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CCA Colloquium: Ashley Villar

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Computational Astrophysics

When

  • – ET

Where

162 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor Classroom

160 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

CCA Colloquium: Ashley Villar

Title: Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data

Abstract: The eruptions, collisions and explosions of stars drive the universe’s chemical and dynamical evolution. The upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will drastically increase the discovery rate of these transient phenomena, bringing time-domain astrophysics into the realm of “big data.” With this transition comes the important question: how do we classify transient events and separate the interesting “needles” from the “haystack” of objects? In this talk, I will discuss efforts to discover and classify unexpected phenomena using semi-supervised machine learning techniques. I will highlight the interplay between data-informed physics and physics-informed machine learning required to best understand the future LSST dataset of extragalactic transients.

Email [email protected] for Zoom information.

February 25, 2022

V. Ashley Villar: Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data

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