Past Events

This week at the Energy Symposium, Dr. Wen Song, Assistant Professor of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at UT Austin, will present a talk titled "Leveraging the Power of Small towards Energy Resources Recovery."

At this week's Energy Symposium, Dr. Juliana Felkner, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, will present a talk titled "Smart Decarbonization of the Built Environment in the Nexus of Climate Change, Population Growth, & Technology Adoption."

This week at the Energy Symposium, Joni Carswell, CEO and President of Texan by Nature (TxN), will present a talk entitled "Collaborative Conservation in the Energy Industry."

This week at the Energy Symposium, Dr. Sol Hart, Associate Professor in both Communication and Media and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan, will present a talk entitled "Engaging the public on renewable energy and carbon dioxide removal."

This week at the Energy Symposium, Barbara Finamore, Senior Strategic Director for Asia at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), will lead a discussion on the role of China and the environment.

This week at the Energy Symposium, Dr. Joel Landry, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics at Penn State University, will present a talk about political permit allocations and the feasibility of federal carbon policy. 

This week at the Energy Symposium, Dr. John Besley, Ellis N. Brandt Professor of Public Relations at Michigan State University, will present a talk titled, "Making science communication more strategic."

This week at the Energy Symposium, Kara Kockelman, the Dewitt Greer Professor of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, will present a talk titled "Energy & Emissions Implications of Self-Driving Vehicles."

This week at the Energy Symposium, Dr. Frank Male, postdoctoral fellow at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, will present on the technology progress and physics constraints around tight oil production.

This week at the Energy Symposium, Mike Sloan, President of Virtus Energy Research Associates, will lead a discussion titled, "Which Costs Less to Power Our Future:  Fossil Fuel or Clean Energy?".