Surya Science:
A hands-on workshop
Join us to learn how to use Surya:
A foundation model for SDO data in your research
Date: January 12 - 16, 2026
Boulder, Colorado
Workshop (In person and Virtual)
Schedule
Hands on participants: Attendees selected based on downstream application feasibility and commitment (see registration form for details)
Day 1: January 12
Foundations Day
Welcome to workshop
Introduction to Surya-FM
Downstream demonstrations
Working in the cloud
Dataloaders lecture
Working on Dataloaders
Baseline Lecture
Day 2: January 13
Big Ideas Day
Baseline learnings
Fine-tuning architectures
WandB tutorial
Fine-tuning lecture
Fine-tuning hands-on
Guest speaker
Day 3: January 14
Prototyping Day
Fine-tuning learnings
Validation lecture
Validation hands-on
Final experiment design
Guest speaker
Day 4: January 15
Demo Day
Validation learnings
Final presentations
Guest speaker
Day 5: January 16
Heliolab Day
HelioAI onboarding
Guest speaker
Welcome to Heliolab
Heliolab ‘Big Think’
About Surya
Surya is a 360-million-parameter Heliophysics foundation model trained on more than 200 TB of solar data collected over nine years by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Surya leverages advances in AI to analyze vast solar datasets, improving our understanding of solar eruptions and enabling more accurate space weather forecasts that protect satellites, power grids, and communication systems. Surya was developed by NASA in partnership with IBM and a team of researchers from multiple institutions.
In this workshop you will learn all about Surya and get the opportunity to develop downstream applications that use this powerful model.
