University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Grainger College of Engineering

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

The Bill Gropp Workshop

The Bill Gropp Workshop

June 8-9, 2026

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL

Bill Gropp, who is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science and director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, says the chair provides the kind of seed money that gets science started.

Let's Celebrate Bill!

The Bill Gropp Workshop is a multi-day event created to celebrate the impressive career of Bill Gropp, CS professor and former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Learn More About Bill

Join the celebration!

NCSA's National Petascale Computing Facility

Workshop Schedule

NCSA Director Bill Gropp

Meet Bill Gropp

Plan Your Trip

Workshop Committee

Nancy Amato

Nancy Amato

University of Illinois

Daniel S. Katz

University of Illinois

David E. Keyes

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Luke Olson

University of Illinois

Professor Lawrence Rauchwerger

Lawrence Rauchwerger

University of Illinois

Marc Snir

Marc Snir

University of Illinois

Rajeev Thakur

Argonne National Laboratory

Questions? events@lists.siebelschool.illinois.edu