UC Carpentries: Core Elements of Citable and Discoverable Research Software
Learn practical steps for making research software citable, discoverable, and reusable. Working in your browser with a GitHub repository, you will add an open-source license, create a CITATION.cff file, make ...
Find out more »Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing
Audience: UCLA web editors, content creators, IT staff, and program managers Tools Covered: WAVE Chrome plug-in, Siteimprove Accessibility, manual keyboard testing By the end of this training, participants will: -Understand ...
Find out more »Introduction to Siteimprove Accessibility Software Part 1
This training introduces participants to Siteimprove, UCLA’s automated accessibility evaluation platform. Attendees will learn how to navigate the main accessibility dashboard, review accessibility issues across their websites, and use the ...
Find out more »Learning Neural Network
Neural networks are the "beating heart" of modern LLM-based AI systems, driving everything from image recognition to natural language processing. In this 2-hour lecture, we'll explore the foundational concepts of ...
Find out more »Leverage Supercomputing Resources for Research and Education with ACCESS & NAIRR
Come get an orientation to the NSF-funded ACCESS program that makes cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources available to U.S.-based researchers and educators for free. The presentation walks through ACCESS's tiered allocation request ...
Find out more »Introduction to Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)
This workshop introduces physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), a machine-learning approach that can complement or provide an alternative to traditional scientific computing methods such as finite difference, finite volume, and finite ...
Find out more »Contextualizing AI for Academic Research and Writing
UCLA students, faculty and staff are invited to register for this workshop and discussion of generative AI, its impact on academic research and writing, and comparison to traditional research methods. ...
Find out more »Disability Culture and Allyship
This session is part of the greater UCLA Disability Pride Week running from Oct 12-16. This session introduces participants to disability culture and the role of allyship in creating more ...
Find out more »Docker Containerization for Reproducible Scientific Computing
Installing and managing scientific software and its dependencies can be challenging in both local and high-performance computing environments. Container technologies such as Docker, Podman, and Apptainer help address these challenges ...
Find out more »Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing
This session introduces the fundamentals of digital accessibility and why it matters at UCLA. Participants will learn what accessibility means in a digital context, gain insight into disability culture, and ...
Find out more »Research Your Ballot
BYOB—bring your own ballot!—and learn how to research the issues at stake in this November’s election. We’ll discuss how to avoid misinformation and practice strategies for finding the information you ...
Find out more »AWS Research Day at UCLA
The Office of Advanced Research Computing is pleased to share this upcoming opportunity with UCLA researchers. You are invited to the AWS Research Day for UCLA — a one-day, in-person ...
Find out more »Siteimprove Accessibility Software Part 2
In this more advanced session participants will learn about the issues dashboard and how to both interpret results and prioritize issues. This session will also cover how to best use ...
Find out more »Getting Started with the Hoffman2 Cluster
New to the Hoffman2 Cluster? This session gets you from zero to logged-in. Learn how to request an account, connect via SSH or remote desktop, find your way around, and ...
Find out more »Data Visualization with Python I: Plotting Fundamentals
Python is a very popular language for computational and data science, and it has many powerful capabilities for visualizing data in the pursuit of understanding and conveying underlying patterns. The ...
Find out more »Getting Started with ArcGIS Online at UCLA: Creating, Editing, and Sharing Spatial Data and Stories
This recorded workshop series introduces learners to the fundamentals of ArcGIS Online as a browser-based GIS platform for creating, editing, and sharing spatial data. Designed for beginners or those transitioning ...
Find out more »Introduction to Survival Analysis in R
Survival analysis models time-to-event outcomes. This workshop introduces usage of the survival package in R for some of the most commonly used survival methods. Topics include data setup, Kaplan-Meier estimates ...
Find out more »Introduction to Document Accessibility (Google docs, Word, PDF)
This session provides an introduction to creating accessible documents in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and PDFs. Participants will learn the fundamentals of digital accessibility, including how to use proper heading ...
Find out more »Interactive Computing on the Hoffman2 Cluster
This hands-on session covers everything you need to work interactively on the Hoffman2 Cluster: navigating the filesystem, loading software with Environment Modules, and requesting compute resources through the job scheduler ...
Find out more »Data Visualization with Python II: Making Interactive Plots and Dashboards
A static figure answers the question you chose in advance, while an interactive one lets readers explore the data and ask their own: zooming into a region, filtering to a ...
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W19: AI Agents
This 3-day workshop (3 hours per day) introduces participants to the foundations and practical implementation of AI agents using large language models (LLMs) and LangChain. The course covers how LLMs ...
Find out more »Introduction to directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) for causal inference in R
Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) have emerged as an important tool in causal modeling to understand the relationships among variables. DAGs can inform what variables should be included or excluded in ...
Find out more »Using the National Research Platform (NRP) for AI-enabled Research & Education
Are your computing problems too big for your laptop? Do you want to work on research using computing and data beyond your institution? Come learn about how you can run ...
Find out more »Batch Job Submission with Slurm & Optimizing and Managing Your Workflows on the Hoffman2 Cluster
Batch computing is how you turn a single analysis into hundreds or thousands, scaling your research well beyond what you could run by hand. This workshop covers writing and submitting ...
Find out more »Introduction to Video, Audio, and Youtube Accessibility
In this session participants will learn about video and audio accessibility best practices. By the end of this training you should be able to: -Create an WCAG 2.1 AA caption ...
Find out more »A Satellite Analysis Reveals Why Structures Burn While Neighbors Survive Disaster
In this workshop you will learn how to develop image processing workflows in AWS using generative AI services.
Find out more »Generalized Linear Regression Models in R
This workshop introduces the generalized linear regression model, which extends the linear regression model to accommodate outcomes with different distributions. The workshop briefly reviews linear regression concepts as necessary, and ...
Find out more »Computing on the National Research Platform
The National Research Platform (NRP) gives researchers access to a distributed, Kubernetes-based cyberinfrastructure spanning dozens of institutions, including a large pool of GPUs and high-throughput storage. For researchers coming from ...
Find out more »Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing
Audience: UCLA web editors, content creators, IT staff, and program managers Tools Covered: WAVE Chrome plug-in, Siteimprove Accessibility, manual keyboard testing By the end of this training, participants will: -Understand ...
Find out more »From One to Many: compute and data beyond your local context
Are your computing problems too big for your laptop? Do you want to work on research using computing and data beyond your institution? Come learn about how you can run ...
Find out more »Learn prompt engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation using LLMs
In this workshop you will how to use LLMs and RAG in concert with prompt engineering to build purpose-driven AI productivity tools
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