Events

National Center for Supercomputing Applications master calendar

NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Thursday, December 5, 2024

    • 1:00 - 3:00 pm   Central Time

    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.

Friday, December 6, 2024

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Monday, December 9, 2024

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

    • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm   Central Time
    • NCSA Room 3000

    NCSA is hosting a hands-on Introduction to MPI Programming workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Friday, December 13, 2024

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Friday, January 31, 2025

    • 12:00 pm

    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.

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Thursday, February 6, 2025

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

    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.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

    • 4:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422 or Livestream

    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.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Thursday, February 27, 2025

  • Kalindi Vora's headshot
    • 7:30 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    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.

Monday, March 3, 2025

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

    • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    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.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

    • 7:30 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    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).

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

  • Janice Harrington and Chip McNeill
    • 7:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    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.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

    • 4:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    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.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Thursday, May 8, 2025