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

DateSpeakerTalk Title
1/20/2026Jean-François Mercure | Professor of Climate Policy, University of Exeter Business School (UK), Director of the unit Exeter Climate PolicyGlobal scenarios for Ministries of Finance to Inform Resilient Economic Transformation to Zero-Carbon
1/27/2026Tom Murphy | Emeritus Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California at San DiegoQuestioning Modernity: What does Energy Do?
2/3/2026Andrejka Bertanova | Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Dynamix CorporationTBD
2/10/2026Jake Jordan | Chief Science Officer, Mati CarbonTBD
2/17/2026Michael Craig | Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of MichiganDecarbonizing the Electric Power Sector in a Warming World 
2/24/2026Aditya Ramji | Director, Global South Centre on Clean Transportation, University of California, DavisShaping Industrial Policy with Vehicle Electrification - Analysing Global EV supply chains and implications
3/3/2026Kelly Sims Gallagher | Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts UniversityShifting Priorities in U.S. Energy Innovation Policy
3/10/2026Joe DeCarolis | Head and Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon UniversityLeveraging Energy Data and Analysis to Navigate a Rapidly Changing Energy Landscape
3/24/2026Sara Eftekharnejad | Associate Professor, SyracuseCoE Faculty Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse UniversityTBD
3/31/2026Kyle Chan | Fellow – Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings InstitutionChina’s Clean Tech Industrial Strategy
4/7/2026Michael Baldea | Professor, Chemical Engineering, UT AustinElectrification of Industry for lower-carbon emissions, the EPIX project
4/14/2026Sindhu Nathan | U.S. House Committee on Science and TechnologyTBD
4/21/2026Erica Belmont | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of WyomingTBD

UT Energy Symposium Talks

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