TVS Colloquium Series

In addition to our regular meetings, TVS hosts a colloquium series since 2021 which is designed to feature a wide range topics in greater detail. These topics include science both directly related to LSST and also other topics of general interest to our members.

We are also keen to feature topics of broad cultural interest, and welcome thought-provoking perspectives on science from all cultures and faiths, as well as from art and history.

TVS Colloquia are recorded, and are shared publicly on our YouTube channel with the speaker's permission.

The Colloquium Series is organized by Priscila J. Pessi, of Stockholm University, and all members are encouraged to contact her via the LSST Slack to propose future colloquium topics.

Colloquia 2025

Date Title Speaker
Sep 2, 2025 Peculiar Transients in the LSST Era Alexey Bobrick
Aug 5, 2025 Rubin Data Preview 1 James Mullaney
Jul 8, 2025 pop-cosmos — inference of galaxy properties using stellar population synthesis Stephen Thorp
Jun 10, 2025 Transient classifiers in Fink: benchmarks for LSST Bernardo Fraga
May 13, 2025 Representation Learning for Time-Domain High-Energy Astrophysics Steven Dillman
Apr 1, 2025 The Redback open-source package for modelling electromagnetic transients Nikhil Sarin
Mar 4, 2025 The Fink broker, personalized filtering for the LSST alert stream Emille Ishida
Feb 4, 2025 BHTOM and the European Astronomical Society of Small Telescopes (EASST) Łukasz Wyrzykowski


Colloquia 2024

Date Title Speaker
Dec 17, 2024 Visualization-related research @ LGM Žiga Lesar & Ciril Bohak
Nov 19, 2024 Science with the ALeRCE community broker Alejandra Muñoz Arancibia
Oct 22, 2024 Distance Metrics for Machine Learning in Time-Domain Astronomy with DistClassiPy Siddharth Chaini
Aug 27, 2024 A fast-cadenced search for gamma-ray burst orphan afterglows with the DWF programme James Freeburn
Jul 30, 2024 SNAD, enabling discovery in the era of big data Maria Pruzhinskaya
May 21, 2024 Attentive Latent Neural Processes for modeling Quasar Variability in the LSST Aman Nadimpalli Raju
Apr 23, 2024 Timedomes: a legacy time-domain survey on the LSST Deep Drilling Fields Maurizio Paolillo
Mar 26, 2024 GausSN: Bayesian Time Delay Estimation for Strongly Lensed Supernovae Erin Hayes
Feb 27, 2024 Atypical electromagnetic transients from gravitational wave sources Imre Bartos


Colloquia 2023

Date Title Speaker
Dec 5, 2023 Fostering Inclusive Collaborations in Astronomy & Astrophysics Tim Sacco
Nov 21, 2023 AAVSO connections with amateur astronomers. Brian Kloppenborg
Oct 24 2023 Classical nova rate in very nearby Universe using the Vera Rubin Observatory Luca Izzo
Aug 29, 2023 The Future of Transient Discovery through Scalable, Multi-Modal Analyses Alex Gagliano
Jul 18, 2023 Star Cluster Science with Vera Rubin Observatory Kristen Dage
Jun 20, 2023 Identifying and characterizing millihertz gravitational wave sources and other minute to hour timescale compact object variables with synoptic surveys Kevin Burdge


Colloquia 2021-2022

Date Title Speaker
Oct 19, 2022 Fast classification of transient events in the era of Rubin LSST Hanno Marais
Feb 22, 2022 The BRICS Intelligent Telescope and Data Network David Buckley
Dec 20, 2021 Challenges and opportunities in the LSST era in the context of time-domain multi-messenger astrophysics Raffaella Margutti
Nov 15, 2021 A Joint Southern Co-Survey with the Ōtehīwai and Rubin Observatories Ryan Ridden
Oct 18, 2021 Astronomical image processing with PyTorch James Hitchcock
Jul 5, 2021 Waiting for the Legacy: a pilot data analysis of the Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6569 Massimo Dall'Ora
Jun 21, 2021 NEMESIS: Exoplanet Transit Survey of Nearby M-Dwarfs in TESS FFIs I Dax Feliz
Jun 7, 2021 "Simulating Host Galaxies for Transients in PLAsTiCC V2 Martine Lokken & Alex Gagliano
Apr 19, 2021 Searching for Bumps in the Night: A Data-Driven Revolution for Time Domain Astrophysics Ashley Villar
Mar 15, 2021 Search for hidden baryons through interstellar scintillation Marc Moniez
Feb 22, 2021 Machine Learning for Classification Strategies for Astronomical Sources Nina Hernitschek