Rice University Events

Wayne White:
BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL
WHILE I SLEEP

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00 CST

Rice University Art Gallery

Artist: Wayne White
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - Sunday, December 13, 2009

352 Sewall Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Los Angeles artist Wayne White, who is best known as the Emmy-winning creator and performer of many of the puppet characters in the hit, late-1980s television show, Pee-wee’s Playhouse, will combine his passions for puppetry and painting in a room-sized work of art that he describes as, “a roadside attraction, a museum relic of a lost world, and a big, weird toy still in its box.” For more information, call 713.348.6069 or visit ricegallery.org.

STENCILING POWER, an exhibition by Michael Adair-Kriz

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:01 CST

Visual and Dramatic Arts
Rice Cinema
Rice Players
Monday, November 16, 2009 - Tuesday, December 15, 2009
All Day

Main Gallery Space, Rice Media Center
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Rice anthropology doctoral candidate Michael Adair-Kriz illustrates the intersection of art, storytelling, and grass-roots political engagement through multimedia works inspired by his two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Santiago, Chile. Stencil street art, branded graffiti, emerged as a means of political protest, but has grown into something much more potent. Stencils interrogate multiple topics and modes of expression in contemporary global and local culture, encouraging critical thinking, debate, and alternative views. Stencil Power confronts the boundaries separating art from anthropology, offering evocative and implicitly theorized images rather than a traditional academic text. Exhibition will remain on view from November 16 through December 15, 2009. A reception and artist talk will be held on November 16, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

Stulken Topology Seminar: Milnor fillable contact structures

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00 CST

Mathematics
Mathematics
Scientia

Speaker: Burak Ozbagci
Monday, November 23, 2009
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

423 Herman Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Will describe some recent results about Milnor fillable contact structures and Milnor open books (joint project with Mohan Bhupal).

Piano Class Recital

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:30 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Monday, November 23, 2009
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Piano students of Jon Kimura Parker.
5:30 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

Violin Class Recital

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:30 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Monday, November 23, 2009
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Hirsch Orchestra Rehearsal Hall Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Violin students of Cho-Liang Lin.
7:30 p.m., Hirsch Orchestra Rehearsal Hall

Master's Clarinet Recital

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Monday, November 23, 2009
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet
Music of Brahms, Sivelöv, Donatoni, Schumann, and Bilotta.
8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

Workshop of the China-US Center for Environmental Remediation and Sustainable Development

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00 CST

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dean of Engineering
Monday, November 23, 2009 - Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Kyle Morrow Room Fondren Library
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

This meeting will be attended by the professors from Nankai, Tsinghua, Nanjing Universities and Rice University. More details to follow.

High-level Tasks to Correct, Low-level Robot Control

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00 CST

Computer Science

Speaker: Hadas Kress-Gazit
Monday, November 23, 2009
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

1049 Duncan Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Abstract: Robots today can mop the floor, assist surgeons and explore space; however, there is no robot that could be trusted to drive autonomously in a real city. Robots either perform simple or hard-coded tasks fully autonomously or they operate with close human supervision. While most of the sensing and actuation technology required for high-level operation exists, what is lacking is the ability to plan at a high-level while providing guarantees for safety and correctness of a robot's autonomous behavior. In this talk I will present a formal approach to creating robot controllers that ensure the robot satisfies a given high level task. I will describe a framework in which a user specifies a complex and reactive task in Structured English. This task is then automatically translated, using temporal logic and tools from the formal methods world, into a hybrid controller. This controller is guaranteed to control the robot such that its motion and actions satisfy the intended task, in a variety of different environments. Continental Breakfast served at 8:30am

Molecular mechanisms of action of miRNAs

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00 CST

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Speaker: Nahum Sonenberg, PhD
Monday, November 23, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

102 Keck Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Space Physics - MULTI-FLUID MHD SIMULATIONS USING THE LYON-FEDDER-MOBARRY MODEL

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00 CST

Physics & Astronomy

Speaker: Viacheslav Merkin
Monday, November 23, 2009
12:00 PM to 12:55 PM

227 Herman Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

The first observations of ionospheric ion outflow were reported as early as the 1970's, and there has been overwhelming observational evidence of phenomena associated with this effect since then. As a result, it has become widely recognized that O+ ions of ionospheric origin can be a major contributor to the plasma population of the plasma sheet and the ring current during geomagnetic storms, and can affect many processes throughout the magnetosphere. Because O+ effects are global, one needs a global modeling approach to attempt to unravel complex interactions within the magnetosphere in which O+ plays a role. I will describe the multi-fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) approach to this problem taken by our group. As a result, the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry (LFM) global magnetospheric model has been extended to include multiple ion fluids and the multi-fluid LFM (MFLFM) model emerged. I will discuss a number of problems that the model is being applied to, including effects of O+ on the development of the cross-polar cap potential and boundary wave activity at the magnetopause. I will conclude my talk by presenting other recent developments of the LFM model, expanding the boundaries of systems we can simulate and ways in which we simulate them.

Life-Cycle Cost-Benefit (LCC-B) Analysis for Bridge Seismic Retrofits

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Speaker: Kristina Dennemann
Monday, November 23, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

112 Ryon Engineering Building

Bridges constitute key elements of the nation’s infrastructure and are subjected to considerable threats from natural hazards including seismic events. A range of potential bridge retrofit measures may be used to mitigate seismic damage in deficient bridges, and help to avoid associated social and economic losses. However, since resources are often limited for investment in seismic upgrade, particularly in regions of large but infrequent events, a risk-based approach for evaluating and comparing the cost effectiveness of different mitigation strategies is warranted. This paper illustrates a method for evaluating the best retrofits for non-seismically designed bridges based on seismic life-cycle costs and cost–benefit analysis. The approach integrates probabilistic seismic hazard models, fragility of as-built and retrofitted bridges for a range of damage states, and associated costs of damage and retrofit. The emphasis on life-time performance and benefits, as opposed to initial retrofit cost alone, not only permits risk-wise investment, but also helps to align upgrade actions with highway agency missions for sustainable infrastructure.

TBA

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:00 CST

Statistics

Speaker: David J. States
Monday, November 23, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Some Graph Optimization Problems in Data Mining

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00 CST

Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Speaker: Paul Van Dooren
Monday, November 23, 2009
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

1064 Duncan Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Graph-theoretic ideas have become very useful in understanding modern large-scale data mining techniques. We show in this talk that ideas from optimization are also quite useful to better understand the numerical behavior of the corresponding algorithms. We illustrate this claim by looking at two specific graph theoretic problems and their application in data mining.

The first problem is that of reputation systems where the reputation of objects and voters on the web are estimated; the second problem is that of estimating the similarity of nodes of large graphs. These two problems are also illustrated using concrete applications in data mining.

Orthogonal approaches for studying glycosaminoglycan biopolymer

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Bioengineering

Speaker: Vittal Srinivas
Monday, November 23, 2009
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

282 BioScience Research Collaborative

Chondroitin/Dermatan sulfate glycosaminoglycans are heterogeneous biopolymers that occur either natively or as part of proteoglycans in the extracellular matrix of eukaryotes. Since their generation is through a non-template driven enzymatic process, understanding the composition and sulfation pattern on any given chain is fraught with multiple hurdles. This thesis extends an approach used to understand heparin by developing a novel combination of lyases and sulfatases and applies FACE and NMR techniques to study eventual composition of degradation products. It then proceeds with understanding coarse-sizing, and bulk properties of these polymers using analytical ultracentrifugation and rheology and tries to capture how the in-vivo environment may look like at physiological concentrations of these polymers. Since proteins and cellular organelles function in an obstacle rich environment it became critical that an understanding of these polymers be done at various scales ranging from O(nm) to O(mm). These orthogonal techniques together seem to indicate that function of these polymers may be governed at multiple hierarchical levels starting with molecular level sulfation/isomerization which inturn contributes to structural level rigidity and even bulk viscosity. This work may have wide application in developing glycan derived polymers for tissue engineering applications, wherein, multiple properties can be encoded through complex backbone modifications.

"Fungal Ecology in Native and Disturbed Coastal Prairie Soils"

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:00 CST

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Speaker: Philip Lyons-Hosted by Jennifer Rudgers
Monday, November 23, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

BL 123 Anderson Biological Laboratories
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Colloquium: The Picard Group of the Moduli Space of Curves with Level Structures

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:00 CST

Mathematics
Scientia
Mathematics
Mathematics

Speaker: Andrew Putman
Monday, November 23, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

427 Herman Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

The Picard group of an algebraic variety $X$ is the set of complex line bundles over $X$. In this talk, we will describe the Picard groups of certain finite covers of the moduli space of curves. The methods we use combine ideas from algebraic geometry, finite group theory, and algebraic/geometric topology.

Colloquium: Kac-Wakimoto Characters and Mock Theta Functions

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:00 CST

Mathematics
Mathematics
Scientia

Speaker: Amanda Folsom
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

227 Herman Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

In this talk I will discuss the role of certain "strange" functions called "mock theta functions" as a liaison between two different areas of mathematics: modular forms, which are complex analytic functions with certain symmetries, and the representation theory of a large class of lie algebras. Despite their "strange" appearance, the mock theta functions in their most classical guises date back to the first part of the 20th century, however their roles in mathematics were not well understood. Only within the last 7 years have we finally begun to understand and develop a greater theory around the mock theta functions in mathematics - relating modular forms and representation theory is just one of their many interesting facets. This talk is intended to be an introduction to this theory.

Cello Class Recital

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Cello students of Desmond Hoebig.
8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

Nanomagnetite Enhances Sand Filtration for the Removal of Arsenic from Drinking Water

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:00 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Speaker: Jesse Farrell
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

253 Mechanical Laboratory

Arsenic in drinking water affects millions globally causing skin disease and cancers of the liver, stomach, and bladder. Large-scale treatment removes arsenic effectively; however, community- and home-scale treatments are typically less effective, more costly, or labor intensive. Nanomagnetite would enable effective, economical arsenic removal in low maintenance, household sand filters. Adsorption isotherms were used to display the capacity of nanomagnetite in a variety of natural waters and pH conditions. Column design and operating conditions were assessed for optimal removal. As(V) breakthrough was affected most by nanomagnetite percentage, residence time, inlet concentration, and nanomagnetite aggregate size. NH4OH regenerated the nanomagnetite, allowing for repeated use. No detectable nanomagnetite escaped the column; however, permanent magnets were shown to capture >98% of nanomagnetite aggregates from a fluid stream. A case study proposes the use of nanomagnetite to treat arsenic contaminated groundwater in Guanajuato, Mexico to below the Mexican EPA drinking water standard for $0.12/m3.

Meteorite evidence for deep crustal magma chambers on Mars suggests crustal growth driven by underplating and intrusion

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:30 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Earth Science

Speaker: Heather Dalton
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
12:30 PM to 3:00 PM

100 Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories

Meteorite RBT04262 is one of only two Martian meteorites made of composite lithologies. Lithology 1 is composed of coarse-grained olivines enclosed in poikilitic pigeonites, resembling lherzolitic shergottites. Lithology 2 is finer-grained and composed of olivine phenocrysts set within a groundmass of augite, olivine, plagioclase (shocked to maskelynite) and accessory phases such as Ca-phosphates, representing an olivine-phyric shergottite. Lithology 1 may be an early-formed cumulate while Lithology 2 may represent a cooled liquid laden with accumulated olivine crystals. Geochemical and textural observations suggest that all components of RBT04262 formed as intrusions. As the majority of Martian meteorites also have a cumulate origin, it is speculated here that crust formation on Mars may be dominated by magmatic underplating or intrusion rather than by subaerial flows. An intrusive-origin for Martian crust has important implications as intrusions can reset the radiometric ages or magnetic signatures of the Martian crust without erasing the cratering history.

Model-based Clustering for Multivariate Time Series of Counts

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:30 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Statistics

Speaker: Sarah Thomas
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM

3076 Duncan Hall

The objective of this work is to cluster multivariate time series of counts based on similar model representations and characteristics of the series. Prior to clustering, it is necessary to develop a modeling framework for multivariate count time series. The basic modeling paradigm used is an observation-driven generalized linear model for Poisson regression. My modeling paradigm also allows for additional zeros at each time epoch for each individual series as well as for all multivariate series. The zero-inflation process provides necessary flexibility for modeling series with few or irregularly observed counts, possibly due to exogenous influences. To estimate the model parameters, I developed a new Monte Carlo Estimation Maximization (MCEM) algorithm as well as new tests for the existence of zero inflation. A distance metric based on the likelihood of the model for each series is used in a hierarchical clustering algorithm to identify relevant clusters for the time series. I demonstrate the clustering method on simulated datasets and a real case study of Houston area air pollution.

Young Tableaux with Applications to Representation Theory and Flag Manifolds

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Mathematics

Speaker: Christian Bruun
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

227 Herman Brown Hall

We outline the use of Young tableaux to describe geometric and algebraic objects using combinatorial methods. In particular, we discuss applications to representations of the symmetric group and the general linear group, flag varieties, and Schubert varieties. We also describe some recent work, including papers by Fulton describing the generalization of Littlewood-Richardson problems to other areas.

Exploring materials science at the nanoscale - Insitu dynamic experiments inside electron microscopes

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:00 CST

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Dean of Engineering
Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Chemistry
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Speaker: Mauricio Terrones
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

1064 Duncan Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Sophisticated transmission electron microscopes (TEM) could be used to monitor transformations of carbon nanomaterials at the atomic level under an electron beam. When the electron beam possesses sufficient energy to displace carbon atoms from lattices, vacancies and interstitials are created. Therefore, under specific beam conditions, one is able to create reactive sites (vacancies or divacancies) and reactive atoms (ad-toms or interstitials), that could start interacting between themselves or with other nanoparticles. In this talk, we study from the theoretical and experimental standpoint, the effects of high electron irradiation at elevated temperatures on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Under these conditions, we witnessed the “welding” of SWNTs exhibiting various geometries. The nanotube welding mechanism is based on the formation and reconstructions of vacancies and divacancies, under the high electron beam, that result in the formation of molecular junctions involving 7 or 8 membered carbon rings. We will also show that controlled electron irradiation of MWNTs filled with metal nanowires, could cause large pressure buildup within the nanotube cores, to the extent of being able to plastically deform, extrude, and break the solid materials that are encapsulated inside. The pressure buildup is based on the creation and reconstruction of vacancies and divacancies that result in shrinkage of the tube diameter, which induces a compression of the encapsulated metals. However, when these vacancies are created, the displaced carbon atoms (interstitials) become very reactive and they could also be embedded in the encapsulated metal particle cores, which subsequently emerge as single- or multi-walled nanotubes inside the host nanotubes. These observations at atomic resolution in an electron microscope indicate that bulk diffusion of carbon through the body of catalytic particles is the nanotube growth-limiting process. When we combine electron irradiation effects and Joule heating we have been able to produce stable metal-nanotube heterostructures exhibiting covalently bonded interfaces between metal and carbon atoms. We will discuss that the electronic transport along these heterostructures is enhanced and it is due to the presence of covalent bonds established between the metal and the carbon atoms. Finally, novel results regarding the edge carbon atom reconstruction of graphene nanoribbons under electron beam irradiation and Joule heating, will be visited. It is clear that these in-situ TEM experiments lead to the observation of reactions at the atomic level that have never been witnessed, and therefore, much more needs to be achieved along this direction when dealing with carbon nanostructures and other chemical species, so as to control atomic and nanostructure manipulation towards the controlled fabrication of nanodevices.

CANCELLED Composers' Orchestra Concert CANCELLED

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:30 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Stude Concert Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Orchestral works of graduate student composers of the Shepherd School – Luke Carlson, Christopher Goddard, Christopher Walczak, Andrew Nishikawa, and Nicolai Jacobson.
6:30 p.m., Stude Concert Hall
*CANCELLED*

POSTPONED Doctoral Organ Recital POSTPONED

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:30 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Eric Gundersen, organist
Music of Bach, Reger, Widor, Dupré, Chopin, and Wagner.
7:30 p.m., Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ
POSTPONED: January - date TBA

Thanksgiving (Holiday) No Classes

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01 CST

Statistics

Speaker: Thanksgiving Recess
Thursday, November 26, 2009 - Friday, November 27, 2009
All Day

Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Thanksgiving Recess (Holiday - No Scheduled Classes)

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01 CST

Academic Calendar
Office of the Registrar
Thursday, November 26, 2009 - Friday, November 27, 2009
All Day

Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

The glycobiology of embryo implantation

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:00 CST

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Speaker: Daniel D. Carson, PhD
Monday, November 30, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

102 Keck Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Copenhagen or bust? an introduction, analysis, and assessment of international climate change agreements and the role of the United States.

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:45 CST

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dean of Engineering

Speaker: Charles Irvine
Monday, November 30, 2009
3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

251 Mechanical Laboratory
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

This talk will start with an introduction to the basic framework for international agreements on climate change, the conference of parties ("COP"), and the path from Kyoto to Copenhagen. Then it will cover in greater depth the expectations for the Copenhagen meeting, and the vital role of the US (including how the the pending US Cap & Trade legislation and EPA's regulation of CO2 under the Clean Air Act fit into the international negotiations).

Automatic Generation of Network Protocol Gateways - Laurent Réveillère

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:00 CST

Computer Science
Dean of Engineering

Speaker: Laurent Réveillère
Monday, November 30, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

1070 Duncan Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

The emergence of networked devices in the home has made it possible to develop applications that control a variety of household functions. However, current devices communicate via a multitude of incompatible protocols, and thus gateways are needed to translate between them. Gateway construction, however, requires an intimate knowledge of the relevant protocols and a substantial understanding of low-level network programming, which can be a challenge for many application programmers. In this talk, I will present a generative approach to gateway construction, z2z, based on a domain-specific language for describing protocol behaviors, message structures, and the gateway logic. Z2z includes a compiler that checks essential correctness properties and produces efficient code. We have used z2z to develop a number of gateways, including SIP to RTSP, SLP to UPnP, and SMTP to SMTP via HTTP, involving a range of issues common to protocols used in the home. Our evaluation of these gateways shows that z2z enables communication between incompatible devices without increasing the overall resource usage or response time.

Master's Flute Recital

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Monday, November 30, 2009
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Izumi Miyahara, flute
Music of Marais, Schubert, Bach, and Sancan.
8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

Gleaning Network Wide Congestion Information from Packet Markings

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:30 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Computer Science

Speaker: Florin Dinu
Monday, November 30, 2009
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM

DH3076 Duncan Hall

Congestion information can greatly benefit network level decisions. For example, fast-reroute algorithms should leverage congestion information when computing backup paths. They could also use the information to monitor if the re-routing decision itself causes congestion in the network. Today, most solutions for inferring congestion work at the end-host level and relay end-to-end congestion information to transport protocols. Network level decisions, on the other hand, may need link level congestion information. Unfortunately, the mechanisms that routers can use to infer link level congestion information are insufficient. Such information could potentially be obtained by periodically sharing estimates between routers. However, this solution increases the traffic load on the network and has difficulty in reliably delivering the estimates during periods of congestion. In this thesis we show that routers inside an autonomous system can easily and accurately infer congestion information about each other. Routers first measure path level congestion information only from the congestion markings in the traffic that they forward. Next, we propose that routers combine routing information with the path level congestion information to obtain a more detailed description of the congestion in the network. Link level congestion information can be computed using this approach. Our techniques never add supplementary traffic into the network and use little router resources. They can be deployed incrementally or in heterogeneous environments. We show that the accuracy of the inference is good using experiments with multiple traffic patterns and various congestion levels.

Nanomagnetite Enhances Sand Filtration For Removal of Arsenic From Drinking Water

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:00 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Speaker: Jesse Farrell
Monday, November 30, 2009
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

253 Mechanical Laboratory

Arsenic in drinking water affects millions globally causing skin disease and cancers of the liver, stomach, and bladder. Large-scale treatment removes arsenic effectively; however, community- and home-scale treatments are typically less effective, more costly, or labor intensive. Nanomagnetite would enable effective, economical arsenic removal in low maintenance, household sand filters. Adsorption isotherms were used to display the capacity of nanomagnetite in a variety of natural waters and pH conditions. Column design and operating conditions were assessed for optimal removal. As(V) breakthrough was affected most by nanomagnetite percentage, residence time, inlet concentration, and nanomagnetite aggregate size. NH4OH regenerated the nanomagnetite, allowing for repeated use. No detectable nanomagnetite escaped the column; however, permanent magnets were shown to capture >98% of nanomagnetite aggregates from a fluid stream. A case study proposes the use of nanomagnetite to treat arsenic contaminated groundwater in Guanajuato, Mexico to below the Mexican EPA drinking water standard for $0.12/m3.

Improvement of image reconstruction and simulation speed with GPU in cone beam CT breast imaging

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:00 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Applied Physics

Speaker: shuaiping ge
Monday, November 30, 2009
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

313 Space Science Building

Breast cancer is the most common and the second lethal cancer among women in the United States. Our group is constructing a cone beam breast CT system to provide true 3D image to improve the screening and diagnostic of breast cancer. My project utilizes the super parallel computing power of GPU with CUDA environment to deal with huge data and improve the image reconstruction and simulation speed. My results show that FDK algorithm image reconstruction with GPU is over 10 times faster than that with our PC cluster system. When imply the exact radiological path to calculate forward image projection process, the computer speed in GPU is almost 100 times faster than that in CPU. The faster and accurate image reconstruction implies potential new applications in diagnostic and therapy technology.

Generalized Linear Models for the Covariance Matrix of Longitudinal Data

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:00 CST

Statistics

Speaker: Mohsen Pourahmadi
Monday, November 30, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:15 PM

Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Finding an unconstrained and statistically interpretable reparameterization of a general covariance matrix is still an open problem in statistics. Its solution is crucial for parsimonious and sparse modeling, and guaranteeing the positive-definiteness of an estimated covariance matrix in all areas of statistics dealing with correlated data, including the longitudinal (panel, functional, spectroscopic, repeated measure, ...) data. It is known that some estimated covariance matrices are not necessarily positive-definite, and recently due to popularity of generalized estimating equations (GEE) and SAS PROC Mixed, there has been a growing tendency to pick a covariance matrix for a data set from a long and expanding menu of covariance matrices, a task which is difficult even for the experts. In this presentation, pooling together ideas from regression and time series analysis, I will discuss a data-based, general-purpose method extending the framework of generalized linear models (GLMs) to covariance matrices, where a link function is introduced through the Cholesky decomposition. It reduces the difficult and unintuitive task of modeling a covariance matrix to that of modeling a sequence of (auto) regressions. Therefore, all existing regression machineries and approaches such as parametric, semiparametric, nonparametric, Bayesian, shrinkage (Ridge, Lasso, ...), etc. can be brought to the service of modeling covariances.

* Join us for light refreshments and meet our guest from 2:00 to 2:10 in the lobby of Duncan Hall. The colloquium begins at 2:10 and ends at 3:10. Open to the general public.

Optical Tomography

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:00 CST

Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Speaker: John C. Schotland
Monday, November 30, 2009
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

1064 Duncan Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

There is considerable interest in the development of optical methods for biomedical imaging. The mathematical problem consists of recovering the optical properties of a medium in which light propagates by multiple scattering. This talk will review recent work on related inverse scattering problems for the radiative transport equation and fast image reconstruction algorithms for large data sets. Numerical simulations and experimental data from model systems are used to illustrate the results.

Stulken Topology Seminar: Curves on surfaces and fixed point Floer homology

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:00 CST

Mathematics
Mathematics
Scientia

Speaker: Tim Perutz
Monday, November 30, 2009
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

423 Herman Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

A sequence of Lagrangian spheres in a symplectic manifold M of dimension 2n determines a 2n+2 dimensional symplectic manifold E as the total space of a Lefschetz fibration over the disc whose generic fiber is M. One can attempt to determine the symplectic and smooth invariants of E from this presentation. When n=1, one is then trying to compute 4-dimensional symplectic invariants from the combinatorics of curves on a surface. One such problem asks for a calculation of the Seiberg-Witten invariant, which is a class in a (generally unknown) Floer homology group associated with the boundary. I will report on ongoing work directed towards this problem. Specifically, it proves a conjecture of Seidel about the Floer homology of the monodromy of a Lefschetz fibration.

"Battle between or within the sexes? Conflict in coercive livebearing fishes"

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:00 CST

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Speaker: Raelynn Deaton-Hosted by Amy Dunham
Monday, November 30, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

BL 123 Anderson Biological Laboratories
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Colloquium: Modular Representations of p-adic Groups

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:00 CST

Mathematics
Mathematics
Scientia

Speaker: Florian Herzig
Monday, November 30, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

427 Herman Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

The Langlands program relates complex representations of GL_n(Q_p) to Galois representations. For n = 1 this is explained by class field theory and for n = 2 this is closely related to the theory of modular forms. For general n, this is now understood by the work of Harris-Taylor and Henniart. In the last decade, a mod-p (as well as a p-adic) version of the Langlands program have been emerging, and they have already played an important role in some recent progress in number theory. But so far understanding has been limited to n = 1 and 2. We survey some of the known story in the classical and in the mod p case, and then discuss some recent progress on the classification of mod p representations of GL_n(Q_p), as time permits.

Rice Chorale Concert

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Monday, November 30, 2009
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Thomas Jaber, director
Joseph Causby, organist
Shepherd School Brass Quintet
Sadie Turner, harp
Chapelwood Chancel Bells
(Andrea Jaber, director)
Program: Britten - A Ceremony of Carols; Pinkham - Christmas Cantata; premieres of new choral works by Andrew Schneider and Jennifer Dirkes; and carol arrangements and other choral music for the season of Advent and Christmas.
Both performances at 8:00 p.m.
Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ
Limited seating available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Voice Class Recital

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Voice students of Susan Lorette Dunn.
4:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

Jakob the Liar (1999). Directed by Peter Kassovitz.

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:00 CST

German and Slavic Studies
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM

301 Sewall Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Kino Dienstag is a monthly film series hosted by German Studies @ Rice. The theme for the Fall semester 2009 is NATIONAL SOCIALISM IN FILM.

Violin Class Recital

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Violin students of Cho-Liang Lin.
8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

Rice Web Forum Workshop - Taking Better Photos

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:00 CST

Information Technology
Public Affairs
Web Services

Speaker: Jeff Fitlow
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Miner Lounge RMC/Ley Student Center
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Part I of three mini-workshops for Rice web coordinators, managers, and content authors. Learn handy tricks that will make your web sites sizzle including using and taking photographs for web use. The forum is co-sponsored by Public Affairs and Web Services with the idea of providing an information-sharing venue for campus web site creators and maintainers. Parts II and III are offered December 2 and 3, respectively and details can be found in the Rice Events Calendar. To receive the next meeting notice, send your request to carlyn@rice.edu.

Scientia Institute: Networks of Knowledge

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:00 CST

Scientia
Scientia

Speaker: Richard Baraniuk
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

McMurtry Auditorium Duncan Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

The last 15 years have seen major shifts in the nature of knowledge production and circulation. The Internet has enabled new modes of authorship, new forms of open licensing and distribution, and new forms of collaboration and peer production to flourish. New online education projects, scientific journals, and reference works have rapidly gained critical mass. But in turn, new anxieties have arisen concerning the long-term sustainability and quality assurance of these enterprises. In this talk, we will review the past, present, and several potential futures of Internet-enabled scholarly publication with a particular emphasis on the global open-access movement.

CANCELLED Violin Class Recital CANCELLED

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Violin students of Sergiu Luca.
6:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall *CANCELLED*

World Religions Lecture: Hinduism

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:00 CST

Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance

Speaker: Dr. Shira Lander
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Rice University, Duncan Hall, Room 1070
6100 Main Street, Entrance 1
Houston,Texas,USA

Registration Required/Admission Charge

A lecture on Hinduism will be presented by The Boniuk Center's Interim Director, Dr. Shira Lander. This lecture is a part of The World Religions Lecture Series. Each lecture is $12 while the whole series is $100 for all 10 lectures. Learn more and register at: http://bit.ly/WorldReligions.

A basic understanding of world religions is increasingly important in our society as we seek to create peaceful coexistence among people of all faiths and no faith. In this short public series, scholars of Rice University's Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance and Resident Scholars will explain the "basics" of major world religions. People of all backgrounds are welcome, and will find this class helpful regardless of any prior knowledge about religion.

Rice Chorale Concert

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Thomas Jaber, director
Joseph Causby, organist
Shepherd School Brass Quintet
Sadie Turner, harp
Chapelwood Chancel Bells
(Andrea Jaber, director)
Program: Britten - A Ceremony of Carols; Pinkham - Christmas Cantata; premieres of new choral works by Andrew Schneider and Jennifer Dirkes; and carol arrangements and other choral music for the season of Advent and Christmas.
Both performances at 8:00 p.m.
Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ
Limited seating available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Guest Artist Master Class

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:30 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Room 1133 Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Nadine Asin, flute (from the Aspen Music Festival)
12:00 p.m., Room 1133
Sponsored by the Kung Family Woodwind Guest Artist Fund.

Master's Piano Recital

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:30 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Richard Marshall, piano
Music of Ravel, Chopin, and Barber.
5:30 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

Electronic Music Concert

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Robert H. Ray Memorial Courtyard at Rice Memorial Center
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

REMLABS (Rice Electro-Acoustic Music Labs) presents a concert of new electronic works by student composers. 6:00 p.m., Robert H. Ray Memorial Courtyard at Rice Memorial Center
In case of inclement weather, this event will take place the following day, Dec. 3, 6:00 p.m., in Room 1133 of Alice Pratt Brown Hall.

Chamber Music for Winds

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:00 CST

Shepherd School of Music
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Featuring students of the Shepherd School.
8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall

Advantage Way High Impact Learning Managers' Booster Session

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:30 CST

Human Resources
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Meyer Conference Room RMC/Ley Student Center
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Registration Required

This High Impact Learning Managers' Booster Session is offered to supervisors and managers who have staff registered to attend training. It will provide you with tools and skills to ensure the training your staff receives is closely aligned with the specific goals of your department.

Click here to register for the session.

Dynamical Response of Multi-Degree of Freedom Structure with Sliding Isolation System and Uplift

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:00 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Speaker: Venkata Vemuru
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

112 Ryon Engineering Building

In this study the two dimensional dynamic response of a Multi Degree of Freedom (MDOF) sliding isolated structure permitted to uplift is studied. The MDOF superstructure is supported by two sets of sliding bearings situated at both the ends of the base mat. The foundation supporting the sliding bearings is assumed to be flexible and modeled using two sets of viscoelastic spring-dashpot systems attached below the sliding isolation bearings. The nonlinear stick-slip behavior of the friction based sliding isolation system is modeled using a hysteretic Bouc-Wen model. A nonlinear analytical model is formulated which takes into account the linear equations of motion of the superstructure and the base mat with stick-slip behavior of sliding isolators and in addition the following effects: uplift and loss of contact at the sliding bearings, and variation of coefficient of friction with velocity and bearing pressure. For comparison purposes fixed base structure with uplift is also modeled. The analytical model is solved using a two-step solution methodology and Pseudo-force method is employed for calculating the nonlinear forces acting on the structure at the interface of sliding isolation system in both the horizontal (stick-slip) direction as well as the vertical (uplift-contact direction). The analytical model developed is validated using experimental results of a 1:4 scaled model. Parametric study is performed with the analytical model (at full scale) by varying the periods of the superstructure, time period of the sliding isolation system, slenderness ratio of superstructure, vertical stiffness of foundation and pulse excitation parameters. The dynamical response of the MDOF structure with sliding isolation and uplift permitted is compared with sliding isolation with uplift prevented and fixed base structure with uplift respectively. The behavior of the MDOF system is studied for both near-source earthquake ground motion and their corresponding cycloidal approximations. The results of the study highlight the advantages of the combined mechanism of sliding isolation and vertical uplift for reduction of structural response of a MDOF system, as compared to the case without uplift and the case without sliding.

Power Hour Conversations to Develop Great Managers

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00 CST

Human Resources
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Meyer Conference Room RMC/Ley Student Center
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Registration Required

Managers are the engines for Rice - you play a key role in ensuring the work of the university gets done. You also are very busy. If you can spare an hour, you can engage in a meaningful conversation with your peers, then take that back to your office and apply it immediately! Bring your lunch and be a part of this new "salon approach" to learning. Register for as few or as many topics as your interests and schedules dictate.

Click here to register for the session.

Rice Web Forum Workshop - Editing and Resizing Photos

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:00 CST

Information Technology
Public Affairs
Web Services
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Miner Lounge RMC/Ley Student Center
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Part 2 of a three-day mini-workshop for Rice web coordinators, managers, and content authors. Attend only the classes for your favorite topics, or attend all three classes. Learn handy tricks that will make your web sites sizzle including resizing your web photos for optimal resolution and speedy loading. The forum is co-sponsored by Public Affairs and Web Services with the idea of providing an information-sharing venue for campus web site creators and maintainers. To receive the next meeting notice, send your request to carlyn@rice.edu.

Study of Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:00 CST

Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Applied Physics

Speaker: Jun Shen
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

KH105 Keck Hall

The Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 is spreading to numerous countries and causing many human deaths. Although the symptoms in humans are mild at present, fears are that further mutations in the virus could lead to a potentially more dangerous outbreak in subsequent months. As the primary immunity-eliciting antigen, hemagglutinin (HA) is the major agent for host-driven antigenic drift in A(H3N2) virus. However, whether and how the evolution of HA is influenced by existing immunity is poorly understood for A(H1N1). Here, by analyzing hundreds of A(H1N1) HA sequences since 1918, we show the first evidence that host selections are indeed present in A(H1N1) HAs. Among a subgroup of human A(H1N1) HAs between 1918~2008, we found strong diversifying (positive) selection at HA1 156 and 190. We also analyzed the evolutionary trends at HA1 190 and 225 that are critical determinants for receptor-binding specificity of A(H1N1) HA. Different A(H1N1) viruses appeared to favor one of these two sites in host-driven antigenic drift: epidemic A(H1N1) HAs favor HA1 190 while the 1918 pandemic and swine HAs favor HA1 225. Thus, our results highlight the urgency to understand the interplay between antigenic drift and receptor binding in HA evolution, and provide molecular signatures for monitoring future antigenically drifted 2009 pandemic and seasonal A(H1N1) influenza viruses.

A Single-Molecule Approach to Chirality, Catalysis and Rotation

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:00 CST

Chemistry

Speaker: C. Sykes
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

180 Dell Butcher Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Energy Harvesting Methods and Applications

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:00 CST

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Dean of Engineering

Speaker: Daniel J. Inman, Ph.D.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

Energy harvesting has become an explosive area of research in the past decade. Here we focus on a variety of new techniques attempting to optimize the amount of energy that can be extracted from various ambient energy sources. Various applications of energy harvesting are also included. The methods discussed include using nonlinear effects in both the mechanical side and electrical side. Also methods combining magnetic transduction and piezoelectric transduction are presented. The applications include micro air vehicles, structural health monitoring and general sensor systems. The concept of harvesting is also integrated into the concept of multifunctional structures through the introduction of “self-charging structures” in an application for micro air vehicles. In conclusion the author’s thoughts on the way forward will be presented.

Colloquium: Nonarchimedean Algebraic Geometry

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:00 CST

Mathematics
Mathematics
Scientia

Speaker: Sam Payne
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

227 Herman Brown Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston,Texas,USA

The usual norm on the complex numbers and its associated analytic geometry (holomorphic functions and differential forms) have been fundamental tools for understanding the geometry and topology of complex algebraic varieties since the beginnings of the subject. Nonarchimedean norms, such as the p-adic norm on the rational numbers, also have an associated analytic geometry which has been used in number theory, but is just beginning to be applied in other areas of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry and dynamical systems. This talk will be an introduction to nonarchimedean geometry with an explanation of its combinatorial manifestation in tropical geometry and relations to intersection theory.

Rice University Events

Wayne White:BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOLWHILE I SLEEP

STENCILING POWER, an exhibition by Michael Adair-Kriz

Stulken Topology Seminar: Milnor fillable contact structures

Piano Class Recital

Violin Class Recital

Master's Clarinet Recital

Workshop of the China-US Center for Environmental Remediation and Sustainable Development

High-level Tasks to Correct, Low-level Robot Control

Molecular mechanisms of action of miRNAs

Space Physics - MULTI-FLUID MHD SIMULATIONS USING THE LYON-FEDDER-MOBARRY MODEL

Life-Cycle Cost-Benefit (LCC-B) Analysis for Bridge Seismic Retrofits

TBA

Some Graph Optimization Problems in Data Mining

Orthogonal approaches for studying glycosaminoglycan biopolymer

"Fungal Ecology in Native and Disturbed Coastal Prairie Soils"

Colloquium: The Picard Group of the Moduli Space of Curves with Level Structures

Colloquium: Kac-Wakimoto Characters and Mock Theta Functions

Cello Class Recital

Nanomagnetite Enhances Sand Filtration for the Removal of Arsenic from Drinking Water

Meteorite evidence for deep crustal magma chambers on Mars suggests crustal growth driven by underplating and intrusion

Model-based Clustering for Multivariate Time Series of Counts

Young Tableaux with Applications to Representation Theory and Flag Manifolds

Exploring materials science at the nanoscale - Insitu dynamic experiments inside electron microscopes

*CANCELLED* Composers' Orchestra Concert *CANCELLED*

*POSTPONED* Doctoral Organ Recital *POSTPONED*

Thanksgiving (Holiday) No Classes

Thanksgiving Recess (Holiday - No Scheduled Classes)

The glycobiology of embryo implantation

Copenhagen or bust? an introduction, analysis, and assessment of international climate change agreements and the role of the United States.

Automatic Generation of Network Protocol Gateways - Laurent Réveillère

Master's Flute Recital

Gleaning Network Wide Congestion Information from Packet Markings

Nanomagnetite Enhances Sand Filtration For Removal of Arsenic From Drinking Water

Improvement of image reconstruction and simulation speed with GPU in cone beam CT breast imaging

Generalized Linear Models for the Covariance Matrix of Longitudinal Data

Optical Tomography

Stulken Topology Seminar: Curves on surfaces and fixed point Floer homology

"Battle between or within the sexes? Conflict in coercive livebearing fishes"

Colloquium: Modular Representations of p-adic Groups

Rice Chorale Concert

Voice Class Recital

Jakob the Liar (1999). Directed by Peter Kassovitz.

Violin Class Recital

Rice Web Forum Workshop - Taking Better Photos

Scientia Institute: Networks of Knowledge

*CANCELLED* Violin Class Recital *CANCELLED*

World Religions Lecture: Hinduism

Rice Chorale Concert

Guest Artist Master Class

Master's Piano Recital

Electronic Music Concert

Chamber Music for Winds

Advantage Way High Impact Learning Managers' Booster Session

Dynamical Response of Multi-Degree of Freedom Structure with Sliding Isolation System and Uplift

Power Hour Conversations to Develop Great Managers

Rice Web Forum Workshop - Editing and Resizing Photos

Study of Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin

A Single-Molecule Approach to Chirality, Catalysis and Rotation

Energy Harvesting Methods and Applications

Colloquium: Nonarchimedean Algebraic Geometry

Wayne White:
BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL
WHILE I SLEEP

CANCELLED Composers' Orchestra Concert CANCELLED

POSTPONED Doctoral Organ Recital POSTPONED

CANCELLED Violin Class Recital CANCELLED