Signatures Probing Galaxy Assembly in the M31 System |
Benty-Fields (Search for "Yale Astro. Data Science" in benty-fields)
Discussion Ground Rules | Speaker Guide | Discussion Leader Guide
Spring 2024 Schedule
For Spring 2024, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The Zoom Link can be found above and the in-person session will be held in the KT 5th floor conference room. 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 |
Jan. 30 12pm - 1pm | Journal Club | Deep Image Prior: the structure of generator network can capture many image statistics prior to any learning | |
Feb. 13 12pm - 1pm | Hannah Wang | Accelerate nature-based climate solution with machine learning | |
Feb. 27 12pm - 1pm | Measuring the impact of systematics on the predictions of Ωm on simulated galaxy catalogs using graph neural networks | ||
Mar. 26 12pm - 1pm | Cosmological Field-Level Inference and Its Pitfalls | ||
Apr. 9 12pm - 1pm | Go with the Flow: Generative Emulation for Grids of Stellar Models | ||
Apr. 23 12pm - 1pm | Towards Precision Photometric Supernova Cosmology with Machine Learning |
Fall 2023 Speaker Sign-Up Form
Google Calendar Links for Fall 2023 Meetings
Benty-Fields (Search for "Yale Astro. Data Science" in benty-fields)
Discussion Ground Rules | Speaker Guide | Discussion Leader Guide
Fall 2023 Schedule
For Fall 2023, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The Zoom Link can be found above and the in-person session will be held in the KT 5th floor conference room. 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. 19 12pm - 1pm | Interpretable statistical learning for galaxy merger science: Key insights and lessons learned | ||
Oct. 3 12pm - 1pm | Naomi Gluck | An Observationally Driven Multifield Approach for Probing the Circum-Galactic Medium with Convolutional Neural Networks | |
Oct. 17 12pm - 1pm | Utilizing score-matching diffusion models as data-driven priors for efficient, constraint free, source deblending | ||
Oct. 31 12pm - 1pm | Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro | Generative AI for the Large Scale Structure | |
Nov. 14 12pm - 1pm | Data-Driven Discovery of Transients in Time-Domain Surveys | ||
Nov. 28 12pm - 1pm | Tom Wagg | Gravitational waves in our galactic backyard | |
Dec. 12 12pm - 1pm | Using gradient descent-like methods to reconstruct the matter density field at high-z |
Spring 2023 Speaker Sign-Up Form
Google Calendar Links for Spring 2023 Meetings: Jan - March Link , March - April Link | Spring 2023 Zoom Link
Benty-Fields (Search for "Yale Astro. Data Science" in benty-fields)
Discussion Ground Rules | Speaker Guide | Discussion Leader Guide
Spring 2023 Schedule
For Spring 2023, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The Zoom Link can be found above and the in-person session will be held in the 46 HLH conference room. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement. Note, we provide two Google calendar links for the first and second half of the semester respectively to account for the 3 week break in March.
Date (Eastern Time) | Organizer | Long-Form Speaker | Title/URL of paper/topic | Short Presentations |
Jan. 24 12pm - 1pm | The ALeRCE astronomical alert broker | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Feb. 7 12pm - 1pm | Canceled due to faculty search | |||
Feb. 21 12pm - 1pm | Canceled due to faculty search | |||
Mar. 7 12pm - 1pm | Challenges and Opportunities from gravitational waves: data scientists on diet | |||
Mar. 28 12pm - 1pm | Going Beyond the Galaxy Power Spectrum: an Analysis of BOSS Data with Wavelet Scattering Transforms | |||
Apr. 11 12pm - 1pm | Julia Briden | Safe and Computationally Efficient Space Exploration: A Data-Driven Approach | ||
Apr. 25 12pm - 1pm | Xinyi Chen | Tips for Using Pytorch and GPU on Grace |
Fall 2022 Speaker Sign-Up Form
Google Calendar Link for Fall 2022 Meetings | Fall 2022 Zoom Link
Benty-Fields (Search for "Yale Astro. Data Science" in benty-fields)
Discussion Ground Rules | Speaker Guide | Discussion Leader Guide
Fall 2022 Schedule
For Fall 2022, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The Zoom Link can be found above and the in-person session will be held in the 46 HLH conference room. While the seminar is held in virtual or hybrid mode, we ask our attendees to follow our Guidelines for Virtual Engagement.
Date (Eastern Time) | Location | Organizer | Long-Form Speaker | Title/URL of paper/topic | Short Presentations |
Sept. 13 12pm - 1pm | Hybrid 46HLH conference room and zoom | Ivana Babic (LMU) | BAO scale inference from biased tracers using the EFT likelihood | Benty-Fields Discussion | |
Sept. 27 12pm - 1pm | Hybrid 46HLH conference room and zoom | Introduction to Optimal Transport for Astrophysical Needs | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Oct. 11 12pm - 1pm | Hybrid 46HLH conference room and zoom | Deep learning the physics of galaxy formation | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Oct. 25 12pm - 1pm | Hybrid 46HLH conference room and zoom | August Muench (AAS) | Advances in data, software, and graphics in Journal articles | Benty-Fields Discussion | |
Nov. 8 12pm - 1pm | Hybrid 46HLH conference room and zoom | Priyanka Singh | Dissecting the steps involved in galaxy classification using multi-wavelength photometric data | Benty-Fields Discussion | |
Nov. 29 12pm - 1pm | Hybrid 46HLH conference room and zoom | Inigo Slijepcevic (Manchester) | Efficiently learning from un-labelled data for image processing in radio astronomy | Zili Shen’s data challenge | |
Dec. 13 12pm - 1pm | Hybrid 46HLH conference room and zoom |
Spring 2022 Speaker Sign-Up Form
Google Calendar Link for Spring 2022 Meetings | Spring 2022 Zoom Link
Benty-Fields (Search for "Yale Astro. Data Science" in benty-fields)
Discussion Ground Rules | Speaker Guide | Discussion Leader Guide
Spring 2022 Schedule
For Spring 2022, we will be organizing the seminar virtually until Yale guidelines allow for in person gatherings to resume. The Zoom Link can be found above. 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 | Short Presentations |
Feb. 1 12pm - 1pm | Benty-Fields Discussion | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Feb. 15 12pm - 1pm | Normalizing Flows | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Mar. 1 12pm - 1pm | Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction | |||
Mar. 15 12pm - 1pm | Observational Inference in the Era of Machine Learning | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Mar. 29 12pm - 1pm | Multi-domain calibration of machine learning models and its relation to out-of-domain generalization | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Apr. 12 12pm - 1pm | The CAMELS suite of simulations | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Apr. 26 12pm - 1pm | Why/How/When to Visualize Your Research Results | Benty-Fields Discussion |
Fall 2021 Speaker Sign-Up Form
Google Calendar Link for Fall 2021 Meetings | Fall 2021 Zoom Link
Benty-Fields (Search for "Yale Astro. Data Science" in benty-fields)
Discussion Ground Rules | Speaker Guide | Discussion Leader Guide
Fall 2021 Schedule
For Fall 2021, we will be organizing the seminar in hybrid mode. The in-person location will be 46 Hillhouse Conference Room and there will always be a live zoom room for participants to join online (The Zoom Link can be found above)
Date (Eastern Time) | Organizer | Long-Form Speaker | Title/URL of paper/topic | Short Presentations |
Sept. 20 12pm - 1pm | Introduction & Overview of a variety of Neural Networks | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Oct. 4 12pm - 1pm | Computer Generated Images and Detection | Tiger Lu -- Machine Learning Applications to Telluric Modelling | ||
Oct. 18 12pm - 1pm | Emulating Sunyaev-Zeldovich Images of Galaxy Clusters using Auto-Encoders | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Nov. 1 12pm - 1pm | Understanding galaxies: The perilous road from simulations to data | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Nov. 15 12pm - 1pm | The Problem with Deep Learning in Astrophysics (and how to fix it) | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Nov. 29 12pm - 1pm | Searching for different AGN populations in massive datasets with Machine Learning | Benty-Fields Discussion | ||
Dec. 13 12pm - 1pm | NeuriIPS Special Session Overview/Recap |
To add something/someone to the schedule / propose a workshop/anything else, please send an email to any of the current organizers.
Fall 2024 Organizer: Yasmeen Asali
Spring 2024 Organizer: Yasmeen Asali
Fall 2023 Organizers: Yasmeen Asali, Imad Pasha, Sasha Gaines
Spring 2023 Organizers: Sasha Safonova, Yasmeen Asali, Tim Miller
Fall 2022 Organizers: Sasha Safonova, Yasmeen Asali, Tim Miller
Spring 2022 Organizers: Aritra Ghosh, Sasha Safonova, Yasmeen Asali, Ava Polzin, Tim Miller
Fall 2021 Organizers: Aritra Ghosh, Sasha Safonova, Yasmeen Asali, Zili Shen
For general questions or for mistakes/changes on the website, send an email to Yasmeen Asali