A Symposium for Computation and Data Intensive Research

CoDEx

The call for participation is now open!

We invite Northwestern researchers, including faculty, postdocs, staff, and students to participate in the event. There is something for everyone, including research talks to present research findings and methods, poster presentations, a visualization challenge, and lightning talks. Learn how to participate.

CoDEx 2025

April 8 | Evanston, IL

The Computation and Data Exchange (CoDEx) symposium showcases innovative approaches to research computing and data using technology. This campus-wide event provides opportunities for University faculty, researchers, postdocs, and students to make connections, begin collaborations, and discuss successful practices and challenges in research computation and data science. Registration opens in February 2025.

Celebrating Northwestern Research

Research Talks

Join us for a day of presentations by Northwestern faculty and research teams about data- and computationally-intensive research happening across the University. Learn how research groups from different disciplines are tackling challenges of working with large data sets, simulating complex systems, extracting knowledge from unstructured sources, and accelerating discovery with advanced computing resources.

Submit Your Research Talk

Student Competitions

Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks are 5-minute talks designed to showcase your research to the Northwestern community. This format is an excellent opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to practice presentation and communication skills.

Showcase Your Research

Visualization Challenge

The CoDEx Visualization Challenge is an opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduate students to showcase their data visualizations to the broader Northwestern community.

Highlight Your Data

Poster Session

The Poster Competition allows graduate and undergraduate students to present their research to Northwestern faculty, postdocs, and students. All areas of research are welcome.

Present Your Research

Meet the Research Computing and Data Services Team

The Northwestern IT Research Computing and Data Services team works across the University to support the computational and technology needs of our researcher community through consultation, training, grant writing assistance, visualization services, and more. Meet the team.