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.
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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February 1, 2023: Intro to PyTorch - Priyam Mazumdar Training Overview: This tutorial will introduce basics of PyTorch framework necessary to build a neural network, train it and evaluate the accuracy of the model
Thursday, February 2, 2023
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Friday, February 3, 2023
Saturday, February 4, 2023
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Open to faculty and graduate students of any discipline at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this workshop you'll unravel the mysteries of your writing barriers, then spend the rest of the day writing and reflecting with other retreaters. And you'll be supported throughout the day by live coaching with InkWell Founder, Michelle Boyd, PhD.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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Futurity, or the intentional imagining and materializing of liberated futures—where freedom from oppression, trauma, violence, and discrimination are realized—inspires this talk. Dr Johnson will discuss their methods for conjuring the world and communities in which we want to live and thrive
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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February 8, 2023: Intro to Tensor Flow - Shirui Luo Training Overview: This tutorial will introduce basics of TensorFlow necessary to build a neural network, train it and evaluate the accuracy of the model.
Thursday, February 9, 2023
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This participatory workshop aims to disrupt modes of "doing" scholarly analysis of visual art, performance, film and other cultural productions. Registration required.
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This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.
Friday, February 10, 2023
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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Join us from 2–3 p.m. CST at 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, in NCSA 1104 to hear from undergraduate students about their research efforts through the Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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February 15, 2023: Distributed Data Parallel Model Training in PyTorch - Shirui Luo Training Overview: This tutorial walks through distributed data parallel training in PyTorch via DDP. We will start with a simple non-distributed training job, and end with deploying a training job across several GPUs in a single HAL node.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Thursday, February 23, 2023
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Join us to hear Creative Writing Professor David Wright Faladé read from his work.
Friday, February 24, 2023
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Speaker: Prof. Beth William
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Thursday, March 2, 2023
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Friday, March 3, 2023
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Speaker: Prof. David Kaplan
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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March 8, 2023: How to use pretrained models - Priyam Mazumdar Training Overview: There are several popular AI model repositories that provide access to pre-trained models via easy-to-use APIs. Hugging Face is one of the latest such repositories that hosts a number of very recent models, such as Facebook’s OPT and OpenAI’s GPT models, as well as many datasets.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
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In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century.
Friday, March 10, 2023
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Speaker: Dr. Hunter Husar
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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3/22/2023: DRYML an open source meta-library for machine learning and more - Matthew Krafczyk Training Overview: DRYML aims to empower the ML practitioner to spend less time writing boilerplate code & more time implementing new techniques. DRYML provides a model serialization framework along with serialization implementation for many common ML frameworks & model types
Thursday, March 23, 2023
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Join us from noon–1 p.m. CST at 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, in NCSA 1104 to hear from undergraduate students about their research efforts through the Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Monday, March 27, 2023
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The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Thursday, March 30, 2023
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Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Lecture by Tarren Andrews (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University).
Friday, March 31, 2023
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Speaker: Prof. Jana Diesner
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
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Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Thursday, April 6, 2023
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023
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Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He will be in conversation with author Daniel Gumbiner, whose first book, The Boatbuilder, was nominated for the National Book Award and a finalist for the California Book Awards.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
Friday, April 14, 2023
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Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
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Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Poetry Reading: Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina Photo by Forrest Clonts
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Friday, April 28, 2023
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Students from HRI-funded Humanities Research Lab courses, SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community and HIST 312: Immigrant America, showcase their community-engaged research as part of Undergraduate Research Week.
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Speaker: Dr. Kartik Sheth
Monday, May 1, 2023
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
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The culminating event of the Central Asia Research Cluster. Watch for more details to come! This forum will be held on Zoom.
