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Jun 9
Using cutting-edge simulations, Dr. Jenna Samuel, Prof Michael Boylan-Kolchin & Asst. Prof Julian Munoz investigated a puzzle shown by the JWST: why do the earliest galaxies appear brighter, more massive, & clumpier than expected? cosmicai.org/news/researchca… youtube.com/watch?v=h5dIGfot…
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Jun 8
Last week, CosmicAI and @TACC hosted the AI Boot Camp for Astronomers, offering a focused way to learn how modern AI tools can support research across astronomy & astrophysics
"This was one of the best learning experiences I’ve had outside of college." -James Newland, Ph.D.
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Jun 5
Today is the last day of the 2026 AI Boot Camp for Astronomers presented by CosmicAI and @TACC Listen to Niall Gaffney, Computing Director (TACC) discuss why its important for folks to have machine learning and AI skills and capabilities!
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Jun 4
The AI Boot Camp for Astronomers is officially underway in collaboration with @TACC !
Students are already on day four of a weeklong, immersive training experience designed to help researchers build practical AI skills for astronomy.
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Jun 3
CosmicAI Lightning Talk! MD. Khairul Islam is a PhD student at @UVA
Listen to the talk “Cosmo3DFlow: Reconstructing the Early Universe using Generative Models” @NSF @SimonsFdn
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May 27
CosmicAI Student Lightning talk! Andy Morgan is a Science Intern at NSF @NOIRLabAstro
Listen to the talk "Machine Learning for Spectroscopic Redshift Estimation"
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May 22
33 scientists responded to the question: “What is the future of scientific discovery in this new age of AI?” CosmicAI PI & Director Stella Offner was among them. Read about “how AI developments within astronomy can accelerate AI advancements more broadly"
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May 20
CosmicAI Student Lightning talk - with Brian Kirk, PhD student at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology with application at @TheNRAO
Listen to the short talk "Reinforcement Learning in Radio Astronomy"
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May 13
CosmicAI Student Lightning talk - with Jonathan Kho, PhD Student at University of Virginia!
Listen to the short talk "Developing 1000 Galaxies on Fire"
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May 12
Jeff Phillips (CosmicAI Observable Universe, AI Lead), received best TVCG paper for his work on “A Topology-Preserving Coreset for Kernel Regression in Scientific Visualization”
He worked alongside Weiran Lyu, Nathaniel Gorski, Bei Wang. users.cs.utah.edu/~jeffp/pap… @UUtah
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May 11
CosmicAI Observable Universe, AI Lead, Jeff Phillips (Professor, Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah) ran an AI trip for 5th and 6th graders, organized by Utah Astronomy! @UUtah
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CosmicAI retweeted
May 7
Read all about the AAAI-26 AI Review pilot reviewing 20K submissions to AAAI. Work led by @Joydeepb_robots with UT contributions from
@jessyjli, @PeterStone_TX, and others. #TexasAI @UTGoodSystems @CosmicAI_Inst @UTiSchool
@TexasScience @UTexasResearch @UTAustin
We are thrilled to present a detailed report describing the system built for the AAAI-26 AI review pilot, the survey results, and a new benchmark that was created to assess the capabilities of the system.
Read the full article: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.13940
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May 8
CosmicAI Student Lightning talk with Wenxuan Ding - PhD Student at @nyuniversity
Listen to the short talk "Calibrate-Then-Act: Cost-Aware Exploration in LLM Agents"
youtu.be/jybAaYbbttY?si=WAif…
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May 7
The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences teamed up with @mcdonaldobs StarDate Magazine for an up close look at how astronomy and AI are solving each other’s problems.
Author: Olivia Castillo
Edits by Joanne Foote & the StarDate team
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A Match Made in the Cosmos
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May 5
CosmicAI Student Jonathan Kho earned 2nd place in the Physical Engineering category at UVA's annual Research Computing Exhibition! Jonathan is a PhD Student at @UVA. Jonathan presented a poster on his work developing a suite of 1024 galaxies using the FIRE2 model.
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May 5
CosmicAI at @amazon Research Day!
Apr 30
Work presented today @ Amazon Research Day: w/ Houjiang Liu, Yujin Choi, Sanjana Gautam, Gabriel Jaffe, & Soo Young Rieh. Effects of Varying Control vs. Automation in Human-in-the-loop Research Ideation. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.12152
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May 1
CosmicAI at our collaborative event - Harrington Faculty Fellows Symposium 2026 “Large Language Models: Advances and Applications.” Sign up for our email list to learn about our upcoming events! cosmicai.org/get-involved
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Apr 30
12 hours left! Donate to CosmicAI's 40 for Forty campaign! We’re raising funds to support paid summer research internships for undergrads exploring AI astronomy. Every dollar goes to students! Campaign ends tonight at 10pm!
Donate now! give.utexas.edu/schools/Univ…
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