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Aug. 20, 2026

The Quest to Make Climate Models Faster, Smarter and More Accurate

In a recent paper a team of researchers, including Professor Patrick Heimbach and Ph.D. student Joseph Kump, introduced a new framework for simulating components of the Earth. To demonstrate the framework’s versatility, the team tested it on four different Earth component models including an idealized ocean model of the Drake Passage.

The Drake Passage, which is both famously dangerous and a key component of the world's ocean circulation. Both large-scale and smaller-scale phenomena, such as eddies, that run through it make it a fascinating region to study and model. Credit: National Geographic

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Aug. 20, 2026

Meet Your Oden Institute 2026-27 CSEM Student Representatives

The Oden Institute's 2026-27 CSEM Student Representatives are stepping into roles built around strengthening the CSEM community through events, mentorship, student advocacy, and outreach.

L-r: Ashton Cole, Joseph Wick, Matthew Meeker, Ben Longaker. Credit: Joanne Foote

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Aug. 19, 2026

From Student to Scientist: Inside the 2026 Moncrief Summer Internship

This year's Moncrief internship wrap profiles two Oden interns, Tomas Gutierrez and Dara Cheng, and how their mentors helped them learn to think like researchers.

L-r: Nadine Nugroho, Jinsoo Cho, Archit Patil, Lonoehu Wacasey, Saniya Chaudhari, Chase Griffin, Micah Lee, Tomas Gutierrez, Dara Cheng, Olivia Kilday, Arata Ishikawa. Credit: Joanne Foote.

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Welcome & 2026 Director’s Report: NSF-Simons CosmicAI through Year 2 and Beyond

Dr. Stella Offner, Curtis T. Vaughan Jr. Centennial Chair in Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin and CosmicAI PI & Director

1 p.m.– 2 p.m.

Aug. 26, 2026

POB 4.304 and Zoom

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June 1, 2026

Welcome to the SCW75 – Class of 2026

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Nov. 20, 2025

ACM Gordon Bell Prize Honors Breakthrough in Real-Time Tsunami Modeling

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Nov. 19, 2025

Texascale: The Magazine of the Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT Austin

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Aug. 12, 2026

Finding the Space Between Medicine and Math - Profile Tarini Thiagarajan

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June 24, 2026

From Molecules to Medicine: Rethinking Drug Design - Profile Dzmitry Padhorny

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May 7, 2026

The Gordon Bell Prize and the Future of Tsunami Early Warning - Profile Stefan Henneking

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May 5, 2026

The dishes of ALMA gaze skyward from their mountaintop perch in Chile. CosmicAI is developing techniques to help analyze the array’s mountains of data.

A Match Made in the Cosmos

The NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) cultivates the symbiotic relationship between Astronomy and AI. Astronomy gets shiny new tools to process its mountains of data, and AI gets a safe playground filled with exciting toys to improve its methods.

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April 14, 2026

Ufuk Topcu. Credit: Joanne Foote/Oden Institute

Ufuk Topcu on the Future of Trustworthy Autonomy

Ufuk Topcu leads the Center for Autonomy, which focuses on human interaction with AI and robotics, expanding community outreach and pioneering new concepts in safety, trustworthiness and accountability as autonomous systems evolve.

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Feb. 27, 2026

$A digital twin of the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest coast, enabling a UT‑led team’s breakthrough early‑warning system to provide high-fidelity tsunami forecasts in a fraction of a second. Credit: Omar Ghattas and collaborators.$

After a Decade of Pioneering Digital Twin Research, UT Emerges as a Global Leader in AI for Science

After more than a decade of advances in AI, mathematics and supercomputing, UT is shaping the future of digital twins — bringing together researchers across campus to deploy physics‑informed, AI‑powered models for energy, healthcare, national security and natural hazard mitigation.

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Aug. 18, 2026

Oden Institute Welcomes Largest Ever Class of Peter O'Donnell Jr. Postdoctoral Research Fellows

The Oden Institute welcomes nine Peter O'Donnell Jr. Postdoctoral Research Fellows for the 2026-27 academic year, bringing expertise spanning numerical linear algebra, biomedical imaging, computational oncology, scientific machine learning, earth system modeling, materials science, and fluid dynamics.