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 28th semester in spring 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
9/2/2025	Mark McClure \| Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ResFrac	Transformative Improvements in Hydraulic Fracture Design – Applications for Oil, Gas, and Geothermal
9/9/2025	Sanya Carley \| Mark Alan Hughes Faculty Director of the Kleinman Center, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania	The Energy Insecurity and Utility Disconnection Crisis in America
9/16/2025	Sheldon Landsberger \| Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin	Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material in the Oil and Gas Exploration Field
9/23/2025	Adam Grosser \| Chairman & Managing Partner, UP Partners	TBD
9/30/2025	Wil Burns \| Co-Director, Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal, American University, & Associate Director, Environmental Policy & Culture Program, Northwestern University	The Role of Carbon Dioxide Removal in Combating Climate Change
10/7/2025	Santiago Grijalva \| Georgia Power Distinguished Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology	Emerging Electricity Grids: Business-Cyber-Physical Integration, Decentralization and Intelligence
10/14/2025	Julia Black \| Energy Development Program Manager-Resiliency as a Service, Austin Energy	TBD
10/21/2025	James K. Galbraith \| Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government, LBJ School of Public Affairs, 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 Howlan \| 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
11/18/2025	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