NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Join us on Monday, March 10 from 12 to 1 PM at EnterpriseWorks for "Resources, Programs & Funding for Taking Your Technology to Market" with Jed Taylor.
Speaker: Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington
Speaker: Lintao Li, Covey Group
This Seminar covers topics on building and training ML models, ranging from beginner to complex, deep learning models trained on the Delta Supercomputer's multi-GPU nodes. This seminar is open to all, including graduate students, undergrads, and particularly domain scientists whose primary affiliation is not with a STEM program or department.
Join the University of Illinois Research Park for an open house and reception on Wednesday, March 12, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. to discuss the future of housing on campus at UIRP.
Community Speaker Series panelists: Traci Barkley (Director, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).
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.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, March 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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.
IQUIST is hosting STEM exhibits for The Well Experience Inc. Kids to STEM program. Kids to STEM is a program of The Well Experience Inc for their K-5th grade students.
This 90-minute workshop addresses the basics of accessing and using the Delta supercomputer. The content is suitable for researchers and students new to working with a cluster and wanting to know more about Delta.
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 for 2 talks featuring recent CAS Associates and Fellows: Fahad Mahmood on unlocking quantum emergence and Peter Fritzsche on the fragile nature of human solidarity.
Speaker: Priyash Barya, Goldschmidt Group/Electrical and Computer Engineering
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.
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.
Join the SAME and DC3 on Friday, March 28 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their first monthly meetup.
Grainger Engineering undergrads - consider doing a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin
Join us on Tuesday, April 1 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM to celebrate Eid al-Fitr at EnterpriseWorks.
Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group
Lend your perspective and help evaluate 125+ student startups to see who will move on to the finals.
The Age of Innovation. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2025!
Join us for talks by recent CAS Associates. At 11am Yuguo Chen (Statistics) discusses how statistical network analysis is used to develop methods to account for the complex dependencies in network data; and at noon, Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) argues for moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical to better understand youth activism.
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
Speaker: Dr. Peter Nugent
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
Join us on Wednesday, April 16 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.
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: Dr. Jordon Mirocha
Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.
Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group
Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
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.