New AI Institute Led by UT Researchers Will Accelerate Cosmic Discovery

September 18, 2024 • by Joanne Foote

Stella Offner and Arya Farahi are among the leads of a new multi-institution institute focused on AI and astronomy.

Four quadrants of scientific-images come together, with webs showing bright spots for star formation, galaxy clustering, identifications of galaxies that are labeled and a futuristic network.

CosmicAI researchers will apply artificial intelligence to large datasets to better understand dark matter, galaxies, star formation and other mysteries of the cosmos. Credits: Top: "Legacy Surveys / D. Lang (Perimeter Institute)" Licensed under CC-BY-4.0. legacysurvey.org/acknowledgment; Left: "STARFORGE collaboration”/D. Guszejnov; Bottom: “IllustrisTNG Collaboration / P. Torrey (UVA).”


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