The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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.

Conference/Workshop

International Women's Day | Presentation and Celebration

3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/8/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300 or live stream at go.illinois.edu/IWD2023

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.

Conference/Workshop

Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

4:00 pm 3/8/2023

Lecture

Corporate Connections in Chicago: After Hours

5:30 - 7:30 pm 3/9/2023

200 South Wacker Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606

Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.

Social/Informal Event

Un/Doing Lecture: "Black Freedom on Native Land: Reconsidering Reconstruction"

7:30 pm 3/9/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

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.

Lecture

Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

4:00 pm 3/15/2023

Lecture

NCSA Hosts “The Frontier of Quantum Computing and Networking Technology"

11:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/20/2023

Room 1030, NCSA Building: 1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, 61801

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!

Lecture

Entrepreneurship Advising

2:00 - 4:00 pm 3/21/2023

Have questions about how to pursue your startup ideas? Just stop by and talk with our staff!

Informational

HAL Training: DRYML an open source meta-library for machine learning and more

3:00 - 5:00 pm 3/22/2023

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

Conference/Workshop

Physics Colloquium: Cynthia Keeler (Arizona State University), Title: "Three Ways To Build A Spacetime"

4:00 pm 3/22/2023

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

SPIN Lightning Talks

12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/23/2023

NCSA 1104

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.

Seminar/Symposium

Harsh Agrawal "Towards multi-modal AI systems with 'open-world' cognition"

2:00 pm 3/23/2023

Seminar/Symposium

Medical Humanities Lecture | Elena Conis: “Vaccine Resistance in Historical Perspective”

4:00 pm 3/23/2023

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.

Lecture

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Startups and Entrepreneurship

5:00 - 6:00 pm 3/23/2023

200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, Illinois 60606

Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.

Professional Development

Entrepreneurship Advising

12:00 - 3:00 pm 3/24/2023

1050 Siebel Center for Design

Make an appointment to meet with a TEC Ambassador at SCD on Fridays!

Informational

CANCELLED: HRI/Cancer Center at Illinois Lecture | Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade: "Race, Breast Cancer, and African American Women"

4:00 pm 3/27/2023

Beckman Institute Auditorium

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.

Lecture

CS Compiler Seminar: Kum Wu, "PIGEON: Optimizing CUDA Code Generator for End-to-End Training and Inference of Relational Graph Neural Networks"

4:30 pm 3/27/2023

2124 Siebel Center

Seminar/Symposium

ITI’s Undergraduate Certificate in Cybersecurity Information Session + March “Day in the Life” seminar

5:45 pm 3/28/2023

1232 Coordinated Science Lab Studio - (North Campus Parking Garage – South Side – Middle Entrance) - 1206 W. Clark St. Urbana, Illinois

Seminar/Symposium

XAI Tutorial: Explainability of Deep Neural Networks

3:00 - 5:00 pm 3/29/2023

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.

Conference/Workshop

COLLOQUIUM: Pradeep Natarajan, "Multimodal Transformer Models for Joint Text-Visual Processing"

3:30 pm 3/29/2023

HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science OR Zoom https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86048310021?pwd=R09Qb2YrdEs0N0dIeVpBOXRvZFdwQT09

Seminar/Symposium

Physics Colloquium: Haiyan Gao (Duke University), Title: The Structure of the Nucleon

4:00 pm 3/29/2023

Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

Lecture

Eshed Ohn-Bar "On the Limits of Imitation"

2:00 pm 3/30/2023

Seminar/Symposium

Un/Doing | Tarren Andrews: “What's a Derivative, Anyway? Un/doing Old English Translation through Indigenous Language Revitalization”

4:00 pm 3/30/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 108

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?