Past Events

Explore our latest events, seminar series and conferences.

Upcoming Past

Nov

6

2026

Seminar Series

SDS Seminar Series – Shane Jensen, University of Pennsylvania

Studying the Green Landscape of Philadelphia

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Speaker(s): Shane Jensen

Nov

4

2026

Visualizing Science 2027 Submission Deadline

The college’s Visualizing Science competition helps raise the profile of UT science, with public displays of images that celebrate the extraordinary beauty of science and the scientific process.

11:59 pm • Virtual

Oct

30

2026

Seminar Series

SDS Seminar Series – Sanjay Shakkottai, University of Texas at Austin

Test-Time Anchoring for Discrete Diffusion Posterior Sampling

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Speaker(s): Sanjay Shakkottai

Oct

23

2026

Seminar Series

SDS Seminar Series – Casey Breen, University of Texas at Austin

Digital Technologies, Inequality, and the Diffusion of Global Culture

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Casey Breen

Oct

16

2026

Seminar Series

SDS Seminar Series – Adam Klivans, University of Texas at Austin

Efficient Algorithms for Reliable Machine Learning 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Speaker(s): Adam Klivans

Oct

14

2026

Data Bits & Bites Speaker Series

Data Bits & Bites - Student Research Presentations

Professor Arya Farahi's Student Research Projects

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Oct

2

2026

Seminar Series

SDS Seminar Series – Giovanni Toto, University of Texas at Austin

Condition matrix completion for polypharmacy medication information

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Speaker(s): Giovanni Toto

Sep

25

2026

Seminar Series

SDS Seminar Series – Chad Hazlett, University of California, Los Angeles

The Synthetic Confounder: What Pre-Treatment Outcomes Can and Cannot Buy in Longitudinal Causal Inference

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Chad Hazlett

Sep

23

2026

Data Bits & Bites Speaker Series

Data Bits & Bites - Amanda Glazer, SDS Assistant Professor

Beyond the Box Score: What Sports Analytics Can (And Can't) Tell Us

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Speaker(s): Amanda Glazer

Sep

18

2026

Seminar Series

SDS Seminar Series – Arhit Chakrabarti, University of Texas at Austin

Graphical Dirichlet Process for Clustering Non-Exchangeable Grouped Data

2:00 pm • In Person

Speaker(s): Arhit Chakrabarti