December 23, 2025 (IST) — Mumbai, India
Note that EST is 10:30 hours behind IST. This event starts at 9:30 PM on Monday, December 22nd U.S. East Coast time.

Zoom Link: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/j/82038792362?pwd=9y71a1dQfzQEABfSRQ64blgQ4fLy2S.1

WASP Recording on YouTube (timestamps in the links below)

Welcome

8:00 - 8:15 am

Keynote I

8:15 - 9:00am

Kartheik Iyer Wandering through the Cosmic Library: Harnessing the embedding spaces of large language models for astronomical research and discovery

Morning Session I

Time (IST) Title ID
9:00 AM A benchmark for end-to-end zero-shot biomedical relation extraction with LLMs: experiments with OpenAI models WASP‑02
9:13 AM AstroMLab 5: Structured Summaries and Concept Extraction for 400,000 Astrophysics Papers WASP‑03
9:26 AM AI for Data Ingestion into IPAC Archives WASP‑04
9:35 AM Structured Outputs in Prompt Engineering: Enhancing LLM Adaptability on Counterintuitive Instructions WASP‑05
9:44 AM Atlas: Customizing Large Language Models for Reliable Bibliographic Retrieval and Verification WASP‑06
9:53 AM Citation Drift: Measuring Reference Stability in Multi-Turn LLM Conversations WASP‑07
10:02 AM Exploring Health Misinformation Detection with Multi-Agent Debate WASP‑08
10:11 AM Metadata Generation for Research Data from URL Citation Contexts in Scholarly Papers: Task Definition and Dataset Construction WASP‑09

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Morning Session II

Time (IST) Title ID
11:00 AM Bridging the Gap: Instruction-Tuned LLMs for Scientific Named Entity Recognition WASP‑10
11:13 AM Enhanced Table Structure Recognition with Multi-Modal Approach WASP‑11
11:22 AM A Hybrid LLM and Supervised Model Pipeline for Polymer Property Extraction from Tables in Scientific Literature WASP‑12
11:31 AM TeG-DRec: Inductive Text-Graph Learning for Unseen Node Scientific Dataset Recommendation WASP‑13
11:44 AM Zero-Shot Cross-Sentential Scientific Relation Extraction via Entity-Guided Summarization WASP‑14

Keynote II

12:00 – 1:00 PM

Karin Verspoor
Impacts of AI on the Scientific Ecosystem

Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 PM

Afternoon Session

Time (IST) Title ID
2:00 PM Finding the Paper Behind the Data: Automatic Identification of Research Articles related to Data Publications WASP‑16
2:13 PM Dynamic Reference Extraction and Linking across Multiple Scholarly Knowledge Graphs WASP‑17

Shared Task: TRACS

Overview & Discussion

Time Activity
2:30 – 2:45 PM Shared Task Overview
2:45 – 3:00 PM Poster Pop Session (1–2 min per poster)
3:00 - 3:30 PM Virtual Poster Session

Virtual posters

  • Automated Telescope-Paper Linkage via Multi-Model Ensemble Learning (WASP‑18)
  • Systematic Evaluation of Machine Learning and Transformer-Based Methods for Scientific Telescope Literature Classification (WASP‑19)
  • “Clutch or Cry” Team at TRACS @ WASP2025: A Hybrid Stacking Ensemble for Astrophysical Document Classification (WASP‑20)
  • amc: The Automated Mission Classifier for Telescope Bibliographies (WASP‑21)
  • Efficient Context-Limited Telescope Bibliography Classification for the WASP‑2025 Shared Task Using SciBERT (WASP‑22)
  • Encoder Fine-tuning with Stochastic Sampling Outperforms Open-weight GPT in Astronomy Knowledge Extraction (WASP‑23)

Coffee Break

03:30 – 04:00 PM

Panel

04:00 – 05:00 PM

LLMs for “Trustworthy and Grounded” Scientific Discovery
Panelists: Karin Verspoor, Kartheik Iyer, Prasanna Balaprakash (Director of AI Programs, ORNL), and ChatGPT