Machine Learning & Astrophysics — 21 November 2025
This one-day workshop is part of the CDS workshop series Machine Learning + X. The workshop is jointly organized by the Center for Data and Simulation Science (CDS) and the SFB 1601.
https://cds.uni-koeln.de/en/workshops/mlaa-2025
Agenda
Date: 21 November 2025, 09:00 – 14:00 (tentative time window)
Location: Building 125, Seminar Room 1.01
Organization: Center for Data and Simulation Science (CDS) and SFB 1601
Contact: Lea Saßmannshausen (CDS)
Contributed Talks
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Andreas Lintermann | Integration of AI in Physics Simulations |
| Aleksander Bojchevsky | Trusting the Untrustworthy: Toward Reliable AI for Science |
| Stefan Kesselheim | Simulations, surrogates, statistics: Machine Learning in Astrophysics and beyond |
Poster Contributions
| Contributors (Pitch, Poster) | Collaborators | Pitch Title |
|---|---|---|
| Devika Bhatnagar | V. Balakrishnan, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, P. Freire, M. Kramer | The Pulsar Sorting Hat: AI to Accelerate Discoveries of Relativistic Binaries |
| André Bresges | Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Brain Functions during simulated car driving: Possible applications for a Shared Universe Engine | |
| Tobias Solymosi | T. Danowski, B. Jones, S. Kesselheim, P. Schilke | Prostellar structure recovery using deep learning |
| Jakob Dietl | J. Dietl, F. Pacaud, T. H. Reiprich, A. Rüttgers, Z. Lähner, A. Veronica | Uncovering the Giants in the Sky – Semantic Segmentation of Galaxy Clusters in Astrophysical Surveys |
| Lucie Flek | C. D. Le, D. Kaczér, K. Schmieden, M. Schott | Analyzing Gravitational Waves with Transformers |
| Aleyna Nuray Ortakoese | M. Weis, S. Walch-Gassner | Following Tracer Particles to Identify Filaments in Star-Forming Cores with HDBSCAN |
| Daniel Seifried | R. Patel, S. Walch | The filamentary ISM: Structure Identification and characterization |
29th Colloquium on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy, 25. – 29. August 2025
The 29th Colloquium on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (HRMS) was held at the Physics Institutes of the Universität zu Köln, organized locally by the “Laboratory Astrophysics Group” of the I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln.
https://hrms2025.astro.uni-koeln.de
Scientific Program:
There were be 10 plenary lectures and 3 mini-symposia with 10 invited speakers. Parallel sessions will feature 72 contributed talks. There will be four poster sessions with more than 130 contributions. The scientific fields covered are:
- High resolution rotational, vibrational, and electronic spectroscopy of molecules (radicals, ions, complexes, clusters, …)
- Molecular dynamics
- Theory assisting the prediction, simulation, and interpretation of spectra
- New techniques for high-resolution spectroscopy
- Applications to atmospheric sciences, astrophysics, planetology, combustion, gas-phase biomolecules, metrology and fundamental physics, cold molecules, etc.
Meeting of the Astronomical Society 2024 in Cologne
The International Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society was held at the University of Cologne during the week September 09-13, 2024.
The meeting included invited plenary talks, splinter sessions, and working group meetings of the Astronomical Society.
https://ag2024.astronomische-gesellschaft.de
Video recordings of the plenary talks are available for registered participants. Please, follow the links in the rightmost column under “Abstracts”.
Video recording of the public talk given by Andrina Nicola.
Conference photo (2024-09-12)
