CosmicAI Hybrid Seminar Wed., September 16! Real time Bayesian inversion, prediction, and OED for tsunami early warning with Dr. Omar Ghattas (Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin) 1-2 PM CT cosmicai.org/events/omarg...

CosmicAI Lightning Talk! Saiyang Zhang is a PhD student at UT Austin Listen to the talk “Dark Matter and Early Cosmic History” www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xT7...

Dark Matter and Early Cosmic History with Saiyang Zhang (PhD student at UT Austin)

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Learn how CosmicAI Researchers in the Observable Universe Working Group applied machine learning to support scalable, science-ready radio astronomy data delivery, helping observatories detect calibration anomalies more accurately. cosmicai.org/news/machine...

Applying machine-learning methods for scalable and validated radio astronomy data preparation and quality assurance — NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins

CosmicAI Researchers Dr. Ci Xue, Dr. Brian Mason, Gazi Rakib, Prof. Jeff Phillips, Dr. Ryan Loomis, Dr. Omkar Bait, Dr. Eric Murphy explored applying machine-learning methods for scalable and validate...

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Earl Bellinger (Assistant Professor at Yale University) giving his talk "Emulators for Asteroseismology" at our September 9th CosmicAI hybrid seminar! cosmicai.org/hybrid-semin...

CosmicAI Research highlight! Listen as CosmicAI Research Intern as Adam Zacharia Anil describes his research in building Quasar, an open source AI research assistant for natural language access to Astronomy Archives. Want to try it for yourself? Go to quasarassistant.com

CosmicAI Hybrid Seminar Wed Sept 9! -Emulators for Asteroseismology w/ Earl Bellinger (Yale University) -Physics-Informed Stellar Structure w/ Manuel Ballester (University of Arizona) Zoom/in person at UT Austin 1PM – 2PM CT cosmicai.org/events/emula...

CosmicAI researcher Omkar Bait how ionizing radiation escapes from a rare class of tiny, chemically primitive starburst galaxies using multi-frequency radio observations. cosmicai.org/news/star-fo...

How the First Galaxies Ionized the Neutral Hydrogen at the Cosmic Scales — NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins

CosmicAI researcher Omkar Bait explored how ionizing radiation escapes from a rare class of tiny, chemically primitive starburst galaxies, which are nearby analogs of galaxies that reionized the ear...

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We have kicked off our Fall Hybrid Seminar Series! Theme: Surrogate Modeling of (Astro) Physical Systems Our next hybrid seminar will be Wed. September 9th from 1-2pm CT (2-3pm ET) (details to come!) Check out the schedule cosmicai.org/hybrid-semin...

CosmicAI Lightning Talk! Xiaowei Ou is a Postdoc at University of Virginia Listen to the talk “Mapping Dark Matter with Stars and AI” youtu.be/lczNjJZvbyk?...

Mapping Dark Matter with Stars and AI (Xiaowei Ou, Postdoc at UVA)

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NSF @thenrao.bsky.social and University of Virginia participated in a campus AI event to talk with students about CosmicAI, NSF NRAO telescopes and data archives, and opportunities for students!

CosmicAI Research highlight! Adam Zacharia Anil on Quasar, an AI research assistant for natural language access to Astronomy Archives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdGr...

Quasar: An AI Powered Research Assistant for Astronomy Archive Workflows with Adam Zacharia Anil

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Dr. Stella Offner delivering the first CosmicAI hybrid seminar of our Fall Series to a packed house! "Welcome & 2026 Director’s Report: NSF-Simons CosmicAI through Year 2 and Beyond" Check out the upcoming seminar schedule cosmicai.org/hybrid-semin...

CosmicAI Lightning Talk! "HATANN: High-dimensional approximation using Taylor expansions and Adaptive Nearest Neighbors" with Ben Longaker (PhD Student, UT Austin), Prajwal Prathiksh (Masters Student, UT Austin), and Skandan Subramanian (PhD Student, UT Austin) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMv...

HATANN: High-dimensional approximation using Taylor expansions and Adaptive Nearest Neighbors

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Last call to apply for the CosmicAI Winter School at NSF @thenrao.bsky.social ! Deadline: Monday, August 31 Program: December 14 - 23 -40 hours online Ananay Sethi shares why this school is helpful for students who want to build skills in AI-astro research public.nrao.edu/cosmicai-opp...

Application reminder! The deadline for the (Spring 2027 cohort) Graduate Certificate In AI and Machine Learning with an Astrophysics-AI Badge is Sept 1! In partnership with the UT Austin CDSO program Apply cdso.utexas.edu/caiml Scholarship form.jotform.com/261535798839... @thenrao.bsky.social

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Grad Certificate in AI/ML + Astrophysics-AI Badge - Spring 2027 apps open! CosmicAI x UT Austin CDSO 12 credits, 100% online Priority deadline Aug 1, final Sept 1. Scholarships avail for early-career researchers. form.jotform.com/261535798839... Apply cdso.utexas.edu/caiml @thenrao.bsky.social

Upcoming CosmicAI Aug 26th Hybrid Seminar! 1 PM CT / 2 PM ET! UT Austin POB 4.304 / Zoom Welcome & 2026 Director's Report: NSF-Simons CosmicAI through Year 2 and Beyond w/ Dr. Stella Offner (Curtis T. Vaughan Jr. Centennial Chair in Astronomy, UT Austin & CosmicAI PI/Director)

CosmicAI Lightning Talk! Aklant Kumar Bhowmick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of Astronomy at the University of Virginia Listen to the talk “Unraveling the origins of Supermassive Black Holes using Cosmological Simulations and Machine Learning” www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwVW...

Unraveling the origins of Supermassive Black Holes using Cosmological Simulations & Machine Learning

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CosmicAI Co-Director @mattlease.bsky.social presented the talk “Responsible AI for Science: Assessing Potential Benefits vs. Risks” as a plenary speaker at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (ICAIIS 2026) ! icaiis.com/speakers.html

The STABLE team (Summer Team for Astronomical Benchmarking & LLM Engineering) ! @thenrao.bsky.social @noirlabastro.bsky.social

3 CosmicAI research projects are being highlighted this month that are unified by the CosmicAI seed funding project STABLE (Summer Team for Astronomical Benchmarking & LLM Engineering), part of an ongoing effort to make astronomical archives more accessible through AI cosmicai.org/news/stable

Making astronomical archives more accessible through AI: STABLE (Summer Team for Astronomical Benchmarking & LLM Engineering) highlights — NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins

Three CosmicAI research projects are being highlighted this month that are unified by the CosmicAI seed funding project called STABLE (Summer Team for Astronomical Benchmarking & LLM Engineering)...

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CosmicAI Research Highlight: Interpretable Simulation-Based Inference for Cosmology Read about “Vector Summary Pseudo Posteriors for Simulation-Based Inference with Applications to Cosmology” presented by Min Chen at the STAI-X conference at Harvard University cosmicai.org/news/interpr...

“Vector Summary Pseudo Posteriors for Simulation-Based Inference with Applications to Cosmology” presented at the STAI-X conference at Harvard — NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins

On August 1, 2026, Min Chen, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, presented the poster “Vector Summary Pseudo Posteriors for Simulati...

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CosmicAI Research highlight! Dan Gause, postbac researcher at NSF @thenrao.bsky.social, on MANNA – an MCP server that lets AI assistants query NOIRLab, NSF NRAO/ALMA, and other IVOA astronomy archives in plain language. Watch: youtu.be/qa7x-6zJRRw

MANNA – An MCP Server for Accessing Astronomical Archives (Dan Gause, postbac researcher - NSF NRAO)

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CosmicAI Lightning Talk! Arjun Vijaywargiya is a Peter O’Donnell Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at UT Austin, and concurrently a CosmicAI fellow. Listen to the short talk “Reduced order modeling of chemical kinetics" youtu.be/ON4NQwXYU1U?...

Reduced order modeling of chemical kinetics with Arjun Vijaywargiya (Postdoctoral Fellow)

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In June, @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social brought together leading voices in astronomy and AI for the 2026 Cosmic Horizons Conference. The three-day event, now in its second year, was hosted by the NSF NRAO in Charlottesville, Virginia, from July 14-16, 2026.

Astronomers and AI Experts Unite at 2026 Cosmic Horizons Conference - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

In June, NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) brought together leading voices in astronomy and artificial intelligence (AI)...

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CosmicAI Fall Hybrid Seminar Series Schedule is now live! Theme: Surrogate Modeling of (Astro) Physical Systems 🕐1–2 PM CT (2–3 PM ET) 📍In person and on Zoom Join our mailing list or Slack workspace to get the Zoom link and details cosmicai.org/get-involved cosmicai.org/hybrid-semin...

CosmicAI 2026 Research Highlights 📖 92 journal articles, proceedings, and preprints. 💫 1024 cosmological simulations built to contextualize the Milky Way and constrain uncertainties 💡 40+ talks shared 📎 15 seed funded proposals awarded

CosmicAI Lightning Talk! Anna Dignan is a PhD Candidate at University of Virginia Listen to the talk “Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME)” www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC0r...

Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME)

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Our team had two papers accepted and presented at the Statistics and Trustworthy AI for Cross (X)-Domain Acceleration (STAI-X)! Today we're highlighting "Density-Informed Pseudo-Counts for Calibrated Evidential Deep Learning" (selected for a paper award at STAI-X)! cosmicai.org/news/density...

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Apply by Aug 31 for the CosmicAI Virtual Winter School at NSF @thenrao.bsky.social A 40 hour online program designed to equip rising junior/ senior undergrads with the foundational skills needed to succeed in AI-Astro research! Hear from our student Conrad Moenga! public.nrao.edu/cosmicai-opp...