Your April 2026 CRDDS Newsletter

• 04/8 - Turn Your Notes Into a Second Brain: Part Two

Need help with your data? We're here for you! We host open, free consultation hours to help you with your data-intensive research needs. Come with your application, code, or general questions and speak to our experts on research data management, digital humanities, geospatial data, statistical support from LISA, and research computing.

Consults are open to all – from undergrad to faculty and beyond.

• Consultations will take place on Tuesdays from 12-1 p.m. in-person at Norlin Library, room E206 or via Zoom, and Thursdays from 1-2 p.m. via Zoom only.
• Registration is required to receive the Zoom link. If you are unable to attend our consultation hours and would like to set up a call, email crdds@colorado.edu.
• CRDDS provides support for statistical questions through our partnership with the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA).
• April is the last month for Consultation Hours with the last day being April 23rd.

To equip researchers-in-training with the skills to leverage advanced computing resources and AI methodologies in their research, CURC User Support is seeking faculty interested in co-developing a hands-on, self-contained, applied AI module for their course curricula. We are especially interested in collaborating with faculty who teach topics where AI applications are rapidly expanding but do not yet offer formal AI instruction.

The resources CURC can provide include (but are not limited to):

• Compute hardware (Alpine Cluster) and shared data storage
• Pre-built software applications and programming environments (e.g. Anaconda, containers, software applications, Jupyter Notebook)
• Technical guides, in-class demonstrations, and course support

We are targeting 2-3 courses for the Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 semesters. Interested faculty should email rc-help@colorado.edu for more information.

April 15–16, 2026 at NCAR's Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO

Chameleon is an NSF-funded national research cloud providing free GPU, CPU, storage, and edge computing access to over 13,000 researchers and students across US universities. The meeting is designed as a working session focused on characterizing AI infrastructure needs and challenges across CS research and education — with the goal of producing a community report that shapes the platform's future direction.

The program includes a keynote from Valerie Taylor (Argonne National Laboratory) on LLM-based frameworks for energy-efficient scientific computing, research and education panels, mini-symposia on AI for education and reproducibility, and hands-on tutorials covering bare-metal computing, virtualization, edge computing, and reproducible research workflows with Trovi.

CU Boulder researchers and students are especially encouraged to attend — the meeting is right in your backyard, and your perspective on local research computing needs is exactly what we're looking for. Non-users of Chameleon are explicitly welcome.

Student registration: $75 | Regular: $150
Registration deadline: April 2, 2026

Full details and registration

Tuesday, April 14, 12-1:30pm; in-person at CU Boulder

Monday, April 27, 11am - 1pm; in-person at CU Boulder

Save the date, enjoy lunch, and join the conversation about designing a new Public Impact Research (PIR) initiative at CU Boulder. The session includes engaging collaboratively to define and scope PIR, build awareness, provide examples, and share PIR techniques and methods. The session will serve as a creative space to envision, plan, and co-design what the future of PIR could look like at CU Boulder. CU Boulder faculty and staff are invited to participate.

Register

Join us May 12-14th at Boise State University in Boise, ID for the 2026 RMACC HPC Symposium.   

Check out our schedule and find the registration link at our website.  

Partial travel scholarships may be available for students who wish to attend.