NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Connect with investors and mentors that can help launch your startup, and get funding and prizes from a record pool of over $300,000!
Learn how to commercialize your research with the Illinois I-Corps Lean Launchpad Short Course! Application deadline is January 31, 2023.
In this information session, learn more about the Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program.
An introduction to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its support of US national security. This will include an overview of the NGA Research Directorate and brief description of the offices and divisions that comprise the range of research areas of NGA Research. Time will be alloted for Q&A related to career paths and research opportunities.
February 1, 2023: Intro to PyTorch - Priyam Mazumdar Training Overview: This tutorial will introduce basics of PyTorch framework necessary to build a neural network, train it and evaluate the accuracy of the model
Have questions about how to pursue your startup ideas? Just stop by and talk with our staff!
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. This event is free; however, registration is encouraged to ensure that we have enough food and seating
Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, February 3 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. For the first meetup of our group in 2023, we'll be doing a year-end review of 2022 to dive into the trends in data science across industry, research, and technology along with a fun trivia contest. We'll also be looking ahead to see what's in store for the data science world in 2023.
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.
Open to faculty and graduate students of any discipline at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this workshop you'll unravel the mysteries of your writing barriers, then spend the rest of the day writing and reflecting with other retreaters. And you'll be supported throughout the day by live coaching with InkWell Founder, Michelle Boyd, PhD.
Illlinois startups and small business that are developing medical or healthcare-based innovation, that are interested in pursuing an NIH SBIR/STTR proposal submission, are encouraged to apply for participation in this workshop series that is aimed at guiding teams through the proposal development process.
Futurity, or the intentional imagining and materializing of liberated futures—where freedom from oppression, trauma, violence, and discrimination are realized—inspires this talk. Dr Johnson will discuss their methods for conjuring the world and communities in which we want to live and thrive
February 8, 2023: Intro to Tensor Flow - Shirui Luo Training Overview: This tutorial will introduce basics of TensorFlow necessary to build a neural network, train it and evaluate the accuracy of the model.
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, February 9 from 12-1 pm for an EIR Workshop with Matthew Meltzer on Preparing to Hire International Talent + Options for Foreign Founders.
This participatory workshop aims to disrupt modes of "doing" scholarly analysis of visual art, performance, film and other cultural productions. Registration required.
This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.
Students are invited to come to Siebel Center to hear from a panel of technical managers within the Research Park talk about on-campus opportunities at their company. Learn about the cool projects computer science students are working on, and the benefits of a Research Park internship! Food will be served.
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 us on Friday, February 10 from 12-1 PM at the Illini Union 210 General Lounge to learn about Research Park Opportunities for Non-STEM Students.
Take advantage of this opportunity to get FREE patent and trademark assistance!
Illinois startups and small business that are developing medical or healthcare-based innovation, that are interested in pursuing an NIH SBIR/STTR proposal submission, are encouraged to apply for participation in this workshop series that is aimed at guiding teams through the proposal development process.
Join us from 2–3 p.m. CST at 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, in NCSA 1104 to hear from undergraduate students about their research efforts through the Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
February 15, 2023: Distributed Data Parallel Model Training in PyTorch - Shirui Luo Training Overview: This tutorial walks through distributed data parallel training in PyTorch via DDP. We will start with a simple non-distributed training job, and end with deploying a training job across several GPUs in a single HAL node.
Students are invited to join us in ACES Library to hear from peers working in agtech within the Research Park, and hear advice on how they can find the right on-campus opportunity. Learn about how current interns working at Fortune 500 companies got their internships, and what cool projects they are working on. Food will be served. This event leads into the AgTech Summit.
Did you know? The state of Illinois requires Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for all companies, regardless of number of employees. Expert in Residence Kelly Gust's presentation will ensure your organization is responsive and compliant. Join us on Thursday, February 16 from 12-1 pm for a Workshop with Kelly Gust on Sexual Harassment Training for Startups.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Students are invited to come to Sidney Lu to hear from a panel of technical managers within the Research Park who are looking for mechanical engineering talent. Learn about the cool projects MechSE students are working on, and the benefits of a Research Park internship! Food will be served.
Join us to hear Creative Writing Professor David Wright Faladé read from his work.
Speaker: Prof. Beth William
Join us for the 16th annual Research Park Career Fair to meet with Research Park companies.
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, March 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. The group will serve both students and professionals to bridge the gap between the analytical sciences and practical applications of industry.
Speaker: Prof. David Kaplan
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.
March 8, 2023: How to use pretrained models - Priyam Mazumdar Training Overview: There are several popular AI model repositories that provide access to pre-trained models via easy-to-use APIs. Hugging Face is one of the latest such repositories that hosts a number of very recent models, such as Facebook’s OPT and OpenAI’s GPT models, as well as many datasets.
In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century.
Speaker: Dr. Hunter Husar
Join us in celebrating Pi Day early on Friday, March 11 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM.
3/22/2023: DRYML an open source meta-library for machine learning and more - Matthew Krafczyk Training Overview: DRYML aims to empower the ML practitioner to spend less time writing boilerplate code & more time implementing new techniques. DRYML provides a model serialization framework along with serialization implementation for many common ML frameworks & model types
Join us from noon–1 p.m. CST at 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, in NCSA 1104 to hear from undergraduate students about their research efforts through the Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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.
Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Lecture by Tarren Andrews (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University).
Speaker: Prof. Jana Diesner
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.
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.
Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
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.
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
Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI.
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.
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.
Speaker: Dr. Kartik Sheth
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.
Fire @ Five Happy Hour has returned! Join us on Thursday, May 18, 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 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.
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.
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.