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Discover resources and training opportunities to get you started with AI, explore real-world use cases, learn how Microsoft Copilot can enhance your work, and build practical skills through hands-on workshops across Northwestern.

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Upcoming AI Workshops Across Northwestern

Sep
22
2026

FORGE Summer Poster Session

3:30 PM
Join us for the FORGE Summer Poster Session, where students and project teams will showcase the innovative work they hav...
Sep
23
2026

Quest Orientation (Virtual)

1:00 PM
New users of Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster, are encouraged to attend to learn best practices....
Sep
23
2026

Math+AI Panel | The role of the human mathematician in the age of AI

3:00 PM Lunt Hall, 2033 Sheridan Road
Join us for a panel discussion focusing on why we do what we do, our purpose, why did we choose this career, how we see ...
Sep
23
2026

Colloquium | Lionel Levine (Cornell University)

4:00 PM Lunt Hall, 2033 Sheridan Road
Title: Math for AI Safety Abstract: Aligning AI with human values is a pressing unsolved problem. How can mathematicians...
Sep
23
2026

NICO Reading Group - Fall 2026 First Meeting

6:00 PM Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St
The NICO Reading Group meets for the first this fall on Wednesday, September 23, 2026. Please contact Jaeseon Ha if you ...
Sep
24
2026

From Generation to Validation: Your Role in Prompting

1:00 PM
Learn how to get more useful results from generative AI while developing the skills to assess those results critically. ...
Sep
24
2026

Math+AI Town Hall | The lay of the land

4:00 PM Lunt Hall, 2033 Sheridan Road
Join us for a town hall discussion on the landscape of Math+AI led by faculty members Ben Antieau and Bryna Kra, and gra...
Sep
28
2026

Perspectives on AI Risk — William Regli

10:00 AM Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St
Join us for the kickoff of our Fall Distinguished Speaker series with our first event featuring William Regli, a pioneer...
Sep
29
2026

CS Seminar: Manuela Veloso

11:00 AM Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library), 2233 Tech Drive
Tuesday / CS Seminar September 29 / 11:00 AM Hybrid / Mudd 3514 Speaker Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University Talk ...
Sep
29
2026

Learning Cellular Organization and Function Across Scales – Jian Ma

1:00 PM Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 303 E. Superior
Join us for an in-person Distinguished Speaker event featuring Jian Ma, a pioneering leader in computational biology and...
Sep
30
2026

WED@NICO Seminar Series returns on September 30, 2026

12:00 PM Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St
The Wednesdays@NICO seminar series returns September 30, 2026, running through November 11, 2026, with the following spe...
Sep
30
2026

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientation (Virtual)

2:00 PM
Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientations onboard new users to the GCC and inform them of the best practices for using...
Sep
30
2026

Entrepreneurship Open House

4:00 PM North Campus Parking Garage/Academic Building, 2311 N Campus Drive
Whether you have an idea, want to join a startup as a team member, take a class, or join a student organization, there a...
Oct
1
2026

CS Seminar: Faithful and Grounded Audio Language Models (Cem Subakan)

1:00 PM Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library), 2233 Tech Drive
Thursday / CS Seminar October 01 / 1:00PM Hybrid / Mudd 3514 Speaker Cem Subakan, Laval University Talk Title Faithful a...
Oct
2
2026

National Manufacturing Day at Northwestern University

8:15 AM 2001 Sheridan Road
Manufacturing with Embodied AI Celebrating manufacturing-related R&D achievements and their business impacts on National...
Oct
2
2026

CCSS October Seminar: James Bour

12:00 PM Ryan Hall, 2190 Campus Drive
Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (CCSS) Seminar Series Friday, October 2, 2026 | 12-1pm CT Ryan Hall, 4003 | 219...
Oct
2
2026

Computation + Journalism Symposium

1:00 PM
The 2026 Computation + Journalism Symposium (C+J) is a space for anyone working at or curious about the intersection bet...
Oct
3
2026

Computation + Journalism Symposium

8:45 AM McCormick Foundation Center, 1870 Campus Drive
The 2026 Computation + Journalism Symposium (C+J) is a space for anyone working at or curious about the intersection bet...
Oct
5
2026

Quest Orientation (Virtual)

10:00 AM
New users of Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster, are encouraged to attend to learn best practices....
Oct
7
2026

Working from the Command Line (Chicago)

11:00 AM Wieboldt Hall South Entrance, 340 E Superior St
Learn to work from the command line in a terminal to interface with remote compute resources. Working from the command ...
Oct
7
2026

Using AI to Improve Digital Accessibility

1:30 PM
Does ensuring that your digital materials are accessible feel overwhelming? Learn how to use AI to make accessibility mo...
Oct
14
2026

Transferring Genomic Data to Quest (Chicago)

11:00 AM Wieboldt Hall South Entrance, 340 E Superior St
Transferring genomic data to Northwestern's HPC cluster. Public genomic repositories such as the Gene Expression Omnibus...
Oct
14
2026

Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientation (In Person)

2:00 PM Wieboldt Hall South Entrance, 340 E Superior St
Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) Orientations onboard new users to the GCC and inform them of the best practices for using...
Oct
21
2026

Sequencing Filetypes and Quality Control (Chicago)

11:00 AM Wieboldt Hall South Entrance, 340 E Superior St
Understanding sequencing filetypes and generating QC metrics. Sequencing data is essential to many computational biolog...
Oct
21
2026

Quest Orientation (Virtual)

1:00 PM
New users of Quest, Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster, are encouraged to attend to learn best practices....
Oct
21
2026

SkAI Colloquium

1:00 PM 172 E. Chestnut St., Suite 3500
The SkAI Colloquia series features presentations from leading scholars and researchers working at the intersection of As...
Oct
23
2026

Get to Know Copilot at Northwestern

10:00 AM
Learn about Northwestern’s authorized generative AI tool, Copilot. In this workshop you will learn about:  -Accessing an...
Oct
26
2026

From Generation to Validation: Your Role in Prompting

11:00 AM
Learn how to get more useful results from generative AI while developing the skills to assess those results critically. ...
Oct
28
2026

Alignment and Mapping of DNA/RNA Reads (Chicago)

11:00 AM Wieboldt Hall South Entrance, 340 E Superior St
Choosing and running software for sequence alignment. The first step in almost all bioinformatic pipelines is sequence ...
Oct
30
2026

Searching for Data: Strategies & Resources​ (Online)

11:00 AM
Do you need to find statistics to support an argument?  Or a dataset to analyze as part of a research project?  Finding ...

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