Talks & Media

“The second reason why it’s interesting to work with computer scientists is because they’re pretty clueless about important problems to work on, and they need our help in understanding what are the important questions to be asked, rather than optimizing Twitter sentiment. They should be helping us understand how the universe works.”

— Physics-Informed (and -Informative) Generative Modelling in Astronomy (Sep 2019)

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.

Past Talks & Media

Talk Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School 2026, Centaur AI Institute Online · Aug 2026 #126

Grounding AI-Accelerated Research

Video Slides Transcript Event

Keynote ALIGN: AI 2026 Washington, DC · Jul 2026 #125

AI and the Future of Science

Panel PAI26: 2026 Conference on Physics and AI, Stanford Stanford, CA · Jun 2026 #124

Foundation Models and Agents for Physics

Video Transcript Event

Colloquium Inaugural Keystone Astronomy & AI (KAAI) / Simons Colloquium, Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh, PA · Apr 2026 #123

Time-Domain Astrophysics, Accelerated with AI

Colloquium KIPAC Astrophysics Colloquium, Stanford Stanford, CA · Apr 2026 #122

Circumventing Bottlenecks and Taking Better Data in the Time Domain

Talk Berkeley Astrophysics Roundtable Berkeley, CA · Dec 2025 #121

AI in Astronomy, a Primer

Seminar AI4Science Center Seminar, Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA · Sep 2025 #120

AI Accelerating Astrophysics

Talk Center for Decoding the Universe Annual Conference, Stanford Stanford, CA · Jun 2025 #119

Eurekaizing Anomalies

Video Transcript Event

Invited Talk Foundation Models for Astrophysics Workshop, Flatiron Institute New York, NY · May 2025 #118

Foundation Models in Production

Colloquium IAIFI Colloquium, MIT Cambridge, MA · May 2025 #117

AI Accelerating Inquiry and Insight in Astrophysics

Video Slides Transcript Event

Invited Talk C2OA2SE Workshop, Michigan Tech Research Institute Ann Arbor, MI · Nov 2024 #116

AI in Astrophysics

Colloquium A3D3 Institute Seminar / UW Physics Colloquium Seattle, WA & virtual · May 2024 #115

The Real AI Revolution in Astronomy Hasn't Happened Yet

Video Transcript Event

Panel CuratingAI, 120710 Gallery Berkeley, CA · Apr 2024 #114

CuratingAI Art Exhibition: Closing Panel

Talk L&S Roundtable, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Oct 2023 #113

Astrophysical Machine Learning

Seminar CITRIS People and Robots / DREAM Seminar, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Sep 2023 #112

The Real AI Revolution in Astronomy Hasn't Happened Yet

Invited Talk Cosmic Connections: ML X Astrophysics Symposium, Simons Foundation New York, NY · May 2023 #111

AI Assisted Discovery: from UX to Eureka!

Video Slides Event

Talk AIRA Splinter Meeting, AAS 241 Seattle, WA · Jan 2023 #110

A Surprising Discovery Using SBI in Exoplanets

Talk Berkeley Astrophysics Roundtable Berkeley, CA · Nov 2022 #109

Accelerating Discovery and Inference with Machine Learning

Podcast Gradient Dissent (Weights & Biases) Jul 2021 #108

The Link Between Astronomy and ML

Video Listen Transcript Event

Talk MLClub.net Virtual · Feb 2021 #107

Machine Learning in Astronomical Surveys (ML Club intro)

Talk MLSE 2020: Machine Learning in Science & Engineering Virtual · Dec 2020 #106

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Inference & Discovery

Seminar Harvard IACS Seminar Cambridge, MA (virtual) · Oct 2020 #105

Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Astronomy

Video Transcript Event

Invited Talk ScaledML 2020 Mountain View, CA · Feb 2020 #104

Towards Physics-Informed ML Inference in Astrophysics

Video Transcript Event

Keynote Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, LBNL Berkeley, CA · Dec 2019 #103

Physics-Informed Astrophysical Machine Learning

Talk Machine Learning for Physics and the Physics of Learning, IPAM (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA · Sep 2019 #102

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

Video Slides Transcript Event

Plenary DOE AI for Science Town Hall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA · Sep 2019 #101

Machine Learning at Scale: Astrophysics

Plenary DESI Collaboration Meeting Berkeley, CA · Jul 2019 #100

Optimizing DESI for the Time-Domain Opportunities

Talk Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Symposium 2019 #99

Time-Domain Inference and Physics in ML

Lecture Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) Data Science Lecture Berkeley, CA · Apr 2019 #98

Astrophysical Machine Learning

Podcast Masters of Data Podcast (Sumo Logic) Mar 2019 #97

Industrial-Grade Machine Learning

Invited Talk Deep Learning for Multimessenger Astrophysics: Real-Time Discovery at Scale, NCSA Champaign-Urbana, IL · Oct 2018 #96

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

Talk Workshop on Applying Advanced AI Workflows in Astronomy and Microscopy Santa Clara, CA · Sep 2018 #95

Autoencoding RNNs for Inference on Unevenly Sampled Time-Series

Talk #ML4Sci: Machine Learning for Science Workshop, LBNL Berkeley, CA · Sep 2018 #94

Autoencoding RNN for Inference on Unevenly Sampled Time-Series Data

Talk Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Symposium 2018 #93

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

Invited Talk Gehrels Memorial Meeting, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD · May 2018 #92

50 Years of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Talk Real-Time Decision Making program, Simons Institute Berkeley, CA · Feb 2018 #91

Machine Learning for Time-Domain Astrophysics

Video Transcript Event

Keynote Strata Data Conference Singapore Singapore · Dec 2017 #90

Industrial Machine Learning

Invited Talk KDD 2017, Applied Data Science Invited Talks Halifax, Canada · Aug 2017 #89

Industrial Machine Learning

Podcast TWIML AI Podcast (#42) Aug 2017 #88

Marrying Physics-Based and Data-Driven ML Models

Video Listen Transcript Event

Lecture UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Berkeley, CA · 2017 #87

Industrial Machine Learning

Keynote Interop ITX Las Vegas, NV · May 2017 #86

Systems of Intelligence

Invited Talk National Academies Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education Irvine, CA · Mar 2017 #85

Emerging Needs and Opportunities in Data-Intensive Domains: Astronomy

Podcast TWIML AI Podcast (#5) Sep 2016 #84

Machine Learning for the Stars & Productizing AI

Video Listen Transcript Event

Tutorial Astro Hack Week 2016 Berkeley, CA · Aug 2016 #83

Machine Learning (lecture)

Video Transcript Event

Podcast Software Engineering Daily Jan 2016 #82

Machine Learning for Businesses

Talk SF Machine Learning Meetup San Francisco, CA · Sep 2015 #81

Machine Learning in Production: Trials, Tribulations & Triumphs

Keynote PyData Seattle 2015 Seattle, WA · Jul 2015 #80

A Systems View of Machine Learning

Video Slides Transcript Event

Talk Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Symposium Seattle, WA · Jul 2015 #79

Data Science Infrastructure & Time-Domain Inference

Talk Seminar/workshop talk 2015 #78

Data Science Education: Needs & Opportunities in Astronomy

Talk Data Driven NYC (FirstMark) New York, NY · May 2015 #77

Machine Learning in Production

Video Slides Transcript Event

Invited Talk Simons Foundation New York, NY · May 2015 #76

Astrophysical Insights in the Presence of Uncertainty & Under Duress

Talk AAAS Annual Meeting San Jose, CA · Feb 2015 #75

Computational and Data Literacy for Domain Scientists

Tutorial Astro Hack Week 2014 Seattle, WA · Sep 2014 #74

Supervised Machine Learning

Invited Talk MMDS Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets Berkeley, CA · Jun 2014 #73

Large-Scale Inference in Time Domain Astrophysics

Keynote IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Phoenix, AZ · May 2014 #72

Astrophysical Applications of Machine Learning at Scale and Under Duress

Panel DataEDGE Conference, UC Berkeley School of Information Berkeley, CA · May 2014 #71

UC Berkeley Data Science Startups

Colloquium CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Northwestern University Evanston, IL · May 2014 #70

Machine Learning in Astronomy

Keynote PyData Silicon Valley 2014 Menlo Park, CA · May 2014 #69

Data Science at Berkeley

Video Slides Event

Invited Talk Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data, National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC · Apr 2014 #68

Computational Training and Data Literacy for Domain Scientists

Invited Talk Computational Astrophysics 2014-2020: Approaching Exascale (UC-HiPACC) Berkeley, CA · Mar 2014 #67

Data-Driven Astronomical Inference with Machine Learning

Talk Strata Conference (Hardcore Data Science track) Santa Clara, CA · Feb 2014 #66

Overcoming the Barriers to Production-Ready Machine-Learning Workflows

Video Slides Event

Lecture Big Data Boot Camp, Simons Institute Berkeley, CA · Sep 2013 #65

Large-Scale Inference in Time Domain Astrophysics

Video Slides Transcript Event

Lecture KIPAC@10 Symposium Stanford, CA · Sep 2013 #64

Big Machine Learning

Talk CITRIS Research Exchange, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · 2013 #63

Astrophysics of Streaming Time-Series Data: Discovery and Inference

Video Transcript Event

Lecture UC Berkeley Data Science Lecture Series Berkeley, CA · Jun 2013 #62

Extracting Actionable Insight from Dirty Time-Series Data

Invited Talk Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing, Simons Institute Berkeley, CA · May 2013 #61

The Modern Astrophysics Stack: Automated Action and Insight

Video Transcript Event

Talk SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering Boston, MA · Feb 2013 #59

Extracting Novel Insight from Probabilistic Machine-Learned Classification Catalogs

Keynote SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering Boston, MA · Feb 2013 #60

Automated Astrophysics in the Big Data Era

Colloquium Yale Physics Club New Haven, CT · Dec 2012 #58

Relativistic Tidal Disruption Events

Lecture SAMSI Astrostatistics Workshop Research Triangle Park, NC · Sep 2012 #57

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

Talk LSST All-Hands Meeting 2012 Tucson, AZ · Aug 2012 #56

Classification Challenges

Radio NPR Morning Edition Jul 2012 #55

Telescope Targets Black Holes' Binges and Burps

Listen Transcript Event

Invited Talk SciPy 2012 Austin, TX · Jul 2012 #54

Python as Super Glue for the Modern Scientific Workflow

Video Transcript Event

Invited Talk Interpreting Signals from Astrophysical Transient Experiments, Kavli Royal Society Centre Chicheley, UK · Apr 2012 #53

Co-ordinating Facilities

Invited Talk Royal Society Discussion Meeting: New Windows on Transients Across the Universe London, UK · Apr 2012 #52

Data-Mining and Machine Learning in the LSST Era

Talk IceCube Collaboration Meeting Berkeley, CA · Mar 2012 #51

GRB Phenomenology & Neutrinos

Talk AAS 219th Meeting Austin, TX · Jan 2012 #50

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

Colloquium Space Telescope Science Institute Colloquium Baltimore, MD · Nov 2011 #49

Relativistic Black Hole Tidal Disruption Events

Colloquium MIT Astrophysics Colloquium Cambridge, MA · Oct 2011 #48

Relativistic Tidal Disruption Events

Seminar University of Oxford Oxford, UK · Sep 2011 #47

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

Talk Workshop talk 2011 #46

Machine Learning and Classification in the Synoptic Survey Era

Radio NPR Science Friday Jun 2011 #45

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

Listen Transcript Event

Radio BBC Newshour Jun 2011 #44

Black Hole Swallows a Star (Swift J1644+57)

Invited Talk SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering Reno, NV · Mar 2011 #43

Real-Time Classification of Astronomical Events

Talk AAS Town Hall Meeting, UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Nov 2010 #42

SASIR: A Wide-Field Synoptic Survey for this Decade

Talk Lobster Collaboration Meeting Oct 2010 #41

High-Redshift GRBs with Lobster

Talk SACNAS National Conference Anaheim, CA · Oct 2010 #40

The Transient Universe

Invited Talk 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly Bremen, Germany · Jul 2010 #39

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

Keynote AAS 215th Meeting - Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Lecture Washington, DC · Jan 2010 #38

Finding Utility in the Diverse Origins of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Invited Talk Swift Mission Conference: Celebrating 5 Years State College, PA · Nov 2009 #37

A Redress of Short Bursts

Invited Talk Aspen Workshop on Wide-Fast-Deep Surveys Aspen, CO · Jun 2009 #36

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

Talk Hot-wiring the Transient Universe II Santa Cruz, CA · Apr 2009 #35

The Synoptic Infrared Imaging Survey

Invited Talk PetrosianFest Stanford, CA · Apr 2009 #34

The Future of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Colloquium Leiden Observatory Colloquium Leiden, The Netherlands · Sep 2008 #33

GRBs in a Cosmological Context

Seminar Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia Seminar Granada, Spain · Sep 2008 #32

SASIR: The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared Imaging Survey Concept

Talk SciPy 2008 Pasadena, CA · Aug 2008 #31

Real-time Astronomical Time-series Classification and Broadcast Pipeline

Invited Talk Sackler Conference on 21cm Cosmology Cambridge, MA · May 2008 #30

GRBs as Cosmological Probes

Talk Hot-wiring the Transient Universe Tucson, AZ · Jun 2007 #29

Building a Classification Engine for the Palomar Transient Factory

Colloquium Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium Princeton, NJ · Mar 2007 #28

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

Invited Talk 9th AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting San Francisco, CA · Oct 2006 #27

The Host Galaxies of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Invited Talk SWIFT and GRBs: Unveiling the Relativistic Universe Venice, Italy · Jun 2006 #26

The Hosts of (Short) Gamma-Ray Bursts

Invited Talk 16th Maryland Astrophysics Conference: Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era Washington, DC · Dec 2005 #25

Gamma-Ray Bursts and Their Hosts

Seminar INPA Seminar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA · Jul 2005 #24

Shedding Light on Short Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors

Radio NPR Science Friday Jun 2005 #23

Gamma Ray Bursters

Listen Transcript Event

Talk 1st PAIRITEL Workshop Cambridge, MA · Apr 2005 #22

PAIRITEL Science Overview and Commissioning Update

Talk 1st VOEvent Workshop Pasadena, CA · Apr 2005 #21

Implementing a Real-Time VOEvent Messaging Network

Video Slides Event

Colloquium UC Santa Cruz Astronomy Colloquium Santa Cruz, CA · Apr 2005 #20

New Perspectives on Gamma-Ray Bursts

Talk 22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics Palo Alto, CA · Dec 2004 #19

GRB-Supernova Connection: Evidence and Implications

Colloquium MIT Astrophysics Colloquium Cambridge, MA · Nov 2003 #18

Optical/IR Observations of GRB & XRF Transients

Colloquium UC Berkeley Astronomy Colloquium Berkeley, CA · Nov 2003 #17

Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts: Perspectives and Prospects

Colloquium University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Austin, TX · Oct 2003 #16

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 #15

Energetics and the GRB Hubble Diagram

Invited Talk Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, 3rd Workshop Rome, Italy · Sep 2002 #14

The Case for Late Optical Bumps as Associated Supernovae

Invited Talk Sackler GRB Conference Cambridge, MA · May 2002 #13

Optical/IR Afterglow Observations

Invited Talk Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain · Jun 2001 #12

The Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Seminar Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ · May 2001 #11

Toward the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Seminar Harvard/CfA OIR Lunch Seminar Cambridge, MA · May 2001 #10

Toward the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Talk Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, 2nd Workshop Rome, Italy · Oct 2000 #9

The Observed Offset Distribution of GRBs About Their Hosts

Invited Talk 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting Rome, Italy · Jul 2000 #8

GRB Host Galaxies: Hints for the Models

Seminar IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar Pasadena, CA · Feb 2000 #7

Emerging Trends in Gamma-Ray Bursts

Talk 5th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium Huntsville, AL · Oct 1999 #6

GRBs & SNe: Investigation of GRB 980519 and GRB 980329

Talk Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, 1st Workshop Rome, Italy · Nov 1998 #5

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

Talk AAS 191st Meeting Washington, DC · Jan 1998 #4

The Spatial Distribution of Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries: Implications for Gamma-Ray Bursts

Talk 4th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium Huntsville, AL · Sep 1997 #3

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

Talk Latest Developments in Gamma-Ray Bursts Workshop Elba, Italy · May 1997 #2

Extragalactic Hosts

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

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