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Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
A eureka moment is a two-step process: discovering something new and surprising, and establishing that it is correct. Drawing on her work at Axiom, Carina will discuss the transition from solving mathematical benchmarks to contributing to research, and from proving individual theorems to formalizing mathematical theories in Lean.
A eureka moment is a two-step process: discovering something new and surprising, and establishing that it is correct. Drawing on her work at Axiom, Carina will discuss the transition from solving mathematical benchmarks to contributing to research, and from proving individual theorems to formalizing mathematical theories in Lean.
The Center for Decoding the Universe brings together researchers across scientific disciplines to answer the biggest questions about our Universe by leveraging complex data with the most advanced computational methods.
Time | Sessions | Speaker(s) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch & Discussion | |
| 1:00 - 1:05 PM | Introduction and Welcome | Risa Wechsler |
| 1:05 - 2:35 PM | Session 1: Forward Modeling the Universe | |
| 1:05 - 1:20 PM | Towards an astrophysical foundation model | Kate Storey-Fisher |
| 1:20 - 1:35 PM | Foundation models in imaging | Gordon Wetzstein |
| 1:35 - 1:50 PM | Foundation models in particle physics | Ben Nachman |
| 1:50 - 2:30 PM | Discussion: What challenges do we need to solve to make foundation models useful for astrophysical discovery? | |
| 2:30 - 2:55 PM | Poster Presenter Lightning Talks | |
| 2:55 - 3:20 PM | Break & Posters | |
| 3:20 - 5:00 PM | Session 2: Agentically Discovering the Universe | |
| 3:20 - 3:35 PM | The Big Picture: AI Agents in the Research Workflow | James Zou |
| 3:35 - 3:50 PM | ReplicationBench: Possibilities and Challenges | Christine Ye |
| 3:50 - 4:05 PM | Social and cultural impact of AI agents | Angèle Cristin |
| 4:05 - 4:12 PM | Towards Automated Data-Driven Discovery in Astrophysics with Agentic AI | Owen Queen |
| 4:12 - 4:19 PM | alphaXiv | Steven Corley |
| 4:20 - 5:00 PM | Discussion: How do we design agents that are true partners in research? | |
| 5:00 - 6:00 PM | Reception & Posters |