Research Cyberinfrastructure Community of Practice meeting (FREE and Online)
2025-01-23 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | (Online)
Learn about tools and services to support campus research.. Researchers and IT/support staff are invited to participate in this monthly community of practice, which features presentations and support related to campus research tools/services.
This month: RCI Tools & Services Overview –
Learn about tools available through the Research Cyberinfrastructure, including ResearchDrive, Research Object Storage (S3), Electronic Lab Notebook, Globus, Data Science Platform, and cloud computing.
RCI staff available for consultations during this session!
CONTACT: rci@g-groups.wisc.edu
URL: https://go.wisc.edu/rci
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98069906780?pwd=[REDACTED]

WID Seminar Series: Ponto VR Lab
2025-01-24 10:00 - 11:00 | 3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Discovering simplicity in complex systems at the intersection of digital and natural worlds. WID Seminar Series: Ponto VR Lab
January 24, 2025
10:00 AM
Orchard View Room
Introduction by: Jayaraman Tharmalingam, Scientist, May Lab
Featuring:
Ross Tredinnick – CAVE and Virtual Environments Group
Bryce Sprecher – Mixed Reality for Training
Jingxin Du – Mixed Reality Museums
Bonbon Yang – The Impact of Gestures in VR
CONTACT: 316-4511, lredeagle@wisc.edu
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96326864622

ComBEE Monthly Meeting
2025-01-28 15:00 - 16:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Decoding Proteins: Exploring Transformers, AlphaFold, and Hands-On with ColabFold. Join us for an engaging COMBEE talk exploring the fascinating world of protein language models, transformers, and the revolutionary advancements of AlphaFold, presented by Dr. Hannah Wayment-Steele
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu

Learning Through Comparison: Use Cases of Contrastive Learning
2025-02-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
ML+X: Machine Learning Beyond Traditional CS Fields.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92639425571?pwd=[REDACTED]

Building and Using Containers for Large-scale Computing
2025-02-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Researcher's Link, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Learn about building and using your software environment with containers!. Learn about building and using your software environment with containers! In this virtual and in-person workshop, we’ll introduce basic container concepts, guidelines for building and storing container images, and using them in job submission. In the last half of the training, CHTC facilitators will assist as users build their own Docker or Apptainer container images (in-person only). A CHTC account and registration is required.
CONTACT: chtc@cs.wisc.edu
URL: https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/events/2025/02/containers
ONLINE: https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/events/2025/02/containers

ML+Coffee: How Can I Apply ML/AI To My Data?
2025-02-12 09:00 - 11:00 | 1145 Discovery Building
ML+X: Machine Learning Beyond Traditional CS Fields.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu

WID Seminar Series
2025-02-25 13:00 - 14:15 | 3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Accelerating High-Dimensional Insights: A Block-Diagonal Approach to Sparse PCA. Discovering simplicity in complex systems at the intersection of digital and natural worlds. Join us to catch the latest from the Del Pia Lab with Dekun Zhou presenting on "Accelerating High-Dimensional Insights: A Block-Diagonal Approach to Sparse PCA."
Special introduction by Xiaoya Zhang, Sridharan Lab.
Online option available. Light refreshments served.
CONTACT: 316-4534, lredeagle@wisc.edu
URL: https://wid.wisc.edu/event/wid-faculty-seminar-6/
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96326864622

WID Seminar Series
2025-02-25 13:00 - 14:15, 2025-03-18 13:00 - 14:15 | 3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Discovering simplicity in complex systems at the intersection of digital and natural worlds.
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96326864622

CHTC Researcher Forum
2025-02-26 14:30 - 16:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
The Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) is holding an inaugural Researcher Forum on Wednesday, February 26.
We invite CHTC users and the UW-Madison research computing community to join us!
* Learn about recent changes at CHTC and what's new and upcoming
* Connect with CHTC users and learn from each other at a mini poster session
* Engage with CHTC staff – ask questions, provide suggestions, and more!
* Meet a computer server
CONTACT: chtc@cs.wisc.edu
URL: https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/events/2025/02/researcher-forum

Research Object Storage (S3): An overview for researchers and support staff (online)
2025-02-27 10:00 - 11:00 | (Online)
Research generates data of all sizes, from a few megabytes to hundreds of terabytes. And let’s face it, storing all that data can be costly. In this virtual session, we’ll introduce Research Object Storage (S3), a new campus-hosted data storage service offering 50TB of no cost storage to eligible researchers. Discover how this service can significantly reduce storage costs and enable new ways to use and distribute your data.
Recommended for researchers, IT, and other support staff.
CONTACT: researchdrive@wisc.edu
URL: https://it.wisc.edu/research-ci/research-object-storage-s3-an-overview-for-researchers-and-support-staff-virtual-presentation/
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95225402864?pwd=[REDACTED]

Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCI) Community of Practice meeting (FREE and Online)
2025-02-27 13:00 - 14:00 | (Online)
Learn about tools and services to support campus research.. Researchers and IT/support staff are invited to participate in this monthly community of practice, which features presentations and support related to campus research tools/services.
This month: From the Notebook to the Cluster –
This presentation details a workflow that takes R markdown/quarto document, strips its R code, encapsulates the code and its dependencies into container, and programmatically creates the necessary files to r
RCI staff available for consultations during this session!
CONTACT: rci@g-groups.wisc.edu
URL: https://go.wisc.edu/rci
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98069906780?pwd=[REDACTED]

Data Story Slam!
2025-02-27 16:30 - 18:30 | Deluca Forum, Discovery Building
Join in the fun at the Data Story Slam! Everyone’s life is impacted by data, and everyone has a story to share! Share a story/hear a story of ordinary to extraordinary moments where life intersects with data, and connect with others at this informal social before the 2025 Data Science Research Bazaar. The Data Story Slam is open to all, and refreshments will be provided.
Please RSVP (link below) to let us know that you are coming! You can also sign up now or at the event to share a story!
CONTACT: contact@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://bazaar.datascience.wisc.edu/data-story-slam/

Research Object Storage (S3): A deep dive for technical support staff (FREE and online)
2025-03-06 10:00 - 12:00 | (Online)
In this virtual session, we’ll further explore Research Object Storage (S3), a new campus-hosted data storage service offering 50TB of no-cost storage to eligible researchers. This session, which will be geared toward technical support staff, will highlight access methods (such as API), practical applications, and potential issues using the service. What are common IT tasks associated with this service and how do you know if this is a service you should recommend to your researchers?
CONTACT: researchdrive@wisc.edu
URL: https://it.wisc.edu/research-ci/research-object-storage-s3-presentation-3/
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94791669123?pwd=[REDACTED]

CHTC Information Session
2025-03-11 10:30 - 11:15 | 1170 Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Learn about CHTC's computing and data services for UW-Madison affiliates at this information session!. CHTC staff will present an overview of CHTC services and how these services can help researchers accomplish their research and computational goals. CHTC staff will also help attendees identify the next steps for getting started – whether that is getting an account, how to log in, or how to start running work. If you are attending in person, after the presentation, there will be time for Q+A and hands-on help from the CHTC Facilitation Team. Register to receive a virtual link.
CONTACT: chtc@cs.wisc.edu
URL: https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/events/2025/03/information-session
ONLINE: https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/events/2025/03/information-session

WID Seminar Series: Signaling in a Model Microbial Community
2025-03-18 13:00 - 14:15 | 3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Discovering simplicity in complex systems at the intersection of digital and natural worlds. Join the Jo Handelsman lab as Shurthi Magesh, Austin Hall and Natalia Rosario-Melendez dig into their latest research on the inner workings of microbial communities. Special introduction by Jon Eckhardt, Pyle Bascom Professor in Business Leadership.
Open to public. Light refreshments served. Virtual option included.
CONTACT: 316-4325, lredeagle@wisc.edu
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96326864622

Research Bazaar
2025-03-19 09:00 - 16:30, 2025-03-20 09:00 - 16:30 | Discovery Building
Data Science Research Bazaar: AI and ML in Research: Navigating Opportunities and Boundaries. Save the date for the the 6th annual Data Science Research Bazaar, March 19-20, 2025 at the Discovery Building. This year’s theme is AI and ML in Research: Navigating Opportunities and Boundaries.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://bazaar.datascience.wisc.edu/

Intermediate Research Software Development with Python
2025-03-24 09:00 - 12:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-03-24-uwmadison-intermedpython/

Health Sciences Data Carpentry
2025-03-24 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-25 09:00 - 13:00 | 3330 Health Sciences Learning Center
Fundamental Data Skills Workshop. Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-03-24-uwmadison-dc/

Health Sciences Data Carpentry
2025-03-24 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-25 13:00 - 17:00 | 1248 Health Sciences Learning Center

Intermediate Research Software Development with Python
2025-03-25 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-26 09:00 - 12:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-03-24-uwmadison-intermedpython/it
