NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Speaker: Hamoon Mousavi, Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Join us on Tuesday, December 3 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. for the Research Park Holiday Happy Hour.
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 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Speaker: Shashin Pavaskar, Kahn Group
This workshop offers hands-on experience in accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. You'll explore two main categories: drop-in replacements for SciPy and NumPy using CuPy, and GPU acceleration for data science workloads with NVIDIA RAPIDS. We'll conclude with an end-to-end example solving a geospatial problem.
Join IMMERSE for the "Designing the IMMERSE Research Lab" event, held 3:30-5:00 pm CT on Thursday, December 5th, 2024 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to support equipping the new IMMERSE research lab in NCSA 3103.
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.
Speaker: Matthew Lahaye, Senior Research Physicist, Air Force Research Laboratory
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, December 13 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Speaker: Hadiseh Alaeian, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
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 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.
Connect with investors and mentors that can help launch your startup, and get funding and prizes from a record pool of over $550,000!
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: Mihir Bhaskar, Research Lead at AWS Center for Quantum Networking, Amazon Web Services
Speaker: Anastasiya Osher, Anderson Group
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.
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.
Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group
Dinner Graduate Workshop with Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, on Planning Humanities Research Projects.
Speaker: William Oliver, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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: 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.
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).
Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego
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: 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
Bryce Henson holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research with graduate certificates in cultural studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.
Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group
Speaker: Javad Shabani, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics, New York University
Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group
Award-winning poet and essayist.
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
Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.
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.
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.
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.