Latest meetings, seminars, conferences and other events

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.

9 upcoming events

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Oden Institute & Dept. of Government

Propaganda ia Already Influencing Large Language Models: Evidence from Training Data, Audits, and Real-world Usage

Joshua Tucker , New York University

12PM – 1PM, Monday Apr 14, 2025

Batts Hall 5.108

Jackson School of Geosciences & Oden Institute

Synthetic Geology Meets Deep Learning and Inverse Problems

Eldad Haber , Professor, University of British Columbia

4PM – 5PM, Monday Apr 14, 2025

Boyd Lecture Hall, Jackson School of Geosciences

J. Tinsley Oden Lecture

Inaugural J. Tinsley Oden Lecture: Mathematical Challenges in Computational Science and Engineering: From Modeling through Analysis to Simulation

Barbara Wohlmuth , Chair, Department of Numerical Analysis, Technical University of Munich (TUM)

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Apr 15, 2025

POB 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium)

PhD Dissertation Defense

Efficient computation of multiscale Hamiltonian systems aided by machine learning

Rui Fang , CSEM Ph.D. Candidate

10AM – 12PM, Thursday Apr 17, 2025

POB 4.304

PhD Dissertation Defense

Optimal Transport for Elastic Source Inversion

Tyler Masthay , CSEM Ph.D Candidate

2PM – 4PM, Wednesday Apr 23, 2025

POB 4.304 and Zoom

Oden Institute Seminar

The Latent Variable Proximal Point Method: A New Solver Paradigm for Variational Inequalities, Nonlinear PDEs, and Beyond

Thomas Surowiec , Chief Research Scientist, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Apr 24, 2025

POB 6.304 and Zoom

CosmicAI Event

NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI): Cosmic Horizons Conference

8:30AM – 5PM, Tuesday May 6, 2025

Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302)

CosmicAI Event

NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI): Cosmic Horizons Conference

8:30AM – 5PM, Wednesday May 7, 2025

Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302)

CosmicAI Event

NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI): Cosmic Horizons Conference

8:30AM – 5PM, Thursday May 8, 2025

Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302)

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.