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Join a seminar on rain microphysics—refreshments served for in-person guests

February 2, 2026

On Tuesday, February 10, at 3:30 pm MT, join NSF NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) for a seminar entitled “A Variational Framework for Estimating Rain Microphysics from Dual-Pol Radar Observations.” The speaker will be Nicholas Barron of Aeolus Labs. This seminar introduces a new variational framework that uses dual-pol radar to infer "unmeasurable" storm thermodynamics. By coupling S-POL...

Join the April Chameleon user meeting in Boulder; proposals due Fri. 2/13

February 2, 2026

Chameleon Cloud, in collaboration with project partner NSF NCAR, is hosting its sixth user meeting at the Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO, from Wednesday, April 15 to Thursday, April 16. Chameleon is an NSF-funded national research resource providing free access to GPUs, edge devices, and cloud infrastructure for computer science research, education, and emergent applications. CS researchers, educators...

NERSC Advanced NVIDIA HPC SDK Training

January 29, 2026

NERSC is hosting an Advanced NVIDIA HPC SDK Training, led by NVIDIA HPC Solutions Architects Vineeth Gutta and Scot Halverson. The event is scheduled March 4th to 5th, 2026 and NCAR affiliated users are welcome to apply. To note, NERSC’s compute cluster Perlmutter has very similar architecture to Derecho. NVIDIA will present a two day training session software for High Performance computing de...

2026 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC)

January 29, 2026

Doctoral students, postdocs, and early career scientists interested in conducting computational science and engineering research on large-scale computers are invited to apply for the 13th annual ATPESC program. ATPESC provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current hig...

ARM 2026 Summer School: Big Open Data Science

January 29, 2026

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility will host the open science-focused ARM 2026 Summer School: Big Open Data Science Monday, May 18, to Friday, May 22, 2026, at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The “Big Open Data Science Summer School” is geared toward students from undergraduates to early postdoctoral scholars. Planned activities include instructional tal...

ISS 2026 Abstract Deadline is Now January 30th

January 22, 2026

The deadline is fast approaching to submit abstracts to the 2026 Improving Scientific Software Conference. The ISS Conference, hosted by the UCAR Software Engineering Assembly, will be held April 6-10, 2026 in Boulder, CO with the theme of Maintaining the Joy of Software Development. To give submitters a bit of extra time, we are extending the abstract submission deadline by one week to Friday ...