Events for fall 2026
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Table of Contents: Webinars • Online courses • Other local bootcamps and workshops
Webinars
The 2026 Fall Webinars, hosted by SFU’s Research Computing Group (RCG), will take place every second Tuesday at 10:00am Pacific Time (convert to your timezone).
For upcoming webinars, click the linked titles to view details or register. For past sessions, click the titles to access recordings and slides.
| TOPIC | DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| TBA1 | Sep-29 | Alex Razoumov |
| Hardening your system in the age of AI | Oct-13 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Concepts of NLP | Oct-27 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Why would you use Rust for scientific computing? | Nov-10 | Manuel Sebastian Drehwald (NVIDIA) |
| Scalable numerical methods | Nov-24 | Sarah Huber (UVic) |
| TBA2 | Dec-08 | Alex Razoumov |
Online courses
SFU Research Computing hosts weekly online sessions on advanced computational topics every Thursday from 10:00am (convert to your timezone) to noon Pacific Time. These sessions are open to academic researchers across Canada. Most courses run for two weeks, although some are shorter or longer. Sessions are not recorded to encourage live participation and interaction. Popular introductory topics are repeated throughout the year.
| TOPIC | DATES | INSTRUCTOR |
|---|---|---|
| Bash for beginners | Sep-17 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| HPC for beginners | Sep-24, Oct-01 |
Alex Razoumov |
| Containers for HPC | Oct-08 | Alex Razoumov |
| Getting started with Git | Oct-15, Oct-22 |
Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Collaboration via GitHub | Oct-29 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| HPC Python | Nov-05, Nov-12 |
Alex Razoumov |
| Numba JIT compilation to CUDA kernels | Nov-19 | Alex Razoumov |
| Intro DL with PyTorch | Nov-26, Dec-03 |
Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Gen-AI with PyTorch for simulation data | Dec-10 | Alex Razoumov |
| Bring your questions & problems | Dec-17 | Marie-Hélène Burle & Alex Razoumov |
Upcoming bootcamps and workshops
Workshops offered by other Western Canadian universities will be added here as they are announced.
As always, we welcome suggestions for additional training topics and events. Please email your ideas to training at westdri dot ca.