Latest meetings, seminars, conferences and other events

Upcoming events

The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences hosts a variety of meetings, seminars, conferences, and other events throughout the year. Read more on these events below. If an event is being offered virtually or in a hybrid format a Zoom link will be included in the event details.

An Event Digest announcing upcoming speakers and events is automatically emailed to all Oden Institute members each week. If you wish to subscribe to or have items to be included in the Events Digest, please email events@oden.utexas.edu.

13 upcoming events

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Babuška Forum

Concepts and Applications of Peridynamics

John Foster , Oden Institute

10AM – 11AM, Friday Oct 17, 2025

POB 6.304 and Zoom

CSEM Student Forum

A Dynamic Flux Surrogate Approach for Interface Couplings of Full-Order Models and Data-Driven Surrogate Models

Edward Huynh , CSEM Student

1PM – 2PM, Friday Oct 17, 2025

POB 6.304

Oden Institute Seminar

A Path Toward Computational Predictive Capability

Bill Oberkampf , Sandia National Laboratories (retired), Consulting Engineer

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Oct 21, 2025

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Center for Autonomy Seminar

On Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Autonomy

1) Andrzej Banaszuk, 2) Alberto Speranzon , 1) Director of the Trusted Intelligence Lab at Lockheed Martin, 2) Chief Scientist for Autonomy

11AM – 12PM, Tuesday Oct 21, 2025

POB 6.304

Center for Autonomy Seminar

Building Assured Autonomy at Scale: Logic Specification, Provable Control, and Verified Learning

Xusheng Luo , Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute

11AM – 12PM, Wednesday Oct 22, 2025

POB 6.304

Oden Institute Seminar

An integrated multiphysics approach to modeling and simulating the heart

Michele Bucelli , Department of Mathematics Politecnico di Milano

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Oct 23, 2025

POB 6.304 and Zoom

PhD Dissertation Defense

Simulation of a Partial Melting Mantle

Chenyu Tian , Ph.D. Candidate, Oden Institute

1PM – 3PM, Thursday Oct 23, 2025

POB 4.304

Center for Autonomy Seminar

Data-enabled learning for personalized predictive control of nonlinear systems

Marzia Cescon , David C. Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston

11AM – 12PM, Thursday Oct 23, 2025

POB 4.304

Babuška Forum

Differentiable Simulations and Interactive World Models

Krishna Kumar , Core Faculty, Oden Institute

10AM – 11AM, Friday Oct 24, 2025

POB 6.304

CSEM Student Forum

Proteolysis-Targeting Chimeras: Mechanism of Action and Computational Design

Stan Li , CSEM Student, Oden Institute

1PM – 2PM, Friday Oct 24, 2025

POB 6.304

Oden Institute Seminar

Predictive modeling from the viewpoint of information

Adrian Lozano Duran , MIT

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Oct 28, 2025

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Seminar

Discontinuous Galerkin Algorithms for a Class of Kinetic Equations in Plasma Physics

Ammar Hakim , Computational Sciences Department at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

10AM – 11AM, Thursday Oct 30, 2025

POB 4.304

Molecular BioPhysics Seminar Series

Probing the interaction dynamics of disordered proteins with single-molecule spectroscopy

Ben Schuler , University of Zurich

3:30PM – 5PM, Monday Nov 3, 2025

POB 6.304

More information

Regularly scheduled events include the Oden Institute Seminar Series, the Molecular BioPhysics Seminar Series, the Numerical Analysis Seminar Series, the Student Forum/Student Blitz Presentations, the SIAM Student Chapter Distinguished Speaker Series, and the Babuška Forum.

The Oden Institute Seminar is usually held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-5:00 pm, unless otherwise noted. Speakers include researchers from academia, national laboratories and industry, visiting scholars, and Oden Institute/UT faculty or research staff. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Babuška Forum and the Student Forum/Student Blitz Presentations are typically held on Fridays, though times may vary from semester to semester. These events are hosted by CSEM students and are open to everyone.