NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Speaker: Jennifer Choy, Dugald C. Jackson Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Speaker: Jacob Beckey, Leditzky Group
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast & MicroMGx Grand Opening from 8:00-10:15 a.m. on Thursday, September 12, 2024, at the EnterpriseWorks Atrium.
This lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, “Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies.” This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book.
The Research Park is hosting the Welcome Week Kick-Off Breakfast with the New American Welcome Center on Friday, September 13 from 8:30-9:30 a.m. on the EnterpriseWorks Patio.
Join us for training on the Report of Non-University Activities (RNUA) and the University's Policy on Conflicts of Commitment and Interest.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, September 13 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Academic staff members must annually complete a disclosure & request for approval of such activities. Throughout the year, additional disclosures & requests for prior approval are necessary whenever a change in such activities is proposed or when required by granting agencies. RNUA forms can be completed throughout the year for new hires or if an employee's status changes.
Speaker: Chen-Lung Hung, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
Champaign County Bike to Work Day 2024 is happening on Wednesday, September 18th from 7-10 a.m. Registration is open!
Speaker: Nathan Arnold, Kwiat Group
We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
Building upon their recent article, “What Is Information History?,” Bonnie Mak (Information Sciences) and Allen Renear (Information Sciences) introduce ways in which the humanities can engage in the critical examination of AI. Part of the “Think Again...” Event Series.
Join us for training on the Report of Non-University Activities (RNUA) and the University's Policy on Conflicts of Commitment and Interest
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Join us on Thursday, August 29 from 12 to 1 p.m. for "Recruiting with AI" with Sophie Roney.
Join us to learn about "Opportunities in the Research Park for International Students" on Monday, September 23 from 4 to 5 p.m.
Speaker: Matthew Otten, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Speaker: Cheyenne Mitchell, Bucklund Group
Join Jesse McCarthy (English and African American Studies, Harvard University) and Christopher Freeburg (English) for a lunchtime book discussion. Professor McCarthy will briefly introduce his book "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (2024), and then Professor Freeburg will moderate a discussion. Registration required!
Identity is at once the most central and the most unhappy word in contemporary discourse. Debates continue to rage within literary studies in the academy and in the public sphere at large about when, how, and to what extent, the discourse of identity, and sometimes its associated identity politics, should apply when we engage questions around...
Join us for our monthly “Fire At Five” Happy Hour to network with other interns and professionals who work in the Research Park on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the Atkins Patio.
SocialFuse: The event where you can pitch your startup idea, network, and find teammates. Or sit back and check things out!
Panel: Improvise & Intervene Reflections and Acknowledgements For this cohort of Interseminars fellows and conveners, circle-keeping and reflection have been a methodological commitment. In this talkback, we invite you to learn and hear about the joys, challenges, and lessons of forming an interdisciplinary collective. Refreshments will be served.
This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Saturday's events include the Body Mapping Family Workshop, Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment I & II, a workshop with invited guest Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and more.
This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Sunday's events include a tour, Closing Collage & Movement, and Community Dinner Reception.
Speaker: Krister Shalm, Sr. Research Associate, University of Colorado Boulder
Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group
Time management and stress management go hand in hand. Learning strategies to manage these challenges can help you succeed as a graduate student. Join us for this seminar and learn practical tools and tips for managing your time and reducing stress, enabling you to focus on what's important. Light refreshments will be provided.
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.
Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed happy hour gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!
Speaker: Joseph Heremans, Scientist, Argonne National Laboraotry
Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.
Speaker: Chris Vairogs, Leditzky Group
For students working on startup ideas! Come learn the basics of trademarks and patents from Prof. Joe Barich.
Join the AI User Group on Friday, October 11 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Speaker: Tzu Chieh Wei, Professor, Stony Brook University
Speaker: Xuefei Guo, Abbamonte Group
Join EnterpriseWorks and Research Park for Founders Week on October 17-19, 2024. Details forthcoming.
Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
Speaker: Jessica Montone, Van Harlingen Group
Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
Join us for our monthly “Fire At Five” Happy Hour to network with other interns and professionals who work in the Research Park on Thursday, October 24, 2024, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the Atkins Patio.
Join us on Friday, October 25 from 2:00 - 4:00 PM at EnterpriseWorks room 130 for the Flu Shot Clinic.
Speaker: Alex Ma, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Speaker: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, Backlund Group
Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...
Join us on Thursday, October 31, 2024, from 3:30-4:30pm for Trick or Treating at EnterpriseWorks.
Join us on Friday, November 1 from 12 to 1 p.m. to celebrate Diwali.
Speaker: Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
Speaker: Samantha Isaac, Kwiat Group
This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.
Join the AI User Group on Friday, November 8 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Speaker: Andrew Higginbotham, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
Speaker: Dmitry Manning-Coe, Bradlyn Group