October 2026 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 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 10 Career Exchange #3: Aligning Teams 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm Zoom Join Innovate@UCLA for our third Career Exchange virtual session, “ Aligning Teams,” on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, from 12:00–1:00 PM, led by Corinne Bendersky, Ph.D.,Professor of Management & Organizations... 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? Some of our workshops are recorded and available on-demand.Watch recorded videos Past EventsSee past programs and view recordings (when available).View Past Events