Events
National Center for Supercomputing Applications master calendar
NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
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8:30 am - 4:00 pmNational Center for Supercomputing Applications - Room 1104 - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801Co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The main goal is to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
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8:30 am - 4:00 pmNational Center for Supercomputing Applications - Room 1104 - 1205 W Clark St, Urbana, IL 61801
Co-organized by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The main goal is to let talented UIUC students showcase their skills in a friendly competition while working on challenging problems involving computational science and machine learning using state-of-the-art computational systems at NCSA.
Monday, October 27, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 am3401 Siebel Center
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1:00 - 2:00 pm Central Time
Join us for a one hour webinar that introduces the computational resources and support available to Illinois researchers on campus, and beyond! We will provide an overview of the resources and support available through the Illinois Computes program, other on-campus services, as well as the NSF-supported ACCESS program.
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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2:00 - 6:00 pmNCSA room 1104
Ashby Prize Hackathon teams will present the result of their work over the hackathon weekend.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
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3:00 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 210
Juno Salazar-Parreñas, Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Competing Colonialisms in the Great Acceleration
Monday, November 3, 2025
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10:00 am - 4:30 pm Central TimeNCSA Room 3000
Attend this onsite workshop at NCSA to learn how to use OpenACC API compiler directives to quickly develop GPU-capable codes using standard languages and compilers. Knowledge of either C or Fortran programming is required. Hands-on exercises will use Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 computing platform.
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4:00 pmIllini Union, Room 210This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmNCSA (1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, 61801) | Room: 1040
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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1:30 - 2:30 pmNCSA room 1030
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4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
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5:00 - 7:00 pmThis is a virtual event. Zoom link coming soon!The International Student Entrepreneurship Workshop helps international students understand policies and requirements for pursuing entrepreneurship and starting a business in the United States.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Monday, November 10, 2025
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
This workshop will give you hands-on experience using TorchGeo for geospatial deep learning. TorchGeo is a PyTorch domain library, similar to torchvision, providing datasets, samplers, transforms, and pre-trained models specific to geospatial data.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 208
In contrast to the moral panics about the ways that AI chatbots may be shrinking people’s social worlds by replacing human-to-human interaction, there is an incredible optimism in some corners that AI will radically open up the social world to include animals, enhancing or enabling new forms of interspecies communication.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
This workshop, presented by Zoe Ryan from NVIDIA, will give you hands-on experience accelerating Python codes with NVIDIA GPUs. The workshop will focus on CuPy, NVIDIA RAPIDS, and NVIDIA Warp.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
Monday, November 17, 2025
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Friday, November 21, 2025
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4:00 - 5:00 pm1214 Siebel Center
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
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2:30 - 3:30 pm2405 Siebel Center
Friday, December 5, 2025
Monday, December 8, 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
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12:00 - 1:30 pmThe Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity!
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7:00 pmPlym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St
Friday, February 13, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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7:30 pmTBD
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Sunday, March 1, 2026
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All DayOption for Grainger graduate students! The Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now available to almost every admitted Grainger graduate student. Learn to tackle the business facets of industry-relevant problems and have these skills officially recognized on your transcript.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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3:30 - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 300
International Women’s Day celebration with speakers from the campus and community.
Monday, March 30, 2026
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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12:00 pmBNAACC
U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–95); Creative Writing, University of Virginia Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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4:00 - 6:00 pmTBD
Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception
Monday, June 1, 2026
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All DayOption for Grainger graduate students! The Graduate Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now available to almost every admitted Grainger graduate student. Learn to tackle the business facets of industry-relevant problems and have these skills officially recognized on your transcript.
Monday, June 15, 2026
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
