Activities

A visual scrapbook of the group—summer schools, meetings in Montreal and abroad, outreach, eclipse chasing, and the ordinary moments in between. Images are grouped by theme.

Research desk & code

The quieter side: whiteboards, monitors, and the code that powers the papers.

Research sprint at the workstations.
Pairing on analysis pipelines.
Debugging and plotting session.
Laurence working out diffusion math.
Late-stage checks before a submission.
The group working together at Crew Collective Café coworking space.
Birth of the Caustics code—first successful runs on the wall screen.

Seminars & visitors

Guests, collaborators, and standout talks from the seminar circuit.

ML × Astro seminar with Peter Melchior.
ML 4 Physical Science seminar with François Lanusse.
Wassim Tenachi giving a seminar.
Group meeting: Andreas presenting his work.
With Mario Paquato during a research visit.
Hosting visitor François Lanusse—dinner after a long day of lensing.

Group photos & social

Soup nights, informal gatherings, and the annual team picture.

Group photo (2025).
Group photo (2023).
Informal snapshot in the office.
Casual group meeting around the table.
Fall soup night—warming up after Montreal weather.
More from soup night: good food and group chatter.

Meetings & institutes

Institute gatherings, flagship workshops, and sponsor events.

Future Lens meeting hosted in Montreal (2025).
S²D conference session at Mila.
S²D at Mila—discussion between talks.
Schmidt Sciences reception during the AAS meeting in New Orleans.
S²D conference group photo at Mila.
Ciela Institute group photo after an internal meeting.

Solar eclipse — Magog

Group trip to catch totality and share the sky with colleagues and friends.

Eclipse day setup in the Magog area.
Waiting for totality—gear and clouds permitting.
Celebrating the event together in the field.
Group photo during the solar eclipse outing.
Alexandre Adam and Sammy Sharief watching the start of the total solar eclipse.

Outreach & early careers

Programs that bring AI, data, and astronomy to students outside the usual graduate path.

JupiterAI high-school outreach: telescope and data-analysis week.
Students presenting what they learned in the outreach program.
Young interns visiting the group.
Charles Wilson trying Etienne's Onewheel.

Astromatic summer school

Annual intensive program mixing gravitational lensing, cosmology, and machine learning—with students and mentors in Montreal.

2023 edition: opening session with the full cohort.
Tutorial block—working through lensing exercises together.
Breakout discussions at the board.
Hands-on coding session in the classroom.
Group photo moment between lectures.
Participants presenting mini-projects.
Informal Q&A after a methods talk.
Evening working session.
Astromatic 2022 poster.
Astromatic 2023 dinner.
Organizers getting drinks before the Astromatic 2023 dinner.
Wrapping up—celebrating a dense week of astromatics.
2022 cohort at the start of the school.
2022: lecture hall overview.
2022: small-group problem solving.
2022: closing day with instructors and students.