Machine Learning & Astrophyisics — 21 November 2025
This UoC-internal, one-day workshop is part of the CDS workshop series Machine Learning + X and is the first event in the field of astrophysics. 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
Tentative Agenda
- Keynotes
- Pitches
- Postersession
- Discussion
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)
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09.10.2025, 9am – 5pm
Science Meeting: comparison of observations and simulations
08.07.2025, 10am – 3.30pm
To get to the old workshop, enter the Physics Institutes of the UoC, then turn into the staircase in front of the PH1. Go one floor down and go through the glass door, the old workshop is straight ahead.
Preliminary Program
10:00 – 11-30
Postersession
Old Workshop, PH1
11:30 – 12:00
break and change of room
12:00 – 12:05
Introduction
Stefanie Walch-Gassner
Room 0.01, ETP
12:05 – 12:25
Synthetic observations from the SILCC-Zoom simulations
Daniel Seifried
Room 0.01, ETP
12:25 – 12:45
ELD: Emission Line Diagnostics of the simulated ISM
Tim-Eric Rathjen
Room 0.01, ETP
12:45 – 13:05
The carbon puzzle in observations
Volker Ossenlopf-Okada
Astrochemical models propose abundant atomic carbon in a transitional layer around molecular gas. Instead observations show bright [CI] in the clouds and weak emission outside. There seems to be significant variability but observational statistics is so far insufficient to address any causal relation. Cosmic rays may play a fundamental role.
Room 0.01, ETP
13:05 – 13:30
The ‘Diamond Ring’: Insights from comparing simulations with observations
Simon Dannhauer, Sebastian Vider
Room 0.01, ETP
13:30 – 13:35
break
Room 0.01, ETP
13:35 – 13:43
Comparing simulations and synthetic observations of high-mass star-forming regions
Birka Zimmermann
Room 0.01, ETP
13:43 – 13:51
Astrochemical coupling of MHD simulations of massive star-forming regions
Akash Gupta
Room 0.01, ETP
13:51 – 13:59
Simulating and observing the hot phase of the ISM with bow shocks and binaries
Jonathan Mackey
Room 0.01, ETP
13:59 – 14:07
Scientific group: Massive Star Formation and Cluster Evolution, discussion and perspectives
Anaïs Pauchet, Emma Bordier, Chinmaya Nagar, Furkan Dincer
Room 0.01, ETP
14:07 – 14:15
Atomic hydrogen here, there, everywhere and its role in star formation
Arshia Jacob
Room 0.01, ETP
14:15 – 14:23
Synthetic spectra, real insight: Mapping protostellar core structure from spectral cubes with Deep Learning
Beth Jones, Timon Danowski, Tobias Solymosi
Room 0.01, ETP
14:23 – 14:40
break
Room 0.01, ETP
14:40 – 15:20
discussion
Room 0.01, ETP
15:20 – 15:30
wrap-up
possibility to continue discussion afterwards (open end)
Room 0.01, ETP