NCSA Calendar
NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/3/2025GSRC, 616 E. Green St. Suite 202 (upstairs from McDonalds) -
3:30 pm 2/3/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online -
3:30 - 4:30 pm 2/3/20252405 Siebel Center for Computer ScienceSpeaker: Ryan O'Donnell
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/3/2025CIF 2035 -
8:00 - 9:30 am 2/4/2025Illinois 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 Tuesday, February 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 2/4/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Anastasiya Osher, Anderson Group
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11:00 - 11:50 am 2/5/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Anastasiya Osher, Anderson Group
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/5/2025Join us on Wednesday, February 5 from 2- 3:00 p.m. for a webinar on how to Interview & Hire "Like a Boss".
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4:00 pm 2/5/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
11:00 - 11:50 am 2/6/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, CEO & Co-founder, Lightsynq
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/6/2025Join 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.
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4:00 pm 2/6/2025Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405 -

AE Seminar Speaker: Enrico Zucchelli - Crafting Probability Distributions for Space Domain Awareness
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/6/2025CIF 2018 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/6/2025Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405ILLIXR: An End-to-End Systems Research Approach to Enable the Era of Immersive Computing Members of the ILLIXR group will describe the ILLIXR testbed and our research providing orders of magnitude higher efficiency and new functionality for XR systems.
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9:00 - 10:00 am 2/7/2025EnterpriseWorks, 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 2/7/2025EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, February 7 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 2/10/2025EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Monday, February 10 from 12 to 1:30 PM at EnterpriseWorks for Entrepreneurial Storytelling: Before & Beyond the Pitch Deck with James Janega.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/10/2025CIF 2035 -
9:00 am - 3:30 pm CST 2/11/2025NCSA Building, room 1040This workshop introduces parallel computing with MATLAB® for solving computational and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs, and clusters. Participants will learn to parallelize MATLAB algorithms, speed up applications, run Simulink simulations in parallel, and scale code to the NCSA Delta Cluster.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 2/11/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Fernando Granha Jeronimo
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11:00 - 11:50 am 2/12/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Chloe Kim, Chitambar/Leditzky Group
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4:00 pm 2/12/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 422 or LivestreamAlthough 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.
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4:00 pm 2/12/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/13/2025EnterpriseWorks Atrium, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignProfessionals who work in the Research Park community are invited to celebrate Black History Month with us from 12-1pm on Thursday, February 13 at EnterpriseWorks.
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4:00 pm 2/13/2025Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405 -
8:30 am 2/14/2025NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 -
11:00 am 2/14/2025Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 4124 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/14/2025Loomis Laboratory - 1110 West Green Street, Urbana - RM 236 (Rhondale Tso Seminar Room)Speaker: Dr. Laurent Loinard
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/14/2025NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 Room 1040 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/17/2025GSRC, 616 E. Green Street, Suite 202 (Entrance between McDonalds & Subway, 2nd floor) -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/17/2025CIF 2035 -
7:15 - 8:15 pm 2/17/2025GSRC, 616 E. Green Street, Suite 202 (Entrance between McDonalds & Subway, 2nd floor) -
11:00 - 11:50 am 2/18/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: "Simulatability and Testability of Quantum States through an Algebraic Lens", Dr. Mehrdad Tahmasbi, Future Faculty Fellow and Postdoctoral researcher, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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1:00 - 2:00 pm Central Time 2/18/2025Join our team of SBIR experts and the FAST (Federal and State Technology) Center of Illinois for an SBIR/STTR webinar from 1:00-2:00 PM/CT on Tuesday, February 18.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 2/18/2025ACES Library, 1101 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL (Heritage Room)Join us on campus at the ACES Library on Tuesday, February 18 from 5 to 6:30 P.M. for an AgTech Career Panel.
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10:00 am - 4:00 pm CST 2/19/2025NCSA Room 3000NCSA is hosting an onsite workshop by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center on Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP. C and Fortran programmers will get hands-on experience with OpenMP, learning about parallel loop scheduling, data declarations, reduction clauses, and OpenMP library functions. Exercises will use PSC's supercomputing cluster. Register by Feb 17 at Noon ET.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 2/19/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group
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11:00 - 11:50 am 2/19/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/19/2025Electrical and Computer Engineering Room: 1013This Seminar covers topics on building and training ML models, ranging from beginner to complex, deep learning models trained on the Delta Supercomputer's multi-GPU nodes. This seminar is open to all, including graduate students, undergrads, and particularly domain scientists whose primary affiliation is not with a STEM program or department.
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4:00 pm 2/19/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
5:30 - 7:00 pm 2/19/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 424Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/20/2025Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405IMMERSE Seminar: Kristen Schumacher, "Physics Outreach and Instruction through New Technologies (POINT): Using Virtual Reality to Visualize and Teach Gravity".
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/20/2025Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/20/2025Room 3102 (Siebel) -
5:00 - 6:00 pm 2/20/2025Krannert Center for The Performing Arts, 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, ILEmployees who work in the Research Park are invited to join our staff once a month for a series of networking socials throughout the community.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/21/2025EnterpriseWorks, 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 pm 4:30pm 2/21/20251803 Philo Rd Urbana, ILIQUIST is hosting STEM exhibits for The Well Experience Inc. Kids to STEM program. Kids to STEM is a program of The Well Experience Inc for their K-5th grade students.
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11:00 am 2/24/2025Siebel 3401 -
3:30 pm 2/24/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/24/2025CIF 2035 -
11:00 - 11:50 am 2/25/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Joel I Wang, Research Scientist, Engineering Quantum Systems Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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3:00 - 7:00 pm 2/25/2025Illinois Conference Center (Heritage Hall)The Research Park Career Fair is an opportunity for University of Illinois students to connect with Research Park employers and learn about on-campus internships and full-time job opportunities.
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 2/26/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W IllinoisJoin us for 2 talks featuring recent CAS Associates: John Levi Barnard on oppositional trends in human-animal relations and Lindsay Rose Russell on the history of sex and lexicography.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 2/26/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, Backlund Group
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2:00 pm 2/26/2025CSL Studio- Room 1232 (HCESC - 1206 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL.) -
3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/26/2025Electrical and Computer Engineering Room: 1013This Seminar covers topics on building and training ML models, ranging from beginner to complex, deep learning models trained on the Delta Supercomputer's multi-GPU nodes. This seminar is open to all, including graduate students, undergrads, and particularly domain scientists whose primary affiliation is not with a STEM program or department.
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3:30 pm 2/26/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -

John Marshall and Cézanne Charles "Designing More Inclusive Futures Through Participatory Practices"
3:30 pm 2/26/2025Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216 -
4:00 pm 2/26/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/26/2025CIF 4039 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/27/2025NCSA, Rm 4000Join the PDO for a beginner-friendly introduction to creating simple, no-cost websites using available tools and resources.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/27/2025Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405 -
6:00 - 8:00 pm 2/27/2025BNAACC, 1212 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL 61801 -
7:30 pm 2/27/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 422Based 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.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/28/2025NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040Speaker: Dr. Tomotake Matsumura
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3:00 - 3:30 pm 2/28/2025EnterpriseWorks, 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 pm 4:30pm 2/28/20251803 Philo Rd Urbana, ILIQUIST is hosting STEM exhibits for The Well Experience Inc. Kids to STEM program. Kids to STEM is a program of The Well Experience Inc for their K-5th grade students.