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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI)
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Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation. Driving AI innovation to explore cosmic origins and make astronomy more accessible and collaborative.
CosmicAI is featured in @taccutexas.bsky.social y.social's magazine Texascale! Read “CosmicAI Institute Tackles Universe’s Deepest Mysteries” to explore cutting-edge work in AI & astronomy texascale.org/2025/feature... @simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social @thenrao.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - this Wed Nov 12th at 11 AM CT / 12PM ET!

Disentangling Cosmology from Observational Artifacts with Kyle Dawson and Tyler Hagen (University of Utah)

Zoom & in person University of Utah (WEB 3780 - Evans Conference room in SCI)

cosmicai.org/events
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November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 29 at 11 AM CT/12PM ET! Finding Exotic Transients in the Era of Big Data (Sebastian Gomez-UT Austin) & Time-Series Modeling of High-Resolution Radio Spectra (Josh Taylor-Oden Institute)
Zoom & in person @utaustin.bsky.social
Breakfast tacos served!🌮
cosmicai.org/events
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
CosmicAI Ph.D Student Sebastian Joseph is representing us at SAIL! He discusses his research on benchmarking large language models for astro-specific computing and visualization tasks.

@sebajoe.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
CosmicAI PhD Student Alex Garcia from the University of Virginia is representing us at SAIL! He discusses his research on understanding galaxy formation and evolution using numerical simulations. @simonsfoundation.org @uvapress.bsky.social #astronomy #AI4science
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 15th, 11AM CT! Encoding of Spectra and Time Series (Peter Melchior - Princeton University) & Strategies for variance reduction in spectral unmixing (Jordan Bryan, UVA) Zoom & in person at UVA's Astronomy Building cosmicai.org/events @simonsfoundation.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 1, 11AM CT!

Machine Learning for Reviewer-Proposal Matching in ALMA Distributed Peer Review (John Carpenter - ALMA) & Compound AI Systems: How Publisher AI Helps Researchers (Dustin Smith - hum.works)

cosmicai.org/events

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September 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy!

A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Sept 17 @ 11AM CT! Accelerating (Astro)chemical discovery with machine learned atomistic models and Computer Vision for Scientific Discovery (Kelvin Lee, NVIDIA) & Computer Vision for Scientific Discovery (Zezhou Cheng, UVA) www.cosmicai.org/events @thenrao.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Save the date! Our fall hybrid seminar series “The Observable Universe” begins Sept 3rd!
Bi-weekly on Wed. 11AM CT/12PM ET
Seminar #1 | Sept 3rd
“Imaging in Radio Interferometry - What do we measure, model and make decisions about?” w/ Urvashi Rau @thenrao.bsky.social Info ➡️ www.cosmicai.org/events
August 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Astro-AI Boot Camp Instructor Highlight! Juliana Duncan is a Research Associate and Manager at @taccutexas.bsky.social with a PhD in Computational Chemistry. At the Astro AI bootcamp she is covering a survey of supervised machine and deep learning techniques and their applications to astronomy data.
August 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Dr. Stella Offner (CosmicAI) spoke on AI’s role in astronomy at the AI+Science Expo panel hosted by SCSP. Moderated by Erion Plaku (NSF), with panelists Zhao Huimin (Molecule Maker Lab) and Mike Williams (IAIFI), representing NSF AI research across domains.
August 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM