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.
Sunday, September 28, 2025
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All DayTravel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
Monday, September 29, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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10:00 am3401 Siebel Center -
1:00 - 3:00 pm Central Time
NCSA is offering a 2-hour workshop for campus researchers to introduce the Illinois Campus Cluster (ICC) and teach how to perform basic tasks in its cluster environment. There are no prerequisites for this workshop. A user account on the ICC will be provided for the hands-on exercises. Register by Sept 25, 2025.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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3:45 - 4:45 pmNCSA AuditoriumSpeaker: Dr. Christopher Stubbs
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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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.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmElectrical and Computer Engineering Room: 2017 - 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
The seminar will be taught by Priyam Mazumdar, a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmCIF Monumental StepsSocialFuse: The event where you can pitch your startup idea, network, and find teammates. Or sit back and check things out!
Thursday, October 2, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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11:00 am - 12:20 pm2405 Siebel Center
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3:30 - 4:30 pm4100 Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering BuildingHear from advisers and current ILEE students, ask questions, and learn how ILEE can help you gain a competitive edge in the job market.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm3102 Siebel Center
Friday, October 3, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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3:00 - 4:00 pm2405 Siebel Center
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4:00 - 5:00 pm2405 Siebel Center
Saturday, October 4, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
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11:00 am - 3:30 pmMultiple locationsJoin us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.
Sunday, October 5, 2025
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All Day
Travel to Silicon Valley and interact with corporate leaders, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial alumni in various stages of a startup life cycle that share lessons learned about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership
Monday, October 6, 2025
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10:00 am3401 Siebel Center
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
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10:00 - 11:30 am Central Time
Join us for a comprehensive three-part workshop series designed to introduce researchers and practitioners with disabilities to the NCSA Delta high-performance computing cluster. This hands-on series prioritizes command-line proficiency, clear verbal instruction, and practical problem-solving approaches that work for all users.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
NCSA is offering a 2-hour workshop to introduce the DeltaAI cluster and teach how to perform basic tasks in its cluster environment. There are no prerequisites for this workshop. Attendees will be added to a training allocation for the workshop, if they do not already have DeltaAI allocations. Register by October 2.
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4:00 pm2405 Siebel Center
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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10:00 - 11:30 am Central Time
Join us for a comprehensive three-part workshop series designed to introduce researchers and practitioners with disabilities to the NCSA Delta high-performance computing cluster. This hands-on series prioritizes command-line proficiency, clear verbal instruction, and practical problem-solving approaches that work for all users.
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All DayResearch ParkFounders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
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10:00 amSiebel Center 2405
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1:00 - 3:00 pm
This workshop is a 2-hour session that will introduce interactive Jupyter notebooks, particularly the web-hosted version provided by Illinois Computes Research Notebooks (ICRN) service.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmElectrical and Computer Engineering Room: 2017 - 306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
The seminar will be taught by Priyam Mazumdar, a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.
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4:00 pmBallroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave, Urbana
Professor Reyes Mason's presentation is grounded in a belief that our collective work on climate change can indeed lead to a healthier and thriving world for all in the midst of disaster and devastation, from our own backyards to communities across the globe.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
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10:00 - 11:30 am Central Time
Join us for a comprehensive three-part workshop series designed to introduce researchers and practitioners with disabilities to the NCSA Delta high-performance computing cluster. This hands-on series prioritizes command-line proficiency, clear verbal instruction, and practical problem-solving approaches that work for all users.
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All DayResearch Park
Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm3102 Siebel Center
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4:00 - 5:00 pm3102 Siebel Center
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4:00 pm2405 Siebel Center
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7:00 - 8:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Catherine Murphy | The Golden Future of Nanotechnology
Friday, October 10, 2025
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All DayResearch Park
Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
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4:00 pm1214 Siebel Center
Saturday, October 11, 2025
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All DayResearch Park
Founders Week celebrates our collective entrepreneurial successes and showcases the innovative ecosystem that fosters groundbreaking ventures.
Monday, October 13, 2025
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10:00 - 11:00 am3401 Siebel Center
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1:00 - 2:00 pmNCSA (1205 W. Clark St. Urbana, IL, 61801) | Room: 1040 -
3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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10:00 am - 4:30 pmNCSA 3100
NCSA is hosting a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on big data analytics and machine learning with Spark, and deep learning using Tensorflow. This is an IN PERSON event, there WILL NOT be a virtual option for this event.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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10:00 am - 4:30 pmNCSA 3100
NCSA is hosting a Machine Learning and Big Data workshop presented by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This workshop will focus on big data analytics and machine learning with Spark, and deep learning using Tensorflow. This is an IN PERSON event, there WILL NOT be a virtual option for this event.
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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7:00 - 8:30 pm3025 Campus Instructional FaciltyTake advantage of this opportunity to get FREE patent and trademark assistance!
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7:30 pmIllini Union, Room 210Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
Friday, October 17, 2025
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1:00 pm1232 Coordinated Science Laboratory
Monday, October 20, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmNCSA room 1030
Join us for an engaging lunchtime seminar hosted by the Center for AI Innovation at the University of Illinois, where Rohan Marwaha and colleagues will demonstrate how to use Cursor and other powerful AI command-line tools to boost productivity and innovation in your workflows.
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5:45 pm 7:00 pmRoom 301 Coordinated Science Lab, 1308 W. Main St., Urbana
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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12:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 108
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
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1:30 - 2:00 pm
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is launching a new series of CCC Community Chats, designed to spark broad discussion on key issues in computing research. The first event, CCC Community Chat: Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research, will feature David Jensen (UMass Amherst), lead author of the CCC whitepaper Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research.
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 210
Friday, October 24, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmNCSA 1040
Speaker: Dr. Sam Hadden
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2:00 - 3:15 pm1304 Siebel Center
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4:00 - 5:00 pm1214 Siebel Center
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 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.
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
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm0216 Siebel Center (with refreshments!)
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
