NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
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 the Data + AI User Group on Friday, February 7 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.
Join us on Monday, February 10 from 12 to 1:30 PM at EnterpriseWorks for Entrepreneurial Storytelling: Before & Beyond the Pitch Deck with James Janega.
This workshop introduces parallel computing with MATLAB® for solving computational and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs, and clusters. Participants will learn to parallelize MATLAB algorithms, speed up applications, run Simulink simulations in parallel, and scale code to the NCSA Delta Cluster.
Speaker: Fernando Granha Jeronimo
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.
Professionals who work in the Research Park community are invited to celebrate Black History Month with us from 12-1pm on Thursday, February 13 at EnterpriseWorks.
Speaker: Dr. Laurent Loinard
Join our team of SBIR experts and the FAST (Federal and State Technology) Center of Illinois for an SBIR/STTR webinar from 1:00-2:00 PM/CT on Tuesday, February 18.
Join us on campus at the ACES Library on Tuesday, February 18 from 5 to 6:30 P.M. for an AgTech Career Panel.
NCSA is hosting an onsite workshop by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center on Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP. C and Fortran programmers will get hands-on experience with OpenMP, learning about parallel loop scheduling, data declarations, reduction clauses, and OpenMP library functions. Exercises will use PSC's supercomputing cluster. Register by Feb 17 at Noon ET.
Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group
Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.
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.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Speaker: Joel Yang, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Research Park Career Fair is an opportunity for University of Illinois students to connect with Research Park employers and learn about on-campus internships and full-time job opportunities.
Join us for 2 talks featuring recent CAS Associates: John Levi Barnard on oppositional trends in human-animal relations and Lindsay Rose Russell on the history of sex and lexicography.
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.
New option for graduate students! The Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now available to graduate students in almost every Grainger Engineering program. Learn to tackle the business facets of industry-relevant problems and have these skills officially recognized on your transcript.
I propose postcards of defense practices for migrant communities in Mexico, as well as latent and manifest migrant struggles occurring in Mexico City in the 21st century.
Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics, Virginia Tech
Attend the CDA Conference for an insightful exploration of the current landscape and future potential of precision livestock management technologies. This conference will bring together a diverse group of experts from industry, government, and academia to share knowledge, discuss lessons learned, and collaborate on advancing innovations in the field.
Speaker: Rajesh, Clark/Draper Group
The Humanities Research Institute and Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity 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.
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for the AgTech Week Happy Hour, sponsored by GDM.
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: Dr. Peter Melchior
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, March 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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 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.
Grainger Engineering undergrads - consider doing a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin
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
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 Washinton
Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group
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.