# \[ML4PSP\] Seminar Announcement - July 21st at 9 AM Pacific

**URL:** https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/ml4psp-seminar-announcement-july-21st-at-9-am-pacific/892
**Category:** Machine Learning for Planetary Sciences
**Created:** [July 16, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/ml4psp-seminar-announcement-july-21st-at-9-am-pacific/892 "2026-07-16T21:33:37Z")
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Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who participated in June! In case you missed it, please find Kacy Hatfield’s [talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5tZV1hjJS0) on “_Planetary-Scale Similarity Search for Mars Orbital Imagery with Foundation-Model Embeddings_” online on our [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@ml4psp/videos) channel.

Our next seminar will take place on **July 21 at 9:00 AM US Pacific Time** , featuring:

**Xin Cao (University of Science and Technology of China)**  
**Title** : “Neural Network-Based Ionospheric Current Prediction with Focal Loss for Imbalanced Data”

The full abstract is available here:  
[ml4psp.github.io/schedule](http://ml4psp.github.io/schedule)

**Zoom details** ;  
Link: [Launch Meeting - Zoom](https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/93560880593?pwd=n9bfkFSrGx1A0rPKjNhx7azV532rK6.1)  
Meeting ID: 935 6088 0593  
Passcode: ml4psp

A reminder will be sent closer to the seminar date.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Best regards,  
ML4PSP Organizers  
Ramana Sankar, Dona Kuruppuaratchi, Indhu Varatharajan