Surya Science:
A hands-on workshop

Join us in September 14-18, 2026 for the second workshop to learn how to use Surya: A foundation model for SDO data.

2nd Workshop Registration
1st Workshop Recordings
Surya's User Manual

Overview

Welcome to the Surya Workshop series! Registration is open for the 2nd Surya workshop taking place in 14-18 of September, 2026 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MA. Please fill this registration form if you are interested in attending.

Surya is a foundation model specifically developed by NASA and IBM for heliophysics, trained on 9 years of high-resolution observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The release of this domain-specific foundation model marks a pivotal moment in how we study the Sun, rapidly accelerating what is possible. The Surya workshops explore how Surya can be adapted to support a range of downstream scientific tasks, with a hands-on focus building on the ideas, opportunities, and research directions this capability enables in actual workflows.

A very important part of the Surya workshop is the hands-on component, where we meet with participants to design solutions that address their science and provide the templates and structure to implement them.

The recordings and lessons from the 1st Surya workshop are available to anyone in the form of recorded videos of its lectures, as well as a manual on how to implement a Surya fine-tuning application.

For further technical documentation, insights, or to discuss future applications, please reach out to our team at suryascience@trillium.tech

    1. Tooling: Cloud environment, AI assistants, & PyTorch.

    2. Datasets & Dataloaders.

    3. Baseline models.

    1. Tooling: PyTorch Lightning & Weights and Biases.

    2. End-to-end AI applications.

    3. Training

    4. Metrics & Validation

    5. Experiment logging.

    1. Surya finetuning architectures.

    2. Finetuning pipeline.

    3. Finetuning experiments.

    1. Final finetuning experiments.

    2. Quantification of value added.

    3. Work on demo day presentations

    1. Intro to foundation models.

    2. Intro to Surya.

    3. Intro to SuryaBench (Surya’s data).

    4. Anatomy of a finetuning application.

    5. Lightning project presentations.

    6. Discussion and lessons learned.

Calendar Legend - All times are shown in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Open — Sessions that are informative and targeted to anyone wanting to know more about Surya.

Lecture — Sessions that aim to teach participants to build their downstream applications. Open to anybody interested, whether they are part of the hands-on component or not.

HandsOn — Sessions in which the different teams work on their downstream applications and receive individualized assistance. Not intended for general interest.

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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.

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