Tackling grand challenge societal problems through modeling, simulation and engineering problem-solving

J. Tinsley Oden reflects back on the history of the Oden Institute, and the evolution of computational engineering and sciences.

The Mary F. Wheeler Medal has been established by USACM in 2023, in honor of Wheeler's sustained contributions to the science and engineering community.

This is the first new named medal by USACM in more than a quarter century and their first award named after a woman.

Xin Tang, PhD student, recieved this year's SIAM Student Chapter Certificate for her work as treasurer with the UT Chapter. 

CSEM Ph.D student Shane McQuarrie was awarded the ninth BGCE Student Paper Prize at the 2023 SIAM CSE Conference.

As part of the fellowship, Matteo Croci, an Oden Institute research associate, will apply his expertise to support the European Union's goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions and climate neutrality by 2050.

• O’Donnell Postdoctoral Fellowship provides funding for outstanding graduates to perform high-level, computational research with exceptional faculty in an interdisciplinary environment
• Five new postdoctoral researchers join the Oden Institute community for the 2022-2023 academic year

• New Chair named in honor of generous donor known for creating one of the most widely used commercial finite element codes for nonlinear applications of all time 
• “John O. Hallquist's impact has been enormous as an engineer, entrepreneur and business leader"

• Research associate working with Clint Dawson awarded one of Europe's most prestigious grants 
• Valseth plans on splitting his time evenly between here at the Oden Institute and in his native home of Norway 

• Hughes recieves national and international recognition for his remarkable career
• Awards from the City University of Hong Kong and Georgia Instiutute of Technology

• Event honored 16 students that graduated in May 2022, as well as eight other students who graduated throughout the 2021-2022 academic year
• "Congratulations to all our PhD and Master's graduate students. Collectively, you represent an incredible set of accomplishments spanning computing, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, engineering, science, geoscience, and medicine."

• Awards Ceremony finally held in-person after two years of hiatus from COVID  
• Staff, students and faculty celebrated and recognized for their significant contributions throughout the year

• New course in computational engineering now offered at Huston-Tillotson University
• Computation for Aerospace Engineering was developed in collaboration with faculty from the Oden Institute and Cockrell School of Engineering at UT Austin

• PhD graduate's research featured by Siam News 
• Study helps advance methods for oil production  

• New research collaboration between Computational Hydraulics Group and Marine Science Institute 
• Expanding Aransas Pass could increase the native red drum fish population, according to model  

• First time Oden Institute participates in 40 hours for the Forty Acres  
• Annual UT Austin fundraising event now in its ninth year

• Department of Energy funds development of computational “digital twin” framework for storm surge prediction 
• Integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to improve accuracy 

• 2021 Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellows bring variety of new skillsets and diverse research interests
• Scope of projects range from computational modeling at atomic scale to development of tsunami simulation techniques

• Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics inducted with Tayfun Tezduyar from Rice University
• Tezduyar and Hughes first non-Japanese so honored by JACM

• Carey Scholarship goes to 22-year-old Computational Engineering student at UT’s Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Future plans to pursue PhD focused on modeling environmental fluid flows

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• Superfund sites could reduce the life expectancy for people living nearby by as much as 1.2 years
• Fiirst nationwide study of its kind, researchers used advanced statistical modeling techniques to examine the impact of contaminated areas in unprecedented detail.