Trainings & Events

AWS Lunch & Learn Series

Research IT is partnering with AWS to host this series of training workshops. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn directly from an AWS Solutions Architect about leveraging AWS for research computing. Whether you’re a researcher, faculty member, or graduate student, this session will help you optimize your research workflows using AWS services.

Before You Store: S3 Essentials for Research Data Management
January 22, 2026, 11am - 1pm
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This is a hands-on training session
Lunch will be provided by AWS

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is the most widely adopted AWS service among researchers worldwide due to its scalability, durability, and ease of use. As research data volumes continue to grow, understanding how to leverage S3 effectively is critical for maintaining security, controlling costs, and ensuring operational excellence.

In this session, you will learn how to:

Secure Your Data: Implement S3 security best practices to protect sensitive research data
Manage Access with IAM: Configure Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, roles, and permissions to control access
Optimize Storage Costs: Reduce storage expenses while maintaining data accessibility for your research workflows
Monitor and Observe: Gain visibility into storage usage, access patterns, and operational health

This session is ideal for researchers, data engineers, and IT professionals who:

Have struggled with S3 security configurations, unexpected storage costs, or lack of visibility into their data usage
Want to avoid these common pitfalls before they start using S3
Are already using S3 and need to address existing challenges with best practices

NEW!! AWS / Research IT Office Hours

AWS now offers monthly office hours via Zoom for UCSD researchers. The sessions occur every second Tuesday from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM. During these sessions, an AWS Solutions Architect is available to answer any questions about AWS services, both technical and business-oriented.

These are casual, drop-in sessions where researchers can freely join without prior reservation to get their questions answered.

During these sessions, you'll be able to:

Receive expert guidance on your current or planned AWS implementations
Get detailed clarification on AWS services, features, and best practices
Share any challenges you're experiencing and receive targeted recommendations

We look forward to connecting with you and to helping you with your AWS needs.

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SDSC HPC and Cyberinfrastructure Training Events

Building a validated Digital Twin for Fusion

Tuesday, Jan. 13, 11am - 12pm

Speaker: Dr. Raffi Nazikian, Senior Director for Data Science at General Atomics

In this talk, we will describe an AI-enabled digital twin of the DIII-D National Fusion Facility that transforms fusion energy research by reducing plasma simulation times from weeks to seconds. This effort is a collaboration between NVIDIA, General Atomics, and research partners including San Diego Supercomputer Center, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, and NERSC. The project addresses fusion's critical challenge of controlling plasma at hundreds of millions of degrees while predicting its behavior rapidly enough to maintain reactor stability.

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Co-Designing Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Computing Continuum: Overview of the Activities at the NSF-AI Institute ICICLE

Tuesday, February. 10, 11am - 12pm

Speaker: Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University

Brief Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every sector of society. However, there is a massive and ever-growing gap between available AI techniques and their availability to end users across a range of application domains. This talk will start with an overview of the ICICLE (Intelligent CyberInfrastructure (CI) with Computational Learning in the Environment), an NSF-AI Institute, to address these challenges. We will demonstrate how ICICLE seeks to be the first and foremost edge-to-center AI-as-a-service enterprise for the emerging computing continuum, advancing foundational AI research by fostering next-gen CI for AI to support the wholesome democratization of AI through responsible plug-and-play, and extending the usability and usefulness of AI to the wider population.

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COMPLECS: 10-Event Training Series - FREE!

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is offering a 10-event series of free webinar training opportunities, Comprehensive Learning for End-users to Effectively Utilize Cyberinfrastructure (COMPLECS). Find dates and details and register here!

Carpentries Workshops

Topics may include: The Unix Shell, Git Version Control, Introduction to R programming, Python programming, Tidy Data, and SQL

These free Carpentries workshops are designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing and data management skills for research analysis. Please visit the Carpentries page for full event details and workshop registration.

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