Join the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center at Engineering Open House for a day filled with quantum information science-based activities and events.

The Future, Today. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2023!

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, April 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.

Speaker: Brian Smith, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oregon

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.

Speaker: Mengdi Zhao, Fang Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC

4/5/2023: Weights & Biases workshop: POSTPONED to April 19, 2023 Training Overview: Andrea will take you through a W&B introduction and product walkthrough, including Experiment tracking, W&B Tables, Sweeps, Artifacts, Dashboards/Reports, and Integrations! Followed by a Colab classification competition in Kaggle with swag for top submissions.

Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.

Join the Data Science User Group on Friday, April 7 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. For our April meetup, we are excited to welcome students from the Gies College of Business Disruption Lab.  The student groups will be presenting on projects that they have been working on this year. Come to hear about the innovative work that the students are doing.

Speaker: Roni Harnik, Senior Scientist, Quantum Theory Department Head, Fermilab; Science Thrust Leader, Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS)

Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.

Join us for the Webinar: Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act on Wednesday, April 12 from 10:30 am-11:30 am on Zoom. Lorna Geiler, attorney and shareholder with Meyer Capel, P.C., will provide an overview of the new law, what employers should do to prepare, and answer your questions.

Speaker: Vijaya Begum-Hudde, Schleife Group, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC

UIUC faculty and researchers are invited to a showcase of cutting-edge research and services offered by NCSA. Discover the exciting new campus investment in research computing. Engage with distinguished researchers and affiliates, share your research interests and explore potential collaborations. Complimentary lunch and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Register by April 5.

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.

Join us on Thursday, April 13 from 12-1 pm for a workshop on Operational Improvement Starts with a Change in Mindset with David McFarland. Mindset informs attitude, behavior, actions, and results. A paradigm shift sparked by a change in mindset is a recipe for dramatic improvement in operational results.

The inaugural NCSA Student Research Conference will be held Thursday, April 13 from 12–5:30 p.m. NCSA will showcase the research conducted by students working at NCSA and with NCSA affiliates. This conference also offers the opportunity to network with NCSA researchers, faculty affiliates and industry partners.

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

Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.

Join the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST) for an evening filled with quantum information science-based activities and events.

Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9-10am on the first Friday of every month. Check back for registration information.

Speaker: Adrian Sinclair

Join the AI User Group on Friday, April 14 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. Welcome to "Working with AI"- a meetup group for anyone in the Champaign-Urbana area interested in exploring the exciting field of Artificial Intelligence and its real-world applications.

Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI.

Want to learn more about entrepreneurship opportunities throughout EnterpriseWorks? Starting promptly at 4 PM, join us for tours through the EnterpriseWorks incubator to gain an understanding of different resources EnterpriseWorks has to offer.

Speaker: Graeme Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Join us on Tuesday, April 18 from 12:00-1:00 pm for "Time Management for Busy People" with Kelly Gust. Kelly Gust, Human Resources Expert-in-Residence for the Research Park, will share best practices for how professionals can manage their schedules to work smarter-not harder. Attendees will walk away with actionable steps to optimizing their most precious resource - time.

Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina

Speaker: Xi Cao, Pfaff Lab, Department of Physics, UIUC

Join us for the Lecture with Mike Quinn, Entrepreneur & Author moderated by Dr. Gerald Wilson on Wednesday, April 19 from 1-2 pm at the 35 Campus Instructional Facility or on Zoom.

4/19/2023: Weights & Biases workshop: Track, Visualize, and Improve Your Experiments Training Overview: Andrea will take you through a W&B introduction and product walkthrough, including Experiment tracking, W&B Tables, Sweeps, Artifacts, Dashboards/Reports, and Integrations! Followed by a Colab classification competition in Kaggle with swag for top submissions.

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.

Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.

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

Join us on Friday, April 21 from 12:00-1:00pm as Research Park celebrates Eid.

This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.

Speaker: David Kribs, Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph

Review of the Undergraduate Certificate in Cybersecurity Program followed by Day in the Life Session featuring Joe Barnes from the University of Illinois System 5:45-7pm on April 25, 2023 in CSL Studio, Room 1232

Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldschmidt Lab, Department of Physics, UIUC

Join Dr. Erik Garcell (Technical Marketing Manager) from Classiq in a Quantum Software Development Workshop. Classiq offers its quantum software development platform free to academics and will host a free workshop where students and researchers can learn how to use their platform.

HRI's Graduate Student Advisory Committee invites graduate students to attend a town hall lunch! Shape the future of the humanities through both open and guided conversation. Share your thoughts about ways that HRI can better support graduate students across campus in humanities-centered research throughout their academic careers. Please register in advance.

Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.

This meetup is targeted towards professionals and students in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding region with an interest in cloud computing platforms including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud.

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.