CosmicAI Inaugural Conference – Cosmic Horizons: AI-Powered Insights into the Universe Conference

The NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) is excited to announce their inaugural conference, Cosmic Horizons: AI-Powered Insights into the Universe.

The Cosmic Horizons conference will be held at the University of Texas at Austin from May 6 to 8, 2025.

Registration and abstract submission for the conference is officially open. Abstract submissions for contributed talks will be accepted through January 26.

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The recent revolution in AI is fundamentally changing how astronomers observe, explore, analyze and model astronomical data. The Cosmic Horizons conference aims to bring together researchers who are actively engaged in developing and applying AI/ML methods in the astronomy domain.

The conference will focus on:

• Recent advances at the intersection of AI and Astronomy and AI-powered progress towards understanding our cosmic origins, from cosmology to habitability.
• Methodologies to increase trustworthiness, robustness, interpretability and efficiency of AI applications in astronomy.
• Preparation for the big-data challenges posed by next-generation observing facilities and approaches for searching, modeling, and analyzing high-dimensional data.

Confirmed invited speakers include:

• Dalya Baron (Stanford)
• Alessandra Corsi (Johns Hopkins)
• Marc Huertas-Company (University of Paris)
• Peter Melchior (Princeton)
• Lina Necib (MIT)
• Qingyun Wang (University of Illinois U-C)

The Cosmic Horizons conference is scheduled in conjunction with the inaugural AI-for-Astronomy Bootcamp (May 5-9), which provides an opportunity to advertise and demo astronomy-relevant AI/ML software. We invite conference participants who are developing community tools to RSVP to the AI-Astro software showcase on May 9.

The conference and boot camp are sponsored by CosmicAI, with support from the NSF and Simons Foundation and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.