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.

11 upcoming events

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Oden Institute & Dell Medical School

Multiscale Modeling for Predictive Cardiovascular Medicine

Erica L. Schwarz , Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Jan 22, 2026

POB 6.304 and Zoom

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Dimensional Tensor Methods: Randomization, Implicit Algorithms, and Parallelization

Yifan Zhang , Ph.D. Candidate, Oden Institute

1PM – 3PM, Tuesday Jan 27, 2026

POB 4.304

Oden Institute & Dept. of Statistics and Data Sciences

Learning Dynamics with Limited Data

George Stepaniants , Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Jan 27, 2026

POB 6.304 and Zoom

PhD Dissertation Defense

Data-Driven Optimal Experimental Design and Uncertainty Quantification with Applications in Computational Imaging

Evan Scope Crafts

2PM – 4PM, Wednesday Jan 28, 2026

POB 6.304

Oden Institute & College of Natural Sciences

From intuition to innovation: accelerating scientific discovery through black-box probabilistic inference

Diana Cai , Research Fellow, Center for Computational Mathematics at Flatiron Institute

3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Jan 29, 2026

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Oden Institute & College of Natural Sciences

Learning and Design from Large-Scale Interventions in Cellular Systems

Jiaqi Zhang , PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11AM – 12PM, Tuesday Feb 3, 2026

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Oden Institute & Dept. of Statistics and Data Sciences

Learning Theory for the AI for Science Era

Ambuj Tewari , Professor, University of Michigan

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Feb 3, 2026

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Oden Institute & Dept. of Mathematics

Digital Twins: Contributions of SciML/AI and challenges

Sebastian Reich , Professor, University of Potsdam

3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Feb 10, 2026

POB 6.304 and Zoom

Center for Autonomy & Center for Computational Medicine

Robust Machine Learning for Biomedical Data: Efficiency, Reliability, and Generalizability

Assistant Professor Chenyu You , Stony Brook University

2:30PM – 3:30PM, Tuesday Feb 17, 2026

POB 6.304

2026 Finite Element Rodeo

12PM – 7:30PM, Friday Feb 27, 2026

POB 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium)

2026 Finite Element Rodeo

8AM – 4PM, Saturday Feb 28, 2026

POB 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium)

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.