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News

Oct. 30, 2024

Building a Better Future: Krishna Kumar’s Vision for AI

Krishna Kumar, an assistant professor at UT Austin and affiliated faculty member at the Oden Institute, is pioneering AI-driven solutions in civil engineering while emphasizing the importance of educating the next generation through outreach programs. His initiatives aim to equip young minds with both technical skills and a critical understanding of AI’s limitations.

 

 

 

Krishna Kumar was one of the Oden Institute 2024 Grand Challenge Award recipients, pictured with Karen Willcox, Director of the Oden Institute.

Krishna Kumar was one of the Oden Institute 2024 Grand Challenge Award recipients, pictured with Karen Willcox, Director of the Oden Institute.

News

Oct. 22, 2024

Advancing Open Source High Performance Libraries: Highlights from BLIS 2024

Industry and academia experts discussed ideas, updates, and developments to the innovative BLIS software framework over two days at the annual retreat.

BLIS Retreat attendees. Credit: Joanne Foote

BLIS Retreat attendees. Credit: Joanne Foote

Feature

Oct. 17, 2024

Could Hydrogen, Ammonia Blends Become the Key to Clean Electricity?

Oden Institute affiliated faculty members Fabrizio Bisetti and Noel Clemens are combining hydrogen and ammonia, which are in many ways natural complements, as a potential source for generating carbon-free electricity.

Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering

Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering

Next Upcoming Event

How does your heart beat? An Introduction to Cardiac Electromechanics

Benjamin Thomas, CSEM Graduate Student

noon– 1 p.m.

Nov. 8, 2024

POB 6.304

Feature

Oct. 7, 2024

Mary F. Wheeler during the 15th Congress of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) in 2019. The event included over 60 talks and a banquet celebrating her accomplishments. Credit: Oden Institute

Renowned Pioneer in Computational Sciences Mary Wheeler Retires

Mary F. Wheeler, best known for her work in finite element analysis and porous media problems, retired in August 2024.

Her research uses an interdisciplinary approach to solve grand challenges with applications from environmental remediation, carbon storage, thermal energy to ideas in predictive surgery.

Feature

Sept. 24, 2024

Dan Stanzione, Executive Director of TACC and Associate Vice President for Research at UT, with the Frontera supercomputer.

The State of the Supercomputers

UT operates some of the world’s fastest and largest computers. Take a look inside the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the processors that drive some of the world’s most important discoveries and the people behind the processors.

Feature

May 23, 2024

Breast cancer researchers are enlisting supercomputers in making new discoveries to improve treatment and understanding of the deadly disease. TACC systems and expertis are giving scientists much-needed data and computational resources for modeling tumor

Conquering Breast Cancer Using Supercomputers, Data, and Mathematical Modeling

Stampede2, Lonestar6, Corral systems help advance tumor models, treatment options. 


 

News

Oct. 17, 2024

Kate Pearce Awarded NSF-DMS Ascend Postdoctoral Fellowship

Postdoctoral Researcher and prison education advocate Kate Pearce was awarded the NSF-DMS Ascend Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her work on rank-structured matrix compression and building mathematics course offerings at Lockhart Women's Correctional Facility. 

Kate Pearce

Kate Pearce

Media Coverage

May 15, 2024

Our tech has a climate problem: How we solve it

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