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.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmNCSA room 1030Join us for an engaging lunchtime seminar hosted by the Center for AI Innovation at the University of Illinois, where Rohan Marwaha and colleagues will demonstrate how to use Cursor and other powerful AI command-line tools to boost productivity and innovation in your workflows.
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5:45 pm 7:00 pmRoom 301 Coordinated Science Lab, 1308 W. Main St., Urbana
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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12:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 108
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
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1:30 - 2:00 pm
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is launching a new series of CCC Community Chats, designed to spark broad discussion on key issues in computing research. The first event, CCC Community Chat: Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research, will feature David Jensen (UMass Amherst), lead author of the CCC whitepaper Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research.
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 210
Friday, October 24, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmNCSA 1040
Speaker: Dr. Sam Hadden
Saturday, October 25, 2025
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8:30 am - 4:00 pmNational Center for Supercomputing Applications - Room 1104 - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801
Co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The main goal is to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
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8:30 am - 4:00 pmNational Center for Supercomputing Applications - Room 1104 - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801
Co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The main goal is to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA.
Monday, October 27, 2025
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1:00 - 2:00 pm Central Time
Join us for a one hour webinar that introduces the computational resources and support available to Illinois researchers on campus, and beyond! We will provide an overview of the resources and support available through the Illinois Computes program, other on-campus services, as well as the NSF-supported ACCESS program.
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
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3:00 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 210
Juno Salazar-Parreñas, Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Competing Colonialisms in the Great Acceleration
Monday, November 3, 2025
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10:00 am - 4:30 pm Central TimeNCSA Room 3000
Attend this onsite workshop at NCSA to learn how to use OpenACC API compiler directives to quickly develop GPU-capable codes using standard languages and compilers. Knowledge of either C or Fortran programming is required. Hands-on exercises will use Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 computing platform.
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4:00 pmIllini Union, Room 210This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmNCSA (1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, 61801) | Room: 1040
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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5:00 - 7:00 pmThis is a virtual event. Zoom link coming soon!The International Student Entrepreneurship Workshop helps international students understand policies and requirements for pursuing entrepreneurship and starting a business in the United States.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
Monday, November 10, 2025
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
This workshop will give you hands-on experience using TorchGeo for geospatial deep learning. TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library, similar to torchvision, providing datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models specific to geospatial data.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
This workshop, presented by Zoe Ryan from NVIDIA, will give you hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. The workshop will focus on CuPy, NVIDIA RAPIDS, and NVIDIA Warp.
Friday, November 14, 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
Monday, November 17, 2025
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Friday, November 21, 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
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2:30 - 3:30 pm2405 Siebel Center
Friday, December 5, 2025
Monday, December 8, 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
Monday, December 15, 2025
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Friday, December 19, 2025
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
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7:00 pmPlym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St
Friday, February 13, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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7:30 pmTBD
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Sunday, March 1, 2026
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All DayOption for Grainger graduate students! The Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now available to almost every admitted Grainger graduate student. Learn to tackle the business facets of industry-relevant problems and have these skills officially recognized on your transcript.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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3:30 - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 300
International Women’s Day celebration with speakers from the campus and community.
Monday, March 30, 2026
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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12:00 pmBNAACC
U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–95); Creative Writing, University of Virginia Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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4:00 - 6:00 pmTBD
Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception
Monday, June 1, 2026
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All DayOption for Grainger graduate students! The Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now available to almost every admitted Grainger graduate student. Learn to tackle the business facets of industry-relevant problems and have these skills officially recognized on your transcript.
Monday, June 15, 2026
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
