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 environment, and transfer files to and from the shared high-performance computing system. No prior experience with HPC is required—this session will provide the...
Audience: UCLA web editors, content creators, IT staff, and program managersTools Covered: WAVE Chrome plug-in, Siteimprove Accessibility, manual keyboard testing By the end of this training, participants will: Understand the basics of digital accessibility and UCLA’s WCAG 2.1 AA compliance requirements. Learn how to use WAVE for page-by-page testing. Learn how to use Siteimprove for...
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 different tools and applications offered by the ESRI digital ecosystem can appear overwhelming, as can the documentation and associated tutorials. To lower the barrier...
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 reconstructing historical sites, visualizing complex protein structures, or building virtual environments for psychological experiments, the challenge is often the same: how to produce custom, accurate, and performance-optimized 3D assets without access to...
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 Augmented Generation (RAG) and how to implement a basic RAG application. Finally, you will learn how to...
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 system that ensures fair competition, and the broader impact of sports on the lives of young disabled individuals. Through Sam’s personal journey and experiences as...
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 heading structure, write effective alt-text for images, create descriptive links, and ensure sufficient color contrast. The training will also demonstrate how to use built-in and automated...
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 familiarity who would like to learn about some of Overleaf's advanced features. We will begin by demonstrating how to import and structure existing documents in Overleaf, followed...
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, connect securely through SSH tunneling, and manage computing resources effectively. Ideal for users familiar with Jupyter who want to scale their workflows using the Hoffman2 Cluster.
Learn practical strategies for building more inclusive websites in this session with Chris Patterson, a web accessibility specialist with over 20 years of experience in digital accessibility and web development. Chris will share her top 10 tips for improving web accessibility, covering common barriers, best practices, and simple changes that make a big difference for...
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 now explore how to dramatically accelerate your computations using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Modern GPUs are massively parallel processors that can perform millions of...
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, Matplotlib, and Pandas, it can be a very powerful tool for numerical computing. The first part of this hands-on series...
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 agentic assistants, can enhance participant engagement, improve data quality, and facilitate efficiency. You'll gain insight into how the UX design process applies to AI - from early...
Audience: UCLA web editors, content creators, IT staff, and program managersTools Covered: WAVE Chrome plug-in, Siteimprove Accessibility, manual keyboard testing By the end of this training, participants will: Understand the basics of digital accessibility and UCLA’s WCAG 2.1 AA compliance requirements. Learn how to use WAVE for page-by-page testing. Learn how to use Siteimprove for...
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 cloud computing platforms for their daily work. Participants will learn how to utilize compute instances, networking, storage solutions, machine learning tools, and configure high-performance computing...
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 a few illustrative problems, such as exploratory statistical analysis and visualization, curve fitting, finding solutions to a set of linear equations,...
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 concepts of neural networks and their pivotal role in deep learning projects. This session is designed to be accessible to all, with a focus on intuitive explanations...
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 regression and logistic regression will be considered.
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 job status, and manage output files. This session is essential for researchers aiming to run larger or automated workloads efficiently.
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 management (e.g., python, conda), and best practices for data and storage usage. Ideal for users ready to streamline and scale their computational research.
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.
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 service that allows users to drop images into AWS S3 buckets to be preprocessed by AWS Lambda and then processed...
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, participants will: -Understand the basics of digital accessibility and UCLA’s WCAG 2.1 AA compliance requirements. -Learn how to use WAVE for page-by-page testing. -Learn how...
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 culture, and see a live screen reader demonstration. The training will also cover practical tips for creating accessible documents, websites, and media, including proper use of...