September 2025 Sep 15 Survey Data Analysis with R 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom This workshop will show how descriptive analyses, both numerical and graphical, can be done with continuous and categorical variables. Subpopulation analysis will be discussed and then examples of OLS... Sep 25 Digital Accessibility Basics 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom This interactive 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... October 2025 Oct 01 Getting Started with the Hoffman2 Cluster -- HPC@UCLA Workshop… 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Hybrid Workshop (OARC Portal and Zoom) This introductory workshop is designed for UCLA researchers who are new to the Hoffman2 Cluster. Participants will learn how to request an account, connect to the cluster via SSH/remote desktop, navigate the... Oct 02 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... Oct 06 Spatial Research and the ESRI Ecosystem at UCLA 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom ESRI is a leading industry provider of geospatial tools and research, featuring a wide variety of products from AI enhanced analysis to web-publishing solutions for classroom projects. The sheer number of... Oct 07 From Polygons to Presence: Crafting 3D Assets for Immersive… 12:30 pm to 02:30 pm Zoom Academic researchers across disciplines—from archaeology and medicine to data science and the digital humanities—increasingly need to create, manipulate, and display three-dimensional models. Whether... Oct 09 Foundations for Sustainable Research Software 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom Part of the series: From Scripts to Software: Practical Python for Reproducible Research This hands-on workshop will introduce you to the principles of modern software development and show you how to apply... Oct 10 Introduction to Siteimprove Accessibility Software 11:00 am to 12:00 pm 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 15 Navigating the Cluster & Running Jobs Interactively -- HPC@… 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Hybrid Workshop (OARC Portal and Zoom) This hands-on session introduces participants to the layout and usage of the Hoffman2 Cluster environment. Attendees will learn how to navigate the file system, load software modules, and run interactive... Oct 16 Disability Culture and Allyship 10:30 am to 12:00 pm Zoom This session is part of the greater UCLA Disability Pride Week running from Oct 14-17. This session introduces participants to disability culture and the role of allyship in creating more inclusive... Oct 16 Scaling Your Science with Parallel Computing 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom Part of the series: From Scripts to Software: Practical Python for Reproducible Research Now that you have a solid foundation in writing sustainable and object-oriented Python code, we will explore how to... Oct 17 Learn Prompt Engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation… 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Zoom Do you use LLMs but wish you could improve the results? In this workshop you will learn how to get the most out of LLMs using a step-by-step approach to prompt engineering. You will also learn about Retrieval... Oct 17 Disability in Sport with Guest Lecturer Paralympian Sam McIntosh 11:00 am to 12:00 pm OARC Portal, Math Sciences 5628 Join us for a session on disability in sports with guest lecturer Sam McIntosh, Paralympic track athlete. This presentation will explore the history and significance of the Paralympics, the classification... Oct 23 Introduction to Document Accessibility (Google docs, Word, PDF) 11:00 am to 12:00 pm 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... Oct 28 Research Writing with Overleaf: Templates, Bibliographies, and… 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm Zoom Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor for writing, editing, and publishing documents in a collaborative cloud-based environment. This one-hour workshop is designed for participants with a basic Overleaf... Oct 29 Interactive Computing with Jupyter on the Hoffman2 Cluster –… 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Hybrid Workshop (OARC Portal and Zoom) This workshop guides researchers through running Jupyter Notebooks on the Hoffman2 Cluster for interactive data analysis and computing. Participants will learn how to launch Jupyter via the job scheduler... Oct 30 Top 10 Accessibility Tips with Accessibility Specialist Chris… 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom Are you struggling to bring your website into compliance with laws, policies and guidelines on accessibility? Do you need to know more about the ADA, WCAG, and Section 508? Do you want to know more about how... Oct 30 Accelerating Your Code with GPUs 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom Part of the series: From Scripts to Software: Practical Python for Reproducible Research Having learned how to write sustainable, object-oriented code and how to scale it across multiple processors, we will... Oct 31 Numerical Programming with Python, Part I: Crash Course in… 09:00 am to 11:00 am Zoom Python is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to learn and widely used. It is one of the primary programming languages for data science, and when combined with its modules such as NumPy, SciPy... November 2025 Nov 03 Designing AI interfaces for Research Mobile Apps 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom This workshop explores how human-centered UX design can support the integration of AI into research-focused mobile applications. We’ll examine how AI features, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and... Nov 05 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... Nov 06 Google Cloud Platform: Compute Engine 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom Cloud computing services enable users to access a wide range of computing resources via the internet. This workshop series is designed to provide academic researchers with practical guidance on leveraging... Nov 07 Numerical Programming with Python, Part II: NumPy, SciPy, and… 09:00 am to 11:00 am Zoom The second part of this hands-on series will introduce you to a few libraries that enable Python to function as a powerful numerical programming language, including NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas. We will focus on... Nov 07 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... Nov 10 Applied Survey Data Analysis Using SAS 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom This workshop will show how descriptive analyses, both numerical and graphical, can be done with continuous and categorical variables. Subpopulation analysis will be discussed, and then examples of OLS... Nov 12 Batch Computing on the Hoffman2 Cluster – HPC@UCLA Workshop 4… 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Hybrid Workshop (OARC Portal and Zoom) This workshop introduces participants to running batch jobs on the Hoffman2 Cluster using the job scheduler. Attendees will learn how to write and submit batch scripts, request computing resources, monitor... Nov 12 Introduction to Siteimprove Accessibility Software 11:00 am to 12:00 pm 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... Nov 13 Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Storages 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom Cloud computing services enable users to access a wide range of computing resources via the internet. This workshop series is designed to provide academic researchers with practical guidance on leveraging... Nov 14 GitHub for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Zoom Do you use GitHub as a code repository? In this workshop you will learn how to expand your GitHub use by integrating continuous integration and continuous deployment workflows. Together we will create a... Nov 17 Output Tables in R 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm Zoom R is a powerful programming language specifically designed for statistical analysis. In this workshop, we will explore some of the tools and packages available in R to craft visually appealing tables that... Nov 19 Introduction to Document Accessibility (Google docs, Word, PDF) 11:00 am to 12:00 pm 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 24 Optimizing and Managing Your Workflows – HPC@UCLA Workshop 5… 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom This advanced session focuses on improving the efficiency, scalability, and reproducibility of your research workflows on the Hoffman2 Cluster. Topics include: job arrays, resource monitoring, environment... December 2025 Dec 05 Build your app in an hour (with AI powered coding) 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom This one hour workshop will guide researchers, students, and staff turn a pre-formed idea for an app into a working prototype they can test with potential users, subjects, or customers. Dec 05 Digital Accessibility Testing Made Simple 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom Duration: 1 hour 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... Dec 05 Building Image Processing Pipelines using AWS Generative AI… 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Zoom In this workshop you will learn how to leverage AWS Generative AI Services to create an image processing pipeline that leverages AI models in AWS SageMaker. You will learn how to create an event-driven micro... Dec 11 Digital Accessibility Basics 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Zoom This interactive 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... Dec 17 Introduction to Siteimprove 11:00 am to 12:00 pm 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... 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
