Events

Check out our calendar of events and participate in our seminars, public lectures, information sessions and more.

Sep

2023

Colloquium: Ivo Seitenzahl (UNSW Canberra) 'Type Ia supernovae: from explosion models to observations. »

11am 26 September

Type Ia supernovae are quite important in different fields of astrophysics; for example as distance indicators in Cosmology, as nucleosynthesis sources for Chemical Evolution, or as Tevatrons for cosmic-rays.

Oct

2023

Colloquium: Yuan-Sen Ting (RSAA) 'Can artificial intelligence generate meaningful scientific hypotheses?' »

11am 3 October

Our research presents the first astronomy-centric Large Language Model (LLM), AstroLLaMa, that can produces text completion and embedding that outperform GPT models. We also show that LLMs can generate scientific hypotheses of a complexity comparable to those produced by human experts.

Dec

2023