NCSA Calendar
NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
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All Day 3/2/2026 - 3/6/2026National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsEnd of SF
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10:00 am - 4:00 pm 3/3/2026 - 3/5/2026GSRC, 616 E. Green St. Suite 202 (upstairs, entrance next to McDonalds) -
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/3/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley
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1:00 - 2:00 pm 3/3/2026Champaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820Join us on Tuesday, March 3rd from 1-2 p.m. for a workshop on Mastering Instagram Reels at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm 3/3/2026This workshop presented by the Illinois Computes Program and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a 2-hour session that will introduce basic deep learning techniques using PyTorch on the Illinois Computes Research Notebooks (ICRN) service.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 3/3/2026University 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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11:00 - 11:50 am 3/4/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Hannah Day, Pfaff Group
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2:00 pm 3/4/2026NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 Room 1040 -
3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026Levis Faculty Center 300The Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and the Humanities Research Institute host the annual campus celebration of International Women's Day with “12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories.”
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The Physics Colloquium: Rafael Fernandes "Altermagnetism: an unconventional quantum state of matter"
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026Loomis Lab 141 -
10:00 - 11:00 am 3/5/2026CIF 2035 -
11:00 am - 12:15 pm 3/5/20264045 School of Information Sciences -
1:00 - 2:00 pm 3/5/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University
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5:00 - 6:00 pm 3/5/2026GSRC, 616 E. Green St. Suite 202 (upstairs, entrance next to McDonalds) -
9:00 - 10:00 am 3/6/2026EnterpriseWorks, 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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4:00 pm 3/6/20261214 Siebel Center -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/6/2026Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405 -
5:00 pm 3/6/2026 - 3/8/2026John Deere Technology Innovation Center (2021 S 1st St Ste 101, Champaign, IL 61820) -
8:30 am 3/7/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Light refreshments will be provided. This edition of Scholarship Out Loud will be part of the 2026 Women’s and Gender History Symposium.
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3:00 - 4:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignJoin us on Monday, March 9 for a special EnterpriseWorks tour during AgTech Week, held before the AgTech Week Happy Hour. Starting at 3 p.m., tour the incubator to learn about entrepreneurship resources and opportunities available at EnterpriseWorks and the Research Park.
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AE 590 Seminar Speaker: Morteza Lahijanian - Scalable Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Complex Goals
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/9/2026CIF 2035 -
4:00 - 6:00 pm 3/9/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, ILResearch Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for the AgTech Week Happy Hour.
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8:30 am - 6:00 pm 3/10/2026Illinois Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign, ILOne 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.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 3/10/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 3/10/2026University 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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5:00 pm 3/10/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
10:00 am - 4:00 pm Central Time 3/11/2026NCSA Room 3000Attend this onsite workshop at NCSA to learn how to use OpenMP API compiler directives to quickly develop shared-memory parallel 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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11:00 - 11:50 am 3/11/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Jared Gibson, Kou Group
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3:30 pm 3/11/20260216 Siebel Center -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/11/2026Loomis Lab 141 -
11:00 am - 1:00 pm 3/12/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St -
4:00 - 5:30 pm 3/12/2026Women's Resources Center (WRC), 616 E. Green St. Suite 213, Champaign, IL -
7:00 - 9:30 pm 3/12/2026The Red Herring Restaurant, 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana, IL 61801 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/13/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, March 13 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 3/17/2026University 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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/20/2026EnterpriseWorks, 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 - 5:00 pm 3/24/2026University 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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3:30 pm 3/24/2026NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 Auditorium -
5:30 pm 3/24/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
10:00 - 11:00 am 3/25/2026Join us on Wednesday, March 25 from 10 to 11 a.m. for a webinar on Best Practices in New Hire Onboarding.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 3/25/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St -
10:00 - 11:00 am 3/27/2026NCSA AuditoriumAlumni Award for Distinguished Service Panel Discussion
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/27/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, March 27 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/30/20263401 Siebel Center -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/30/2026EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us for the Startup Launch Series on Monday, March 30 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 3/30/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 424This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Bring your lunch and stop by to listen and chat!
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4:00 pm 3/30/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/30/2026CIF 2035 -
11:00 - 11:50 am 3/31/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Henry Yuen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 3/31/2026University 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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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/1/2026190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Anna Honeycutt, Chitambar Group
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3:30 pm 4/1/2026HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/1/2026Loomis Lab 141 -
4:00 - 6:00 pm 4/1/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St -
9:00 - 10:00 am 4/3/2026EnterpriseWorks, 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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9:00 am - 5:00 pm 4/3/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St -
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 -
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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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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4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/10/2026Siebel School of Computing and Data Science Room 2405 -
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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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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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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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 208Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
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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 -
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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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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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




