Events
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[RCAC Workshop]AI Ecosystem 2026: What’s New and What Matters
📅 Date: September 25th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 1PM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Ashish Description: The AI landscape is evolving at an extraordinary pace, with new models, tools, frameworks, and deployment strategies emerging across both research and...
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[RCAC Workshop]How Do We Know an LLM Is Good? Practical Evaluation of Large Language Models
📅 Date: October 16th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 11AM-12PM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Mihir Ahlawat Large language models can produce responses that appear useful, but evaluating their quality in a consistent and repeatable way can be challenging. This...
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[RCAC Workshop]Finetuning & Compression of LLMs (LoRA, QLoRA, GGUF)
📅 Date: October 30th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 11AM-12PM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Mansi Sharma As large language models grow in size and capability, deploying and customizing them efficiently has become a critical skill for AI practitioners. This wo...
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[RCAC Workshop]Introduction to MCP: Connecting AI Agents to Tools and Data
📅 Date: November 13th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 11AM-12PM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Mihir Ahlawat Description: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a standardized way for AI applications and agents to connect with external tools, data sources, a...
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[RCAC Workshop]Advanced RAG & Vector Databases
📅 Date: November 20th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 11AM-12PM 💻 Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Mansi Sharma Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the standard approach for grounding LLMs in external, up-to-date, or proprietary knowledge — but building...
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Purdue WHPC Virtual Technical Talk Series
Purdue's WHPC chapter is launching a community-driven talk series to showcase innovative research and technical projects in STEM. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to present or attend! First event: July 17, 2026 @ 10am EST Speakers: Karolina...
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NAIRR Training Workshop: Practical HPC and AI-enabled Scientific Workflows.
Event Details Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Time: 1-5 PM (Eastern Time) Location: Online (Zoom details shared upon registration) Presenters: Bithi De (RCAC), Cong Gian (Indiana University), and Treven Knight (Mississippi State University) Registrat...
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[RCAC Workshop] HPC Exchange [July] – Introduction to High Performance Computing with RCAC
📅 Date: July 10th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 3:00-4:30 💻 Location: Virtual (Register at https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ab947754-f74a-417b-8678-557518bee6bb@4130bd39-7c53-419c-b1e5-8758d6d63f21 ) 🏫 Instructor: Jacob Verburgt Who Should Attend People...
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This talk presents a practical, lightweight framework for building sustainable documentation systems in scientific software teams. I will share lessons learned from unifying documentation across HPC workflows, training pipelines, and collaborative de...
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[RCAC Workshop] Intro to Langchain Ecosystem: Basic concepts of LangChain and LangGraph
This training introduces LangChain, a framework for building applications powered by large language models. We will explore key components such as prompts, chains, memory, document loaders, and retrieval pipelines, and how they work together to creat...
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[RCAC Workshop] Data Visualization and Dashboards
We will explore the fascinating world of data visualization and its pivotal role in making sense of complex data. This presentation will uncover why effective visualization matters, dive into the psychology behind how we perceive and interpret visual...
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[RCAC Workshop] Research Workflow Management: Data, Templates, and Use-cases
Task-based, data-centric throughput computing workflows represent a growing slice of the research computing space. Unlike traditional high-performance computing (HPC), these workflows can be large in volume of tasks and data or even have complex rela...
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[RCAC Workshop] From Machine Learning to Agentic LLMs: The Intelligence Behind Modern AI Systems
In recent years, artificial intelligence has evolved from traditional machine learning models that make single predictions to powerful language models capable of reasoning, planning, and interacting with tools. But how did we get here, and what makes...
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Mission to Mars Summer Day Camp - for 7th to 9th graders
Mission to Mars Summer Camp We are thrilled to announce the Purdue RCAC Mission to Mars STEM Summer Day Camp - an out-of-this-world experience for incoming 7th–9th grade students! About the Camp Your student will step into the role of Mission Control...
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[RCAC Workshop] Intro to Quantum Computing and RCAC Quantum Infrastructure
In this talk, we introduce the core pillars of quantum computing—superposition, entanglement, and interference—explaining how they allow us to orchestrate "computational patterns" that outperform classical logic. By bridging these principle...
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[RCAC Workshop] Intro to HPC and Anvil
This seminar will begin with a brief overview of the history of high-performance computing (HPC) and its evolving role in modern scientific research. We will then explore today’s HPC ecosystem, highlighting how national initiatives such as NSF ACCESS...
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[RCAC Workshop] Intro to Agentic AI
📅 Date: June 4th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 11AM-Noon 💻 Location: Envision Center 🏫 Instructor: Mihir Ahlawat This session introduces the foundations of modern AI and explains how agentic workflows are built. We will explore how foundation models serve as rea...
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[RCAC Workshop] Anvil Cloud Overview and Kubernetes Essentials
This presentation will provide an overview of the cloud capabilities of the Anvil Composable Subsystem, a Kubernetes-based private cloud for scientific computing. Kubernetes fundamentals such as Pods, Deployments, Persistent Storage, Services and Ing...
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Purdue WHPC Community Virtual Technical Talk Series
Purdue's WHPC chapter is launching a community-driven talk series to showcase innovative research and technical projects in STEM. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to present or attend! Event: May 22, 2026 @ 10am EDT Speakers: Sasmita Mohapatr...
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[RCAC Workshop] Single-cell RNA-seq in practice: A one-day hands-on workshop on RCAC systems
📅 Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026 ⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (ET) 💻 Location: ARMS 102 [in-person] 🏫 Instructors: Arun Seetharam, Michael Carlson Please register using the link below to receive email reminders and workshop instructions; the “I’m in...