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 multidisciplinary 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 entered its 29th semester in fall 2025.

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. The course is taught in both the fall and spring semesters.

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 is recorded and posted on this page and on the Energy Institute YouTube channel.

Instructor: Carey King
Unique Number (Fall 2025): 65605 (graduate students) / 65310 (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

Date	Speaker	Talk Title
10/21/2025	James K. Galbraith \| Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government / Business Relations, LBJ School of Public Affairs, and Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin Jing Chen \| Assistant Professor, Finance, University of Northern British Columbia	Book Talk – Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production
10/28/2025	Xi Chen \| Associate Professor CUNY Advanced Science Research Center Department of Chemical Engineering, The City College of New York	Water-Responsive Materials for Evaporation Energy Harvesting
11/4/2025	Michael Howland \| Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Powering Decarbonization With Modeling and Optimization of Renewables in the Changing Environment
11/11/2025	Chris Kennedy \| Professor, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Energy and Economic Regimes
11/18/2025	Leah Ellis \| CEO and Co-founder, Sublime Systems	Energy-Efficient Cement Manufacturing
12/2/2025	Andrew Fix \| Assistant Professor, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin	TBD