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Research Spotlight Series Event Graduate College Introduction by Christie Wiley (Physical Sciences and Engineering Research and Data Services Librarian)
The solar car will be parked in the UGL driveway. After the presentation, we will walk over to see the Illini Solar Car. All are welcome!
Research Spotlight Series explores the research process of scholars across disciplines by highlighting their scholarly works. |
Big Data and Machine Learning Series Part 1 Event Technology Services Big Data and Machine Learning Series Part 1 |
Fall 2019 AWS Labs Event Technology Services Here is our Fall 2019 AWS Lab schedule:
These are hands-on labs open to University of Illinois faculty, students, and staff. We have a range of lab topics currently available:
Participants may select any lab and work at their own pace with guidance from University of Illinois and Amazon staff. Lab computers are provided, but you’re welcome to bring your laptop if you prefer. |
Fall 2019 AWS Labs Event Technology Services Here is our Fall 2019 AWS Lab schedule:
These are hands-on labs open to University of Illinois faculty, students, and staff. We have a range of lab topics currently available:
Participants may select any lab and work at their own pace with guidance from University of Illinois and Amazon staff. Lab computers are provided, but you’re welcome to bring your laptop if you prefer. |
SPECIAL SEMINAR: Akshitha Sriraman, "Enabling Hyperscale Web Services" Event College of Engineering Abstract: Current hardware and software systems were conceived at a time when we had scarce compute and memory resources, limited quantity of data and users, and easy hardware performance scaling due to Moore's Law. These assumptions are not true today. Today, emerging web services require data centers that scale to hundreds of thousands of servers, i.e., hyperscale, to efficiently process requests from billions of users. In this new era of hyperscale computing, we can no longer afford to build each layer of the systems stack separately. Instead, we must rethink the synergy between the software and hardware worlds from the ground up. In this talk, I will focus on re-thinking (1) software threading and concurrency paradigms and (2) data center hardware architectures. First, I will detail μTune, my software threading framework that is aware of the overheads induced by the underlying hardware's constraints. Then, I will discuss SoftSKU and Accelerometer--my proposals to answer the question of: How should we build data center hardware for emerging software paradigms in the post-Moore era? Finally, I will conclude by describing my ongoing and future research towards re-designing the systems stack to enable the hyperscale web services of tomorrow. Bio: Akshitha Sriraman is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research bridges computer architecture and software systems, demonstrating the importance of that bridge in realizing efficient hyperscale web services via solutions that span the systems stack. Her systems solutions to improve hardware efficiency have improved the performance of real-world hyperscale web services that currently serve billions of users, saving millions of dollars and meaningfully reducing the global carbon footprint. Additionally, her hardware design proposals have influenced Intel's Alder Lake+ CPU architectures. Sriraman has been recognized with a Facebook Fellowship, a Rackham Merit Ph.D. Fellowship, and was selected for the Rising Stars in EECS Workshop. Her work has been recognized with an IEEE Micro Top Picks distinction and has appeared in top architecture and systems venues like OSDI, ISCA, ASPLOS, MICRO, and HPCA. Faculty Host: Saugata Ghose |
SATURDAY PHYSICS FOR EVERYONE Event 11/09 Prof. James Eckstein, "Electromagnetic radiation from free electrons: From AM radio to Free Electron Lasers” |
Prof. Kelly Gaffney, Student Select Seminar, Stanford University, "Imaging Chemical Transformations with Ultrafast X-ray Lasers" Event Seminar on Imaging Chemical Transformations with Ultrafast X-ray Lasers |
Frontiers in Nutritional Sciences - NUTR 500 , Toward Nutrition Justice in Champaign County: Learning from Community Partners Event Seminar by School of social work |
Just Infrastructures Speakers Series: “What is Media Manipulation” Event College of Engineering The Just Infrastructures Speaker Series was created by researchers in the Computer Science Department, the School of Information Sciences and the College of Media at the University of Illinois to interrogate the complex interactions between people, algorithms, and AI-driven systems. |
XSEDE HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC- March 2, 2021 Event Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages and compilers. It has been used with great success to accelerate real applications within very short development periods. This workshop assumes knowledge of either C or Fortran programming. It will have a hands-on component using the Bridges-2 computing platform at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. |
Data Sharing and Distributed Storage’s Role in Research Event Cyberinfrastructure or eInfrastructures tended to be funded for small projects for a single PI or very large science ventures (CERN LHC, NEON, NASA). What is emerging are medium-scale projects involving several universities and institutions. What architectures and capabilities are or will be needed by such projects and what effect will this have on the overall research computing ecosystem? |
Mikashi Award Impact Presentations Event Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) Please join us for the Mikashi Award Impact Presentations, presented by the Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society. We will hear final presentations from Mikashi awardees Dr. Brian Cunningham and Dr. Paul Hergenrother, who will share how Mikashi Award funding supported their work on cancer research. RSVP here. The Mikashi Awards provide consistency and support for developing innovation at the IGB. This funding helps IGB researchers bridge the "gap" between government-supported innovations that result from University research and private sector support of those innovations into commercial products and facilitate the transformation of researchers' discoveries and technologies into useful products services that benefit society.Introduction Don Ort Acting Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Review of Award's Impact on Research "Development of a new microscopy technology for rapid diagnosis of COVID and cancer" Brian Cunningham, Mikashi Award Winner "Rapid Acting Anticancer Compounds for Hepatocellular Carcinoma" Paul Hergenrother, Mikashi Award Winner Closing Remarks Catherine & Don Kleinmunz Founders, Kleinmuntz Center |
Process-Based Workshop Series Event We would like to announce a virtual process-based workshop series geared towards Black, Indigenous, and students of color (BIPOC) registered with DRES. The goal of this series is to provide an intentional space where students can process stress and share coping strategies related to current and historical socio-political events. We hope to draw upon the cultural practices of narrative and other arts-based storytelling to support community-based healing. The workshop series will consist of three 90 minute sessions. We will apply an intersectional lens to harness our collective resources and think creatively about alternative futures that promote resilience and social progress. We will meet 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. CST on April 12, 2021, April 19, 2021, and April 26, 2021. Students will need to be available for each of the three consecutive sessions. The workshop will be facilitated by Nimot Ogunfemi and Briana Williams. For more information, students should contact Briana Williams atbrianaw3@illinois.edu. |
Workshop: Writing a Fulbright Statement of Grant Purpose Event Graduate College One of the two main components of the Fulbright application is the Statement of Grant Purpose, in which applicants must explain the project they propose to conduct during the fellowship period. In this workshop, we'll show students how best to approach this statement; how to present their project in the most direct, concrete, and convincing way possible; and how to strategize their narrative in light of Fulbright's mission and aims. We'll also review sample statements. In short, attendees will get a crash course in proposal writing -- one tailored specifically for Fulbright. Please register at the link above for information on joining this online workshop. See moreGraduate College Workshops. |
Graduate Writing Groups Event College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) Looking for a productivity boost? Join the Writers Workshop for sustained writing in the company of your colleagues from across the disciplines. Our virtual writing group aims to provide community and accountability. Each session begins with a short conversation about goals and ends with a wrap-up of accomplishments. This event will be held through Zoom. It is open to current University of Illinois affiliates (students, faculty, and staff). Please register with your University of Illinois email account by 11:59pm on 5/9, and we will send an email with the Zoom link and password on the morning of the event. |
Women In Tech: Tinisha Agramonte, Motorola Solutions Event Research Park Join us from 12-1pm on June 3 for Women In Tech. We will hear from Tinisha Agramonte of Motorola Solutions. More info on registration coming soon. If you have questions, or need accommodations for this event, please email Cathy McArthur at mcarthur@illinios.edu. |
SPECIAL SEMINAR (Teaching): Rachel Krohn Event College of Engineering Info coming soon... Faculty host: Michael Nowak |
Graduate Writing Groups Event College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) Looking for a productivity boost? Join the Writers Workshop for sustained writing in the company of your colleagues from across the disciplines. Our virtual writing group aims to provide community and accountability. Each session begins with a short conversation about goals and ends with a wrap-up of accomplishments. This event will be held through Zoom. It is open to current University of Illinois affiliates (students, faculty, and staff). Please register with your University of Illinois email account by 11:59pm on 4/25, and we will send an email with the Zoom link and password on the morning of the event. |
Just Infrastructures: "Claiming Democracy over Digital Infrastructures" Event Illinois Program for Research in Humanities (IPRH) Lilly Irani, Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies at UCSD, will present "Claiming Democracy over Digital Infrastructures" on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. The event will take place on Zoom from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Central time. Register and learn more at just-infras.illinois.edu. Co-hosted by the Community Research Cooperative Research Cluster |
May the 4th Celebration Event Research Park May the Fourth be with you! Join us on Tuesday, May 4th from 12-1pm for snacks as we celebrate "Star Wars Day." Please wear masks and maintain social distancing . Then you may enjoy your snacks back at your home or office. If you have questions, or need accommodations for this event, please contact Cathy McArthur at mcarthur@illinois.edu. |
SPECIAL SEMINAR (Teaching): Neftali Watkinson Medina, "Informed Search Strategies" Event College of Engineering Abstract: Before GPS devices were as popular as they are now, traveling to a new city generally involved preliminary planning tracing a route on a map. Depending on how detailed and accurate the map was, the traveler could trace routes that fit his needs, went through desired checkpoints, prioritize highways, or take the shortest foreseeable path. In a similar manner, informed search algorithms use approximated information about the search space to optimize the speed of finding a path from one point to another. In this talk we will build on the logic of uninformed search strategies to describe how we can incorporate heuristics into a search algorithm and learn about one of the most popular informed search algorithms called A* (A-star). This talk is part of the course content for CS 440 Artificial Intelligence. Bio: Neftali Watkinson is a PhD graduate from the University of California, Irvine. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher exploring practical applications of Hyperdimensional Computing. His passion for teaching and excellence in research has been recognized by the Fulbright fellowship, the Innovation in ICS award, the Miguel Velez fellowship award and the Latino Excellence and Achievement Award. He has participated in different projects, including a work of art displayed at the Venice Biennale 2019. Neftali's commitment to his students has been evident through his pedagogical research and multiple undergraduate research projects. He also co-designed an undergraduate course on practical learning on Edge Computing applications. Faculty host: Marco Morales |
iDS^2 Mini-Workshop on Asymptotics and Non-Asymptotics in Control and Reinforcement Learning: Moderated Discussion Event College of Engineering Reinforcement learning is a highly active area of research, blending ideas and techniques from control, optimization, machine learning, and computer science. Given this diversity of viewpoints and frameworks, it is imperative to understand their strengths and their limitations. The aim of this iDS2 virtual mini-workshop is a constructive dialogue and exchange of ideas between researchers in these fields. This moderated discussion follows the two tutorial-style talks emphasizing the asymptotic and the non-asymptotic perspectives, and will feature both Sean Meyn (University of Florida)and Elad Hazan (Princeton University). |
Fast Center at Illinois SBIR/STTR 101 Event Research Park Join our team of SBIR experts and the FAST (Federal and State Technology) Center of Illinois for a biweekly SBIR 101 event from 12:00-1:00pm CT the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. (Different SBIR consultants will join to present. Some events may focus on specific SBIR/STTR agencies.) In this recurring workshop, teams will learn: What is the SBIR/STTR program, which agencies offer this, and what are the requirements? What resources are in place through the Illinois FAST Center and how do teams access said resources? What solicitations are upcoming in the SBIR/STTR space? After a presentation, teams will have the opportunity to ask questions from the FAST team. You can find the Zoom link HERE. Office Hours are also available weekly. For more information about FAST at Illinois, and how to access more resources, visit the FAST Center at Illinois website. This program is open to all entrepreneurs in the State of Illinois seeking to access SBIR/STTR grant funding. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are highly competitive programs that encourage domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) with the potential for commercialization. Through a competitive awards-based program, SBIR and STTR enable small businesses to explore their technological potential and provide the incentive to profit from its commercialization. By including qualified small businesses in the nation's R&D arena, high-tech innovation is stimulated, and the United States gains entrepreneurial spirit as it meets its specific research and development needs. |
AnsibleCU User Group Event Research Park Join the AnsibleCU Meetup group on Friday, May 28 from 2-4PM. Participants will learn how to leverage Ansible, Terraform, and other Infrastructure as Code tools to increase efficiency and reduce time spent on routine server configuration. For more information on how to join our virtual meetup, visit out Meetup pagehere.Be sure to check-out our other monthly tech meetup groupshere.If you have questions, or need accommodations for this event, please contact Cathy McArthur at mcarthur@illinois.edu. |
Fast Center at Illinois SBIR/STTR 101 Event Research Park Join our team of SBIR experts and the FAST (Federal and State Technology) Center of Illinois for a biweekly SBIR 101 event from 12:00-1:00pm CT the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. (Different SBIR consultants will join to present. Some events may focus on specific SBIR/STTR agencies.) In this recurring workshop, teams will learn: What is the SBIR/STTR program, which agencies offer this, and what are the requirements? What resources are in place through the Illinois FAST Center and how do teams access said resources? What solicitations are upcoming in the SBIR/STTR space? After a presentation, teams will have the opportunity to ask questions from the FAST team. You can find the Zoom link HERE. Office Hours are also available weekly. For more information about FAST at Illinois, and how to access more resources, visit the FAST Center at Illinois website. This program is open to all entrepreneurs in the State of Illinois seeking to access SBIR/STTR grant funding. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are highly competitive programs that encourage domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) with the potential for commercialization. Through a competitive awards-based program, SBIR and STTR enable small businesses to explore their technological potential and provide the incentive to profit from its commercialization. By including qualified small businesses in the nation's R&D arena, high-tech innovation is stimulated, and the United States gains entrepreneurial spirit as it meets its specific research and development needs. |