Talks & Media

Talks, panels, and media appearances — from gamma-ray bursts to machine learning at scale. Where available, each entry links to video, audio, slides, and a transcript.
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Past Talks & Media

AI-Accelerated Science Will Always Be a Human Endeavor

Grounding AI-Accelerated Research

Keynote ALIGN: AI 2026 Washington, DC · Jul 2026 #175

AI and the Future of Science

Panel PAI26: 2026 Conference on Physics and AI, Stanford Stanford, CA · Jun 2026 #174

Foundation Models and Agents for Physics

Time-Domain Astrophysics, Accelerated with AI

Colloquium KIPAC Astrophysics Colloquium, Stanford Stanford, CA · Apr 2026 #172

Circumventing Bottlenecks and Taking Better Data in the Time Domain

Talk Berkeley Astrophysics Roundtable Berkeley, CA · Dec 2025 #171

AI in Astronomy, a Primer

Seminar AI4Science Center Seminar, Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA · Sep 2025 #170

AI Accelerating Astrophysics

Eurekaizing Anomalies

Invited Talk Foundation Models for Astrophysics Workshop, Flatiron Institute New York, NY · May 2025 #168

Foundation Models in Production

Colloquium IAIFI Colloquium, MIT Cambridge, MA · May 2025 #167

AI Accelerating Inquiry and Insight in Astrophysics

Invited Talk C2OA2SE Workshop, Michigan Tech Research Institute Ann Arbor, MI · Nov 2024 #166

AI in Astrophysics

Transforming Astrophysics with AI

Colloquium A3D3 Institute Seminar / UW Physics Colloquium Seattle, WA & virtual · May 2024 #164

The Real AI Revolution in Astronomy Hasn't Happened Yet

Panel CuratingAI, 120710 Gallery Berkeley, CA · Apr 2024 #163

CuratingAI Art Exhibition: Closing Panel

Talk L&S Roundtable, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Oct 2023 #162

Astrophysical Machine Learning

Seminar CITRIS People and Robots / DREAM Seminar, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Sep 2023 #161

The Real AI Revolution in Astronomy Hasn't Happened Yet

AI Assisted Discovery: from UX to Eureka!

Talk AIRA Splinter Meeting, AAS 241 Seattle, WA · Jan 2023 #159

A Surprising Discovery Using SBI in Exoplanets

Talk Berkeley Astrophysics Roundtable Berkeley, CA · Nov 2022 #158

Accelerating Discovery and Inference with Machine Learning

The Link Between Astronomy and ML

Talk MLClub.net Virtual · Feb 2021 #156

Machine Learning in Astronomical Surveys (ML Club intro)

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Inference & Discovery

Seminar Harvard IACS Seminar Cambridge, MA (virtual) · Oct 2020 #154

Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Astronomy

Invited Talk ScaledML 2020 Mountain View, CA · Feb 2020 #153

Towards Physics-Informed ML Inference in Astrophysics

Keynote Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, LBNL Berkeley, CA · Dec 2019 #152

Physics-Informed Astrophysical Machine Learning

Physics-Informed (and -Informative) Generative Modelling in Astronomy

Machine Learning at Scale: Astrophysics

Plenary DESI Collaboration Meeting Berkeley, CA · Jul 2019 #149

Optimizing DESI for the Time-Domain Opportunities

Talk Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Symposium 2019 #148

Time-Domain Inference and Physics in ML

Astrophysical Machine Learning

Industrial-Grade Machine Learning

Invited Talk Deep Learning for Multimessenger Astrophysics: Real-Time Discovery at Scale, NCSA Champaign-Urbana, IL · Oct 2018 #145

An Autoencoding Recurrent Neural Network for Inference on Unevenly Sampled Time-Series Data

Autoencoding RNNs for Inference on Unevenly Sampled Time-Series

Talk #ML4Sci: Machine Learning for Science Workshop, LBNL Berkeley, CA · Sep 2018 #143

Autoencoding RNN for Inference on Unevenly Sampled Time-Series Data

Talk Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Symposium 2018 #142

Time-Domain Inference, Data Science Tooling, & Industrial Machine Learning

Invited Talk Gehrels Memorial Meeting, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD · May 2018 #141

50 Years of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Podcast Data Science & Strategy Lecture Series, Berkeley Haas Berkeley, CA · Mar 2018 #140

Industrial Machine Learning

Talk Real-Time Decision Making program, Simons Institute Berkeley, CA · Feb 2018 #139

Machine Learning for Time-Domain Astrophysics

Keynote Strata Data Conference Singapore Singapore · Dec 2017 #138

Industrial Machine Learning

Invited Talk KDD 2017, Applied Data Science Invited Talks Halifax, Canada · Aug 2017 #137

Industrial Machine Learning

Podcast TWIML AI Podcast (#42) Aug 2017 #136

Marrying Physics-Based and Data-Driven ML Models

Keynote Interop ITX Las Vegas, NV · May 2017 #135

Systems of Intelligence

Talk Applied Artificial Intelligence in the New Industrial Revolution (Applied AI Meetup) San Francisco, CA · Apr 2017 #134

Industrial Machine Learning

Emerging Needs and Opportunities in Data-Intensive Domains: Astronomy

Podcast TWIML AI Podcast (#5) Sep 2016 #132

Machine Learning for the Stars & Productizing AI

Tutorial Astro Hack Week 2016 Berkeley, CA · Aug 2016 #131

Machine Learning (lecture)

Podcast Software Engineering Daily Jan 2016 #130

Machine Learning for Businesses

Interview Click, BBC News Sep 2015 #129

Machine Learning in Business

Talk SF Machine Learning Meetup San Francisco, CA · Sep 2015 #128

Machine Learning in Production: Trials, Tribulations & Triumphs

Keynote PyData Seattle 2015 Seattle, WA · Jul 2015 #127

A Systems View of Machine Learning

Talk Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Symposium Seattle, WA · Jul 2015 #126

Data Science Infrastructure & Time-Domain Inference

Talk Seminar/workshop talk 2015 #125

Data Science Education: Needs & Opportunities in Astronomy

Talk Data Driven NYC (FirstMark) New York, NY · May 2015 #124

Machine Learning in Production

Invited Talk Simons Foundation New York, NY · May 2015 #123

Astrophysical Insights in the Presence of Uncertainty & Under Duress

Talk AAAS Annual Meeting San Jose, CA · Feb 2015 #122

Computational and Data Literacy for Domain Scientists

Podcast a16z Academic Roundtable 2014 Menlo Park, CA · Sep 2014 #121

Supernovas and Novel Insight: Where Machine Learning is Headed Next

Invited Talk a16z Academic Roundtable 2014 Menlo Park, CA · Sep 2014 #120

Practicable Machine Intelligence in Science & Industry

Tutorial Astro Hack Week 2014 Seattle, WA · Sep 2014 #119

Supervised Machine Learning

Interview Varney & Co., Fox Business Network Sep 2014 #118

The $100 Earthquake Detector

Invited Talk MMDS Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets Berkeley, CA · Jun 2014 #117

Large-Scale Inference in Time Domain Astrophysics

Astrophysical Applications of Machine Learning at Scale and Under Duress

Panel DataEDGE Conference, UC Berkeley School of Information Berkeley, CA · May 2014 #115

UC Berkeley Data Science Startups

Colloquium CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Northwestern University Evanston, IL · May 2014 #114

Machine Learning in Astronomy

Talk Berkeley Astrophysics Roundtable Berkeley, CA · May 2014 #113

Inference in Time Domain Astrophysics

Keynote PyData Silicon Valley 2014 Menlo Park, CA · May 2014 #112

Data Science at Berkeley

Computational Training and Data Literacy for Domain Scientists

Data-Driven Astronomical Inference with Machine Learning

Talk Strata Conference (Hardcore Data Science track) Santa Clara, CA · Feb 2014 #109

Overcoming the Barriers to Production-Ready Machine-Learning Workflows

Talk Hot-wiring the Transient Universe III Santa Fe, NM · Nov 2013 #108

The Modern Automated Astrophysics Stack

Lecture Big Data Boot Camp, Simons Institute Berkeley, CA · Sep 2013 #107

Large-Scale Inference in Time Domain Astrophysics

Lecture KIPAC@10 Symposium Stanford, CA · Sep 2013 #106

Big Machine Learning

Lecture UC Berkeley Data Science Lecture Series Berkeley, CA · Jun 2013 #105

Extracting Actionable Insight from Dirty Time-Series Data

The Modern Astrophysics Stack: Automated Action and Insight

Extracting Novel Insight from Probabilistic Machine-Learned Classification Catalogs

Keynote SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering Boston, MA · Feb 2013 #103

Automated Astrophysics in the Big Data Era

Colloquium Yale Physics Club New Haven, CT · Dec 2012 #101

Relativistic Tidal Disruption Events

Lecture SAMSI Astrostatistics Workshop Research Triangle Park, NC · Sep 2012 #100

Automating Science in the Time-Domain Survey Era: Machine-Learning Challenges

Lecture Benjamin Dean Astronomy Lecture, California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, CA · Sep 2012 #99

The Supernova of a Generation: SN 2011fe

Talk LSST All-Hands Meeting 2012 Tucson, AZ · Aug 2012 #98

Classification Challenges

Radio NPR Morning Edition Jul 2012 #97

Telescope Targets Black Holes' Binges and Burps

Invited Talk SciPy 2012 Austin, TX · Jul 2012 #96

Python as Super Glue for the Modern Scientific Workflow

Talk From Data to Knowledge: Machine Learning with Real-time and Streaming Applications (Berkeley workshop) Berkeley, CA · May 2012 #95

Classification of Astronomical Time-Series Data in the Synoptic Survey Era

Co-ordinating Facilities

Data-Mining and Machine Learning in the LSST Era

Talk IceCube Collaboration Meeting Berkeley, CA · Mar 2012 #92

GRB Phenomenology & Neutrinos

Talk AAS 219th Meeting Austin, TX · Jan 2012 #91

Constraints on the Progenitor System of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2011fe/PTF11kly

Colloquium Space Telescope Science Institute Colloquium Baltimore, MD · Nov 2011 #90

Relativistic Black Hole Tidal Disruption Events

Time-Domain Challenges in the Synoptic Survey Era

Seminar Astrophysics Pizza Lunch, Columbia University New York, NY · Nov 2011 #88

The Transient Universe

Challenges to Automating the Scientific Workflow in Streaming Astronomical Data

Colloquium MIT Astrophysics Colloquium Cambridge, MA · Oct 2011 #86

Relativistic Tidal Disruption Events

Invited Talk IAU Symposium 285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy Oxford, UK · Sep 2011 #85

Technical and Observational Challenges for Future Time-Domain Surveys

Constraints on the Progenitor System of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2011fe/PTF11kly

Radio NPR Science Friday Jun 2011 #83

In a Flash of Gamma-Rays, a Star Is Gone

Radio BBC Newshour Jun 2011 #82

Black Hole Swallows a Star (Swift J1644+57)

Talk Berkeley Astrophysics Roundtable Berkeley, CA · Apr 2011 #81

Making Sense of the Dynamic Universe in the Synoptic Survey Era

Talk i4Science Lecture Series, CITRIS & LBNL Computational Science and Engineering Berkeley, CA · Apr 2011 #80

Astrophysics of Streaming Time-Series Data: Discovery and Inference

Invited Talk SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering Reno, NV · Mar 2011 #79

Real-Time Classification of Astronomical Events

Invited Talk Gravitational-wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW 2011) Milwaukee, WI · Jan 2011 #78

EM Followup: Past, Present, Future

Talk AAS Town Hall Meeting, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Nov 2010 #77

SASIR: A Wide-Field Synoptic Survey for this Decade

Seminar IGPP Seminar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA · Nov 2010 #76

SASIR: A Wide-Field Synoptic Survey for this Decade

Talk Lobster Collaboration Meeting Oct 2010 #75

High-Redshift GRBs with Lobster

Lecture Compass Lecture Series, Berkeley Compass Project Berkeley, CA · Oct 2010 #74

What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts?

Lecture Benjamin Dean Astronomy Lecture, California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, CA · Oct 2010 #73

Making Sense of the Dynamic Universe in the Synoptic Survey Era

Talk SACNAS National Conference Anaheim, CA · Oct 2010 #72

The Transient Universe

Gamma-Ray Bursts: Birth Cries of Black Holes

Invited Talk 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly Bremen, Germany · Jul 2010 #70

EXIST: Probing the Epoch of Reionization with Gamma-Ray Bursts

Talk SciDAC Computational Astrophysics Consortium Meeting, SLAC Menlo Park, CA · May 2010 #69

Exploiting the Transient IR Sky

Lecture Evenings with Astronomers, W. M. Keck Observatory Kohala Coast, HI · Apr 2010 #68

Cosmic Forensics: Tracking Stellar Deaths

Talk CITRIS Research Exchange, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Mar 2010 #67

Automating Discovery and Classification of the Dynamic Universe

Invited Talk The Eventful Universe (NOAO 50th Anniversary Symposium) Tucson, AZ · Mar 2010 #66

Scratching Decadal Itches with Gamma-Ray Bursts

Keynote AAS 215th Meeting - Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Lecture Washington, DC · Jan 2010 #65

Finding Utility in the Diverse Origins of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Invited Talk Swift Mission Conference: Celebrating 5 Years State College, PA · Nov 2009 #64

A Redress of Short Bursts

Seminar Neyman Seminar, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Sep 2009 #63

Real-Time Knowledge Extraction from Massive Time-Series Datastreams

Invited Talk Aspen Workshop on Wide-Fast-Deep Surveys Aspen, CO · Jun 2009 #62

Real-Time Classification in the Petascale Era: Ramping Up with PTF

Talk Hot-wiring the Transient Universe II Santa Cruz, CA · Apr 2009 #61

The Synoptic Infrared Imaging Survey

Invited Talk PetrosianFest Stanford, CA · Apr 2009 #60

The Future of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Seminar INPA Seminar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA · Feb 2009 #59

SASIR: The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared Imaging Survey Concept

Colloquium Leiden Observatory Colloquium Leiden, The Netherlands · Sep 2008 #58

GRBs in a Cosmological Context

Seminar Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia Seminar Granada, Spain · Sep 2008 #57

SASIR: The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared Imaging Survey Concept

GRBs as Cosmological Probes

Talk SciPy 2008 Pasadena, CA · Aug 2008 #55

Real-time Astronomical Time-series Classification and Broadcast Pipeline

Talk Guillermo Haro Workshop 2008: Science with SASIR, INAOE Tonantzintla, Mexico · Aug 2008 #54

The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared (SASIR) Survey: Overview

Invited Talk Sackler Conference on 21cm Cosmology Cambridge, MA · May 2008 #53

GRBs as Cosmological Probes

Talk Gamma-Ray Bursts 2007 (Santa Fe Conference) Santa Fe, NM · Nov 2007 #52

The Crisis of Classification

Lecture San Francisco Amateur Astronomers San Francisco, CA · Oct 2007 #51

Gamma-Ray Bursts: Newfound Diversity in Nature's Biggest Bangs

Data-Driven 21st Century Astrophysics

Talk Science in the Era of TMT, UC Irvine Irvine, CA · Jul 2007 #49

Gamma-Ray Bursts & Transient Phenomena

Lecture Volunteer Night Enrichment Lecture, Chabot Space & Science Center Oakland, CA · Jun 2007 #48

The Cosmic Distance Ladder & Gamma-Ray Bursts

Talk Hot-wiring the Transient Universe Tucson, AZ · Jun 2007 #47

Building a Classification Engine for the Palomar Transient Factory

Lecture San Mateo County Astronomical Society San Mateo, CA · Apr 2007 #46

Giant Cosmic Explosions: The Gamma-Ray Burst Boom

Colloquium Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium Princeton, NJ · Mar 2007 #45

Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Long and the Short of Them

Invited Talk 9th AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting San Francisco, CA · Oct 2006 #44

The Host Galaxies of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Invited Talk SWIFT and GRBs: Unveiling the Relativistic Universe Venice, Italy · Jun 2006 #43

The Hosts of (Short) Gamma-Ray Bursts

Gamma-Ray Bursts at High Redshift

Lecture Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures, Foothill College Los Altos Hills, CA · May 2006 #41

Giant Cosmic Explosions: The Gamma-Ray Burst Boom

PAIRITEL: Past, Present, Future

Colloquium ACKS Astrophysics Colloquium, KIPAC, Stanford University Stanford, CA · Apr 2006 #39

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Colloquium SSL Colloquium, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Apr 2006 #38

The Gamma-Ray Burst Revolution

Radio American Voices with Bill Bradley, Sirius Satellite Radio Mar 2006 #37

Scientist Interview

Scoping the Follow-up Effort

Seminar IGPP Seminar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA · Jan 2006 #35

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Gamma-Ray Bursts and Their Hosts

Seminar UC Davis Davis, CA · Nov 2005 #33

Recent Progress on Gamma-Ray Bursts: Cosmological Strides and the Progenitors of the Short-Hard Subclass

Colloquium Physics Colloquium, University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA · Oct 2005 #32

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Seminar INPA Seminar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA · Jul 2005 #31

Shedding Light on Short Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors

Radio NPR Science Friday Jun 2005 #30

Gamma Ray Bursters

Talk 1st PAIRITEL Workshop Cambridge, MA · Apr 2005 #29

PAIRITEL Science Overview and Commissioning Update

Talk 1st VOEvent Workshop Pasadena, CA · Apr 2005 #28

Implementing a Real-Time VOEvent Messaging Network

Colloquium UC Santa Cruz Astronomy Colloquium Santa Cruz, CA · Apr 2005 #27

New Perspectives on Gamma-Ray Bursts

Seminar INPA Seminar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA · Apr 2005 #26

Discovery of a Contemporaneous Infrared Flash from GRB 041219a

Talk 22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics Palo Alto, CA · Dec 2004 #25

GRB-Supernova Connection: Evidence and Implications

Supernova Bumps as Evidence for a Massive Star Origin

Colloquium MIT Astrophysics Colloquium Cambridge, MA · Nov 2003 #23

Optical/IR Observations of GRB & XRF Transients

Colloquium UC Berkeley Astronomy Colloquium Berkeley, CA · Nov 2003 #22

Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts: Perspectives and Prospects

Colloquium University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Austin, TX · Oct 2003 #21

Optical/Infrared Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts and X-Ray Flash Transients

Invited Talk Gamma-Ray Bursts: 30 Years of Discovery Santa Fe, NM · Sep 2003 #20

Energetics and the GRB Hubble Diagram

Invited Talk Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, 3rd Workshop Rome, Italy · Sep 2002 #19

The Case for Late Optical Bumps as Associated Supernovae

Invited Talk Sackler GRB Conference Cambridge, MA · May 2002 #18

Optical/IR Afterglow Observations

Lecture Everhart Lecture Series, Caltech Pasadena, CA · Mar 2002 #17

Toward the Origin of Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Biggest Bangs in the Universe

Talk AAS 199th Meeting Washington, DC · Jan 2002 #16

Toward the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Invited Talk Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain · Jun 2001 #15

Towards the Progenitors of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts

Seminar Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ · May 2001 #14

Toward the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Seminar Harvard/CfA OIR Lunch Seminar Cambridge, MA · May 2001 #13

Toward the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts

The Observed Offset Distribution of GRBs About Their Hosts

Invited Talk 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting Rome, Italy · Jul 2000 #11

GRB Host Galaxies: Hints for the Models

Lecture John Drescher Planetarium Astronomy Guest Lecture Series, Santa Monica College Santa Monica, CA · Apr 2000 #10

The Universe's Biggest Blasts

Seminar IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar Pasadena, CA · Feb 2000 #9

Emerging Trends in Gamma-Ray Bursts

Talk 5th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium Huntsville, AL · Oct 1999 #8

GRBs & SNe: Investigation of GRB 980519 and GRB 980329

Lecture Santa Monica Amateur Astronomy Club Santa Monica, CA · Feb 1999 #7

Gamma-Ray Bursts

The Discovery and Broad-Band Follow-Up of the Transient Afterglow of GRB 980703

Talk AAS 191st Meeting Washington, DC · Jan 1998 #5

The Spatial Distribution of Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries

Talk 4th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium Huntsville, AL · Sep 1997 #4

The Host to GRB 970508: A High-Redshift Dwarf Galaxy?

Talk Latest Developments in Gamma-Ray Bursts Workshop Elba, Italy · May 1997 #3

Extragalactic Hosts

Lecture University of Kent Space Society Canterbury, UK · Mar 1997 #2

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Talk 3rd Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium Huntsville, AL · Oct 1995 #1

The Corrected Log N–Log Fluence Distribution of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts