Low-cost high-fidelity data analysis with simulation-based inference The increasing volume and sophistication of astrophysical and cosmological data challenge traditional analysis methods, which often struggle with high-dimensional models and complex observations as seen for instance in gravitational waves, supernova cosmology, and gamma-ray data. Highlighting these limitations, this talk explores how deep...

Space Lasers and Aliens: Searching for optical transients with Gamma-ray Light Buckets Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) are among the largest and fastest optical telescopes in the world, ideally suited to searching for nanosecond-timescale optical transients. These could be astrophysical in nature, or even associated with signals transmitted by extra-terrestrial...