Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: RM 1040 at NCSA
Zoom: Join the Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 850 0434 6715
Passcode: 433762

We are thrilled to invite you to the first EngageNCSA meeting featuring Lightning Talks. Save the date for an afternoon of inspiration and collaboration:

Agenda:

  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM: Lightning Talks in RM 1040
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Networking and Discussions in the Atrium (with delicious treats!)

Do you have an exciting project to share with your colleagues? Don't miss the chance! Sign up for a Lightning Talk here!


Time

Item

Who

Notes

~5minWelcome (recording)

John Towns
Deputy Director, NCSA


~10min

Lightning Talk:

The Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) (slides) (recording)

Joaquin Vieira
Professor, Department of Astronomy, Department of Physics 
Director of Astronomy and the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) at NCSA

Overview of CAPS activities.

https://caps.ncsa.illinois.edu/

~10min

Lightning Talk:

NCSA’s Quantum Computing Strategy: 2023 and beyond (recording)

Santiago Núñez-Corrales
Research Scientist, Quantum Lead, NCSA
Bruno Abreu
Research Scientist & Quantum Computing Co-Lead, NCSA

This presentation will summarize NCSA's quantum strategy, current achievements during 2023, and expected activities for 2024 and beyond.

~10min

Lightning Talk:

UIUC.chat (recording)

Kastan Day
Research Software Engineer, NCSA

UIUC.chat is the fastest way to train a custom LLM on your data. We support more file types than any other production service and allow for robust web scraping of additional content.

Kastan will present a demo highlighting the image-understanding capability for use in AIFARMS. We've just launched our first farm product, CropWizard: https://www.uiuc.chat/cropwizard

Try it today: https://www.uiuc.chat/

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