The 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.

Join us for free ice cream and learn more about how Graduate Programs can help you make the most of your experience at Grainger Engineering! *for First Year Graduate Students only

Speaker: Yi-Ting Lee, Schleife Group

Welcome Grainger Engineers! Join us for eNight to celebrate the start of the new year! Meet with Engineering Council and Student Organizations, enjoy free food, a live DJ, games, limited edition Grainger Engineering merchandise and more!

AI in Cancer Surgery and Care A Stakeholder Conference on the Medical, Technical, Ethical, and Legal Aspects

Whether it's an internship, research or study abroad, Grainger Engineering has an international opportunity for you!Enjoy an international treat and talk with program participants, exchange students and program representatives to start planning your international experience.

Mariana Mora (Associate Professor - Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City) will present “When witnessing isn’t enough: reflections on justice and the transformative potential of research.” This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines...

Join us on Thursday, September 4 for the Research Park Block Party! Research Park is the premier technology hub on campus made up of 120+ companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500s.

Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, September 5 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM where Mark Zinzow will lead an engaging discussion on AI Music Generation.

Join us for a screening of "In Search of Bengali Harlem" followed by remarks and a Q & A with Vivek Bald (director, producer, writer). This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines: Reconsidering Racism, Movements, and Epistemes in the Americas.

Please join us in our anti-panel conversations about our vessel works. During this segment of the culminating event, we will interact and think through the concepts of resistance, refusal, and re-existence across color lines. A reception will follow.

Speaker: Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Attend this session to learn about the Interseminars Co-Teaching Grant for tenure-stream faculty (application deadline October 3, 2025). Interseminars will fund three interdisciplinary graduate courses in the arts and humanities, each co-taught by two faculty instructors. Each team will receive programming funds for course-related guest speakers and events.

Champaign County Bike to Work Day 2025 is happening on Wednesday, September 10th from 7-10 a.m. Registration is open!

Speaker: Amrita Purakayastha, Kou Group

Bio: Dr. Gabriel Stanovsky is a senior lecturer (assistant professor) in the school of computer science & engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). He did his postdoctoral research at the University of Washington and AI2 in Seattle, working with Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer and Prof. Noah Smith, and his PhD

stu/dio Director Dan Cermak, Producer Robbie Sieczkowski, and Associate Producer and XR Lead Sep Afshar will present an overview of the studio’s growing portfolio, which now includes 7 XR projects. They will introduce the production pipeline, share real examples from current projects, and highlight the XR design principles guiding development.

Startup 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. 

Speaker: Amrita Purakayastha, Kou Group

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.

Speaker: Angela Kou, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois

Speaker: Kaushik Singirikonda, Pfaff Group

The overarching theme in my program of research is an examination of how people learn through activity. Learning through activity involves interacting with other people, physical objects, and ideas. Physical objects can range from actual flowers and drawings that label their parts to computer simulations.

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

Join us on Friday, September 19 from 12 to 1 PM at EnterpriseWorks for Surviving Fundraising Diligence & Closing with Tim Hoerr.

Zoe Yan, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago

Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) in conversation with Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University), moderated by Antoinette Burton (History).

Talk Title: "Operation of a high frequency, phase slip qubit" Speaker: Cheeranjeev Purmessur, Kou Group

Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) and Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University)

Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) will present the lecture “Land, property, and the story of 18th century race-making: displacement and belonging between the Caribbean and Britain.” With Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University) responding. Part of the Story & Place event series.

Join the PDO and special returning guest presenter Richard Sallee, Limited Submissions Manager for the OVCRI, for an enlightening lunch-time discussion of Limited Submissions.

Architectural designers have long relied on incomplete models to foster dialogue and draw knowledge from diverse perspectives. This talk formalizes that practice as Propositional Modeling and demonstrates its translation into playable software for the Architectural Digital Humanities.

Join us on Thursday, September 25 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM on the Atkins Patio & Lawn for Fire at Five.

Participate in Day of Gratitude in Engineering Hall from 9-11 a.m. and virtually all day!

Join the Society of American Military Engineers on Friday, August 22 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.

Talk Title: "Operation of a high frequency, phase slip qubit" Speaker: Cheeranjeev Purmessur, Kou Group

NCSA is offering a 2-hour workshop for campus researchers to introduce the Illinois Campus Cluster (ICC) and teach how to perform basic tasks in its cluster environment. There are no prerequisites for this workshop. A user account on the ICC will be provided for the hands-on exercises. Register by Sept 25, 2025.

Join us on Tuesday, September 30 from 12-1 p.m. for a webinar on Marketing to Hire - Attracting the Right Talent with the Right Message with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Stubbs