Crossroads of Ideas: Threading the Story of Earth’s Oldest Rocks
Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, Orchard View Room, Madison, WI, United StatesAncient geology meets modern creativity! Scientists studying the Earth’s oldest rocks collab with a textile artist to bring them to life!Join us for a very special Wisconsin Science Festival edition of Crossroads of Ideas, where ancient geology meets modern creativity. This engaging evening features scientists Tyler Blum, Annie Bauer, and Emily Mixon, who have been studying the Earth’s oldest rocks - Acasta Gneiss (that’s pronounced “nice”) - and collaborating with local textile artist, Leah Evans, to bring 4-billion-year-old stories to life.In conversation with UW-Madison Geology Museum Associate Director, Brooke Norsted, learn how these researchers and artist have explored deep time, planetary [...]
COMBINE 2025
Pyle Center 702 Langdon Street, Madison, WI, United StatesComputational Modeling in Biology (COMBINE) 2025 will be a workshop-style event hosted by the University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA.
Intro to Docker/Podman
Learn Skills for Research Software Engineering. This session aims to introduce the use of Docker containers with the goal of using them to effect reproducible computational environments. Such environments are useful for ensuring reproducible research outputs. CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-10-01-uwmadison-mini/
Michelle Thaller: Cosmic Treasures
Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, Orchard View Room, Madison, WI, United StatesChasing Asteroids for Clues to the Origins of LifeJoin Michelle Thaller, former NASA science communicator, for an evening exploring the origins of life. Thaller, in conversation with Eric Wilcots, Dean of the College of Letters & Sciences and Professor in the Dept of Astronomy, will talk about the OSIRIS-REx mission – an audacious project to return a sample from an asteroid. No problem, right? Just chase down a small rock 200 million miles away, traveling literally faster than a speeding bullet, vacuum up a sample of its surface, and shoot it back to Earth. The story turned out to be more [...]
WID Seminar Series: Tim Rogers
3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)Connecting Natural and Artificial Intelligence in Cognition and Neuroscience. WID Seminar Series: Collaborative Complex Systems: The Year of Discovery Fellows Connecting Natural and Artificial Intelligence in Cognition and Neuroscience Tim Rogers WID Discovery Fellow Psychology With introduction by Rob Nowak, WID Faculty, Electrical & Computer Engineering CONTACT: 316-4325, lredeagle@wisc.edu URL: https://wid.wisc.edu/ ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98293855424
WID Seminar Series
Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, Orchard View Room, Madison, WI, United StatesConnecting natural and artificial intelligence in cognition and neuroscienceCollaborative Complex Systems: The Year of Discovery FellowsRob Nowak, WID Discovery Fellow and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering introduces Tim Rogers, WID Discovery Fellow, professor of Psychology.
SoundWaves: Atomic Scale
Hamel Music Center 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, United StatesThis academic year, SoundWaves is exploring scales. Join us for this first edition diving into the atomic scale - and Klezmer scales!Gaze into the world of the unimaginably small with an evening exploring the atomic scale. What is quantum computing and how does it work? How do atoms in metals organize themselves into hierarchies? As part of Klez Fest Midwest, this special SoundWaves event will feature more live music than ever, with the duo of Krakauer & Tagg, featuring brilliant klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer and pianist Kathleen Tagg, performing and explaining what gives klezmer music its characteristic style and sound (it’s [...]
Interactive Data Visualizations in Python and Streamlit
Learn Skills for Research Software Engineering. This workshop lesson is an introduction to making interactive data visualizations in Python. Learners will create a new environment using conda, wrangle data into the proper format using pandas library, create visualizations using the Plotly Python library, and display these visualizations and create widgets using Streamlit. CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-10-01-uwmadison-mini/
Indigenous Language Table
1145 Discovery BuildingA safe place to practice indigneous languages. An Indigenous Language Table supports learners in developing spoken skills beyond the classroom, building community, strengthening purpose, and normalizing Indigenous languages through representation. It welcomes former students and ongoing learners, community members from classes or self study, and anyone interested in Indigenous languages and people. CONTACT: 316-4325, lredeagle@wisc.edu URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/indigenous-language-table/
Efficient KV-Cache Compression for Long-Context and Reasoning Models
Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)ML+X Forum. CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu URL: https://forms.gle/LhYFVzZvykmRAUeh8 ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92639425571?pwd=Z0tCaWZxK0dDcWs2dm51dXZpcy9mQT09
ML+Coffee: How Can I Apply ML/AI To My Data?
1145 Discovery BuildingML+X Networking & Coworking. CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu URL: https://forms.gle/Qrku5Dza6N3ZT3yAA
Indigenous Language Table
1145 Discovery BuildingA safe place to practice indigneous languages. An Indigenous Language Table supports learners in developing spoken skills beyond the classroom, building community, strengthening purpose, and normalizing Indigenous languages through representation. It welcomes former students and ongoing learners, community members from classes or self study, and anyone interested in Indigenous languages and people. CONTACT: 316-4325, lredeagle@wisc.edu URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/indigenous-language-table/
Indigenous Language Table
1145 Discovery BuildingA safe place to practice indigneous languages. An Indigenous Language Table supports learners in developing spoken skills beyond the classroom, building community, strengthening purpose, and normalizing Indigenous languages through representation. It welcomes former students and ongoing learners, community members from classes or self study, and anyone interested in Indigenous languages and people. CONTACT: 316-4325, lredeagle@wisc.edu URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/indigenous-language-table/
Crossroads of Ideas: Living and Learning with Animals
Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, Orchard View Room, Madison, WI, United StatesFrom the mellowest Labrador to the wiliest coyote, experts in animal behavior & wildlife management discuss human interactions with canines.Join UW–Madison’s Dr. David Drake and Carroll University’s Dr. Mindy Waite for an engaging Crossroads of Ideas conversation exploring the dynamic relationship between humans and animals, both wild and domestic. From what we can teach animals to what they can teach us, how retrofitting animals into the human world has changed our relationships, and discovering new insights into behavior, adaptation, and the possibilities for living together in a changing world. Hosted by Director of the WID – Illuminating Discovery Hub.
Indigenous Language Table
1145 Discovery BuildingA safe place to practice indigneous languages. An Indigenous Language Table supports learners in developing spoken skills beyond the classroom, building community, strengthening purpose, and normalizing Indigenous languages through representation. It welcomes former students and ongoing learners, community members from classes or self study, and anyone interested in Indigenous languages and people. CONTACT: 316-4325, lredeagle@wisc.edu URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/indigenous-language-table/
