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.
21 upcoming events
Center for Autonomy & Center for Computational Medicine
Assistant Professor Chenyu You , Stony Brook University
2:30PM – 3:30PM, Tuesday Feb 17, 2026
POB 6.304
CosmicAI Seminar
1) Kyle Lo, Lead Research Scientist at Allen Institute for AI 2) Joydeep Biswas, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, and Associate Director of Texas Robotics
11AM – 12PM, Wednesday Feb 18, 2026
Oden Institute & Dell Medical School
Sukrit Singh , Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Feb 19, 2026
Oden Institute Seminar
Dr. João Hespanha , Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
12PM – 1PM, Thursday Feb 26, 2026
POB 6.102
Oden Institute Distinguished Lecture
Leszek Demkowicz , Oden Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Feb 26, 2026
POB 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium)
Oden Institute Seminar
Walt Baxter, Ph.D , Medtronic
3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Mar 3, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
Center for Autonomy Seminar
Yorie Nakahira , Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
11AM – 12:30PM, Wednesday Mar 4, 2026
POB 6.304
Oden Institute Seminar
Beatrice Riviere , Rice University
3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Mar 5, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
Oden Institute Seminar
Aniruddha Bora , Texas State University
3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Mar 10, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
Oden Institute Seminar
Stephane Avril , Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne
3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Mar 12, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
Oden Institute Seminar
Robert Lipton , Professor, Louisiana State University
3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Mar 26, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
Oden Institute Seminar
Wennie Wang , Chemical Engineering, UT Austin
3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
Oden Institute Seminar
Boyce Griffith , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Apr 7, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
PhD Dissertation Defense
Ivana Escobar , CSEM Ph.D. Candidate
1PM – 3PM, Thursday Apr 9, 2026
POB 4.304
Oden Institute Seminar
Mona Eskandari , Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California Riverside
3:30PM – 5PM, Thursday Apr 9, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
Oden Institute Seminar
Mykel Kochenderfer , Stanford University
3:30PM – 5PM, Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
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