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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.

18 upcoming events

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Convex Programming Relaxations for Many-Body Physics

Oden Institute Seminar

Convex Programming Relaxations for Many-Body Physics

Yuehaw Khoo , University of Chicago

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Sep 10, 2024

POB 6.304 & Zoom

Towards Safe and Trustworthy Autonomy

Center for Autonomy Seminar

Towards Safe and Trustworthy Autonomy

Dr. Lu Feng , University of Virginia

11AM – 12PM, Wednesday Sep 11, 2024

POB 4.304

Navigating your post-PhD early career in academia and labs

SIAM Speaker Series

Navigating your post-PhD early career in academia and labs

Dr. Teresa Portone , Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

11AM – 12PM, Thursday Sep 12, 2024

POB 6.304

Using Fixed Point Techniques to Design Optimal Low-Dose Metronomic Therapy for Cancer Patients

Oden Institute Seminar

Using Fixed Point Techniques to Design Optimal Low-Dose Metronomic Therapy for Cancer Patients

Lois Okereke , Postdoctoral Fellow, Oden Institute

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Sep 12, 2024

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Towards Robots that Use Natural Language

Center for Autonomy Seminar

Towards Robots that Use Natural Language

Jason Xinyu Liu , Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University

10AM – 11AM, Friday Sep 13, 2024

POB 4.304

An Introduction to Radiative Transport and the Net Emission Coefficient Model

CSEM Student Forum

An Introduction to Radiative Transport and the Net Emission Coefficient Model

Joshua Bigman , CSEM Graduate Student

12PM – 1PM, Friday Sep 13, 2024

POB 6.304

Realistic Goals for AI in Oncology: A half-day workshop on the practical challenges of AI in cancer care

Year of AI Event

Realistic Goals for AI in Oncology: A half-day workshop on the practical challenges of AI in cancer care

Center for Computational Oncology , Oden Institute

12:55PM – 4PM, Monday Sep 16, 2024

Avaya Auditorium (POB)

Data-Driven Modeling of Soft Tissue with Built-In Physics

Oden Institute Seminar

Data-Driven Modeling of Soft Tissue with Built-In Physics

Adrian Buganza Tepole , Associate Professor, Purdue University

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Sep 17, 2024

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Coming Soon!

Oden Institute Seminar

Coming Soon!

Charles Taylor , Oden Institute, Adjunct Professor

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Sep 19, 2024

POB 6.304, POB 4.304 and Zoom

Personalized Medicine: Developing High-Performance Inverse Algorithms for Multi-Species Brain Tumor Growth Models

PhD Dissertation Defense

Personalized Medicine: Developing High-Performance Inverse Algorithms for Multi-Species Brain Tumor Growth Models

Ali Ghafouri , Ph.D. Candidate, Oden Institute

11AM – 1PM, Monday Sep 23, 2024

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Coming soon!

Oden Institute Seminar

Coming soon!

Brandon Jones , Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, UT Austin

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Sep 26, 2024

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Scientific Machine Learning Workshop

Scientific Machine Learning Workshop

Center for Scientific Machine Learning , Oden Institute

9AM – 5PM, Wednesday Oct 2, 2024

Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302)

Coming Soon

Oden Institute Seminar

Coming Soon

Peter Rossky , Professor, Chemistry, Rice University

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Oct 3, 2024

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Coming soon!

Oden Institute Seminar

Coming soon!

Joshua Burby , Assistant Professor, Physics, UT Austin

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Oct 22, 2024

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Coming Soon

Oden Institute Distinguished Lecture in Numerical Analysis

Coming Soon

Nick Trefethen , Professor of Applied Mathematics in Residence, Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Oct 31, 2024

POB 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium)

Coming Soon!

Oden Institute Seminar

Coming Soon!

Georg Stadler , New York University

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Nov 7, 2024

POB 6.304 and Zoom

High-Speed High-Fidelity Computational Modeling Approach for Cardiac Models

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Speed High-Fidelity Computational Modeling Approach for Cardiac Models

Shruti Motiwale , Ph.D. Candidate, Oden Institute

2PM – 4PM, Thursday Nov 14, 2024

POB 6.304

5th Joint Center for Computational Oncology Annual Retreat

5th Joint Center for Computational Oncology Annual Retreat

Center for Computational Oncology , Oden Institute

8:30AM – 3PM, Monday Nov 18, 2024

Avaya Auditorium (POB)

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