AI4Science - AI for Gravitational Waves

Join the next "AI4Science" meetup where engineers, researchers, and scientists will come together to ignite ideas, exchange breakthroughs, and actively shape the future of scientific discovery with AI. We’re excited to welcome Annalena Kofler, PhD candidate in Machine Learning at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, for our upcoming AI4Science meetup. Supervised by Bernhard Schölkopf, Annalena works at the intersection of simulation-based inference and astrophysics, with a focus on neural posterior estimation for gravitational-wave signals. She will present her recent paper, “Flexible Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation with Transformers,” under review at Physical Review Letters and accepted at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences. In this talk, she’ll share how transformer architectures can advance gravitational-wave parameter estimation and discuss her work developing the DINGO package—highlighting how modern machine learning methods are accelerating discovery in fundamental physics. Agenda 18:00 Doors open18:20 — 18:30: Intro18:30 — 19:30: Keynote + Q&A19:30 — 20:30: Networking + drinks + snacks.​​​  ~ ⚠️ Doors close at 18:30 sharp! Arrive before then. ~ ​About your hosts ​Merantix AI Campus: In the heart of Berlin, the Campus is home to 80+ AI teams and hosts 300+ events a year. Part of Merantix, driving Europe’s AI future since 2016, the Campus is where the brightest and most ambitious founders, operators, engineers, industry leaders, and investors come together to shape next-generation AI infrastructure and applications across industries. CuspAI is a frontier AI company on a mission to solve the breakthrough materials needed to power human progress. The team at Cusp designes climate-focused materials for carbon capture, clean energy, and sustainable industrial applications.Dunia Innovations is a Berlin-based deeptech startup using physics-informed AI and robotic automation to accelerate the discovery of advanced electrochemical materials. Their mission is to remove bottlenecks in scalable carbon utilization, enabling faster development of solutions like electrocatalysts for green hydrogen and CO₂ conversion. Tiptree Systems is an AI company on a mission to accelerate science by reimagining how researchers and AI collaborate. Their AI scientific coordinator, Althea, routes knowledge and opportunities to the right people, so that breakthroughs don’t get left on the table.