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Oct

2026

Family Action Network (FAN) - Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity, and Lifelong Learning in the Age of AI

12:00 PM Online

Artificial intelligence is already part of family life, invited or not. From smart cribs and baby monitors to AI-powered...

Oct

2026

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Leading Secure AI Adoption in Higher Education: Governance Strategies for an Evolving Threat Landscape

10:30 AM Online

As universities rapidly adopt AI, leaders must balance innovation with security, privacy, and compliance. Drawing on exp...

Oct

2026

Sequencing Filetypes and Quality Control (Chicago)

11:00 AM Chicago

Understanding sequencing filetypes and generating QC metrics. Sequencing data is essential to many computational biolog...

Oct

2026

SkAI Colloquium

11:00 AM Off-Campus

The SkAI Colloquia series features presentations from leading scholars and researchers working at the intersection of As...

Oct

2026

WED@NICO SEMINAR: Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Northeastern University London "Human Relational Ecology and Conversational AI: From Social Actor to Asymmetric Co-Regulation"

12:00 PM Evanston

Speaker: Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Associate Professor, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University London Title: H...

Oct

2026

Quest Orientation (Virtual)

1:00 PM Online

New users of Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster, are encouraged to attend to learn best practices....

Oct

2026

Adaptive LLM Decoding Across Time, Depth, and Systems

3:45 PM Evanston

Please join us in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Technological Institute for an hour-long Mee...

Oct

2026

A Trinity Platform for Scholarly Publications: A Harvard Experiment — Xiao-Li Meng

12:00 PM Evanston

Join us for an in-person Distinguished Speaker event featuring Xiao-Li Meng, an internationally renowned statistician, d...

Oct

2026

Get to Know Copilot at Northwestern

10:00 AM Online

Learn about Northwestern’s authorized generative AI tool, Copilot. In this workshop you will learn about: -Accessing an...

Oct

2026

From Generation to Validation: Your Role in Prompting

11:00 AM Online

Learn how to get more useful results from generative AI while developing the skills to assess those results critically. ...

Oct

2026

Alignment and Mapping of DNA/RNA Reads (Chicago)

11:00 AM Chicago

Choosing and running software for sequence alignment. The first step in almost all bioinformatic pipelines is sequence ...

Oct

2026

WED@NICO SEMINAR: Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Complexity Science Hub Vienna "Why Incarcerating Cartel Members has not Worked to Reduce their Violence"

12:00 PM Evanston

Speaker: Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Faculty Member, Complexity Science Hub Vienna Title: Why Incarcerating Cartel Members has...

Oct

2026

INQUIRE Seminar: Dana Z. Anderson, Infleqtion

1:15 PM Evanston

The Institute for Quantum Information Research and Engineering (INQUIRE) is pleased to welcome Dr. Dana Z. Anderson, Fou...

Oct

2026

N’Tangled w/ Ilai Schwartz, NVision – Oct. 28

3:00 PM Evanston

We are excited to welcome Ilai Schartz, Chief Technology Officer, NVision. About NVision: NVision is pioneering a new ge...

Oct

2026

An Evening with Dennis Chookaszian — NNCI Distinguished Speaker Series

3:30 PM Evanston

Join us on October 28 for an in-person Distinguished Speaker event featuring Dennis Chookaszian, former Chairman and CEO...

Oct

2026

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: An Introduction To The Evolving Federal Research Cybersecurity Landscape and What It Means For University IT Teams

1:00 PM Online

Federal requirements around research cybersecurity are growing quickly, and university IT teams are increasingly the one...

Oct

2026

Data Science Nights - OCTOBER 2026 - Speaker: Vamsi Varanasi, Cofounder and CEO of Tuva

5:30 PM Evanston

OCTOBER MEETING: Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 5:30pm (US Central) LOCATION: ChBE Conference Room, Tech E223 2145 Sheri...

Oct

2026

Searching for Data: Strategies & Resources (Online)

11:00 AM Online

Do you need to find statistics to support an argument? Or a dataset to analyze as part of a research project? Finding ...

Nov

2026

Quest Orientation (Virtual)

10:00 AM Online

New users of Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster, are encouraged to attend to learn best practices....

Nov

2026

The Implementation Problem in AI: Perspectives from Implementation Science — Guillaume Fontaine

10:00 AM Chicago

Join us for an in-person Distinguished Speaker event featuring Guillaume Fontaine, Director of the McGill RISE³ Implemen...

Nov

2026

Basecalling Nanopore Data with Dorado (Chicago)

11:00 AM Chicago

Introduction to dorado as a basecaller for Nanopore data. Oxford Nanopore sequencing is a relatively unique sequencing ...

Nov

2026

WED@NICO SEMINAR: Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania "Challenges in Achieving Human-AI Collaboration"

12:00 PM Evanston

Speaker: Hamsa Bastani, Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions, and Statistics and Data Science, ...

Nov

2026

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientation (In Person)

2:00 PM Chicago

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientations onboard new users to the GCC and inform them of the best practices for using...

Nov

2026

Taking the Leap: Building a Startup in the Age of AI

12:00 PM Online

AI has made it possible for small teams to build and launch products faster than ever. But how do you know whether an id...

Nov

2026

Searching for Data: Strategies & Resources (Online)

11:00 AM Online

Do you need to find statistics to support an argument? Or a dataset to analyze as part of a research project? Finding ...

Nov

2026

Protein Modeling with AlphaFold (Chicago)

11:00 AM Chicago

Workshop on protein modeling with AlphaFold. Understanding the three-dimensional structure of a protein is often key to...

Nov

2026

SkAI Colloquium

11:00 AM Off-Campus

The SkAI Colloquia series features presentations from leading scholars and researchers working at the intersection of As...

Nov

2026

WED@NICO SEMINAR: Mayank Agrawal, Proof of Human "The Invisible Turing Test for the Internet"

12:00 PM Evanston

Speaker: Mayank Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO, Proof of Human Title: Proof of Human: the Invisible Turing Test for the Int...

Nov

2026

AI in the Arts and Humanities

6:00 PM Evanston

Claudia Haase, moderator; Daniel Shanahan, James Lee, Özge Samanci, and Sylvester Johnson, panelists Join a panel of No...

Nov

2026

Get to Know Copilot at Northwestern

1:00 PM Online

Learn about Northwestern’s authorized generative AI tool, Copilot. In this workshop you will learn about: -Accessing an...

Nov

2026

nf-core Nextflow Pipelines (Chicago)

11:00 AM Chicago

Running an nf-core pipeline on Northwestern's HPC cluster. Nextflow is a workflow management tool designed to enable th...

Nov

2026

Quest Orientation (Virtual)

1:00 PM Online

New users of Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster, are encouraged to attend to learn best practices....

Nov

2026

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientation (Virtual)

2:00 PM Online

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientations onboard new users to the GCC and inform them of the best practices for using...

Nov

2026

Intelligence Humanities: Authorship, Auctoritas, and Generative AI

All day Evanston

Artificial intelligence arrives with an older companion, the history of signs, authority, interpretation, and delegated ...

Nov

2026

AI for Research: Using LLMs on Quest (Chicago)

10:00 AM Evanston

Run and scale LLMs on Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computer, leveraging GPUs and using popular tools like Olla...

Nov

2026

From Generation to Validation: Your Role in Prompting

1:00 PM Online

Learn how to get more useful results from generative AI while developing the skills to assess those results critically. ...

Nov

2026

AI for Research: Using LLM APIs through Azure (Chicago)

2:00 PM Chicago

Learn to access LLMs through Azure AI Foundry, manage costs and security, and integrate APIs into research workflows. T...

Nov

2026

Quest Orientation (Virtual)

10:00 AM Online

New users of Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster, are encouraged to attend to learn best practices....

Dec

2026

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientation (In Person)

2:00 PM Chicago

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientations onboard new users to the GCC and inform them of the best practices for using...

Dec

2026

Get to Know Copilot at Northwestern

10:00 AM Online

Learn about Northwestern’s authorized generative AI tool, Copilot. In this workshop you will learn about: -Accessing an...

Dec

2026

Rethinking Grades: Strategies for the Age of AI

10:00 AM Online

Grading practices are being challenged by AI-powered learning tools. In this interactive workshop, participants will exp...

Dec

2026

From Generation to Validation: Your Role in Prompting

10:00 AM Online

Learn how to get more useful results from generative AI while developing the skills to assess those results critically. ...

Dec

2026

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientation (Virtual)

2:00 PM Online

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientations onboard new users to the GCC and inform them of the best practices for using...

Jan

2027

Colloquium | Lauren Williams (Harvard)

4:00 PM Evanston

TBD