APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker: Laurence Perreault Levasseur and Yashar Hezaveh (U Montreal)
Title: Data-Driven High-Dimensional Inverse Problems: A Journey Through Strong Gravitational Lensing Data Analysis
Date (JST): Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Abstract:
Many inverse problems in astrophysics and cosmology do not admit analytic solutions or closed-form likelihoods. The talk concentrates on machine-learning solutions to this problem. In particular, learned priors over galaxy images in the context of strong gravitational lensing are discussed. Furthermore, simulation-based inference and new techniques for validation of neural posteriors are presented.