Sriram Sankararaman, Professor of Computer Science, Human Genetics and Computational Medicine – UCLA
“Insights into the evolutionary and genetic architecture of human complex traits from biobank-scale data” The quest to understand the interplay between evolution, genes and traits has been revolutionized by the ...
Find out more »UC Carpentries: Tidy Data
Clean, transform, and track changes to data. This workshop is free, and participants can register for individual topics or the entire series. View the complete schedule and register at https://www.tim-dennis.com/2026-09-08-uc-carpentries/
Find out more »UC Carpentries: Command Line & Unix Shell
Learn the basics of command line interface and navigating within files and directories. This workshop is free, and participants can register for individual topics or the entire series. View the ...
Find out more »XRI Design Speaker Series talk: “UX for XR” with Cornel Hillmann
The XRI Design Subcommittee is thrilled to welcome XR designer, producer, and author Cornel Hillmann for a special Design Speaker series talk on UX for XR, as he examines the ...
Find out more »UC Carpentries: Version Control with Git
Manage work, edit code, and collaborate on a team project in a repository. This workshop is free, and participants can register for individual topics or the entire series. View the ...
Find out more »UC Carpentries: Data Cleaning with OpenRefine
This workshop is free and participants can register for individual session topics or the entire series. This workshop is free, and participants can register for individual topics or the entire ...
Find out more »UC Carpentries: Python Part 1
Learn basic coding, data access and data analysis functions using Jupyter Notebook. This workshop is free, and participants can register for individual topics or the entire series. View the complete ...
Find out more »UC Carpentries: R Part 1
Learn basic coding, data access, and data analysis using R and RStudio. This workshop is free, and participants can register for individual topics or the entire series. View the complete ...
Find out more »UC Carpentries: Python Part 2
Learn basic coding, data access and data analysis functions using Jupyter Notebook. This workshop is free, and participants can register for individual topics or the entire series. View the complete ...
Find out more »UC Carpentries: R Part 2
Learn basic coding, data access, and data analysis using R and RStudio. This workshop is free, and participants can register for individual topics or the entire series. View the complete ...
Find out more »Querying Databases for Research: A Hands-On Introduction to SQL
Learn how databases organize information and how SQL can help you answer questions about your data. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll practice finding, filtering, sorting, summarizing, and combining data across ...
Find out more »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 ...
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Naill M. Mangan (Northwestern University) – Frontiers in Computational Biosciences Seminar Series
Niall M. Mangan, PhD. Associate Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics Northwestern University Network drivers of cardiac inflammation-fibrosis coupling Presented by Dr. Neil Lin for Systems Biology.
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QCBio Special Seminar: Dr. Yi Xing, Francis West Lewis Chair, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
From Splicing Graph to RNA Medicine Yi Xing, Ph.D. is Associate Chief Scientific Officer for Omics, Technology & Engineering at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where he also serves ...
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 ...
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