October 2026 Oct 06 Executive Leadership Awards Dinner 05:00 pm to 09:00 pm UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center Join us for the Innovate@UCLA 2026 Executive Leadership Awards, where we’ll explore “Workforce of the Future: Preparing for the Jobs, Skills, and Leaders of Tomorrow.” Our signature event will take place on... Oct 07 Introduction to Siteimprove Accessibility Software Part 1 10:30 am to 11:30 am Zoom 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... Oct 09 Learning Neural Network 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom 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... Oct 13 Introduction to Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom 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... Oct 15 Disability Culture and Allyship 10:00 am to 11:30 am Zoom 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 inclusive... Oct 20 Docker Containerization for Reproducible Scientific Computing 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom 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... Oct 22 Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom 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... Oct 27 AWS Research Day at UCLA 08:30 am to 03:30 pm UCLA University Club | 480 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles 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 event designed to help... Oct 28 Siteimprove Accessibility Software Part 2 10:30 am to 11:30 am Zoom 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 the Siteimprove backend... Oct 29 Getting Started with the Hoffman2 Cluster 10:00 am to 12:00 pm In-person — OARC Portal, Math Sciences 5628, UCLA 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 move files to and from the cluster. No... Oct 29 Data Visualization with Python I: Plotting Fundamentals 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm Zoom 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 first... November 2026 Nov 02 Getting Started with ArcGIS Online at UCLA: Creating, Editing,… 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm Recorded Workshop Series 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... Nov 02 Introduction to Survival Analysis in R 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom 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... Nov 05 Introduction to Document Accessibility (Google docs, Word, PDF) 10:00 am to 11:00 am Zoom 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... Nov 05 Interactive Computing on the Hoffman2 Cluster 10:00 am to 12:00 pm In-person — OARC Portal, Math Sciences 5628, UCLA 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... Nov 05 Data Visualization with Python II: Making Interactive Plots and… 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm Zoom 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 subgroup, or hovering to see... Nov 09 Introduction to directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) for causal… 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom 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 a... Nov 12 Batch Job Submission with Slurm & Optimizing and Managing… 10:00 am to 12:00 pm In-person — OARC Portal, Math Sciences 5628, UCLA 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 batch scripts... Nov 12 Introduction to Video, Audio, and Youtube Accessibility 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom 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 file Identify closed and open... Nov 13 A Satellite Analysis Reveals Why Structures Burn While… 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom In this workshop you will learn how to develop image processing workflows in AWS using generative AI services. Nov 16 Generalized Linear Regression Models in R 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom 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... Nov 19 Computing on the National Research Platform 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Hybrid — Zoom and OARC Portal, Math Sciences 5628, UCLA 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... Nov 19 Introduction to Digital Accessibility Testing 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom 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... December 2026 Dec 11 Learn prompt engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation… 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Zoom In this workshop you will how to use LLMs and RAG in concert with prompt engineering to build purpose-driven AI productivity tools TrainingsCan't attend live? 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