NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
NCSA is hosting a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on big data analytics and machine learning with Spark, and deep learning using Tensorflow. This is an IN PERSON event, there WILL NOT be a virtual option for this event.
Speaker: Theshani Nuradha, Leditzky Group
Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Join us on Friday, October 17 from 12 to 1 PM at EnterpriseWorks for Building a Successful Founder-Investor Partnership with Dennis Beard.
Speaker: Gabriel Landi, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Rochester
Join us for an engaging lunchtime seminar hosted by the Center for AI Innovation at the University of Illinois, where Rohan Marwaha and colleagues will demonstrate how to use Cursor and other powerful AI command-line tools to boost productivity and innovation in your workflows.
Join us on Tuesday, October 21 from 1-2 p.m. for a workshop on Canva 201 at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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.
Speaker: Jierui Hu, Fang Group
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is launching a new series of CCC Community Chats, designed to spark broad discussion on key issues in computing research. The first event, CCC Community Chat: Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research, will feature David Jensen (UMass Amherst), lead author of the CCC whitepaper Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research.
Join us on Wednesday, October 22 from 4:30 to 6 PM at EnterpriseWorks for the PowerUp Series: Creality RaptorX 3D Scanner & Large Format Printer Workshop!
Join the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, October 24 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup. Dr. Ahmet Soylemezoglu, S&T Program Manager ERDC-CERL will be giving an update on CERL's Robotics for Engineer Operations (REO) Projects.
Join us on Friday, Oct. 24 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. at EnterpriseWorks for the annual Flu Shot Clinic.
Co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The main goal is to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA.
Speaker: Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Join us on Tuesday, October 28 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. for the RSO Leadership Dinner in the Research Park at EnterpriseWorks.
Speaker: John Floyd, Kwiat Group
Join the PDO for this introductory workshop on the power and practice of storytelling for proposals.
Join us on Thursday, October 30 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
Juno Salazar-Parreñas, Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Competing Colonialisms in the Great Acceleration
This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
Speaker: Wolfgang Pfaff, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Speaker: Zhanzhi Jiang, Kou Group
Join us on Thursday, November 6 from 10-11 a.m. for a webinar on Email Marketing Essentials with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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 workshop will give you hands-on experience using TorchGeo for geospatial deep learning. TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library, similar to torchvision, providing datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models specific to geospatial data.
Speaker: Aashish Clerk, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Join us on Wednesday, November 12 from 10-11 a.m. for a workshop on Canva 201 at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
Speaker: Santiago Vargas-Daniels, Anderson Group
This workshop, presented by Zoe Ryan from NVIDIA, will give you hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. The workshop will focus on CuPy, NVIDIA RAPIDS, and NVIDIA Warp.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, November 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Join us on Thursday, November 18 from 10-11 a.m. for a webinar on Navigating Google's Latest Updates for Business Growth with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
Speaker: Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
Speaker: Jasper Bradford, Pfaff Group
Research Park Friendsgiving is happening on Thursday, November 20th from 12:00pm-1:00pm.
Join the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, November 21 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Speaker: Amanda Gatto, Hughes Group
Join us on Thursday, December 4 from 1-2 p.m. for a webinar on Website Audit Checklist for 2026 with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
Campus Fellowship applications due
Speaker: Liang Jiang, Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
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.
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, February 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group
International Women’s Day celebration with speakers from the campus and community.
Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Thursday, April 9 at the Illinois Conference Center.
U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–95); Creative Writing, University of Virginia Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
Speaker: Xinan Chen, Chitambar Group
Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception
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 3 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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 19 at the Illinois Conference Center.