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.
17 upcoming events
Babuška Forum
The AI Research Assistant: Promise, Peril, and a Proof of Concept
Tan Bui-Thanh , Professor, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences
10AM – 11AM, Friday Apr 3, 2026
PhD Dissertation Defense
Mathematical and Computational Foundations for Predictive Digital Twins
Graham Pash , CSEM Ph.D. Candidate
9:30AM – 11:30AM, Friday Apr 3, 2026
CSEM Student Forum
Proximal Galerkin for Inequality-Constrained Variational Problems
Matthew Meeker , Oden Institute
1PM – 2PM, Friday Apr 3, 2026
POB 6.304
Center for Autonomy Seminar
Scalable Multi-Agent Decision-Making via Environment Abstractions and Mean-Field Approximations
Scott Guan , Postdoctoral Fellow, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech
11AM – 12:30PM, Monday Apr 6, 2026
POB 6.304
Oden Institute Seminar
Computational Cardiac Fluid Dynamics In Vitro and In Vivo
Boyce Griffith , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Apr 7, 2026
PhD Dissertation Defense
Three problems in data science
Bobby Shi , ECE Ph.D. Candidate
1:30PM – 3PM, Tuesday Apr 7, 2026
POB 6.304
PhD Dissertation Defense
Differentiable Acoustic Propagation in Ocean General Circulation Models for Variational State Estimation
Ivana Escobar , CSEM Ph.D. Candidate
1PM – 3PM, Thursday Apr 9, 2026
Oden Institute Seminar
Just Breathe: the Mechanics of the Lung
Mona Eskandari , Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California Riverside
3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Apr 9, 2026
Joint ASE/Oden Institute Seminar Series
Ontological Robustness for Certification of Autonomous Systems
Naira Hovakimyan , W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering and the Director of AVIATE Center of UIUC (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
11AM – 12PM, Thursday Apr 9, 2026
POB 4.304
CSEM Student Forum
Geometric and Thermodynamic Structures in Continuum Multiphysics - Foundational Contexts for Models
Blake Christierson , Graduate Student, Oden Institute
1PM – 2PM, Friday Apr 10, 2026
POB 6.304
PhD Dissertation Defense
Fast Algorithms for Minimally Supervised Learning
Youguang Chen , Ph.D Candidate
12PM – 3PM, Monday Apr 13, 2026
POB 6.304
Oden Institute Seminar
Decision Making for Safety Critical Systems
Mykel Kochenderfer , Stanford University
3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
PhD Dissertation Defense
Hybrid Misfit Functions and Diffusion Priors for Multi-parameter Seismic Full Waveform Inversion
Yiran Shen , CSEM Ph.D. Candidate
3PM – 5PM, Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
POB 4.304
Coming soon!
Alison Marsden , Stanford University
3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Apr 23, 2026
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