William Pearson

Name
William
Surname
Pearson
Department
DBP/BP4
Personal webpage

https://www.ncbj.gov.pl/bp4/dr-william-pearson

Research focus

galaxy formation, galaxy evolution, galaxy mergers

ML expertise

Artificial Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Auto-Encoders, Generative Adversarial Networks

Relevant publications
  1. “Towards a consistent framework of comparing galaxy mergers in observations and simulations”, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 644, id.A87, 12 pp. 202 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020A%26A...644A..87W/abstract 

  2. Pearson, W. J.; Wang, L.; Alpaslan, M.; Baldry, I.; Bilicki, M.; Brown, M. J. I.; Grootes, M. W.; Holwerda, B. W.; Kitching, T. D.; Kruk, S.; van der Tak, F. F. S., “Effect of galaxy mergers on star-formation rates”, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 631, id.A51, 19 pp. 2019 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A%26A...631A..51P/abstrac

  3. Pearson, W. J.; Wang, L.; Trayford, J. W.; Petrillo, C. E.; van der Tak, F. F. S., “Identifying galaxy mergers in observations and simulations with deep learning”, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 626, id.A49, 18 pp. 2019 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A%26A...626A..49P/abstract

  4. Pearson, William J.; Wang, Lingyu; Trayford, James; Petrillo, Carlo E.; van der Tak, Floris F. S., “Deep learning for galaxy mergers in the galaxy main sequence”, Challenges in Panchromatic Modelling with Next Generation Facilities. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Volume 341, pp. 104-108, 2020 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020IAUS..341..104P/abstract

Group membership



This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 857470 and from European Regional Development Fund
via Foundation for Polish Science International Research Agenda PLUS programme grant
No MAB PLUS/2018/8.
Poland
The project is co-financed from the state budget within the framework of the undertaking of the Minister of Science and Higher Education "Support for the activities of Centers of Excellence established under Horizon 2020".

Grant: 5 143 237,70 EUR
Total value: 29 971 365,00 EUR
Date of signing the funding agreement: December 2023

The purpose of the undertaking is to support entities of the higher education and science system that have received funding from the European Union budget in the competition H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020/WIDESPREAD-01-2018-2019: Teaming Phase 2. in the preparation, implementation and updating of activities, maintenance of material resources necessary for carrying out activities, acquisition and modernization of scientific and research apparatus, maintenance and development of personnel potential necessary for the implementation of activities, and dissemination of the results of scientific activities.