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University of Delaware

Department of Physics and Astronomy

federica bianco

Biden School of Public Policy and Administration

Data  Science Institute

Vera C. Rubin Observatory

FASTLab

Federica's Astrostattistics Lab

Former UD GS

Current UD GS

The immutable skies

explosions in the sky

how we study SNe

The Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time will start soon:

the largest astronomical survey ever attempted

400 hours of 4k HD videos or 1,000,000 typical TikTok videos every night

400 hours of 4k HD videos or  2years of TikTok videos every night

Input

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y

output

data

prediction

physics

Input

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y

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function

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y

output

b

m

m: slope 

b: intercept

Input

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y

output

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m: slope 

b: intercept

parameters

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y

learn

goal: find the right m and b that turn x into y

goal: find the right m and b that turn x into y

p(class)

GPT-3

175 Billion Parameters

3,640 PetaFLOPs days

What survey strategy shoudl LSST adopt to maximize the chance of serendipitous discovery?

Xiaolong Li et al. 2022

now LSSTC Catalyst Fellow, J. Hopkins

Xiaolong Li et al. 2022

LSSTC Catalyst Fellow, J. Hopkins

AILE: the first AI-based platform for the detection and study of Light Echoes

NSF Award #2108841

P.I. Bianco

Light Ecoes are rare strophsyical pheonomena and a near-pessimal problem for AI, but with as much data as LSST AI is a necessity

• imbalance classes
• diverse morphology
• low SNR

• small training data
• inaccurate labels

Dr. Somayeh Khakpash

LSSTC Catalyst Fellow, Rutgers

Rare classes will become common, but how do we know what we are looking at and classify different objects for sample studies?

Data-Driven Templates for stripped SESN

Dr. Somayeh Khakpash

now LSSTC Catalyst Fellow, Rutgers

Can AI replace forward modeling of physical processes?

Many problems in astrophysics require expensive simulations.

Can AI replace computationally expensive image processing now necessary for astrophysical discovery?

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difference

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Tatiana Acero-Cuellar et al. 2023

UNIDEL fellow

Saliency maps: what pixels matter? 

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Tatiana Acero-Cuellar in prep

UNIDEL fellow

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Can AI replace computationally expensive image processing now necessary for astrophysical discovery?

Why did the AI made the decision it made?

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7 bands

sparse data

 As the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU), The Lincoln University paved a path to higher education for African American males previously unavailable to them.

NSF  Data Science Corps Award 2123264

to create an equitable and accessible data science pedagogical program and build data science pedagogy capacity at HBCUs

Time (days)

The tragic (and beautiful) complexity of the LSST data

Time (days)

The tragic (and beautiful) complexity of the LSST data

7 bands

Time (days)

The tragic (and beautiful) complexity of the LSST data

7 bands

sparse data

Time (days)

The tragic (and beautiful) complexity of the LSST data

7 bands

sparse data

environmental info

Time (days)

The tragic (and beautiful) complexity of the LSST data

7 bands

sparse data

low SNR

environmental info

DRONE:

the sustained tone branch of minimalism

Research Inclusion: sonification of LSST lightcurves

Presented at 2021 Rubin Project Community Workshop (300 ppl) 

Started a new Rubin Working Group

Rubin Rhapsodies