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Speaker: Andrew Higginbotham, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
Attend this onsite workshop at NCSA to learn how to use OpenACC API compiler directives to quickly develop GPU-capable 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.
Speaker: Dmitry Manning-Coe, Bradlyn Group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Controlled Unclassified Information in Research
The International Student Entrepreneurship Workshop helps international students understand policies and requirements for pursuing entrepreneurship and starting a business in the United States.
Grainger Engineering undergrads - consider doing a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Want 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.
Speaker: Yong Chen, Professor, Purdue University
Join 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, November 19.
Speaker: Oliver Wolff, Pfaff/Nunex-Corrales group
Join us for the OVCRI Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Speaker Series. Topic: Conflict of Interest Disclosures
Join us in San Francisco in November!
Join us on Thursday, November 21 from 12 to 1 p.m. for the Research Park Friendsgiving.
Speaker: Hamoon Mousavi, Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Join us on Tuesday, December 3 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. for the Research Park Holiday Happy Hour.
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, December 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Speaker: Hannah Day, Kahn Group
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: Matthew Lahaye, Senior Research Physicist, Air Force Research Laboratory
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, December 13 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Speaker: Hadiseh Alaeian, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
Students selected to participate in the program will spend 8 weeks in the summer contributing to a community organization in the Champaign-Urbana area. With support from Humanities Without Walls and We CU, participants will connect with an organization, identify an area of need, and design a project to address that need.
Connect with investors and mentors that can help launch your startup, and get funding and prizes from a record pool of over $550,000!
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.
Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, Research Lead at AWS Center for Quantum Networking, Amazon Web Services
Speaker: Anastasiya Osher, Anderson Group
Join 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.
Speaker: Chloe Kim, Chitambar/Leditzky Group
Although 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.
Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group
Dinner Graduate Workshop with Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, on Planning Humanities Research Projects.
Speaker: William Oliver, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speaker: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, Backlund Group
Based 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.
Speaker: Rajesh, Clark/Draper Group
The Humanities Research Institute and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline that changed the field in important ways.
One 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.
Speaker: Angel Rubio, Research Scientist and Co-Director of Initiative for Computational Catalysis Flatiron Institute
Speaker: Lintao Li, Covey Group
Community Speaker Series panelists: Tracy Barkley (Directory, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).
Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego
Reading from Yard Show: Black Life, Prairies, and Place Making In the Midwest, with musical accompaniment.
Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group
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.
Speaker: Bill Fefferman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Bryce Henson holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research with graduate certificates in cultural studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.
Speaker: Xiaochuan (David) Ding, Clark Group
Speaker: Javad Shabani, Associate Professor of Physics and Director of the Center of Quantum Information Physics, New York University
Speaker: Randy Owen, Kou Group
Award-winning poet and essayist.
A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay.
Speaker: Sara Mouradian, Assistant Professor, University of Washinton
Speaker: Ashwith Prabhu, Goldshmidt Group
Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, June 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, August 20 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 22 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Wednesday, December 10 at the Illinois Conference Center.