Oct
9
2026
LabArchives 2026 Research Bootcamp
8:00 AM Online
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Oct
10
2026
LabArchives 2026 Research Bootcamp
8:00 AM Online
There are many ways to document your data, observations, notes, and other evidence generated during the research process...
Oct
11
2026
LabArchives 2026 Research Bootcamp
8:00 AM Online
There are many ways to document your data, observations, notes, and other evidence generated during the research process...
Oct
12
2026
LabArchives 2026 Research Bootcamp
8:00 AM Online
There are many ways to document your data, observations, notes, and other evidence generated during the research process...
Oct
13
2026
LabArchives 2026 Research Bootcamp
8:00 AM Online
There are many ways to document your data, observations, notes, and other evidence generated during the research process...
Oct
13
2026
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: The CIS AI Journey: What Worked, What We Adjusted, What We're Still Figuring Out
11:00 AM Online
Most organizations are being asked to adopt AI faster than they can answer basic questions about how to do it safely. At...
Oct
14
2026
LabArchives 2026 Research Bootcamp
8:00 AM Online
There are many ways to document your data, observations, notes, and other evidence generated during the research process...
Oct
14
2026
Transferring Genomic Data to Quest (Chicago)
11:00 AM Chicago
Transferring genomic data to Northwestern's HPC cluster.
Public genomic repositories such as the Gene Expression Omnibus...
Oct
14
2026
WED@NICO SEMINAR: Timothy Tangherlini, UC Berkeley "Chat Agents, Conspiracy Theory & Threat Narratives: Cultural Analytics and Narrative at Scale"
12:00 PM Evanston
Speaker:
Timothy Tangherlini, Elizabeth H. and Eugene A. Shurtleff Chair in Undergraduate Education, Distinguished Profe...
Oct
14
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...
Oct
14
2026
From Quarks to Qubits: Solving Complex Scientific Problems using Artificial Intelligence - An ECE MTF Seminar with Research Associate Raman Khurana
3:45 PM Evanston
Please join us in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Technological Institute for a Meet-the-Facul...
Oct
15
2026
LabArchives 2026 Research Bootcamp
8:00 AM Online
There are many ways to document your data, observations, notes, and other evidence generated during the research process...
Oct
16
2026
LabArchives 2026 Research Bootcamp
8:00 AM Online
There are many ways to document your data, observations, notes, and other evidence generated during the research process...
Oct
16
2026
Healthcare AI Forum: FORGE Team Flash Talks
10:00 AM No Location
The first AI Forum of the academic year presents FORGE team flash talks. FORGE is the Northwestern Network for Collabora...
Oct
16
2026
Staging Artificiality - Jessica Thebus - Fall HumAIn Conversation
12:00 PM Evanston
Jessica Thebus, Professor of Theatre at Northwestern, will share her experience directing SISTERS, a play about two sibl...
Oct
21
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
21
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
21
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
21
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
21
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
22
2026
Xiao-Li Meng — NNCI Distinguished Speaker Series
12:00 PM Evanston
Join us for an in-person Distinguished Speaker event featuring Xiao-Li Meng, an internationally renowned statistician, d...
Oct
23
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
26
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
28
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
28
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
28
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
29
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
30
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
4
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
11
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
11
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
11
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
12
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
18
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
18
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
18
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
19
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
19
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
19
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
19
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
30
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
10
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
16
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...