SAVE THE DATE: CosmicAI Special Session at the 247th AAS Meeting:
10-11:30 AM MST, Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
Location: Phoenix, AZ.

Title: Advancing AI Infrastructure for Large Astronomy Datasets
Description: The recent revolution in artificial intelligence (AI), together with technical advances in telescopes and computing, has opened new frontiers for astronomy data processing and analysis. Meanwhile, open, rich, massive datasets are the lifeblood of AI innovation. In the current big-data era of astronomy, new facilities like the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Vera C. Rubin Observatory are generating a firehose of new data. Planned facility upgrades, like the next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) and Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), ​​will routinely yield datasets containing 1 trillion voxels, exceeding current processing capacity and requiring fresh AI developments.This special session will:

• Explore how AI tools will interact with current and forthcoming surveys to accelerate astronomy research workflows;

• Highlight recent AI applications for analysis of big datasets;

• Provide an overview of the activities and plans of the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) and the NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI);

• Solicit community feedback on AI applications to astronomy data:  outstanding opportunities, community goals, and pressing needs.