AI progress has exploded, achieving previously unimaginable advances in image and language processing. Meanwhile, engagement with AI methods within astronomy has grown exponentially in the Big Data era of astronomy.
On May 5-9, CosmicAI will also host the inaugural AI-in-Astronomy Boot Camp, an intensive week of AI training and hands-on AI-astronomy activities. The boot camp will include cross-interaction opportunities with the conference speakers and attendees.
The boot camp aims to provide a broad overview of AI methods and use hands-on exercises to prepare participants to apply AI methods to scientific applications in a high performance computing environment. This boot camp has a special focus on challenges in the domain of astronomy/astrophysics.
The boot camp will be held at the Oden Institute POB 4.304 (directions).
Agenda
Monday, May 5, 2025
| 9 am – 5 pm | Session Title |
| Morning Session I | Introduction to TACC, computing cluster, and Data Analysis |
| Morning Session II | Introduction to TACC, computing cluster, and Data Analysis (contd.) |
| Lunch 11:45 am – 1:00 pm | 🥙 POB 6.308 |
| Afternoon Session I | Introduction to Machine Learning and Supervised Learning |
| Afternoon Session II | Introduction to Machine Learning and Supervised Learning (Hands-on) |
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
| 9 am – 5 pm | Session Title |
| Morning Session I | Advanced Supervised Learning Topics (Ensemble methods and Explainable AI) |
| Morning Session II | Advanced Supervised Learning Topics, (Hands-on) |
| Lunch 11:45 am – 1:00 pm | 🥙 POB 6.308 |
| Afternoon Session I | Introduction to Deep Learning |
| Afternoon Session II | Introduction to Deep Learning (Hands-on) |
| CosmicAI Horizons Conference Highlighted Talks @ 4:00 pm | Career Panel – Kevin Gullikson, Randi Ludwig, Tanmoy Laskar, and Eric Murphy in POB 2.302 |
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
| 9 am – 5 pm | Session Title |
| Morning Session I | Distributed Deep Learning |
| Morning Session II | Distributed Deep Learning (Hands on) |
| Lunch 11:45 am – 1:00 pm | 🥙 POB 6.308 |
| Afternoon Session I | Introduction to Unsupervised Learning |
| Afternoon Session II | Introduction to Unsupervised Learning (Hands-on) |
| CosmicAI Horizons Conference Highlighted Talks @ 4:00 pm | Marc Huertas-Company: Towards robust AI deployment for constraining the physics of galaxy formation in POB 2.302 |
Thursday, May 8, 2025
| 9 am – 5 pm | Session Title |
| Morning Session I | Generative AI and LLMs |
| Morning Session II | Generative AI and LLMs (Hands-on) |
| Lunch 11:45 am – 1:00 pm | 🥙 POB 6.308 |
| Afternoon Session I | Generative AI and LLMs (Hands-on) |
| Afternoon Session II | Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning |
| CosmicAI Horizons Conference Highlighted Talks @ 4:00 pm | Sheena Panthaplackel : Harnessing the Coding Capabilities of LLMs in POB 2.302 |
Friday, May 9, 2025
| 9 am – 3 pm | Session Title |
| Morning Session I | Astro-AI Software Demos |
| Morning Session II | Astro-AI Software Demos (contd.) |
| Lunch 11:45 am – 1:00 pm | 🥙 POB 6.308 |
| Afternoon Session I | Surrogate Modeling + Hands-on |
| Adjourn 3:00 pm |
TACC Instructors
Niall Gaffney, Amit Gupta, Juliana Duncan, Sikan Li, Luke Smith, and Gabriel Jaffe.
AstroAI Package Demos
Friday, May 9, 2025 9 AM – Noon