GIS Day

Explore the power of geospatial innovation at GIS Day!
Join us on November 12, 2025 • 11 am–4 pm at the Research Computing Center (RCC), The University of Chicago, in Crerar Library’s Zar Room. Discover how GIS technology transforms research and real-world decision-making, featuring hands-on demos, expert speakers, and a live keynote with remote access available. Open to all, registration encouraged.

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Balancing Security and Discovery: A Conversation with UChicago Chief Information Security Officer Matt Morton

October is recognized as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a timely reminder of the critical role security plays in enabling research and discovery. At the University of Chicago's Research Computing Center (RCC), high-performance computing (HPC) and data continue to drive innovation across disciplines. As research grows more data-intensive and collaborative, so does the need to protect our systems and data. Maintaining a secure and compliant research environment has become increasingly important, especially as federal agencies emphasize stronger cybersecurity standards. At the same time, researchers rely on openness, collaboration, and data sharing to advance science.

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UChicago Launches SHARED: A New Data Platform for Research Collaboration and Discovery

The University of Chicago has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop SHARED, the Secure Hub for Access, Reliability, and Exchange of Data. This new storage platform will advance research through robust capabilities for data storage, accessibility, sharing, and integration with national and global data federations. It will provide critical storage capacity for research and supporting data science curricula development and education.

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AI is good at weather forecasting. Can it predict freak weather events?: UChicago-led study tests neural networks’ ability to handle ‘gray swan’ events

Increasingly powerful AI models can make short-term weather forecasts with surprising accuracy. But neural networks only predict based on patterns from the past—what happens when the weather does something that’s unprecedented in recorded history?

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Hurricane Milton, VIIRS imagery from the NOAA-21 Satellite.

‘Twisting’ Monte Carlo Algorithms To Track Extreme Weather

Reducing the time to perform scientific research in the study of cyclones and hurricanes with Professor Dorian Abbot.

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Hurricane Helene at landfall as seen on the KTLH radar loop from 0252Z to 0308Z. National Weather Service Tallahassee, Florida, Federal Aviation Administration, and United States Air Force.

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