AG Splinter Meeting 2026:
E-Science & E-Infrastructures & Machine Learning & Virtual Observatory

E-Science & E-Infrastructures & Machine Learning & Virtual Observatory

This splinter meeting is dedicated to standard infrastructures for astronomical data dissemination and analysis, with an extra focus on Machine Learning and other AI techniques. These are, on the one hand, particularly data-hungry and hence depend on the availability of easily processable, well-described data at scale. On the other hand, generative techniques (not at all restricted to LLMs) promise to address some limitations of our current systems, from flattening admittedly steep learning curves to contributing to more focused data discovery.

This year's focus topic will be operations; what are good, sustainable practices to run astronomical data infrastructures. This is particularly relevant as the new GADC, a data centre designed to serve the German astronomical community for decades to come and that will both consolidate existing and create new services, is ramping up. 2026 is also the year the first cycle of the NFDI in Astronomy (PUNCH4NFDI) ends, while ErUM-Data-funded projects come into operations.

We cordially invite contributions reporting on these efforts.

Agenda and Presentations

Tuesday,   08.09.2026

Some rescheduling was necessary (railway trouble related). The sequence here follows the time table on the conference page. Only submitted slides are listed.