EVENTS Archive

  The 2019 Texas ADCIRC Week is a five-day, intensive, bootcamp-style training event for ADCIRC, held April 8-12, 2019, and hosted at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Space Research. Dr. Jason Fleming of Seahorse Coastal Consulting is the organizer as well as co-teacher for the ADCIRC portion. The purpose is to provide the ...

On Orbit Spacecraft Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing Speaker Dr. Michael Gabor, Ph.D.  Director, Advanced Programs SSL Government Systems Time and Place Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 3:30 PM ASE 1.126 SSL and MaxarTechnologies has been a prominent player in the nascent field of on-orbit spacecraft servicing, assembly, and manufacturing. This seminar will present some of the past capabilities in space robotics and how ...

USGS National Land Imaging Program: Direction and Data Sets Speaker Tom Cecere National Land Imaging Program US Geological Survey Time and Place Monday, March 18, 2019 at 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Center for Space Research West Pickle Research Building 3925 W Braker Lane, Austin TX 78759 WPR 2.806 The surface of the Earth is changing rapidly, at local, regional, national, even global scales, with ...

Broken Line Artist Talk with Olaf Otto Becker Wednesday, December 5 at 6 PM Art Building, Rm. 1.120 Olaf Otto Becker is a German photographer. In his photographic series, which he usually develops over a number of years and publishes as photo books, Becker focuses on documenting the impact of humankind on nature using a large-format camera. Since 1988, ...

Exploring the Arctic Ocean September 21–December 7, 2018 Visual Arts Center (VAC) ART Building Department of Art and Art History The University of Texas at Austin 23rd and Trinity Streets Austin, TX 78705 United States Hours: Tuesday–Friday 10–5pm, Saturday 12–5pm, Sunday and Monday closed. T +1 512 471-3713 http://sites.utexas.edu/utvac/ http://sites.utexas.edu/utvac/exploring-the-arctic-ocean/ @ExhArcticOcean While the Arctic has long been subject to exploration, its very core, the Arctic Ocean, remains an ...

DATE AND TIME Thursday, July 12, 2018 7:00 pm CDT LOCATION Engineering and Education Research Center (EER) Mulva Auditorium (EER 0.904) 2501 Speedway Austin, TX 78712 NOTE: This event is free and open to the public. Are we alone? Is there intelligent life beyond Earth? Explore these age-old questions with the scientist whose distinguished career served as inspiration for Carl Sagan’s Contact. Jill Tarter, Chair Emeritus ...

DATE AND TIME Thu, February 22, 2018 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CST LOCATION Engineering and Education Research Center (EER) 2501 Speedway Mulva Auditorium Austin, TX 78712 NOTE: This event is open to all UT Austin students (undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D.) Interested in aviation and aerospace, but not sure how your degree can be applied to the industry or what career opportunities there are ...

Speaker Dr. Jeff Freymueller Geophysics Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Time and Place October 23, 2017 – Monday – 2:00 PM WPR Building, Conference Room 2.806 3925 W. Braker Lane, Suite 200, Austin, Texas 78759 Thrust earthquakes at subduction zones are the largest on Earth, and can have devastating consequences. We now recognize that the slip behavior of these important faults can be ...

Speaker Dr. Pietro Milillo NASA/JPL-Caltech Time and Place August 1, 2017 – Tuesday – 2:00 PM WPR Building, Conference Room 2.806 3925 W. Braker Lane, Suite 200, Austin, Texas 78759 Several current and expected future SAR satellites missions (e.g., COSMO-SkyMed (CSK), Sentinel-1A/B and Tandem- X/PAZ) are designed as constellations of SAR sensors. Relative to single satellite systems, such constellations can provide greater spatial coverage ...