Each year, Smead Fellows gather for a weekend in Vail, CO to present their research and listen to other Fellows, graduate students and faculty. A schedule of previous Smead Symposia is listed below:
- 1st Smead Symposium: Boulder, Colorado, July 25, 2011
- 2nd Smead Symposium: Vail, Colorado, May 11-12, 2012
- 3rd Smead Symposium: Vail, Colorado, April 26-28, 2013
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Donald K. Yeomans, Jet Propulsion Lab
- 4th Smead Symposium: Vail, Colorado, May 16-18, 2014
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Mason Peck, NASA/Cornell University
- 5th Smead Symposium: Vail, Colorado, May 15-16, 2015
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Bobby Braun, Georgia Tech University
- 6th Smead Symposium: Avon, Colorado, May 13-15, 2016
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sergio Pellegrino, California Institute of Technology