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 Debbie Mathews.

14 upcoming events

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Oden Institute Seminar

New Approaches to Computational Simulation of Amorphous Materials

Lena Simine , Mc Gill Universiity

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Apr 18, 2024

POB 6.304 & Zoom

Babuška Forum

Efficient and Flexible Sensitivity Calculations for Finite Element Methods via Automatic Differentiation

Dr. Jamie A. Bramwell , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

10AM – 11AM, Friday Apr 19, 2024

POB 6.304 & Zoom

Multiscale Engineering, Mathematics and Sciences Seminar

Learning the Physics of Li-ion Batteries from Images

Dr. Martin Bazant , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:30AM – 12:30PM, Friday Apr 19, 2024

POB 6.304

CSEM Student Forum

Applications and Limitations of Neural Operators

Keith Poletti , CSEM Student

1PM – 2PM, Friday Apr 19, 2024

POB 6.304

Oden Institute Distinguished Lecture in Computational Materials

Towards Large-scale Quantum Accuracy Materials Simulations

Prof. Vikram Gavini , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Apr 23, 2024

POB Avaya Auditorium

PhD Dissertation Defense

Noninvasive Assessment of Coronary Artery Plaque Vulnerability

Michael Johnson , PhD Candidate

12PM – 1PM, Wednesday Apr 24, 2024

POB 4.304 & Zoom

Oden Institute Seminar

Swimmers at low Reynolds number: Design, optimization and many-body simulation

Shravan Veerapaneni , University of Michigan

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Apr 25, 2024

POB 6.304 & Zoom

CSEM Student Forum

Harnessing High-Order Derivatives for Tensor-Network Surrogates of PDE-Constrained Maps

Blake Christierson , CSEM Student

1PM – 2PM, Friday Apr 26, 2024

POB 6.304

Rising Stars

8AM – 5PM, Tuesday Apr 30, 2024

POB 6.304

Rising Stars

8AM – 5PM, Wednesday May 1, 2024

POB 6.304

Oden Institute Event

Oden Awards Ceremony

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday May 2, 2024

POB 6.102

CSEM Student Forum

Unveiling Full-Field Modulus and Stress Using Digital Image Correlation

Joseph Kirchhoff , Mechanical Engineering Student in the OPTIMUS Center

1PM – 2PM, Friday May 3, 2024

POB 6.304

Oden Institute Seminar

Coming Soon

Judit Munoz Matute , Oden Institute

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday May 9, 2024

POB 6.304 & Zoom

Oden Institute Seminar

Coming Soon - Anomalously Diffusive Advective Reactive Transport in Porous Media and Its Optimal Control

Hong Wang

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Sep 3, 2024

POB 6.304 & 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.