Name: AI in Astronomy Workshop
Start: 2025-05-21T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-23T17:30:00+02:00
Location: INAF-OACT

AI in Astronomy Workshop

from Wednesday, 21 May 2025 (09:00) to Friday, 23 May 2025 (17:30)

Monday, 19 May 2025
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
09:00 Welcome
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Simone Riggi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

09:15 USC-C: saluti, notizie e possibilità - Andrea Possenti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
09:30 Team Activity Reports: Session I
Session I
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:30 Napoli Team Activities - Stefano Cavuoti (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte Napoli)

10:00 Automated identification of diffuse radio emission in all-sky surveys with Radio U-Net - Chiara Stuardi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 Evaluating small vision-language models as AI assistants for radio astronomical source analysis tasks - Simone Riggi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)

10:40 Machine learning for asterism selection in adaptive optics - Fabio Rossi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15
Room: Aula Magna
11:15 Team Activity Reports: Session II
Session II
11:15 - 13:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:15 OATo/UniGe Synergy - Integrating Observations and AI: Transformative Approaches for Unraveling Solar Activity - Daniele Telloni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:35 The MIDA’s activities in space sciences: Artificial intelligence for space weather - Sabrina Guastavino (Department of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Genova)

11:55 Extending foreground emission with neural networks - Giuseppe Puglisi (Universita' di Catania)

12:15 Benchmarking Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Signal Classification in Simulated Gamma-Ray Burst Detection - Farida Farsian (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:35 Atmospheric Retrievals with Quantum Extreme Learning Machines - Tiziano Zingales (Università degli Studi di Padova)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Aula Magna
14:30 Team Activity Reports: Session III
Session III
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:30 Deep Metal: Applying Transformer Models to Photometric Light Curves for Metallicity Estimation - Lorenzo Monti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:50 Survey of Surveys: Homogenizing Stellar Parameters Across Surveys with Symbolic Regression - Aleksandra Avdeeva (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:10 Onboard AI: Enhancing High-Energy Space Missions with Machine Learning - Nicolo' Parmiggiani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
16:00 Deep learning theory and application for astrophysics: (I)
(I)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:00 Deep learning theory and application for astrophysics - Simone Palazzo (DIEEI, Università di Catania)
Thursday, 22 May 2025

09:00 Deep learning theory and application for astrophysics: (II)
(II)
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Aula Magna

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula Magna

11:30 Hands-on: Overview on ML Frameworks + PyTorch
Overview on ML Frameworks + PyTorch
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Aula Magna

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Aula Magna

14:30 Hands-on: Good practices for ML projects
Good practices for ML projects
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Aula Magna

16:30 Discussion & Planning

16:30 - 17:30
Room: Aula Magna
Friday, 23 May 2025
09:00 Hands-on: Classification of astronomical images
Classification of astronomical images
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:00 Hands-on: Classification of astronomical images - Simone Riggi (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania)
10:00 Hands-on: Regression models for astronomical data
Regression models for astronomical data
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

10:00 Hands-on: Regression models for astronomical data - Giuseppe Angora (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)) Stefano Cavuoti (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte Napoli)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula Magna
11:30 Hands-on: Time series analysis with astronomical data
Time series analysis with astronomical data
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:30 Hands-on: Time series analysis with astronomical data - Lorenzo Monti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 Deep learning theory and application for astrophysics: Self-Supervised Learning
Self-Supervised Learning
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Aula Magna

13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Aula Magna
15:00 Deep learning theory and application for astrophysics: Graph Neural Networks
Graph Neural Networks
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

15:00 Understanding Grapn Neural Networks (GNN) - Farida Farsian (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Aula Magna

16:30 Workshop Closure

16:30 - 17:00
Room: Aula Magna

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