Large Language Models: Advances and Applications
April 30, 2026
Glickman Conference Center, 1.302 RLP, The University of Texas at Austin
The Harrington Faculty Fellows Program at UT Austin is pleased to invite you to this year’s Harrington Faculty Fellows Symposium, Large Language Models: Advances and Applications. This day-long symposium will bring together experts from around the country and across campus to discuss advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), with a particular focus on their applications to scientific workflows, robotics and linguistics. We are pleased to welcome three outstanding Keynote Speakers who will each give one-hour talks at the event include:
Stefanie Tellex
Professor of Computer Science at Brown University
Adina Williams
Research Scientist at Meta
Kartheik Iyer
NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University.
Call for Posters
All members of the UT Austin community are invited to submit posters on LLM research or related topics. Posters will be displayed between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. during the Symposium. Fifteen posters will be selected to present in a One-Minute Talk Session. Poster submissions must include the poster title (up to 60 characters and spaces), the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the presenter and any co-authors and an abstract (up to 250 words). Submitters will also indicate whether they would like to be considered for the One-Minute Talk Session. Each presenter is allowed one submission. The poster submission deadline is Friday, Mar. 6, 2026. This event is free to attend; breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Scientific Organizing Committee
Erez Karpas, 2025-26 Harrington Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor, Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Kanishka Misra, 2025-26 Harrington Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, UT Austin
Stella Offner, 2025-26 Harrington Faculty Fellow, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Director of the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, UT Austin
Sujay Sanghavi, Bettie Margaret Smith Professor of Engineering, Chandra Department of Electrical Engineer, UT Austin
Registration
Please register for the event here.
Poster Submission
Poster proposals may be submitted here.
Questions about this event should be directed to harrington@utexas.edu.
A detailed schedule will be available on this site in the coming weeks.