NCSA Calendar
NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/6/20263401 Siebel Center -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/6/2026Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL 61801 -
4:00 pm 4/6/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 422This talk will highlight the Kinsey Institute’s founding and multi-disciplinary history, continued cultural impact, current research program, and reflect on the ways in which today’s social and political climate presents new challenges for multi-disciplinary sex research.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/7/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Zheshen Zhang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 4/7/2026University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign, ECE Building - 3081 ECEBExcited to share our Spring 2026 CAII seminar: GPU Programming with Triton! An 8‑week, hands‑on series moving from NumPy to high‑performance Triton kernels, including Flash Attention. Tuesdays 3–5 PM, Feb 17–Apr 7 at UIUC. Taught by Priyam Mazumdar. Hybrid format.
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7:00 pm 4/7/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
10:00 am - 4:30 pm Central Time 4/8/2026 - 4/9/2026NCSA 3100 (April 8), NCSA 3000 (April 9)NCSA is hosting a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on 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.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/8/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Anna Honeycutt, Chitambar Group
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/8/2026Loomis Lab 141 -
8:00 - 9:30 am 4/9/2026Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Thursday, April 9 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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10:00 - 11:00 am 4/9/2026Champaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820Join us on Thursday, March 3rd from 10-11 a.m. for a workshop on Understanding SEO - Boosting Your Business Visibilty at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm 4/9/20264045 School of Information Sciences -
All Day 4/10/2026 - 4/11/2026Bardeen and Engineering QuadsForging the Future Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2026!
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/10/2026This workshop will give you hands-on introduction to modeling complex systems with Scientific Machine Learning approaches.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/10/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, April 10 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/10/2026NCSA 1040Speaker: Salman Habib
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1:00 - 2:00 pm 4/10/20262013 ECEB -
2:00 - 3:15 pm 4/10/20261214 Siebel Center -
3:00 - 3:30 pm 4/10/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignWant 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.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/13/2026CIF 2035 -
6:00 - 7:30 pm 4/14/2026GSRC, 616 E. Green Street, Suite 202 (Entrance between McDonalds & Subway, 2nd floor) -
11:00 - 11:50 am 4/15/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Sujeet Bhalerao, Leditzky Group
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12:00 pm 4/15/2026Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. She was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm 4/15/2026This workshop will give you hands-on introduction to distributed deep learning with PyTorch Lightning.
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The Physics Colloquium: Harold Hwang (Stanford University) “Superconductivity in layered nickelates”
4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/15/2026Loomis Lab 141 -
7:30 pm 4/15/2026Alice Campbell Alumni CenterJoin us for a free public reading by award-winning poet Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, and was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
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AE Seminar Speaker: Sung Min Jo - Towards Physics-aware Design of Next-generation Hypersonic Systems
9:30 - 10:30 am 4/16/2026CIF 2035 -
11:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/16/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/17/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignThis is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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3:00 - 3:30 pm 4/17/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignWant 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.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/17/2026Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405 -
3:30 pm 4/20/2026HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
5:00 pm 4/20/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 208Please join us for the launch of Ethan Madarieta's first book, Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia. Ethan, who earned his Ph.D. in Comparative and World Literature at Illinois, is an assistant professor of English at Syracuse University, where he is on faculty in Native American and Indigenous studies...
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/21/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Yuan Ping, Associate Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/22/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Shuen Wu, Chitambar Group
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11:45 am - 1:00 pm 4/22/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Wednesday April, 22 from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a Women in Tech Luncheon with Shawn Carlson.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/22/2026Loomis Lab 141 -
12:30 - 5:00 pm 4/23/20261205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, 61801 -
9:00 am - 5:30 pm 4/24/2026National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) - Atrium/Lobby and Auditorium -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/24/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, April 24 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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3:00 - 3:30 pm 4/24/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignWant 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.
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8:00 am 4/28/2026 - 4/29/2026I-Hotel & Conference Center and NCSAThe third annual IMMERSE Symposium will be held on April 28th and 29th at the Illinois Conference Center (first day) and at NCSA (second day) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/28/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Kater Murch, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/29/2026Loomis Lab 141 -
9:00 - 10:00 am 5/1/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveStartup 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.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 5/1/2026NCSA 1040Speaker: Salman Habib
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3:00 - 3:30 pm 5/1/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignWant 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.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 5/4/2026CIF 2035 -
11:00 - 11:50 am 5/5/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Lawrence Cheuk, Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University
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3:30 - 4:30 pm 5/6/20260216 Siebel Center -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 5/6/2026Loomis Lab 141 -
4:00 - 6:00 pm 5/7/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 422Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 5/8/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, May 8 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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3:00 - 3:30 pm 5/8/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignWant 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.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 5/15/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignThis is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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3:00 - 3:30 pm 5/15/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignWant 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.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 5/22/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, May 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 6/2/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Tuesday, June 2 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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8:00 - 9:30 am 6/3/2026Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)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 3 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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9:00 - 10:00 am 6/5/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveStartup 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.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 6/9/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Tuesday, June 9 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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4:30 - 6:00 pm 6/11/2026Ameren Atrium & Dock, 2100 S Oak StreetMeet interns from across the Research Park on Thursday, June 11 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Ameren Atrium & Dock! Learn who else is in your field and what cool projects they're working on. Food and soft drinks will be provided.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 6/16/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Tuesday, June 16 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 6/19/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignThis is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 6/23/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Tuesday, June 16 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 6/25/2026Atkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak StJoin us on Thursday, June 25 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 6/26/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, June 26 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 7/7/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Tuesday, July 7 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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9:00 - 10:00 am 7/10/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveStartup 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.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 7/14/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Tuesday, July 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 7/16/2026Atkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak StJoin us on Thursday, July 16 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 7/17/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignThis is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 7/21/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Tuesday, July 21 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for the Power Skills Speaker Series.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 7/24/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, July 24 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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9:00 - 10:00 am 8/7/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveStartup 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.
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8:00 - 9:30 am 8/19/2026Illinois Conference Center (1900 South First St, Champaign)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 19 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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10:00 - 11:00 am 8/20/2026Join us Thursday, Aug. 20 from 10 to 11 a.m. for a webinar on Small Shifts, Big Impact — 5 Essential Management Skills for Better Leadership
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 8/21/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignThis is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 8/27/2026Atkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak StJoin us on Thursday, August 27 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 8/28/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, August 28 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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9:00 - 10:00 am 9/4/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveStartup 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.
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All Day 9/8/2026 - 9/11/2026John Hancock Center, 172 E. Chestnut St., Suite 3500, Chicago, IL 60611The Open SkAI conference is an annual four-day event to enhance and generate new Astro-AI research directions. Conference themes will include: Astro-AI research across survey astronomy, from stars and transients to galaxy formation, evolution, and the dark sector. We encourage researchers from all levels to apply to attend.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/11/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, September 11 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 9/17/2026Atkins Building Patio & Lawn, 1800 S Oak StJoin us on Thursday, September 17 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/18/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignThis is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
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1:00 - 2:00 pm 9/23/2026Join us Wednesday, Sept. 23 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. for a webinar on Motivating Employees to Be Their Best
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/25/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, September 25 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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9:00 - 10:00 am 10/2/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveStartup 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.







