NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
SocialFuse: The event where you can pitch your startup idea, network, and find teammates. Or sit back and check things out!
Join us on Thursday, January 30 from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a Women in Tech Luncheon with Cara Bognar, founder and CEO of Top Tier Lessons. Cara will share her unique journey from an engineering degree to entrepreneurship, highlighting how her skills and mindset as an engineer influenced her approach to building Top Tier Lessons.
The AIFARMS Institute invites you to join us in person or via Zoom on January 30, 2025, for an exciting seminar titled "Seeing the Unseen: Modular Open-Source Ecosystem for GeoAI" featuring Dr. Jinha Jung from Purdue University. Free to attend; registration required.
This will be a time to meet up as an IMMERSE community and plan out opportunities to share work in the coming weeks. Bring a laptop or mobile device to contribute to the planning process.
Take advantage of this opportunity to get FREE patent and trademark assistance!
The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.
Want to learn more about entrepreneurship opportunities throughout EnterpriseWorks? Starting promptly at 3 p.m., join us for tours through the EnterpriseWorks incubator to gain an understanding of the different resources EnterpriseWorks has to offer.
Connect with investors and mentors that can help launch your startup, and get funding and prizes from a record pool of over $500,000!
Speaker: Ryan O'Donnell
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, February 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Speaker: Anastasiya Osher, Anderson Group
Join us on Wednesday, February 5 from 2- 3:00 p.m. for a webinar on how to Interview & Hire "Like a Boss".
Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, CEO & Co-founder, Lightsynq
Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work. Whether you're looking to collaborate with international universities or explore global research opportunities, we’re here to support your efforts.
ILLIXR: An End-to-End Systems Research Approach to Enable the Era of Immersive Computing Members of the ILLIXR group will describe the ILLIXR testbed and our research providing orders of magnitude higher efficiency and new functionality for XR systems.
Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9 to 10 AM on the first Friday of every month.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, February 7 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
This workshop introduces parallel computing with MATLAB® for solving computational and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs, and clusters. Participants will learn to parallelize MATLAB algorithms, speed up applications, run Simulink simulations in parallel, and scale code to the NCSA Delta Cluster.
Speaker: Chloe Kim, Chitambar/Leditzky Group
Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
Professionals who work in the Research Park community are invited to celebrate Black History Month with us from 12-1pm on Thursday, February 13 at EnterpriseWorks.
Join our team of SBIR experts and the FAST (Federal and State Technology) Center of Illinois for an SBIR/STTR webinar from 1:00-2:00 PM/CT on Tuesday, February 18.
Join us on campus at the ACES Library on Tuesday, February 18 from 5 to 6:30 P.M. for an AgTech Career Panel.
NCSA is hosting an onsite workshop by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center on Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP. C and Fortran programmers will get hands-on experience with OpenMP, learning about parallel loop scheduling, data declarations, reduction clauses, and OpenMP library functions. Exercises will use PSC's supercomputing cluster. Register by Feb 17 at Noon ET.
Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group
Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.
Employees who work in the Research Park are invited to join our staff once a month for a series of networking socials throughout the community.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Speaker: William Oliver, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Research Park Career Fair is an opportunity for University of Illinois students to connect with Research Park employers and learn about on-campus internships and full-time job opportunities.
Speaker: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, Backlund Group
Based on two years of ethnographic interviews with patients of chronic illness and participant observation with practitioners of complementary medicine in California, this talk examines what “sensitivity” can provide as a source of information about the relationship between the individual and the environment, and how this impacts health.
Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics, Virginia Tech
Speaker: Rajesh, Clark/Draper Group
The Humanities Research Institute and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline that changed the field in important ways.
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for the AgTech Week Happy Hour, sponsored by GDM.
One of the premier AgTech hubs in the nation, Champaign-Urbana is uniquely positioned to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and industry for learning, networking and advancing this sector.
Speaker: Angel Rubio, Research Scientist and Co-Director of Initiative for Computational Catalysis Flatiron Institute
Speaker: Lintao Li, Covey Group
Community Speaker Series panelists: Tracy Barkley (Directory, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, March 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Join us on Tuesday, March 25 from 10 to 11AM for a webinar on Best Practices in New Hire Onboarding.
Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego
Join us on Tuesday, March 25 from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a Women in Tech Luncheon with Brooke Elliott, Dean of Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Join us on Tuesday, February 11 from 12 to 1PM for a workshop with AmplifiedHR.
Join us for an evening of jazz and poetry with award-winning poet Janice N. Harrington (Creative Writing/English) and musician Charles “Chip” McNeill (Music). Harrington will read selections from Yard Show with musical accompaniment by McNeill and students from the University of Illinois music department.The book will be available for purchasing and signing.
Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group
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 8 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.
Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, April 11 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Speaker: Javad Shabani, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics, New York University
Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group
Free lunch and informal talk for undergraduates of any major. With poet and essayist Ross Gay.
A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay. The book will be available for purchasing and signing.
Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washinton
Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group
Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
Speaker: Srinivasan Arunachalam, Senior Research Scientist, IBM
Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, May 9 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Join us on Tuesday, June 3 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Summer Professional Development Series.
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, June 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Join us on Tuesday, June 10 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Summer Professional Development Series.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, June 13 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Join us on Tuesday, June 17 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Summer Professional Development Series.
Join us on Tuesday, June 24 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Summer Professional Development Series.
Join us on Tuesday, July 1 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Summer Professional Development Series.
Join us on Tuesday, July 8 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Summer Professional Development Series.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, July 11 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Join us on Tuesday, July 15 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Summer Professional Development Series.
Join us on Tuesday, July 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Summer Professional Development Series.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, August 8 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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, August 20 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, September 12 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Join us for Founders Week on October 9 to 11, 2025.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, October 10 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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, October 22 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, November 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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, December 10 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, December 12 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.