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 - 11:50 am 4/1/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Keji Lai, University of Texas at Austin
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/1/2025EnterpriseWorks Atrium, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignJoin us on Tuesday, April 1 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM to celebrate Eid al-Fitr at EnterpriseWorks.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/1/2025Champaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820Join us on Tuesday, April 1 from 2-3 p.m. for a workshop on Navigating Google's Latest Updates for Business Growth at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/2/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group
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11:30 am 4/2/2025Illinois Conference Center, ChampaignLend your perspective and help evaluate 125+ student startups to see who will move on to the finals.
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 4/2/2025Electrical 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 4/2/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online -
3:30 pm 4/2/2025Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 0216 -
12:00 pm 4/3/2025NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 Room 1040 -
4:00 pm 4/3/2025iSchool Building, 614 E Daniel St. Room 4043 -
9:00 - 10:00 am 4/4/2025EnterpriseWorks, 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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All Day 4/4/2025 - 4/5/2025Bardeen and Engineering QuadsThe Age of Innovation. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2025!
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10:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/4/2025312 Engineering Hall - 1308 W. Green St, UrbanaStop by Engineering Hall to relax, enjoy refreshments, and connect with members of Engineering Student Alumni Ambassadors (ESAA).
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/4/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W IllinoisJoin us for talks by recent CAS Associates. At 11am Yuguo Chen (Statistics) discusses how statistical network analysis is used to develop methods to account for the complex dependencies in network data; and at noon, Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) argues for moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical to better understand youth activism.
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3:00 - 3:30 pm 4/4/2025EnterpriseWorks, 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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Theory Seminar: Billy Jin, "Advice-Augmented Algorithms for Online Matching and Resource Allocation"
11:00 am 4/7/2025Siebel 3401 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/7/2025GSRC, 616 E. Green Street, Suite 202 (Entrance between McDonalds & Subway, 2nd floor) -
3:30 pm 4/7/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/7/2025CIF 2035 -
8:00 - 9:30 am 4/8/2025Illinois 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, April 8 at the Illinois Conference Center.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/8/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
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4:00 pm 4/8/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/9/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 4/9/2025Electrical 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 4/9/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online -
4:00 pm 4/9/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
4:00 pm 4/10/2025iSchool Building, 614 E Daniel St. Room 5043 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/10/2025Siebel 3102 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/11/2025EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, April 11 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/11/2025NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040Speaker: Dr. Peter Nugent
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2:00 pm 4/11/2025Beckman Auditorium Room 1025 -
3:00 - 3:30 pm 4/11/2025EnterpriseWorks, 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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10:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/12/2025Electrical Computer and Engineering Building, 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/12/2025Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820 -
11:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/12/2025Room 1013, ECE Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61820Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland
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11:00 am 4/14/2025Siebel 3401 -
11:00 am - 2:00 pm 4/14/2025Illini Union, Room 314A&B -
1:00 - 2:00 pm 4/14/2025Join us on Monday, April 14 from 1 to 2 PM for a Zoom webinar on "Startup Incorporation: The What, When & How" with Alan Singleton.
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3:30 pm 4/14/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
3:30 pm 4/14/20252405 Siebel Center -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/14/2025CIF 2035 -
5:00 - 7:00 pm 4/15/2025Women's Resources Center, 616 E. Green St. Suite #213, Champaign, IL, (Entrance between McDonalds & Subway, 2nd floor) -
6:00 pm 4/15/2025Illinois Field, 601 E Kirby Ave, Champaign, 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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10:00 - 10:50 am 4/16/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Aaron Fluitt, Senior Director of Technology Partnerships, PsiQuantum
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/16/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group
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11:45 am - 1:00 pm 4/16/2025EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin us on Wednesday, April 16 from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a Women in Tech Luncheon with Brooke Elliott, Dean of Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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12:00 pm 4/16/2025Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)Free lunch and informal talk for undergraduates of any major. With poet and essayist Ross Gay.
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2:30 pm 4/16/2025NCSA Auditorium -
3:00 - 4:00 pm 4/16/2025Electrical 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 4/16/2025NCSA Auditorium -
7:30 pm 4/16/2025Alice Campbell Alumni Center BallroomA public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay. The book will be available for purchasing and signing.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/17/2025Room 3102 (Siebel) -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/18/2025EnterpriseWorks, 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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/18/2025NCSA - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana - RM 1040Speaker: Dr. Jordan Mirocha
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3:00 - 3:30 pm 4/18/2025EnterpriseWorks, 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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1:00 pm 4/19/2025Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/21/2025GSRC, 616 E. Green Street, Suite 202 (Entrance between McDonalds & Subway, 2nd floor) -
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12:00 - 1:50 pm 4/21/2025School of Labor and Employment Relations, Room 51, 504 E Armory StreetScholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.
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3:30 pm 4/21/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
7:15 - 8:15 pm 4/21/2025GSRC, 616 E. Green Street, Suite 202 (Entrance between McDonalds & Subway, 2nd floor) -
11:00 - 11:50 am 4/22/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
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10:00 am 4/23/2025NCSA AuditoriumMeet the 2025 class of Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients!
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/23/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 4/23/2025Electrical 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 4/23/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online -
4:00 pm 4/23/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
5:00 pm 4/23/2025Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. GregoryDarius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/24/2025NCSA, Rm 4000Join the PDO for this lunchtime workshop on creating streamlined, targeted resource-sharing spaces for your unit, your researchers, and yourself.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/24/2025EnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood Drive, ChampaignJoin us on Thursday, April 24 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM learn about Joint Development Agreements & Ventures with Alan Singleton at EnterpriseWorks.
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1:30 - 2:30 pm 4/24/2025NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana IL 61801 RM 1030 -
2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/24/2025Champaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820Join us on Thursday, April 24 from 2-3 p.m. for a workshop on Email Marketing Essentials at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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3:00 - 3:30 pm 4/25/2025EnterpriseWorks, 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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3:30 pm 4/28/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/28/2025CIF 2035 -
All Day 4/29/2025 - 4/30/2025National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)The IMMERSE Symposium - combining immersive technologies, applications and human experience - is a unique meeting to showcase the work of our campus, engage with leaders from academia and industry, foster collaborations and build community to accelerate the era of immersive computing (including AR, VR, MR). Contribute to the program by March 31 and register by April 15.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/29/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Alexandre Bourassa, Senior Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
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11:00 - 11:50 am 4/30/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Jianlong Lin, Goldschmidt/DeMarco Group
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4:00 pm 4/30/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
4:00 - 5:30 pm 4/30/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039This panel convenes energy researchers and activists to reflect on lessons learned from the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in Illinois, and on present-day issues in our energy landscape.