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Astronomy Colloquium - "Time-domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Astronomy
Location
Kaler Classroon, Astronomy Building
Date
Feb 7, 2023   3:45 pm  
Speaker
Ashley Villar, Pennsylvania State University
Contact
Rebecca Bare
E-Mail
rsbare@illinois.edu
Phone
217-265-8226
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The eruptions, collisions and explosions of stars drive the universe’s chemical and dynamical evolution. The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will drastically increase the discovery rate of these transient phenomena, bringing time-domain astrophysics into the realm of “big data.” With this transition comes the important question: how do we classify transient events and separate the interesting “needles” from the “haystack” of objects? In this talk, I will discuss efforts to discover and classify unexpected phenomena using semi-supervised machine learning techniques. I will highlight the interplay between data-informed physics and physics-informed machine learning required to best understand the future Rubin dataset of extragalactic transients.

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