Past Events

CS Colloquium - "Approximation Algorithms: Some ancient, some new - the good, the bad and the ugly" promotional image

CS Colloquium - "Approximation Algorithms: Some ancient, some new - the good, the bad and the ugly"

Friday, September 25, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Northwestern University's Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science will speak on the use of greedy algorithms for a basic graph problem called connected dominating set, and the development of LP based algorithms for a basic scheduling problem in the context of data center scheduling.
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WiCS - Bracelet Making Social

Thursday, September 24, 2026 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Macbride Hall
Let's get crafty during this week's Bracelet Making Social!
Intro to Programming Using Python with Stella Yang promotional image

Intro to Programming Using Python with Stella Yang

Thursday, September 24, 2026 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
This workshop will cover the fundamental concepts of programming using Python. Using demonstrations and hands-on exercises, participants will learn how to write simple scripts, understand basic syntax, and work with core concepts like variables, loops, and data types. By the end of the session, they will have the foundation and be able to continue exploring Python on their own. The workshop is designed for undergraduate students, graduate students, and staff from non-computer science backgrounds, but anyone with no or limited experience with Python is encouraged to attend. The workshop will use Google Colab, so no software installation is required.

Creating Citations with EndNote

Thursday, September 24, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Seamans Center
Build your scholarly toolkit with this workshop on citation management with EndNote.
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All Majors Career Fair

Thursday, September 24, 2026 11:00am to 4:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

This job and internship fair will focus on recruiting students in ALL MAJORS! Typically about 100+ employers attend and 1,000+ students attend!

Visit careers.uiowa.edu/all-majors-career-fair for more details.

CS Colloquium - "Learning Sparse Dependence Structure in Complex-Valued Tensor Data" promotional image

CS Colloquium - "Learning Sparse Dependence Structure in Complex-Valued Tensor Data"

Friday, September 18, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Complex-valued tensor data arise in signal processing and neuroscience. Learn more about the method using local field potential recordings, where sparse separable factor analysis (SSFA) captures dependence across brain region, frequency, and time and supports reconstruction of missing signals
WiCS - Resume Review Workshop promotional image

WiCS - Resume Review Workshop

Thursday, September 17, 2026 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Macbride Hall
Join WiCS for a Resume & Portfolio Workshop!

Learn to Solder: Fundamentals

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center
Learn the basics of electronics and soldering by building your own glowing creepy-crawly bug.
Dept. of Computer Science - CS Meet and Greet promotional image

Dept. of Computer Science - CS Meet and Greet

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Have you just declared or are you considering a major or minor in computer science, informatics, data science, or computer science and engineering? Come learn more about our programs and what to expect.

Graduate & Professional Students: Let's Do Lunch!

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Sciences Library
Bring your academic interests to the table and engage with fellow graduate and professional students in a casual, supportive environment.
 Study Abroad Fair promotional image

Study Abroad Fair

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 11:00am to 3:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Ready to take your UI education beyond Iowa City?

The University of Iowa Study Abroad Fair takes place Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (CDT) in the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU) International Ballroom.

Whether you're just curious or already planning, this is your opportunity to discover what studying abroad can look like for you.

At the fair, you'll discover:

Short-term, semester-long, and faculty-led programs in over 40 countries

Internship and research opportunities that count toward...

CS Colloquium - "Easy, Hard, and Impossible: Phase Transitions in Computation" promotional image

CS Colloquium - "Easy, Hard, and Impossible: Phase Transitions in Computation"

Friday, September 11, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dr. Cristopher Moore, shows how to classify key problems in computing, data science, and statistical inference.
WiCS - Website Workshop promotional image

WiCS - Website Workshop

Thursday, September 10, 2026 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Macbride Hall
Join us for a hands-on Website-building Workshop!
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Transparency and Fairness in AI for Criminal Justice

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Biology Building East
What happens when AI intersects with the criminal justice system via facial recognition, mechanical evidence, risk assessment, sentencing, parole, and more? We welcome Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dr. Cristopher Moore, of the Santa Fe Institute.
Colloquium - "Submodular optimization for epidemic applications" promotional image

Colloquium - "Submodular optimization for epidemic applications"

Friday, September 4, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
UIowa Associate Professor, Bijaya Adhikari, offers strategies for choosing locations for disease surveillance and deciding how to distribute vaccines, especially when given a limited budget.
WiCS - Jeopardy Night promotional image

WiCS - Jeopardy Night

Thursday, September 3, 2026 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Macbride Hall
Come join WiCS for our first meeting this semester!
Final Exam - Passive Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosol Vertical Distribution: Algorithm Development and Applications promotional image

Final Exam - Passive Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosol Vertical Distribution: Algorithm Development and Applications

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 9:00am to 10:00am
Seamans Center
Passive Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosol Vertical Distribution: Algorithm Development and Applications
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Student Employment Job Fair

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 11:00am to 2:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

This is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about the variety of student hourly and Work-Study jobs available on the UI campus & at qualified off-campus nonprofit Work-Study sites.

The University is excited to have students consider campus employment. Research shows that students who are connected to campus are more successful and more likely to continue enrollment and do well academically. Many first-year students choose student employment as their Pick One.

Typically more than 30...

6th Annual BioBlitz at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory promotional image

6th Annual BioBlitz at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory

Saturday, July 11, 2026 9:00am to 11:00am
Ashton Cross Country Course

What types of plants, animals, and fungal life might you find at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory? Let's find out! 

Join researchers in collecting, observing, and recording biodiversity at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory in our 6th Annual BioBlitz. Your findings will inform a major research project and will contribute to the fifth data point in a multi-year documentation of how diversity changes at this site over time. Collections will be housed with the UI Museum of Natural History...

Rusty the Giant Ground Sloth's BIRTHDAY BASH promotional image

Rusty the Giant Ground Sloth's BIRTHDAY BASH

Monday, May 11, 2026 5:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Join us for a wildly charming after-hours celebration: Rusty the Giant Ground Sloth’s Birthday Bash at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History!
Retrocomputer Lab – Demonstration Open House promotional image

Retrocomputer Lab – Demonstration Open House

Thursday, May 7, 2026 10:00am to 4:30pm
Jessup Hall
The CS department's retrocomputer lab has made significant progress restoring the oldest computer on campus to operation, after working to restore this machine since 2012.
WiCS - Hiking Trip with Strength in Numbers promotional image

WiCS - Hiking Trip with Strength in Numbers

Sunday, May 3, 2026 11:00am to 1:00pm
Woodpecker Nature Trail
Who wants to touch grass? 👋 🌾 🌳
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WiCS - End of Semester Party

Thursday, April 30, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Big Grove Brewery + Taproom
We’re having a party!! 🥳 🪩
Colloquium - "Computing for Recovery: How Computer Science Can Help People Reclaim Their Lives" promotional image

Colloquium - "Computing for Recovery: How Computer Science Can Help People Reclaim Their Lives"

Friday, April 24, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Lana Yarosh, Ph.D., from the University of Minnesota who will share over a decade of research designing technologies with people in recovery from substance use disorders.
Colloquium - "Finding Pain Points in Learning with Multimodal Learning Analytics" promotional image

Colloquium - "Finding Pain Points in Learning with Multimodal Learning Analytics"

Friday, April 17, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome UIowa's Gahyun Callie Sung, Ph.D., who will introduce the emerging field of multimodal learning analytics, and its applications for understanding the student experience in introductory programming and STEM.
WiCS - Pottery Painting promotional image

WiCS - Pottery Painting

Thursday, April 16, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Renee's Ceramic Cafe
Spring into the new season with some painting! (For real this time!) 🎨 💐
Final Exam - Data-efficient and Fault-tolerant Exascale Computing promotional image

Final Exam - Data-efficient and Fault-tolerant Exascale Computing

Thursday, April 16, 2026 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Virtual
Final Exam - PhD candidate Shihui Song: "Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems" (RSVP requested)
Behind the Code: Explore Omaha’s Data & IT Scene promotional image

Behind the Code: Explore Omaha’s Data & IT Scene

Thursday, April 16, 2026 (all day)
Pomerantz Center

Behind the Code: Explore Omaha’s Data & IT Scene
Thursday & Friday, April 16–17
Omaha, NE

Join us on a two-day Career Trek to Omaha, Nebraska to explore how data and technology fuel some of the Midwest’s most dynamic organizations. Get an inside look at how IT professionals, data analysts, and problem-solvers are designing smarter systems, managing complex networks, and driving change through tech.

We will be meeting with the following organizations:

LinkedIn

Gallup

Election Systems & Software

Register...

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Library Workshops: A Guide to Scholarly Publishing—from Journals to Open Access

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Seamans Center

Are you unsure which journal to publish in? Have you ever wondered how to identify and avoid predatory publishers? What is the difference between traditional publishing and open access? This workshop will provide answers to these questions and more, and you’ll learn strategies for navigating the jungle of scholarly publishing. Bring your own questions too! Presented by Kari Kozak, director, Sciences and Engineering Libraries.

Cindy Cohn in conversation with Rishab Nithyanand - "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance." promotional image

Cindy Cohn in conversation with Rishab Nithyanand - "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance."

Friday, April 10, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Cindy Cohn will read from her new book, Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, and will be joined in conversation by University of Iowa associate professor Rishab Nithyanand.
Colloquium - "Transfer Learning for Individualized Prediction" promotional image

Colloquium - "Transfer Learning for Individualized Prediction"

Friday, April 10, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome UIowa's Chao Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering who will share his approach to improving prediction accuracy when functional responses need to be inferred from limited data.
ISE:5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR -- DR.TIANYU ZHANG promotional image

ISE:5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR -- DR.TIANYU ZHANG

Thursday, April 9, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

From industrial robots and autonomous vehicles to smart manufacturing and other closed-loop cyber-physical systems, many emerging applications rely on wireless communication to carry sensing, control, and coordination traffic under tight timing and reliability requirements. In these real-time mission-critical systems (RT-MCSs), correct operation depends not only on functional correctness but also on whether messages are delivered within predictable and bounded time. This talk examines how 5G...

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Final Exam - Runtime and Compiler Optimizations for Subgraph Matching Algorithms on GPUs (RSVP)

Monday, April 6, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
MacLean Hall
Final Exam - PhD candidate Shihui Song: "Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems" (RSVP requested)
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Final Exam - Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems (RSVP)

Friday, April 3, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
MacLean Hall
Final Exam - PhD candidate Shihui Song: "Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems" (RSVP requested)
Colloquium - "From Anxiety to Agency: Empowering users against SMiShing and digital stress in the age of AI" promotional image

Colloquium - "From Anxiety to Agency: Empowering users against SMiShing and digital stress in the age of AI"

Friday, April 3, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Cori Faklaris, Ph.D., from University of North Carolina - Charlotte, whose focus is on understanding people's needs and designing for safe, secure, and trustworthy computing.
WiCS - Pottery Painting promotional image

WiCS - Pottery Painting

Thursday, April 2, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Renee's Ceramic Cafe
Spring into the new season with some painting! 🎨 💐
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Computer Science - Founders Day Celebration 2026 promotional image

Computer Science - Founders Day Celebration 2026

Friday, March 27, 2026 4:30pm to 5:30pm
MacLean Hall
Come celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Department of Computer Science at UIowa. RSVP.
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Rising Stars! - CS Colloquium

Friday, March 27, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome visiting PhD students from across the country to share their important Computer Science research.
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WiCS - Jeopardy Night

Thursday, March 26, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
Back from break? Come join WiCS for a Jeopardy Night!

Library Workshop: OrcID

Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Sciences Library

ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a persistent digital identifier to resolve the researcher's name ambiguity problem. Researchers are required to provide their ORCiD iD when applying for a grant or submitting an article for publication. Learn more about creating an ORCiD iD at www.iam.uiowa.edu/planter, linking your ORCiD iD to the University of Iowa, and adding your publication records from data sources (Scopus, CrossRef, etc.) to your ORCiD. Led by Carol Hollier, sciences reference...

One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's Annual Giving Day promotional image

One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's Annual Giving Day

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (all day)
Virtual

One Day for Iowa returns on Wednesday, March 25, marking 10 years of Hawkeyes coming together to support what matters most at the University of Iowa.

Give now: https://1dayforiowa.org/3N96oqb

Our 24-hour online giving day is a chance for alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends to make an impact — supporting scholarships, research, health care, the arts, student experiences, and more. With special matching and unlocking opportunities throughout the day, every gift has the power to go further...

Follow CS on #1DayforIowa - Help Us Meet our $3K Matching Challenge! promotional image

Follow CS on #1DayforIowa - Help Us Meet our $3K Matching Challenge!

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (all day)
Virtual
On One Day for Iowa, don't forget to follow and support UIowa's Department of Computer Science. Help us meet our $3,000 Matching Challenge!
Data Centers in Iowa: Perspectives from Community, Government, and Research promotional image

Data Centers in Iowa: Perspectives from Community, Government, and Research

Monday, March 9, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
This panel will offer a high-level overview of how community, government, and industry considerations shape data center development in Iowa and the broader Midwest.
Colloquium - When 'Good' Systems Fail: What Employment Technologies Miss Under Real-World Constraints promotional image

Colloquium - When 'Good' Systems Fail: What Employment Technologies Miss Under Real-World Constraints

Friday, March 6, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Tawanna Dillahunt, PhD, from the University of Michigan School of Information, who will speak to the design and deployment of employment technologies, considering real-world constraints rather than idealized conditions.
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WiCS x SASI - Bracelet Making

Thursday, March 5, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
Let’s get crafty with the Sexual Assault Survivors at Iowa (SASI) club and make some bracelets together!
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WiCS - Career Speaker: Kelsey Skaja

Thursday, February 26, 2026 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Macbride Hall
Come learn alongside Kelsey Skaja, Google Software Engineer, to prepare for interviews and resumes in the tech industry!
All Majors Career Fair promotional image

All Majors Career Fair

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

This job and internship fair will focus on recruiting students in ALL MAJORS! Typically about 100+ employers attend and 1,000+ students attend!

Visit careers.uiowa.edu/all-majors-career-fair for more details.

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The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026

Sunday, February 22, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
Welcome students, faculty, and all members of the community to our annual UIowa Computing Conference!
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The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026

Saturday, February 21 to Sunday, February 22, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
Welcome students, faculty, and all members of the community to our annual UIowa Computing Conference!
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WiCS - Career Speaker: Professor Kleiman

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
We'll be joined by Professor Kleiman to talk on behalf of her experience as a computer science educator and researcher!
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