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SUMMARY:AI for Astronomy in the SKA Era
DESCRIPTION:\nThu 17 Feb 16:00-17:00\n\n\n\nAnna Scaife (Manchester)\n\n\n\nInstitute of Astronomy Colloquia\n\n\n\nThe expected volume of data from the new generation of scientific facilities such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) has motivated the expanded use of semi-automatic and automatic machine learning algorithms for scientific discovery in astronomy. In this field, the robust and systematic use of machine learning faces a number of specific challenges including a paucity of labelled data for training – paradoxically, although we have too much data, we don’t have enough, a clear understanding of the effect of biases introduced due to observational and intrinsic astrophysical selection effects in the training data, and motivating a quantitative statistical representation of outcomes from decisive AI applications. In this seminar I will discuss the motivations and potential for using AI solutions in astronomy, with particular reference to radio astronomy and the SKA , and how the extreme data rates of next generation instrumentation are driving automation in scientific analysis. I will also talk about the inherent biases that AI methods can introduce, why astronomy data may be particularly susceptible to these problems and discuss some of the potential methods for quantifying, understanding and mitigating the effect of these biases.\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Anna Scaife (Manchester)Thursday 17 February 2022, 16:00-17:00Venue: Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE – contact organizerSeries: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia ( http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/13720 ); organiser: Clare Worley ( mailto: ccworley@ast.cam.ac.uk ).\n
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/165073
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CATEGORIES:Astrophysics
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