NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI)

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CosmicAI is featured in @taccutexas.bsky.social y.social's magazine Texascale! Read “CosmicAI Institute Tackles Universe’s Deepest Mysteries” to explore cutting-edge work in AI & astronomy texascale.org/2025/feature... @simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social @thenrao.bsky.social

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Call for CosmicAI Seed Funding Proposals: Submission for 2025-26 is Open! CosmicAI invites the submission of proposals for novel research projects at the intersection of AI/machine learning and astronomy.

Abstract Submission: Due December 8, 2025, 5 PM CT. Learn more cosmicai.org/news/now-acc...

Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - this Wed Nov 12th at 11 AM CT / 12PM ET!

Disentangling Cosmology from Observational Artifacts with Kyle Dawson and Tyler Hagen (University of Utah)

Zoom & in person University of Utah (WEB 3780 - Evans Conference room in SCI)

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We’re hiring! CosmicAI seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to help initiate a new comprehensive research program to foster foundational advancements in AI through the analysis and processing of astronomical data at @thenrao.bsky.social
Location: UVA
App deadline: Dec 19
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It’s official, our panel "Revolutionizing Astronomy with Next Generation Big Data" has been accepted to @sxsw.com 2026! Thank you to everyone who supported our work!
Panelists: Stella Offner, Paul Torrey, @stephajuneau.bsky.social, & @niall2.bsky.social
Learn more schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116...

Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 29 at 11 AM CT/12PM ET! Finding Exotic Transients in the Era of Big Data (Sebastian Gomez-UT Austin) & Time-Series Modeling of High-Resolution Radio Spectra (Josh Taylor-Oden Institute)
Zoom & in person @utaustin.bsky.social
Breakfast tacos served!🌮
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CosmicAI PhD Students Alex Garcia (University of Virginia) and @sebajoe.bsky.social (UT Austin) representing us at SAIL!

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CosmicAI PI and Director Stella Offner presenting during day 3 of the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) 2025 with NSF AI Institutes Virtual Organization (AIVO)! Stella spoke about leveraging AI Institute collaboration for advocacy.

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CosmicAI Ph.D Student Sebastian Joseph is representing us at SAIL! He discusses his research on benchmarking large language models for astro-specific computing and visualization tasks.

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The CosmicAI team at #SAIL2025

CosmicAI PhD Student Alex Garcia from the University of Virginia is representing us at SAIL! He discusses his research on understanding galaxy formation and evolution using numerical simulations. @simonsfoundation.org @uvapress.bsky.social #astronomy #AI4science

CosmicAI Co-Director @mattlease.bsky.social speaking on a panel at SAIL 2025 on effective university-industry partnerships in advancing AI research and innovation. @simonsfoundation.org @utaustin.bsky.social

CosmicAI PI and Director Stella Offner speaking on day 2 of the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) 2025 - discussing all things collaboration, and welcoming GSRs and PostDocs! @simonsfoundation.org

CosmicAI's Managing Director @pcmhatre.bsky.social discussed his work during year one of CosmicAI at the Managing Director’s SIG panel!

CosmicAI is at the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) 2025! SAIL fosters significant interactions, discussions, and connections among the AI Institutes’ researchers and staff.

Comms Director Jane Bernhard presented on the institute's comms strategy & brand advice
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We’re hiring! CosmicAI invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellow positions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for scientific discovery.
Position 1 – Theoretical and Methodological Advances
Position 2 – Model Development and Data Analysis
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Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 15th, 11AM CT! Encoding of Spectra and Time Series (Peter Melchior - Princeton University) & Strategies for variance reduction in spectral unmixing (Jordan Bryan, UVA) Zoom & in person at UVA's Astronomy Building cosmicai.org/events @simonsfoundation.org

Viviana Acquaviva (Professor of physics at the City University of New York) delivering a Special Hybrid CosmicAI Seminar on Learning from simulations using ML/AI tools

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Upcoming Hybrid Seminar - Oct 1, 11AM CT!

Machine Learning for Reviewer-Proposal Matching in ALMA Distributed Peer Review (John Carpenter - ALMA) & Compound AI Systems: How Publisher AI Helps Researchers (Dustin Smith - hum.works)

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Learn more
Website astrovisbench.github.io
Paper arxiv.org/abs/2505.20538

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-are adequate at long-tail knowledge, focusing especially on the usage of domain-specific APIs and visualization generation
-interact with a variety of data formats to create diverse visualizations that comply with expert standards

AstroVisBench is the first scientific coding benchmark that evaluates whether models:
-aid scientists amidst their own workflows when they do not know step-by-step workflows and may not know, in advance, the kinds of scientific utility a visualization would bring.

AstroVisBench was created by Sebastian Joseph, Syed Murtaza Husain, Stella Offner, @stephajuneau.bsky.social, Paul Torrey, Adam Bolton, Juan P. Farias, @niall2.bsky.social, @gregdnlp.bsky.social, and @jessyjli.bsky.social

✅ Accepted as part of the NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track 2025!
🔎 Findings: Even the best LLMs struggle to execute scientific workflows.

Exciting news! Introducing AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy!

A new benchmark developed by researchers at the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins is testing how well LLMs implement scientific workflows in astronomy and visualize results.

We’re hiring a CosmicAI Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Austin! CosmicAI seeks to hire a postdoctoral fellow to conduct research modeling the astrochemistry of astrophysical systems.
Duration: 2 Years (possible renewal for 3rd)
Apply Sept 23-Nov 17 2025
www.cosmicai.org/jobs @utaustin.bsky.social

Special Hybrid CosmicAI Seminar Sept 24th 12-1pm CT!
Title: Learning from simulations using ML/AI tools
Speaker: Viviana Acquaviva (associate professor of physics at the City University of New York)
Venue: Zoom & in person at UT, PMA 15.216B
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