IAUS 397: Exploring the Universe with Artificial Intelligence (UniversAI)

Post Meeting Report

Start date
June 2, 2025

End date 
June 6, 2025

Place 
Athens, Greece

Contact 
Ioannis Liodakis (M) 

Event website 
https://universai2025.hua.gr/

Coordinating Division
Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science,
Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage,
Division D High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics,
Division J Galaxies and Cosmology

Abstract
Computers and computer science are an ever-increasing part of science, and astrophysics and cosmology in particular. The upcoming big-data multimessenger era will provide both fantastic opportunities for discovery and great challenges for both astrophysics and computer science. To overcome those challenges and fully exploit the treasures of the upcoming data-rich era, closer collaboration between these two disciplines is becoming increasingly necessary.  Here, we propose the first IAU interdisciplinary symposium between astrophysics and computer science to take place in Athens, Greece, in May 2025. The symposium will cover a wide range of topics related to AI, deep learning, astronomical databases, current and upcoming large-scale surveys, and pressing problems in astrophysics and cosmology, and ultimately plant the seed for a new worldwide community of computer scientists and astrophysicists to grow.