SOMACHINE
Machine Learning, Big Data, and Deep Learning in Astronomy
A Severo Ochoa School of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (CSIC)
#THE SCHOOL
The IAA-CSIC Severo Ochoa School on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Deep Learning in Astronomy (SOMACHINE 2020) will be held at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (CSIC), Granada, from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th of November 2020. It is directed at researchers in astrophysics of all levels and aims at providing them with a thorough background in the advanced data processing techniques of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Deep Learning. Classes will be taught by experts from the Andalusian Institute of Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI) of the University of Granada (UGR), which belongs to the worldwide leading research institutes in its field. The theoretical lessons will be complemented by practical hands-on lessons and lectures on applications of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Deep Learning in astrophysical research.
We encourage participants to ask questions that relate their problems to those presented in the lectures. There will be time for questions after each lecture. If you have a specific problem and would like it to be discussed in the lectures, then you can send in information/data/a slide (best all of them). In that case, please do this well in advance (3-4 weeks before the school; send to rainer@iaa.es ).
All talks and material of the school can be found at this github site
VENUE
The school will be held online, via Zoom
TUTORS
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada
Salvador Garcia, University of Granada
Julian Luengo, University of Granada
Juan Antonio Cortés, University of Granada
Kyle Boone, University of Washington
M. Huertas-Company, Université Paris Diderot - Observatoire de Paris - IAC
Alberto Fernandez, University of Granada
Diego Garcia, University of Granada
Federica Bianco, University of Delaware
Wil O'Mullane, Rubin Observatory
David Charte, University of Granada
Anabel Gomez, UGR
David Charte, UGR
Siham Tabik, UGR
Alberto Castillo, UGR
Ashish Mahabal, Caltech
Javier Moldón, IAA
Anna Bonaldi, SKAO
Wolfgang Kerzendorf, Michigan State University
Andres Asensio, IAC
TOPICS
Monday, 23rd November 2020 : Machine Learning
Tuesday, 24th November 2020 : Machine Learning
Wednesday, 25 th November 2020 : Big Data
Thursday, 26 th November 2020 : Deep Learning
Friday, 27 th November 2020 : Applications in Astronomy
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Scientific Organizing Committee
Rainer Schoedel (IAA-CSIC)
Francisco Herrera (University of Granada)
Salvador García (University of Granada)
Local Organizing Committee
Alicia Pelegrina López (IAA-CSIC)
Manuel Gonzalez Garcia (IAA-CSIC)
#DAILY SCHEDULE
#MATERIAL/SOFTWARE
All participants should have a laptop or desktop available.
The practical sessions will rely on Jupyter notebooks and the participants should have (ideally) Anaconda installed.
Further details will be announced in due time
There is a repository on github that contains much relevant information: https://github.com/spsrc/somachine2020
On the github repository you will find, among other things, a link to the notebooks including virtual machines, for executing the practical parts of the school. There is also information on how to install Apache Spark and Anaconda on your own computer if you wish to do so (but this is not necessary because we also provide a VM)
#REGISTRATION
How to register?
To formalize the participation you must fill in the mandatory fields in the registration form below. Payment can be made by bank transfer or credit card through the registration platform. If bank transfer is chosen, you must state clearly the name and the reference received by email. An registration will only become valid once the fee has been paid.
Registration fee
Registration before November 9th is €50.
After November 9th a surcharge of €20 will be applied to the registration fee.
The School is complete
#ORGANIZATION
Funding: The organisers acknowledge financial support from the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the "Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa" award to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (SEV-2017-0709).
Technical Secretariat: Baobab Events · Granada Congresos · somachine2020@granadacongresos.com