NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed happy hour gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!
Network with University of Chicago and fellow Grainger Engineering students, participate in design sprint exercises, and gain insights for the College New Venture Challenge (CNVC). Don’t miss this opportunity to join a team and connect with like-minded individuals to advance your team’s vision.
Academic staff members must annually complete a disclosure & request for approval of such activities. Throughout the year, additional disclosures & requests for prior approval are necessary whenever a change in such activities is proposed or when required by granting agencies. RNUA forms can be completed throughout the year for new hires or if an employee's status changes.
Speaker: Joseph Heremans, Scientist, Argonne National Laboraotry
Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.
Speaker: Chris Vairogs, Leditzky Group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Regulation of Animal Research
Hear from advisors and current ILEE students, ask questions, and learn how ILEE can help you gain a competitive edge in the job market
Join us on Thursday, October 10, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. for the RSO Leadership Dinner in the Research Park hosted by Brunswick.
For students working on startup ideas! Come learn the basics of trademarks and patents from Prof. Joe Barich.
Join the AI User Group on Friday, October 11 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
The Robotics Seminar @ Illinois is hosting Prof. Kaiyu Hang for a virtual seminar.
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.
NCSA will host a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, This workshop will focus on topics including 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: Tzu Chieh Wei, Professor, Stony Brook University
Speaker: Xuefei Guo, Abbamonte Group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Research
Learn about the CNVC application, meet teammates, and generate ideas.
Join EnterpriseWorks and Research Park for Founders Week on October 17-19, 2024.
Speaker: Jong Yeon Lee, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This 90-minute workshop addresses the basics of accessing and using the Delta supercomputer. The content is suitable for researchers and students who are new to working with a cluster and want to know more about Delta.
Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
Speaker: Jessica Montone, Van Harlingen Group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Preparing an Institutional Review Board (IRB) Protocol
Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
Join us for our monthly “Fire At Five” Happy Hour to network with other interns and professionals who work in the Research Park on Thursday, October 24, 2024, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the Atkins Patio.
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 25 from 2:00 - 4:00 PM at EnterpriseWorks room 130 for the Flu Shot Clinic.
IGB-HRI Distinguished Public Lecture Series: "Linking Life Sciences and Humanities" with Jennifer Raff, PhD. Raff is an award-winning author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas (KU).
Speaker: Alex Ma, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Speaker: Akash, Covey Group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Biosafety
Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...
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 us on Friday, November 1 from 12 to 1 p.m. to celebrate Diwali.
Speaker: Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
Speaker: Jaehoon Choi, Lorenz Group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Export Control
SocialFuse: The event where you can pitch your startup idea, network, and find teammates. Or sit back and check things out!
This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.
Join the AI User Group on Friday, November 8 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Speaker: Andrew Higginbotham, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
Speaker: Dmitry Manning-Coe, Bradlyn Group
The International Student Entrepreneurship Workshop helps international students understand policies and requirements for pursuing entrepreneurship and starting a business in the United States.
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Controlled Unclassified Information in Research
Speaker: Yong Chen, Professor, Purdue University
Speaker: Oliver Wolff, Pfaff/Nunex-Corrales group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Conflict of Interest Disclosures
Join us on Thursday, November 21 from 12 to 1 p.m. for the Research Park Friendsgiving.
Connect with investors and mentors that can help launch your startup, and get funding and prizes from a record pool of up to $500,000!
Speaker: Angel Rubio, Research Scientist and Co-Director of Initiative for Computational Catalysis Flatiron Institute
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: Hannah Day, Kahn Group
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.
Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
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
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: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, Backlund Group
Think Again series events: Kalindi Vora, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women's Gender and Sexual Studies, Yale University, holding public lectures on Feb.27.
The 2025 AgTech Hackathon will be on Saturday, March 1, and Sunday, March 2 at EnterpriseWorks. This two-day hackathon is an exciting and fast-paced team competition open to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students interested in AgTech.
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: 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).
Reading from Yard Show: Black Life, Prairies, and Place Making In the Midwest, with musical accompaniment.
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.
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.
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.