NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Working on cutting edge innovation, translational research, or addressing cultural or global challenges? Ask a mentor to nominate you.
Have questions about how to pursue your startup ideas? Just stop by and talk with our staff!
Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.
Startup companies and their employees who work within the EnterpriseWorks building are invited to join us for networking and breakfast from 9-10am on the first Friday of every month. Check back for registration information.
Tenure-stream faculty who wish to learn more about the Interseminars Initiative are encouraged to attend this Zoom info session.
For our March meetup, we are excited to welcome Stephanie Besser who will be presenting to our group on data science in the healthcare field. Stephanie is an adjunct lecturer of the School of Information Sciences at UIUC, an Adjunct Faculty at DePaul University in Chicago, and a Sr. Analyst at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in Boston.
Speaker: Prof. David Kaplan
Make an appointment to meet with a TEC Ambassador at SCD on Fridays!
Want to learn more about entrepreneurship opportunities throughout EnterpriseWorks? Starting promptly at 4 PM, join us for tours through the EnterpriseWorks incubator to gain an understanding of different resources EnterpriseWorks has to offer.
Hear from advisers and current ILEE students, ask questions, and learn how to apply. Snacks provided!
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.
Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
March 8, 2023: How to use pretrained models - Priyam Mazumdar Training Overview: There are several popular AI model repositories that provide access to pre-trained models via easy-to-use APIs. Hugging Face is one of the latest such repositories that hosts a number of very recent models, such as Facebook’s OPT and OpenAI’s GPT models, as well as many datasets.
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 the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.
Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.
In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century.
Join us in celebrating Pi Day early on Friday, March 10 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. More details forthcoming.
NCSA’s Quantum Computing Interest Group is proud to welcome Physics Professor and IQUIST Director Brian DeMarco for a presentation on “The Frontier of Quantum Computing and Networking Technology” at 11 a.m. on March 20 in Room 1030 at NCSA. Quantum technologies are rapidly advancing so please join us for discussion, networking and complimentary coffee and cookies!
In this Women@NCSA event, Dr. Ramsey will talk about how to change our perceptions about conflict, the role of power in conflict, emotional labor, self-care in response to emotional labor, how those in power can help mitigate the impacts of emotional labor in the workplace, ways leaders can support marginalized employees, and more.
3/22/2023: DRYML an open source meta-library for machine learning and more - Matthew Krafczyk Training Overview: DRYML aims to empower the ML practitioner to spend less time writing boilerplate code & more time implementing new techniques. DRYML provides a model serialization framework along with serialization implementation for many common ML frameworks & model types
Join us from noon–1 p.m. CST at 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, in NCSA 1104 to hear from undergraduate students about their research efforts through the Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Join us on Thursday, March 23 from 12-1 pm for an EIR Workshop with Paul Miller: Living and Breathing an Entrepreneurial Life. New EIR Paul Miller is no stranger to EnterpriseWorks; he is a co-founder of Agrible, one of our most famous graduates. In this talk, he will share lessons learned as well as advice for other entrepreneurs.
This talk will place trends in the modern era of vaccination in the context of issues related to the nuclear family, economy, health care, and federal politics. It will also discuss how shifting social values, environmental concerns, gender roles, the valuation of children, and the relationship between secular and religious values inform vaccination skepticism.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
AWS: From the Front Door to the Data Center Floor by Wyatt Shuler: A high-level overview of the physical and digital infrastructure of AWS data centers and how they operate their highly available services. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of where AWS services run and how AWS manages their services.
The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
Join us on Tuesday, March 28 from 12-1 pm for Hiring International Students is Easier Than You Think, a presentation by Jennifer Park, Assistant Director, International Student and Scholar Services.
3/29/2023: XAI Tutorial: Explainability of Deep Neural Networks Training Overview: DNNs are often treated as black boxes. This talk will focus on some of the modern methods of explainability for DNNs and discuss their implementation, usage, and limitations.
What does it mean to (de)classify something as derivative? What cultural values are at stake in the teleological designation of “derivative”? And, how can we apply pressure to those value judgements to better understand the intersections of Old English translation and settler colonialism in novel ways?
The Future, Today. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2023!
Engineering Open House showcases the engineering campus to more than 20,000 visitors each year. It is the largest student-run event at the U of I, and is free and fun for all ages. The Grainger College of Engineering welcomes all alumni to 312 Engineering Hall from 10:00am – 2:00pm on Friday for snacks and a warm place to relax.
Speaker: Prof. Jana Diesner
Join us for lunch as Dr. Span, Director of Campus Culture & Climate, shares her journey of becoming a leader on campus, as well as what it means to serve in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. She will also reflect on how DEI impacts all industries, especially tech.
Meet the 2023 class of Alumni Award for Distinguished Service Recipients! From 3D technology to mixed reality, energy sustainability to national security, our distinguished alumni are global leaders in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. They are mentors, inventors, and investors who haven’t just turned heads – they have changed the world!