NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
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Speaker: Ryan O'Donnell
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: Anastasiya Osher, Anderson Group
Join us on Wednesday, February 5 from 2- 3:00 p.m. for a webinar on how to Interview & Hire "Like a Boss".
Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, CEO & Co-founder, Lightsynq
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.
ILLIXR: An End-to-End Systems Research Approach to Enable the Era of Immersive Computing Members of the ILLIXR group will describe the ILLIXR testbed and our research providing orders of magnitude higher efficiency and new functionality for XR systems.
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.
Join the Data + AI User Group on Friday, February 7 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
Join us on Monday, February 10 from 12 to 1:30 PM at EnterpriseWorks for Entrepreneurial Storytelling: Before & Beyond the Pitch Deck with James Janega.
This workshop introduces parallel computing with MATLAB® for solving computational and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs, and clusters. Participants will learn to parallelize MATLAB algorithms, speed up applications, run Simulink simulations in parallel, and scale code to the NCSA Delta Cluster.
Speaker: Fernando Granha Jeronimo
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.
Professionals who work in the Research Park community are invited to celebrate Black History Month with us from 12-1pm on Thursday, February 13 at EnterpriseWorks.
Speaker: Dr. Laurent Loinard
Speaker: "Simulatability and Testability of Quantum States through an Algebraic Lens", Dr. Mehrdad Tahmasbi, Future Faculty Fellow and Postdoctoral researcher, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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, February 18.
Join us on campus at the ACES Library on Tuesday, February 18 from 5 to 6:30 P.M. for an AgTech Career Panel.
NCSA is hosting an onsite workshop by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center on Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP. C and Fortran programmers will get hands-on experience with OpenMP, learning about parallel loop scheduling, data declarations, reduction clauses, and OpenMP library functions. Exercises will use PSC's supercomputing cluster. Register by Feb 17 at Noon ET.
Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group
This 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.
Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.
IMMERSE Seminar: Kristen Schumacher, "Physics Outreach and Instruction through New Technologies (POINT): Using Virtual Reality to Visualize and Teach Gravity".
Employees who work in the Research Park are invited to join our staff once a month for a series of networking socials throughout the community.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
IQUIST is hosting STEM exhibits for The Well Experience Inc. Kids to STEM program. Kids to STEM is a program of The Well Experience Inc for their K-5th grade students.
Hear from advisers and current ILEE students, ask questions, and learn how ILEE can help you gain a competitive edge in the job market.
The Research Park Career Fair is an opportunity for University of Illinois students to connect with Research Park employers and learn about on-campus internships and full-time job opportunities.
Join us for 2 talks featuring recent CAS Associates: John Levi Barnard on oppositional trends in human-animal relations and Lindsay Rose Russell on the history of sex and lexicography.
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: Dr. Tomotake Matsumura
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.