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.

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8 upcoming events

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PhD Dissertation Defense

Multiscale Quantification of Preterm Infant Movement Dynamics in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Ally Richardson , CSEM Ph.D. Candidate

2PM – 4PM, Saturday Nov 8, 2025

POB 6.304

Center for Autonomy Seminar

Epigraph Convexification for Nonlinear Robust Optimal Control

Abraham P. Vinod , Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

11AM – 12PM, Tuesday Nov 11, 2025

POB 6.304

PhD Dissertation Defense

Advancements in Single- and Multi-Target Filtering: Using Posterior Estimates to Update Gaussian Mixture Weights

Dalton Durant , Graduate Student - Aerospace Engineering

11AM – 12PM, Wednesday Nov 12, 2025

POB 6.304

CosmicAI Seminar

DESI: Disentangling Cosmology from Observational Artifacts

1) Kyle Dawson 2) Tyler Hagen , 1) Dept. of Physics, University of Utah 2) Ph.D. Candidate, University of Utah

11AM – 12PM, Wednesday Nov 12, 2025

Virtual

PhD Dissertation Defense

Paleo-reconstruction of Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics over the Holocene via Bayesian Inversion

Shreyas Gaikwad , CSEM Ph.D. Candidate

1PM – 3PM, Thursday Nov 13, 2025

POB 4.304 and Zoom

Oden Institute Seminar

Paul Beckman Seminar - TBD Title

Paul Beckman , O’Donnell Fellow, Oden Institute, UT Austin

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Nov 13, 2025

POB 6.304 and Zoom

CSEM Student Forum

Governing Equations for Inductively Coupled Plasma Torch Simulations

Joshua Bigman , CSEM Student, Oden Institute, UT Austin

1PM – 2PM, Friday Nov 14, 2025

POB 6.304

Oden Institute Seminar

Generality Meets Precision: Teaching Machine Learning to Love Numerics

Jerry W Liu , Stanford University

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Nov 20, 2025

POB 6.304 and Zoom

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.

Commencement events can be found on the graduate school commencement page