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KITP Conference: Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the Data Science Era
(Mar 21-24, 2023)
Coordinators: Peter Behroozi, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shirley Ho, and Blakesley Burkhart

Tuesday, Mar 21, 2023

8:50am Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome[Video]
9:00am John Wu (STSCI) Distilling physics from astronomical imaging[Slides][Video]
9:30am Elise Darragh Ford (Stanford) Optimizing Target Selection for Low-Redshift Galaxy Surveys[Video]
10:00am Christian Aganze (UCSD) Prospects for Detecting Gaps in GC Streams with Roman[Video]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Blakesley Burkhart (Rutgers) How Supermassive Black Holes Ignite the Intergalactic Medium: Tales from the Low Redshift Lyman-alpha Forest[Slides][Video]
11:30am Megan Tillman (Rutgers) Too Hot to Handle: The Role of Supermassive Black Holes in Heating the Low Redshift Intergalactic Medium[Slides][Video]
12:00pm Sabrina Appel (Rutgers) How the Gas Dynamics Set the Star Formation Rate of Molecular Clouds[Slides][Video]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Diane Salim (Rutgers) A physics-informed super-resolution model for model for (astrophysical) turbulence[Video][CC]
2:30pm Haowen Zhang (U. Arizona) TRINITY: self-consistently modelling the dark matter halo-galaxy-supermassive black hole connection from z = 0-10[Slides][Video][CC]
3:00pm GALEVO Conference Participants Lightning Talks[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Festa Bucinca (Graduate Center CUNY) Can we discover a physical model for galaxy sizes using a data-driven approach?[Video][CC]
4:30pm Natali Soler Matubaro De Santi (Flatiron) Constraining Ωm with phase-space information of galaxies[Slides][Video][CC]
5:00pm Tri Nguyen (MIT) FLORAH: Planting Better Merger Trees with Deep Generative Models[Video][CC]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Mar 22, 2023

9:00am Dalya Baron (Tel Aviv U) Finding simple structures in complex datasets[Video][CC]
9:30am Suchetha Cooray (Nagoya U) Learning representations of galaxies from simulations and observations[Video][CC]
10:00am Sultan Hassan (New York U) Generating high-fidelity HI maps using score-based diffusion models[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Peter Behroozi (Arizona) MCMCs for neural networks: efficient sampling in millions of dimensions[Slides][Video][CC]
11:30am Josh Peek (STSCI) Towards Astronomical Search By Image: The Hubble Image Similarity Project[Video][CC]
12:00pm Martin P. Rey (Oxford) Interpreting the diversity of diffuse stellar halos in the era of large imaging surveys[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Tjitske Starkenburg (Northwestern) Galaxy formation histories and their stellar halos[Slides][Video][CC]
2:30pm Jo Ciuca (ANU) Unsupervised learning for stellar spectra with deep normalizing flows[Video][CC]
3:00pm Christian Kragh Jespersen (Princeton) Learning Galaxy Properties from Merger Trees[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Paco Villaescusa Navarro (Flatiron) The CAMELS project[Video][CC]
4:30pm Toby Brown (NRC-CNRC) Regulators of molecular gas content and star formation efficiency in cluster and field galaxies[Video][CC]
5:00pm Marc Huertas Company (U Paris Diderot) Learning from simulations[Video][CC]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Mar 23, 2023

9:00am Risa Wechsler (Stanford) Tiny galaxies and detectable dark halos: Physics at and below the threshold of galaxy formation[Video][CC]
9:30am Richie Wang (Stanford) Modeling dwarf galaxy formation with UniverseMachine[Video][CC]
10:00am Elaheh Hayati (Steward Obs.) Estimating Andromeda's dark matter halo mass[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Lina Necib (MIT) Tracing Dark Matter with Stars[Video][CC]
11:30am Dovi Poznanski (Tel Aviv U) Outliers: how I learned to love them, and why you should too[Video][CC]
12:00pm Aleksandra Ciprijanovic (Fermilab) Towards flexible domain adaptation methods for cross-datasets studies of galaxies[Slides][Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Eric Gawiser (Rutgers) Star Formation Histories of Galaxies Near and Far[Slides][Video][CC]
2:30pm Louise Edwards (Cal Poly) The Brightest Cluster Galaxy and Intracluster Light[Video][CC]
3:00pm Elena Giusarma (Michigan Tech) Learning to Simulate the Universe with Deep Learning[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Christopher Lovell (Portsmouth) Predicting Galaxy Populations Conditioned on Cosmological and Astrophysical Parameters using Normalizing Flows and the CAMEL Simulations[Video]
4:30pm Haley Bowden (Steward Obs.) Finding environmental measures sensitive to halo properties using neural networks[Slides][Video]
5:00pm Yuan Sen Ting (ANU) Galaxy Merger Reconstruction with Generative Graph Neural Networks[Video]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Friday, Mar 24, 2023

9:30am Sotiria Fotopoulou (Bristol) Classification from real, messy data[Video][CC]
10:00am Mike Walmsley (U. Manchester) Galaxy Zoo in the Deep Learning Era[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am John Forbes (Flatiron) Dust Properties of Galaxies from a Data-Driven Hierarchical Model[Video][CC]
11:30am Kartheik Iyer (Columbia) The information content of galaxy star formation histories[Video][CC]
12:00pm Andreas Berlind (NSF) Computational & AI Funding Opportunities[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm

CONFERENCE END-SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location (See Registration Desk BEFORE Friday to sign up.)