NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
New option for graduate students! The Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now available to graduate students in almost every Grainger Engineering program. Learn to tackle the business facets of industry-relevant problems and have these skills officially recognized on your transcript.
I propose postcards of defense practices for migrant communities in Mexico, as well as latent and manifest migrant struggles occurring in Mexico City in the 21st century.
NCSA is hosting a hands-on Introduction to MPI Programming workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). Attendees will leave with a working knowledge of how to write scalable codes using MPI – the standard programming tool of scalable parallel computing.
Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics and Moore Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech - "Quantum control and error mitigation from geometric space curves",
Attend the CDA Conference for an insightful exploration of the current landscape and future potential of precision livestock management technologies. This conference will bring together a diverse group of experts from industry, government, and academia to share knowledge, discuss lessons learned, and collaborate on advancing innovations in the field.
Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate David Wright Faladé on his new work, a non-fiction treatment of his novel The New Internationals, based on his parents.
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.
The Humanities Research Institute and Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity 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.
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for the AgTech Week Happy Hour, sponsored by GDM.
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: Yujie Wan
Speaker: Thịnh Nguyễn
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.
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.
Join us on Monday, March 10 from 12 to 1 PM at EnterpriseWorks for "Resources, Programs & Funding for Taking Your Technology to Market" with Jed Taylor.
Speaker: Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington
Speaker: Lintao Li, Covey Group
Join the University of Illinois Research Park for an open house and reception on Wednesday, March 12, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. to discuss the future of housing on campus at UIRP. Enjoy a Maize taco bar and frozen margaritas (must be 21).
Community Speaker Series panelists: Traci Barkley (Director, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).
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, March 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
This is a group for those interested in distributed ledger technology, including blockchains, cryptocurrency, cryptography, smart contracts, DApps, and more.
Learn about the essential components and practical applications of cyberinfrastructure, including compute, data, software, networking, and people within the NSF ACCESS program. You will learn the benefits of integrating cyberinfrastructure into research processes and explore computational resources like HPC. Real-world examples of research projects will be presented.
This 90-minute workshop addresses the basics of accessing and using the Delta supercomputer. The content is suitable for researchers and students new to working with a cluster and wanting to know more about Delta.
This webinar will cover Jupyter, focusing on JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook interfaces. Topics include benefits for research workflows, setup (local/cloud), interface navigation, and working with cells. It also introduces basic Python programming and key packages (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib), with hands-on examples, coding practices, project organization, and sharin
Join us on Tuesday, March 25 from 10 to 11AM for a webinar on Best Practices in New Hire Onboarding.
Speaker: Richard Averitt, Professor, University of California, San Diego
Join us for 2 talks featuring recent CAS Associates and Fellows: Fahad Mahmood on unlocking quantum emergence and Peter Fritzsche on the fragile nature of human solidarity.
Speaker: Priyash Barya, Goldschmidt Group/Electrical and Computer Engineering
Join us on Wednesday, March 26 from 12 to 1 P.M. for HR 101 for Startups with Amber Rhoton from AmplifiedHR.
Join us for an evening of jazz and poetry with award-winning poet Janice N. Harrington (Creative Writing/English) and musician Charles “Chip” McNeill (Music). Harrington will read selections from Yard Show with musical accompaniment by McNeill and students from the University of Illinois music department.The book will be available for purchasing and signing.
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.
Speaker: Dr. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
Grainger Engineering undergrads - consider doing a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.