We are delighted to invite you to the Second International Workshop on AI + Astronomy: Models, Data, Discovery, a two-day event dedicated to exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping astronomy. After a successful workshop that took place last year in Hangzhou, China, the second edition will take place this year at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The workshop will highlight the transformative role of large-scale AI models in enabling data-intensive scientific discovery.
The program will feature plenary and parallel sessions covering:
· Advances in AI and large models for astronomy
· Applications to spectral surveys, imaging, and time-domain data
· Computing, simulations, and data-intensive astronomy
· Instrumentation and frontier technologies
· International collaboration and open science
The main workshop will be held from 31 March-1 April 2026 at the Bernoulli Center at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Hosted by EPFL Laboratory of Astrophysics in collaboration with the Zhejiang Lab. Leading scholars will gather to exchange ideas and explore the latest progress and future directions at the intersection of AI and astronomy.
There will be a pre-workshop session at ETHZ Honggerbeg campus in Zurich on Monday March 30. The participants will visit and have a presentation of the ETHZ AI center, and of the CSCS computing platform. This session is mostly dedicated for our international guest.
On April 2nd, 2026, a visit of the Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station near Grindelwald, Switzerland will be organised for our international guests.