University of Pennsylvania Astrophysics Seminar

The number of eclipsing binary and multiple systems observed by large, high quality photometric surveys is downright staggering: with OGLE setting the standard, Kepler and TESS leading the way in photometric precision, and LSST promising millions of eclipsing binary light curves within the first few years of observation, we will have orders of magnitude more data than we can process with the current tools. In this talk I will discuss the most significant limitations of the current modeling codes, propose an alternative approach that employs artificial intelligence in a novel way, and demonstrate the results that reduce the modeling time by whopping 6 orders of magnitude.