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March 24 through October 27
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Bridge Builders Lecture Series: "Building Tolerance in America's Youth During a Time of Crisis"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Hind Makki
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
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March 24 through October 27
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Bridge Builders Lecture Series: "Building Tolerance in America's Youth During a Time of Crisis"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
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September 08 through October 30
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Solo Exhibition by Houston-based Artist: Anna Nurmuckhamedovna Ataeva
Open to the Public
Artist: Anna Nurmuckhamedovna Ataeva
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 01
9:00 AM
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Increasing Interpersonal Effectiveness: Working Effectively with Difficult People and Tough Situations
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 01
10:00 AM
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Parsimonious inference of species phylogenies from multi-locus data
Open to the Public
Speaker: Cuong Than
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 01
2:30 PM
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Current Math Seminar: An Introduction to Cellular Homology, Covering Spaces
Open to the Public
Speakers: James Cooper, Derek Goto
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 01
4:00 PM
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Rice Earth Science Thursday Seminar - "Modeling Magma Decompression During the 1912 Plinian Eruption at Novarupta, Alaska"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Dr. Helge Gonnermann
Sponsor: Earth Science
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October 01
4:00 PM
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il, ça, it and there. A preliminary look at some English and French Impersonals
Open to the Public
Speaker: Michel Achard
Sponsor: Linguistics
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October 01
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: Voting in Agreeable Societies
Open to the Public
Speaker: Frances Edward Su
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 01
4:00 PM
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BIOE 698 Graduate Seminar
Speaker: Gabor Balaszi
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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October 01
4:30 PM
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From the Érudit to the Philosophe: Judicial Culture and Academic Movement in French Englightenment
Speaker: Mi Gyung Kim
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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October 01
5:30 PM
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Cello Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 01 through October 03
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Rice Players: The Importance of Being Ernest
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Student Clubs
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October 01
8:00 PM
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Master's Voice Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 02
12:00 PM
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K2I Luncheon - October 2009
Speaker: Mary (Cindy) Farach-Carson
Sponsor: Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
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October 02
12:00 PM
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AU - NEW RESULTS FROM THE HST TREASURY PROGRAM ON THE ORION NEBULA CLUSTER
Speaker: Massimo Robberto
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 02
1:00 PM
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Mapping the Structural Landscape of Protein Families with Geometric Feature Vectors
Open to the Public
Speaker: Drew Bryant
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 02
3:00 PM
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Geometric approaches to P vs NP
Speaker: Joseph M. Landsberg
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 02
4:00 PM
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Keck Seminar: A Paradigm for Functional Tissue Engineering of Articular Cartilage
Open to the Public
Speaker: Clark T Hung
Sponsor: Gulf Coast Consortia
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October 02
4:00 PM
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Geometry-Analysis Seminar: How typical is Fubini's Nightmare in Partially Hyperbolic Dynamics?
Open to the Public
Speaker: Andrey Gogolev
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 02
6:30 PM
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Knowledge is Infinite: The Mystery of Space
Main Sponsor: Crossroads Cultural Center-Houston
Open to the Public
Speakers: Mark E Kelly, Dr. Massimo Robberto, Thomas I Hanson
Sponsor: Rice Space Institute
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October 02
7:00 PM
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Asian Film Festival presents THE WORLD, directed by Jia Zhangke
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 02
8:00 PM
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Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 02
8:00 PM
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 02
All Day
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Last day to withdraw with a 40% refund of tuition.
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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October 03 through October 29
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Water - Effects on Life in the Houston Area Art Exhibition
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shell Center for Sustainability
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October 03
2:00 PM
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Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 03
6:30 PM
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Rice vs. Tulsa
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Athletics
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October 03
7:00 PM
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Asian Film Festival presents CAPE No. 7
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 03
8:00 PM
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Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 03
8:00 PM
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 04
2:00 PM
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 04 through October 05
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Asian Film Festival double feature: IN SEARCH OF LIN ZHAO's SOUL w/ THOUGH I AM GONE
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 04
8:00 PM
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Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 05
9:30 AM
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LFM-RCM: Toward a Coupled Description of the Inner and Outer Magnetosphere
Open to the Public
Speaker: Asher Pembroke
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 05
10:00 AM
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Efficient Traffic Trajectory Error Detection
Open to the Public
Speaker: Bo Zhang
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 05
12:00 PM
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Role of tumor microenvironment in prostate cancer progression
Speaker: Mary C. Farach-Carson, PhD
Sponsor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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October 05
12:00 PM
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Space Physics - IMAGING SATURN'S MAGNETOSPHERE USING EMISSIONS OF ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOMS
Speaker: Don Mitchell
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 05
2:00 PM
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Clustering of Complex Data Sets Through Neural Machine Learning
Speaker: Erzsebet Merenyi
Sponsor: Statistics
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October 05
2:00 PM
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Dynamic Optimization of Memory accesses in Parallel Program
Open to the Public
Speaker: Rajkishore Barik
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 05
3:00 PM
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Stability Boundaries of Thermo-Mechanically Coupled Thin Curved Structures
Speaker: Ilinca Stanciulescu
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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October 05
4:00 PM
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"Group versus Individual Competition among Humans"
Speaker: Rick Wilson-Hosted by Dave Queller
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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October 05
4:00 PM
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Condensed Matter - DIRECT OBSERVATION OF SPIN-CHARGE SEPARATION AND INTERACTION EFFECTS IN GaAs QUANTUM WIRES BY MOMENTUM-CONSERVED TUNNELING
Speaker: Chris Ford
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 05
8:00 PM
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Chamber Music for Brass
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 06
2:30 PM
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The 2010 Census: Content, Procedures and Potential Problems
Speaker: Arnold Jackson
Sponsor: Sociology
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October 06
4:00 PM
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar: TBA
Open to the Public
Speaker: Frederick van der Wyck
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 06
4:00 PM
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Biophysics - CONNECTING THE DOTS: Strong Intra-Nucleoid Interactions Organize the E. Coli Chromosome
Speaker: Paul Wiggins
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 06
6:00 PM
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National Night Out 2009
Open to the Public
Sponsor: University Relations
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October 06
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 06
8:00 PM
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Downfall (2004). Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.
Sponsor: German and Slavic Studies
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October 07
10:30 AM
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Advantage Way High Impact Learning Managers' Booster Session
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 07
11:30 AM
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October Lunch Bunch
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Staff Advisory Committee
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October 07
12:00 PM
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Power Hour Conversations to Develop Great Managers
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 07
12:00 PM
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NCSAM - Security vs. Privacy at Home
Sponsor: Information Technology
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October 07
12:00 PM
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AU - (1) INFORMATION PORTALS: Keeping Current, Keeping Alert (2) NEW SPITZER RESULTS FOR NEON AND SULPHER IN NGC 6822
Speaker: (1) Debrah Kolah (2) Reggie Dufour
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 07
4:00 PM
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New Professors Lecture: Research Overviews
Sponsor: Dean of Engineering
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October 07
4:00 PM
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Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis. What can we learn from nature?"
Speaker: D. Matyushov
Sponsor: Chemistry
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October 07
4:00 PM
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Geometry-Analysis Seminar: Positive Lyapunov Exponent for Ergodic Schroedinger Operators
Open to the Public
Speaker: Helge Krüger
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 07
4:00 PM
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The Last Words: Documenting the Language of a Pre-Neolithic Tribe
Speaker: Anvita Abbi
Sponsor: Linguistics
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October 07
4:00 PM
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STORMS IN SPACE: Insights from Numerical Simulations
Speaker: Frank Toffoletto
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 07
8:00 PM
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Chamber Music for Winds
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 08 through November 06
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"Hearts, Hands & Heritage: The Patchwork Soul of Houston" Exhibition
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Houston Enriches Rice Education (HERE)
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October 08
9:00 AM
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Administering Departmental HR Functions (part 1)
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 08
10:00 AM
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Insights into Peroxisome Matrix Protein Import and IBA Metabolism Through Analysis of IBA-response Mutants
Open to the Public
Speaker: Naxhiely Martinez
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 08
12:00 PM
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Teaching with Technology - Information Fluency
Speakers: Debra Kolah, Leah Krevit
Sponsor: Information Technology
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October 08
12:00 PM
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Dining with the Dean: MEMS undergrads
Sponsor: Dean of Engineering
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October 08
2:30 PM
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Dr. Patrick Cirino - Penn State - "Protein and Metabolic Engineering for Improved Biocatalysis"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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October 08
4:00 PM
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Rice Earth Science Thursday Seminar - "Magnetic, Isotopic and Stratigraphic Evidence for Rapid Motion of the Solid Earth with Respect to Its Spin Axis"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Dr. Adam Maloof
Sponsor: Earth Science
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October 08
4:00 PM
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Multi-Robot Systems Lab Open House
Sponsor: Computer Science
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October 08
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: Equilibrium solutions for variational problems with symmetry
Open to the Public
Speaker: Rafael de la Llave
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 08
5:30 PM
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Cello Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 08
7:30 PM
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An Evening with Karen Armstrong: Book Discussion on "The Case for God"
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Speaker: Karen Armstrong
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
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October 08
8:00 PM
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 08
8:00 PM
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Master's Harp Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 08 through October 10
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Rice Players: The Importance of Being Ernest
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Student Clubs
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October 09
3:00 PM
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Alcoholic Beverage Policy Training
Sponsor: Student Judicial Programs
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October 09
4:00 PM
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Keck Seminar: Engineering the Cellular Folding Quality Control System for Therapeutic Applications
Open to the Public
Speaker: Laura Segatori
Sponsor: Gulf Coast Consortia
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October 09
7:00 PM
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New Latin American Left Film Festival: THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 09 through October 11
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 09
8:00 PM
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SYZYGY, New Music at Rice
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 09
All Day
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Registration Deadlines
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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October 10
2:30 PM
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Rice vs. Navy
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Athletics
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October 10
7:00 PM
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New Latin American Left Film Festival: THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 10
8:00 PM
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 11
7:00 PM
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New Latin American Left Film Festival: I PRESIDENT
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 12
8:00 AM
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Faculty & Staff Seasonal Flu Shots
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 12
9:00 AM
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Advanced Business Writing (part 1)
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 12
7:00 PM
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New Latin American Left Film Festival: FRAUDE, MEXICO 2006
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 12 through October 13
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Midterm Recess (No Scheduled Classes)
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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October 12
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Midterm Recess
Sponsor: Statistics
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October 13
7:03 AM
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Water in the Houston Metabolism-Water Needs and Water Quality for this Century
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Sponsor: Shell Center for Sustainability
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October 13
12:00 PM
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NCSAM - Password Management for All Your Accounts
Speaker: Marc Scarborough
Sponsor: Information Technology
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October 13
8:00 PM
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Houston Friends of Music - American String Quartet
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 14
8:00 AM
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ECE Affiliates Conference
Building Stronger Connections
Registration Required
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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October 14
9:00 AM
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Advanced Business Writing (part 2)
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 14
4:00 PM
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ECE Annual Affiliates Meeting Keynote
Programming multicore for low cost, real time and energy efficient systems
Registration Required
Speaker: Alan Gatherer
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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October 14
4:00 PM
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Scaling of Quasibrittle Strength and Lifetime Probability Based on Atomistic Fracture Mechanics, and Analogy with High-k Dielectrics
Open to the Public
Speaker: Zdenek P. Bazant
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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October 14
4:00 PM
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"Fluorophore Engineering for Fluorescence Modulation Microscopy"
Speaker: Robert Dickson
Sponsor: Chemistry
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October 14
4:00 PM
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HINODE AND THE ROSETTA STONE OF THE SOLAR CORONA
Speaker: Scott McIntosh
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 14 through October 15
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2009 Computer Science Corporate Affiliates Meeting
Sponsor: Computer Science
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October 14
7:00 PM
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Loewenstern Fellowship Presentation
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Community Involvement Center
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October 14
8:00 PM
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President's Lecture Series presents Tony Kushner
Open to the Public
Speaker: Tony Kushner
Sponsor: President's Lecture Series
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October 15 through October 17
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Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Conference
Registration Required
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
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October 15
9:00 AM
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Administering Departmental HR Functions (part 2)
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 15
12:15 PM
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"On/About Mingling"
Speaker: Angela Rivas
Sponsor: Anthropology
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October 15
2:30 PM
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Dr. Victor Ugaz - Texas A&M - Title "Harnessing Natural Convection to Replicate DNA by the Polymerase Chain Reaction"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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October 15
2:30 PM
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Current Math Seminar: Introduction to Contact Homology
Open to the Public
Speaker: Bridget Franklin
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 15
4:00 PM
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Rice Earth Science Thursday Seminar - "Glaciers Limit the Height of Mountains: Clues about this 'snow buzzsaw' from glaciers that touch the sea"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Hallet
Sponsor: Earth Science
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October 15
4:00 PM
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Concepts and Developments: Bio-inspired Functionally Graded Biomaterials
Speaker: Peter Yang
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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October 15
4:00 PM
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Grammatical Aspects of Codeswitching in Late Medieval Macaronic Sermons
Speaker: Helena Halmari
Sponsor: Linguistics
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October 15
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: Dirichlet’s theorem on Diophantine approximation
Open to the Public
Speaker: Nimish A. Shah
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 15
7:00 PM
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"Workshop on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database"
Registration Required
Speaker: Linda/Richard Salvucci
Sponsor: History
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October 15
8:00 PM
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Trombone Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 16
8:00 AM
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Faculty & Staff Seasonal Flu Shots
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 16
9:00 AM
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Comb Laser Diodes for Commodity WDM Computer Interconnects
Speakers: Daniil Livshits, Greg Wojcik
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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October 16
11:00 AM
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Parameter Variations and Leakage in Nano-scale Technologies: Error Resiliency and Low-Power Design Methods
Open to the Public
Speaker: Kaushik Roy
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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October 16
1:00 PM
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Biophysics - LOW-DIMENSIONAL CLUSTERING REVEALS NEW INFLUENZA STRAINS BEFORE THEY BECOME DOMINANT
Speaker: Jiankui He
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 16
3:00 PM
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Customer Reviews in Spectrum: Recommendation System in Wideband Cognitive Radio Networks
Open to the Public
Speaker: Husheng Li
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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October 16
3:45 PM
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Wildflower Planting Fall 2009
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Environment and Society
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October 16
4:00 PM
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Keck Seminar: mTOR Signaling as a Target for Cancer Therapy
Open to the Public
Speaker: Funda Meric-Bernstam
Sponsor: Gulf Coast Consortia
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October 16
4:00 PM
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“Vulnerability, Disposability, Desubjectivation”
Open to the Public
Speaker: Ranjana Khanna
Sponsor: Study of Women & Gender
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October 16
5:00 PM
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New Latin American Left Film Festival: INTERMISSIONS
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 16
7:00 PM
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"Hearts, Hands & Heritage: The Patchwork Soul of Houston" Reception & Panel Discussion
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Houston Enriches Rice Education (HERE)
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October 16
7:00 PM
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Starlight Movie Night presents Lilo & Stitch
Open to the Public
Sponsor: University Relations
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October 16
8:00 PM
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Violin Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 16
All Day
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Last day to withdraw with a 20% refund of tuition.
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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October 16
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Initiation of year-long research series on "The Politics of Vulnerability: Subjects, Bodies, Communities"
Sponsor: Study of Women & Gender
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October 17
9:00 AM
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Panels on “The Politics of Vulnerability”
Speaker: Ranjana Khanna
Sponsor: Study of Women & Gender
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October 17
3:00 PM
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Senior Oboe Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 17
5:30 PM
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Master's Oboe Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 17
8:00 PM
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Rice Symphonic Band Spring Concert
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Band Department (The Mob)
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October 18
7:00 PM
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New Latin American Left Film Festival: COCALERO
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 18 through October 20
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Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position Workshop
Registration Required
Sponsor: NSF ADVANCE Program
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October 19
12:00 PM
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How fungi tell time
Speaker: Deborah Bell-Pedersen, PhD
Sponsor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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October 19
12:00 PM
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Trumpet Class Recital
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 19
2:00 PM
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Exploratory Survival Analysis: Thinking out of the Cox-Regression Box
Speaker: Cheng Cheng
Sponsor: Statistics
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October 19
2:00 PM
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The Shah's Wardrobe: Textiles from Safavid Iran
Open to the Public
Speaker: Francesca Leoni, Jennifer Scarce
Sponsor: Art History
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October 19
3:00 PM
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Modeling the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks
Speaker: Matthew Bennett
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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October 19
4:00 PM
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"Community Dynamics in a Changing Environment"
Speaker: Norma Fowler-Hosted by Tom Miller
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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October 19
4:00 PM
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STULKEN TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: Integral TQFTs from Quantum Doubles
Open to the Public
Speaker: Thomas Kerler
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 19
8:00 PM
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Piano Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 20
10:15 AM
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Designing Incentives for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Open to the Public
Speaker: Seth Nielson
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 20
12:00 PM
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Alternative Spring Break 2010 - Faculty/Staff Information Session
Registration Required
Sponsor: Community Involvement Center
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October 20
12:00 PM
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BCB Pizza Lunch
Sponsor: Dean of Natural Sciences
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October 20
12:15 PM
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"Out of the Comfort Zone: Why Vulvar Reluctance is a Feminist Issue."
Speaker: Christine Labuski
Sponsor: Anthropology
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October 20
2:30 PM
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A Penalized Matrix Decomposition, with Application to Sparse Clustering
Speaker: Daniela M. Witten
Sponsor: Statistics
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October 20
4:00 PM
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Rorschach Memorial Lecture - CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONSTRAINTS ON ENERGY POLICY AND PRACTICES
Speaker: Ralph J. Cicerone
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 20
4:00 PM
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Spaces of hyperelliptic curves with simple singularities
Open to the Public
Speaker: Maksym Fedorchuk
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 20
4:00 PM
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Climate Change and Constraints on Energy Policy and Practices
Speaker: Ralph J. Cicerone
Sponsor: Dean of Natural Sciences
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October 20
6:00 PM
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The Global Financial Crisis and Asian Women: More Pressure for a Race to the Bottom?
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Speaker: Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Sponsor: Program in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities
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October 20
7:00 PM
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Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 20
8:00 PM
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Master's Bassoon Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 21
9:00 AM
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Can You Hear Me Now? - The Power of Listening Skills
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 21
9:00 AM
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Manipulation of Carbon Nanostructures for Multifunctional Composite Materials
Open to the Public
Speaker: Jay Lomeda
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 21
12:00 PM
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Dining with the Dean: ECE undergrads
Sponsor: Dean of Engineering
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October 21
2:00 PM
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Knowledge-based Chemical Shift Prediction and Recognition of Protein Structure
Open to the Public
Speaker: Zhao Ge
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 21
2:00 PM
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Condensed Matter - LATTICE DISTORTION AND MAGNETIC QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION IN CeFeAs1-xPxO
Speaker: Clarina R. dela Cruz
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 21
3:00 PM
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Talk and Panel about Open Access Publishing
Open to the Public
Speaker: Richard Baraniuk, Moshe Vardi, Sidney Burrus, Mark Davenport
Sponsor: Fondren Library
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October 21
4:00 PM
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Geometry-Analysis: Nodel sets of Dirichlet minimizing multiple-valued functions
Open to the Public
Speaker: Wei Zhu
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 21
4:00 PM
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CS Colloquium
Speaker: Haifeng Yu
Sponsor: Computer Science
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October 21
7:00 PM
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COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS. Hosted by Houston PBS Community Cinema Program
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 21
8:00 PM
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Chamber Music Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 21
9:00 PM
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Rice Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Band Department (The Mob)
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October 22
9:00 AM
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Administering Departmental HR Functions (part 3)
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 22
12:00 PM
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Alternative Spring Break 2010 - Faculty/Staff Meet & Greet
Registration Required
Sponsor: Community Involvement Center
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October 22
12:00 PM
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NCSAM - Identity Theft: Prevention and Recovery
Speaker: Jared Goldman
Sponsor: Information Technology
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October 22
1:00 PM
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Melancholy, The Modernist Threat, On Bingyi's Recent Projects
Open to the Public
Speaker: Bingyi Huang
Sponsor: Art History
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October 22
2:30 PM
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Dr. Peter Vekilov - University of Houston - Title "The Heme and Sickle Cell Hemoglobin Ploymerization"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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October 22
2:30 PM
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Is Computing at a Tipping Point?
Speaker: Frances Allen
Sponsor: VISEN
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October 22
2:30 PM
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Current Math Seminar: Introduction to Khovanov Homology
Open to the Public
Speaker: Andrew Elliott
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 22
4:00 PM
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Rice Earth Science Thursday Seminar - "The Mechanics of Landslide Initiation"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Robert Viesca-Falguieres
Sponsor: Earth Science
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October 22
4:00 PM
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State of the University Address to the Faculty in Plenary Session
Sponsor: Faculty Senate
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October 22
4:00 PM
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Towards a Neurocognitive Approach to Language Use
Speaker: Jose Gil
Sponsor: Linguistics
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October 22
4:00 PM
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FROM BLACK HOLES TO STRANGE METALS: Many-Body Physics Through A Gravitational Lens
Speaker: Hong Liu
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 22
4:00 PM
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Weak-binding Aptamers: The Role of Structural Dynamics in Inhibitor Functionality
Open to the Public
Speaker: Christy F. Landes
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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October 22
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: Holomorphic curves into algebraic varieties and the uniqueness theorems
Open to the Public
Speaker: Min Ru
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 22
5:30 PM
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Master's Composition Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 22
8:00 PM
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Doctoral Piano Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 23
8:00 AM
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Faculty & Staff Seasonal Flu Shots
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 23
1:00 PM
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Biophysics - F-ACTIN PUSHES AND PULLS THE MEMBRANE IN VIVO
Speaker: Brenda Farrell
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 23
3:45 PM
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Seismic Fragility Estimates for Pristine and Deteriorating Bridges and Bridge Networks
Open to the Public
Speaker: Paolo Gardoni
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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October 23
4:00 PM
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Keck Seminar: Structure-Based Approaches To Oncogene Targeting: Focus on Stat 3
Open to the Public
Speaker: David Tweardy
Sponsor: Gulf Coast Consortia
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October 23
6:00 PM
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Campus Observatory Open House
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Rice Space Institute
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October 23
8:00 PM
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Piano Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 23
All Day
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Last day to withdraw with a 10% refund of tuition.
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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October 24
11:00 AM
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Sally Ride Science Festival
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Rice Space Institute
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October 24
2:30 PM
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Rice vs. UCF
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Athletics
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October 24
3:00 PM
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Senior Flute Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 24
5:30 PM
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Violin Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 24
8:00 PM
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Master's Composition Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 25
8:00 PM
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Viola Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 26
12:00 PM
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"The Riddle of Religion: Du Bois and the Global Theological Condition"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Kameron Carter
Sponsor: Center on Race, Religion, & Urban Life
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October 26
2:00 PM
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Robust Shrinkage and Model Selection in Regression
Speaker: Phil Brown
Sponsor: Statistics
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October 26
2:00 PM
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Numerical Studies Of Ultracold Atomic Gases
Open to the Public
Speaker: Hong Lu
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 26
3:00 PM
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TBA
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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October 26
4:00 PM
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EEB Seminar,TBA
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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October 26
4:00 PM
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Stulken Topology Seminar: Identifying the Canonical Component for the Whitehead Link
Open to the Public
Speaker: Emily Landes
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 26
4:00 PM
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The whole vs the sum of the parts
Open to the Public
Speaker: Moshe Y. Vardi
Sponsor: Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
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October 27
9:00 AM
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Interviewing: More Than a Gut Feeling (part 1)
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 27
12:00 PM
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IBB NIH Biotechnology Seminar Series: David J. Lee, President of n3D Biosciences, Inc.
Sponsor: Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
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October 27
12:10 PM
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Red Priest - Outreach Concert
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 27
12:15 PM
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"Digital Tools for Research and Teaching in Anthropology"
Speaker: Lisa Spiro
Sponsor: Anthropology
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October 27
1:00 PM
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VIGRE TOPOLOGY WORKING SEMINAR: Bounds on the s invariant
Open to the Public
Speaker: Andrew Elliott
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 27
4:00 PM
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Scientia Institute: Using Network Models to Predict and Control 2009 (H1N1) Pandemic Influenza
Open to the Public
Speaker: Lauren Ancel Meyers
Sponsor: Scientia
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October 27
4:00 PM
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Rational curves on K3 surfaces
Open to the Public
Speaker: Brendan Hassett
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 27
5:00 PM
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Reception for Opening of the Campbell Lecture Series
Sponsor: Dean of Humanities
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October 27
5:30 PM
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Senior Composition Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 27
6:00 PM
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Campbell Lecture Series
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Dean of Humanities
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October 27
7:00 PM
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VISUAL AND DRAMATIC ARTS SLAM - STUDIO ARTS ROUNDTABLE
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 27
8:00 PM
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Doctoral Piano Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 28
9:00 AM
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Interviewing: More Than a Gut Feeling (part 2)
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 28
11:00 AM
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Professional Schools Fair - Legal & Medical
Sponsor: Student Judicial Programs
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October 28
12:00 PM
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New Scholarship on Transnational Asia (NSTA)
Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies
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October 28
2:30 PM
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ECE Distinguished Lecture
The Technological Power of Communications + Content + Community
Open to the Public
Speaker: Fred Kitson
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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October 28
4:00 PM
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Bipedal Robotic Walking: Motivating the Study of Hybrid Phenomena
Open to the Public
Speaker: Aaron D. Ames
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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October 28
4:00 PM
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Fabrication and Optical Tuning of Nanoscale Quantum Dot Assemblies on Surfaces
Speaker: James Batteas
Sponsor: Chemistry
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October 28
4:00 PM
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Geometry-Analysis: Spectral Characterization of Sobolev Trace Spaces
Open to the Public
Speaker: Giles Auchmuty
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 28
4:00 PM
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SINGLE MOLECULE DETECTION OF DIRECT, HOMOLOGOUS, PAIRING BETWEEN INTACT DOUBLE STRANDED DNA MOLECULES
Speaker: Mara Prentiss
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 28
6:00 PM
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Campbell Lecture Series
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Dean of Humanities
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October 28
7:00 PM
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OUT IN THE SILENCE, directed by Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Artist: Joe Wilson
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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October 28
7:30 PM
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Guest Artist Recital and Master Class
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 28
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital - Suzanne Mentzer
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 29
9:30 AM
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Town Hall Meeting with President David Leebron
Sponsor: Human Resources
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October 29
4:00 PM
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Rice Earth Science Thursday Seminar - "What can small scale experiments tell us about large scale subduction zones? New in situ techniques for determining mineral solubility at high pressures"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Juliane Gross
Sponsor: Earth Science
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October 29
4:00 PM
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Methods for Finding Proper Types of Constructional Generalizations
Open to the Public
Speaker: Hans Boas
Sponsor: Linguistics
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October 29
4:00 PM
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Perlecan, A Multifunctional Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan and Extracellular Scaffold
Open to the Public
Speaker: Cindy Carson
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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October 29
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: Schroedinger equations with potentials generated by shifts and skew-shifts
Open to the Public
Speaker: Michael Goldstein
Sponsor: Mathematics
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October 29
5:00 PM
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Slavery and the Slave Trade in the South Atlantic World
Open to the Public
Speaker: Joseph C Miller
Sponsor: History
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October 29
6:00 PM
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Campbell Lecture Series
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Dean of Humanities
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October 29
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital - The Fischer Duo
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 30
12:00 PM
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NCSAM - Credit Information Theft: Prevention, Monitoring and Recovery
Speaker: Brucus Owdley, Jacob Webb
Sponsor: Information Technology
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October 30
12:30 PM
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Functionalization and Modification of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for their use as Drug Delivery Agents and for the Storage of Hydrogen
Open to the Public
Speaker: Ashley Leonard
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 30
1:00 PM
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Biophysics - MEMBRANE-MEDIATED BETA-AMYLOID FORMATION: Demonstration and Free Energy Description
Speaker: Huey Huang
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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October 30
1:30 PM
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Copper as a Biological Yin-Yang Element: Structural Dynamics, Protein-Protein Interactions and Transfer Mechanisms of Copper Transport Proteins
Open to the Public
Speaker: Agustina Rodriguez-Granillo
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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October 30
2:00 PM
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Rice Web Forum - Web Sites and Students
Speaker: Michael Rog
Sponsor: Information Technology
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October 30
3:15 PM
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Abdo S. Yazbeck, Lead Health Economist and Program Leader of the Health and AIDS Program at the World Bank Institute, to discuss a new landmark report on health disparities at Rice University
Speaker: Abdo S. Yazbeck
Sponsor: Robin Sickles
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October 30
3:45 PM
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Redox Processes in Environmental Systems
Open to the Public
Speaker: Bill Batchelor
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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October 30
4:00 PM
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“From the Blood of Race to the Chromosomes of Gender: The Legal Criteria of Race and Sex in Cases of ‘Fraud’”
Speaker: Jenifer Bratter, Kristen Schilt, Sarah Fenstermaker
Sponsor: Study of Women & Gender
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October 30
4:00 PM
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From the Blood of Race to the Chromosomes of Gender: The Legal Criteria of Race and Sex in Cases of 'Fraud'"
Speakers: Jenifer Bratter, Kristen Schilt, Sarah Fenstermaker
Sponsor: Center on Race, Religion, & Urban Life
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October 30
5:00 PM
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Self-Governance and Time
Speaker: Michael Bratman
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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October 30
5:00 PM
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Guest Artist Master Class
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 30
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 30
All Day
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Application for Degree Deadlines
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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October 31
11:00 AM
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Guest Artist Master Class
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 31
3:00 PM
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Junior Violin Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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October 31
8:00 PM
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P.D.Q. Bach Concert
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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