PROGRAMME
This is the first release of the programme. Minor changes are still possible.
The conference will be entirely hosted on Zoom and broadcasted live on YouTube.
All times are in Central European Time (CEST), which is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
In the programme, discussions and invited speakers are indicated in bold.
Monday, 23 September: Technical Insight into GPT/LLM/Generative AI technology
Chair: Gitta Kutyniok |
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| 14:00 |
Welcome |
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| 14:10 |
Barbara Plank |
Remember to look up at the stars: Recent advances and Challenges in Natural Language |
| 14:45 |
Michael Smith |
A Universe To Be Decided |
| 15:05 |
Sahakyan Narek |
Introducing astroLLM: A Specialized Language Model for Extragalactic Astrophysics Research |
| 15:25 |
Break |
| 15:50 |
Stephan Krusche |
Artemis: Interactive Learning with Generative AI |
| 16:25 |
Solai Jeyakumar |
AstroAssistant: How good are the AI tools to assist in writing codes for research in astronomy? |
| 16:45 |
Discussion
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| 17:30 |
End of the day |
Tuesday, 24 September: GPT/LLM techs in astronomy
Chair: Giacomo Beccari |
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| 14:00 |
Maggie Lieu |
AI in Astronomy |
| 14:35 |
Marcos López-Caniego and Miguel Doctor |
Using RAG+LLMs to infer astronomical object types from scientific publications within ESASky |
| 14:55 |
Nolan Koblischke |
Gravity Bench: A Benchmark for an AI Astronomer |
| 15:15 |
Paula Sanchez Saez |
Experiments with chatGPT for user support at ESO |
| 15:35 |
Break |
| 16:00 |
Christopher Stubbs and Merlin Fisher-Levine |
Chatting with a telescope- incorporating Generative AI into Rubin Observatory commissioning |
| 16:20 |
Yuan-Sen TING |
AstroMLab : Who Wins Astronomy Jeopardy!? |
| 16:55 |
Discussion
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| 17:50 |
End of the day |
Wednesday, 25 September: Cognitive Psychology; Impact of (AI-)technologies on cognition
Chair: Sandra Grinschgl |
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| 14:00 |
Patrick P. Weis |
Thinking outside the box: Why and when do problem solvers use their environments to help them think? |
| 14:35 |
Sun Zechang
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Large Language-Based Agents for Scientific Analysis |
| 14:55 |
Aishwarya Girdhar
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Recreating the Early Universe: Leveraging ChatGPT and Augmented Reality in Astrophysics Education |
| 15:15 |
Ali-Dib Mohamad |
Physics simulation capabilities of LLMs |
| 15:35 |
Break |
| 16:00 |
Ella Glikson |
AI-mediated communication and its possible implications for interpersonal relationships |
| 16:35 |
Discussion
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| 17:30 |
End of the day |
Thursday, 26 September: GPT/LLM used in evaluation/funding/hiring processes
Chair: Sean Sapcariu |
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| 14:00 |
Tereza Jerabkova |
STAR@ESO: Scientific Text Analysis with Robots applied to observatory proposals |
| 14:35 |
James Morris |
The opportunities and impacts of AI in research assessment processes |
| 15:10 |
Vicente Amado Olivo
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Globalizing Peer Review through AI-Driven Researcher |
| 15:30 |
Break |
| 15:45 |
Zen Faulkes |
Artificial intelligence in research assessment |
| 16:20 |
Discussion
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| 17:30 |
End of the day |
Friday, 27 September: GPT/LLM and astronomical journals: policies, ethics
Chair: Henri Boffin |
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| 14:30 |
May Chiao |
Nature Portfolio's view of chatbots in scientific publishing |
| 15:05 |
Claudio Urbina |
Applying Large Language Models to track ESO data use in the literature |
| 15:25 |
Simone Astarita |
Delving into the Realm of ChatGPT: Is the Language of Astronomy Changing? |
| 15:45 |
Miguel Aragon |
Science 2.0 with Artificial Intelligence. |
| 16:05 |
Break |
| 16:40 |
Christoph Lütge |
Ethical Aspects of Generative AI |
| 17:15 |
Discussion
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| 18:00 |
End of the workshop |
