NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
Join us on Tuesday, March 28 from 12-1 pm for Hiring International Students is Easier Than You Think, a presentation by Jennifer Park, Assistant Director, International Student and Scholar Services.
3/29/2023: XAI Tutorial: Explainability of Deep Neural Networks Training Overview: DNNs are often treated as black boxes. This talk will focus on some of the modern methods of explainability for DNNs and discuss their implementation, usage, and limitations.
What does it mean to (de)classify something as derivative? What cultural values are at stake in the teleological designation of “derivative”? And, how can we apply pressure to those value judgements to better understand the intersections of Old English translation and settler colonialism in novel ways?
The Future, Today. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2023!
Engineering Open House showcases the engineering campus to more than 20,000 visitors each year. It is the largest student-run event at the U of I, and is free and fun for all ages. The Grainger College of Engineering welcomes all alumni to 312 Engineering Hall from 10:00am – 2:00pm on Friday for snacks and a warm place to relax.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Make an appointment to meet with a TEC Ambassador at SCD on Fridays!
Speaker: Prof. Jana Diesner
Join us for lunch as Dr. Span, Director of Campus Culture & Climate, shares her journey of becoming a leader on campus, as well as what it means to serve in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. She will also reflect on how DEI impacts all industries, especially tech.
Meet the 2023 class of Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients! From 3D technology to mixed reality, energy sustainability to national security, our distinguished alumni are global leaders in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. They are mentors, inventors, and investors who haven’t just turned heads – they have changed the world!
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Tuesday, April 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.
4/5/2023: Weights & Biases workshop: Track, Visualize, and Improve Your Experiments Training Overview: Andrea will take you through a W&B introduction and product walkthrough, including Experiment tracking, W&B Tables, Sweeps, Artifacts, Dashboards/Reports, and Integrations! Followed by a Colab classification competition in Kaggle with swag for top submissions.
Have questions about how to pursue your startup ideas? Just stop by and talk with our staff!
Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.
Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9-10am on the first Friday of every month. Check back for registration information.
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, April 7 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. The aim of the user group is to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking. The group will serve both students and professionals to bridge the gap between the analytical sciences and practical applications of industry.
Want to learn more about entrepreneurship opportunities throughout EnterpriseWorks? Starting promptly at 4 PM, join us for tours through the EnterpriseWorks incubator to gain an understanding of different resources EnterpriseWorks has to offer.
Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
UIUC faculty and researchers are invited to a showcase of cutting-edge research and services offered by NCSA. Discover the exciting new campus investment in research computing. Engage with distinguished researchers and affiliates, share your research interests and explore potential collaborations. Complimentary lunch and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Register by April 5.
4/12/2023: HAL Training: Introduction to Transformer models Training Overview: In this tutorial, you'll gain an understanding how to developing and training Transformer models. We'll compare with Sequence models and explore how to construct and utilize a Vision Transformer. You'll learn about essential components such as PatchEmbeddings, Attention Layers, Class toke
Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He will be in conversation with author Daniel Gumbiner, whose first book, The Boatbuilder, was nominated for the National Book Award and a finalist for the California Book Awards.
The inaugural NCSA Student Research Conference will be held Thursday, April 13 from 12–5:30 p.m. NCSA will showcase the research conducted by students working at NCSA and with NCSA affiliates. This conference also offers the opportunity to network with NCSA researchers, faculty affiliates and industry partners.
Join us on Thursday, April 13 from 12-1 pm for a workshop on Operational Improvement Starts with a Change in Mindset with David McFarland.
Everyone is welcome to attend the Cozad New Venture Challenge Demo Day. Come see UIUC student entrepreneurs showcase their startup ideas!
Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
Speaker: Adrian Sinclair
Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI.
Join us on Tuesday, April 18 from 12:00-1:00 pm for "Time Management for Busy People" with Kelly Gust. Check back for more information.
Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina
Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating.
Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Poetry Reading: Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina Photo by Forrest Clonts
Join us on Friday, April 21 from 12:00-1:00pm as Research Park celebrates Eid.
HRI's Graduate Student Advisory Committee invites graduate students to attend a town hall lunch! Shape the future of the humanities through both open and guided conversation. Share your thoughts about ways that HRI can better support graduate students across campus in humanities-centered research throughout their academic careers. Please register in advance.
Students from HRI-funded Humanities Research Lab courses, SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community and HIST 312: Immigrant America, showcase their community-engaged research as part of Undergraduate Research Week.
This meetup is targeted towards professionals and students in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding region with an interest in cloud computing platforms including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud.
Join us on Thursday, May 4 from 12:00-1:00pm for May the 4th: Star Wars Day.
The culminating event of the Central Asia Research Cluster. Watch for more details to come! This forum will be held on Zoom.
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, May 5 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. The aim of the user group is to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking. The group will serve both students and professionals to bridge the gap between the analytical sciences and practical applications of industry.
Speaker: Dr. Ritoban Basu Thakur
Speaker: Amanda Wasserman
Speaker: Zachary Stone
Speaker: Qiaoya Wu
Fire @ Five Happy Hour has returned! Join us on Thursday, May 25, 2023 from 5-6:30pm on the Atkins Patio. Check back for future dates and registration information.
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, June 2 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. The aim of the user group is to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking. Check back for registration information.
Join us every Tuesday in June and July (except July 4th) for the Summer Professional Development Series. Lunch will be provided. Check back for weekly topics and registration information.
Join us for the Women in Tech Luncheon with Nadya Mason on Wednesday June 7 from 12-1 PM at EnterpriseWorks. Professor Nadya Mason is an experimental physicist who works at the intersection of complex materials, superconductivity, and nanotechnology. She is particularly recognized for her work elucidating the electronic properties of low-dimensional correlated materials.
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, July 7 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. The aim of the user group is to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking. Check back for registration information.
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, July 12 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Join us on Friday, July 14 from 12-1 pm to celebrate Mac N' Cheese day!
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, August 4 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. The aim of the user group is to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking. Check back for registration information.
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, September 1 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. The aim of the user group is to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking. Check back for registration information.
At these noon meetings we will continue to present interesting topics in the field of digital forensics and build relationships among University, law enforcement, and private industry practitioners (and wannabes!).
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, October 6 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. The aim of the user group is to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking. Check back for registration information.
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, November 3 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. The aim of the user group is to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking. Check back for registration information.
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, December 1 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. The aim of the user group is to build a community of interest around data science to foster learning, collaboration, and networking. Check back for registration information.