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
September 1	Ehud Ronn	Financial Oil Market Metrics for Geopolitical Crises
September 8	Steve LeVine	China, the U.S., and Batteries: Embrace or fight?
September 15	Alvin Camba	TBD
September 22	Zhaomiao Guo	The Future of Energy Storage is Mobile: Unlocking EV Flexibility Through Market-Based V2G
September 29	Martín Esteban González López	From Waste to Energy in Mexico: Technical and Policy Challenges for Resource Recovery in the Water–Energy Nexus
October 6	Yicheng Zhu	Powering the AI Revolution: A New Voltage Regulator Enabling Vertical Power Delivery for Next-Generation AI Processors
October 13	Shuo Ji & Zhiping Yang	Advancing Subsalt Imaging in the US Gulf: Operational and Technical Innovations in Seismic Data Acquisition From the Laconia Sparse OBN Program
October 20	Tom Murphy	Questioning Modernity: What Does Energy Do?
October 27	Erica Belmont	TBD
November 3	Thomas J Pierpoint	TBD
November 10	Charlotte De Cannière	Two Wrongs Can Sometimes Make a Right: The Environmental Benefits of Market Power in Oil
November 17	Jamie Nieto	Exploring the Biophysical Limits of the Energy Transition: An Integrated Assessment Model Analysis Using MEDEAS
December 1	Rich Powell	TBD