UT Energy Symposium

A weekly guest lecture series that is both free and open to the public and available for course credit.

In an effort to provide a multi-disciplinary platform for UT faculty and students to interact on the most pressing energy issues facing our world, the Energy Institute sponsors the UT Energy Symposium (UTES), which will enter its 24th semester in spring 2023.

The UTES serves as a “convener” for the campus community, uniting students interested in energy issues with faculty and others working on sustainable energy security. Students who register for the symposium receive one credit hour for the 15-week seminar course, which is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Ongoing themes for UTES include climate change policy, innovation and diffusion of energy technologies, low-carbon technology options and status, and behavioral aspects of energy consumption.

Each UTES talk will be recorded and posted on this page and on the Energy Institute YouTube channel following the event.

Instructor: Carey King
Unique Number (Spring 2023): 60400 (graduate students) / 60060 (undergraduates)
Day & Time: Tuesday, 12:30 – 1:45 p.m.

If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Christa Hopkins, who can be reached at 512-475-8447 or christa@energy.utexas.edu, no later than five (5) business days prior to the event.

Upcoming UT Energy Symposium Talks

February 7	Energy and the Impact of Incipient Shortages on Cities and Urbanization William Rees, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Applied Science, School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia View talk details
February 14	Probing Electrochemical Phenomena in Electrochemical Hydrogen Technologies with Self-assembled Block Copolymer Templates Christopher Arges, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Penn State View talk details
February 21	Science and Engineering of Negative Emissions Technologies Roger Aines, Chief Scientist, Energy and Homeland Security Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory View talk details
February 28	Coherent Implementation of Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies and Ongoing Implications for ESG Investing Michael Yamoah, Director of Engagement, Federated Hermes View talk details
March 7	Storing Hydrogen in the Subsurface: Challenges and Opportunities for Low-carbon Energy Peter Eichhubl, Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), The University of Texas at Austin View talk details
March 14	Spring Break - No Speaker
March 21	An Open Energy System Model Initiative for our Earth Stuart Daniel James, Research Associate at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT) View talk details
March 28	Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Transitions: the Geospatial Context of Global Change Sarah Jordaan, Associate Professor, Life Cycle Assessment / Industrial Ecology, The Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED), Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University View talk details
April 4	Energy and the Evolution of Human Economic Order Lisi Krall, Professor, Department of Economics at the State University of New York – Cortland View talk details
April 11	To Be Determined (on the subject of macroeconomic modeling in context of finance and climate change) Gaël Giraud, Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy & Founder/Director of the Georgetown Environmental Justice Program, Georgetown University; Senior Researcher at CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research) View talk details
April 18	Job Creation Dynamics of Electric Vehicle Adoption JR DeShazo, Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin View talk details