Upcoming Events and Conferences
WESC 2025
June 25-27, 2025, Nantes, France
The Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC) is a biennial conference held every odd year, beginning in 2017. The goal of the conference is to bring together leading scientists and researchers in the field of wind energy so that they present their latest discoveries in oral presentations and several parallel sessions, covering all scientific topics relating to wind energy.
Past Events
American Control Conference 2024
July 8-12, 2024, Toronto, Canada
ACC is the annual conference of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the U.S. national member organization of the International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC).
TORQUE 2024
May 29-31, 2024, Florence, Italy
The “Science of Making Torque from Wind” is an official event by the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE) and aims at gathering experts worldwide for a unique chance of discussing the cutting-edge developments in wind energy science.
ARPA-E 2024
May 22-24, 2024, Dallas, TX
The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit brings together experts from different technical disciplines and professional communities to think about America’s energy challenges in new and innovative ways. The Summit offers a unique, three-day program aimed at highlighting the boldest, bravest ideas that could have the biggest impact.
WindSTAR Winter IAB Meeting
January 23-24, 2024
The University of Texas at Dallas
Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center
NAWEA/WindTech 2023 Conference
October 30-November 1, 2023, Denver, Colorado
The North American Wind Energy Academy (NAWEA)/WindTech 2023 Conference will be held on Oct. 30–Nov. 1, 2023, with additional programming Nov. 2—3, 2023, in person in Denver, Colorado, at the Omni Interlocken Hotel.
The NAWEA/WindTech conference is the premier scientific and interdisciplinary conference on wind energy in North America. It aims to bring together wind energy students, faculty members, and researchers, along with industry, government, and nonprofit representatives from around the world.
WindSTAR Webinar: Evolving to Support a Low-Carbon Transformation
October 10, 2023, 10:00 AM CT – Virtual
Speaker Brandon Fitchett, Program Manager of Wind Power R&D at EPRI, will join WindSTAR for a webinar about the transitions to a low-carbon renewables industry. He will discuss the need for renewables plants to be built with greater productivity, reliability, and flexibility than ever before, as well as some of the challenges and needs of as the industry as we collectively move toward that goal. Read the abstract and register online via Zoom.
Wake Conference 2023
June 19-22, 2023, Visby, Sweden
The bi-annual Wake Conference has gathered researchers within the field of wake and farm flow since more than 10 years. Researchers from UTD Wind will give talks and presentations on their work and the conference proceedings will be published in the Journal of Physics Conference Series.
Wind Energy Science Conference 2023
May 23-26, 2023, Glasgow, UK
The Wind Energy Science Conference (WESC) is a biennial conference taking place every odd year, started in 2017. The purpose of the conference is to gather leading scientists and researchers in the field of wind energy to present their latest findings in oral presentations and several parallel sessions, covering all scientific topics in the area of wind energy.
WindSTAR Winter IAB Meeting
January 25-26, 2023
The University of Texas at Dallas
Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center
2022 Sandia Blade Workshop
Researchers from UTD Wind gave presentations as well as hosted a booth at this past years Sandia Blade Workshop. The workshop brings together wind industry experts to address the major topics for wind turbine blades to identify future technology pathways.
2022 Edge Symposium
UTD Wind researcher invited to speak on control and optimization technology at the Edge Symposium. The two-day program featured keynote talks, workshops, technical sessions, and live demonstrations, highlighting the latest research and developments.
NAWEA/Windtech 2022
Faculty and students from UTD Wind gave presentations and chaired a session at the 2022 NAWEA/WindTech Conference. The conference was hosted at the University of Delaware in partnership between the Center for the Research in Wind (CReW) and NAWEA.
Summer 2022 REU in Wind Energy Systems Guest Speaker Seminar
| Date and Time | Seminar Title | Speaker |
| Friday, July 29, 2022 9:00 AM-10:00 AM (CST) | Meteorology-informed AI for Solar Forecasting | Cong Feng, Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow – Sensing and Predictive Analytics Group National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| Thursday, July 28, 2022 10:00 AM-11:00 AM | Extremum Seeking Control of Wind Energy Systems | Prof. Mario Rotea, UT Dallas |
| Thursday, July 28, 2022 9:00 AM-10:00 AM | Digital twin of a vertical-axis wind turbine | Livia Brandetti, TU Delft |
| Wednesday, July 20, 2022 9:00 AM-10:00 AM | Physics-based and data-driven modeling of composite manufacturing process | Prof. Dong Qian, UT Dallas |
| Friday, July 15, 2022 9:00 AM-10:00 AM | Composites for Wind turbine blades | Prof. Marianna Maiaru, U Mass Lowell |
| Friday, July 8, 2022 9:00 AM-10:00 AM | On the turbulence-driven power fluctuations of land-based and floating wind turbines | Leonardo Chamorro, UIUC |
| Friday, July 1, 2022 9:00 AM-10:00 | AM Meteorology-informed AI for Solar Forecasting Seminar | Cong Feng, Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow – Sensing and Predictive Analytics Group National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| Friday, June 17, 2022 9:00 AM-10:00 AM | Sediment transport in oscillatory boundary layer | Sylvia Rodriguez Abudo, U Puerto Rico at Mayaguez |
June 21-22: Utility Scale Solar & Wind North America 2022
April 8, 2022: UTD Wind Spring BBQ
2021 Winter IAB Meeting Keynote Speaker
“Beyond LCOE: wind-based power plants and energy systems”
Dr. Katherine Dykes
System Engineering and Optimization, Head of Section
Technical University of Denmark
Fall 2021 Distinguished Seminar Series
| Speaker | Date | Title |
| Fotis Sotiropoulos | July 9, 2021 | On the structure of turbulence in wind turbine wakes: Insight gained by numerical simulations and experiments |
| Jan-Willem van Wingerden | August 25, 2021 | UTD Wind Distinguished Seminar Series: “Smart Wind Farms” |
| Johan Myers | October 20, 2021 | Large-eddy simulation for wind-farm applications |
| Bill Leithead | December 9, 2021 | What will future wind turbines look like? |
Summer, 2021 – Research 411 Talk Show: Wind Turbines
Learn how wind turbines are developed and how they are reliable, cost-effective, clean, and a renewable source of electricity at this interactive talk show featuring Dr. Todd Griffith.
July 2, 2020 – Center Stage Seminar Series
“Intro to UTD Wind” with Dr. Mario A. Rotea
WindSTAR Webinar Series
- March 24, 2021: “Data-driven Wind Farm Modeling Based on Wind LiDAR Measurements” with Dr. Giacomo Valerio Iungo
- November 4, 2020: “Current Status and Future Directions in Wind Farm Modeling” Dr. Stefano Leonardi WindSTAR Session – 11/4/2020 (echo360.org)
- June 19, 2020: “Control of Wind Energy Systems” Dr. Mario A. Rotea WindSTAR Webinar Series (echo360.org)
- December 12, 2018: “WindSTAR and the Center for Grid-connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES)” with Dr. Christopher Niezrecki/Dr. Mario A. Rotea