WID Hubs

Study Day
2025-12-11
*Note: actual end time may vary.*
CONTACT: admin@secfac.wisc.edu

Indigenous Language Table
2025-12-10 13:00 - 14:15, 2025-12-03 13:00 - 14:15, 2025-11-20 13:00 - 14:15, 2025-11-19 13:00 - 14:15, 2025-11-13 13:00 - 14:15, 2025-11-12 13:00 - 14:15, 2025-11-06 13:00 - 14:15 (America/Chicago) | 1145 Discovery Building
A safe place to practice indigneous languages. An Indigenous Language Table supports learners in developing spoken skills beyond the classroom, building community, strengthening purpose, and normalizing Indigenous languages through representation. It welcomes former students and ongoing learners, community members from classes or self study, and anyone interested in Indigenous languages and people.
CONTACT: 316-4325, lredeagle@wisc.edu
URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/indigenous-language-table/

Last Class Day
2025-12-10

Thanksgiving Recess
2025-11-30, 2025-11-27

WID Seminar Series:
2025-11-21 10:00 - 11:15 | Orchard View Room 3280, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Bilge Mutlu. Designing for Integration: Bringing Embodied AI into the Real World
CONTACT: media@wid.wisc.edu
URL: https://wid.wisc.edu/all-events/wid-seminar-series/
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98293855424

SoundWaves
2025-11-14 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center
*Note: actual end time may vary.*
The Micro Scale. SoundWaves combines scientific lectures about the world with live classical music performances. Each event revolves around a theme, exploring it first from many scientific angles and then through the lens of music. The program concludes with a live performance of music related to the evening’s theme.
The science lectures are delivered using language that the curious layman can understand, with a minimum of jargon and formulas.
CONTACT: media@wid.wisc.edu
URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/soundwaves/

ML+Coffee: How Can I Apply ML/AI To My Data?
2025-11-05 09:00 - 11:00 | 1145 Discovery Building
ML+X Networking & Coworking.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
URL: https://forms.gle/Qrku5Dza6N3ZT3yAA

Efficient KV-Cache Compression for Long-Context and Reasoning Models
2025-11-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
ML+X Forum.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
URL: https://forms.gle/LhYFVzZvykmRAUeh8
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92639425571?pwd=[REDACTED]

REU / Undergrad Only - Software Carpentry
2025-06-10 09:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-09 09:00 - 16:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Learn Skills for Research Software Engineering. Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. 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/2025-06-09-uwmadison-reuswc/

Geospatial Data Carpentry Workshop
2025-06-05 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-04 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-03 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-02 13:00 - 17:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Fundamental Data Skills Workshop. The goal of this workshop is to provide an introduction to core geospatial data concepts and dive into working with raster/vector data, including how to open, work with, and plot vector and raster-format spatial data in R. Additional topics include working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. This lesson assumes you have some knowledge of R.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.ed
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-02-uwmadison-dc-geospatial/

REU/Undergrad only Data Carpentry
2025-06-05 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-04 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-03 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-02 09:00 - 12:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
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/2025-06-02-uwmadison-reudc/

UW Research Software Engineering (RSE) Community town hall
2025-05-27 09:00 - 10:30 | Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
Join the community and connect with others interested in Research Software Engineering (RSE) at the first UW RSE community town hall.
The goal of the UW RSE community is to share ideas, methods, and best practices to improve the way we do and share research. The UW RSE community is open to anyone at UW–Madison engaged in, or interested in, research software engineering.
CONTACT: rbemowski@wisc.edu

Intro to Deep Learning with Keras
2025-05-22 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-21 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-20 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-19 09:00 - 12:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Hands-on introduction to the first steps in deep learning. This introduction covers the basics of deep learning in a practical and hands-on manner, so that upon completion, you will be able to train your first neural network and understand what next steps to take to improve the model. We start with explaining the basic concepts of neural networks, and then go through the different steps of a deep learning workflow.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-05-19-uwmadison-DeepLearningKeras/
