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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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November 01
3:00 PM
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Junior Viola Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 01
5:30 PM
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Violin Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 02
12:00 PM
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Form and function of bacterial type IV secretion systems
Speaker: Peter Christie, PhD
Sponsor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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November 02
2:00 PM
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Revenue Management in the Airline Industry
Speaker: Maarten Oosten
Sponsor: Statistics
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November 02
3:00 PM
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Math at Top Speed: Exploring and Breaking Myths in the Drag Racing Folklore
Speaker: Richard A. Tapia
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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November 02
4:00 PM
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"Community Assembly in Time and Space"
Speaker: Jonathan Chase-Hosted by Volker Rudolf
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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November 02
4:00 PM
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A National Initiative for Technology-Mediated Social Participation (Technology, Society & Public Policy)
Open to the Public
Speaker: Ben Shneiderman
Sponsor: Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
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November 02
6:15 PM
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Author Discussion: David Eagleman on "Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlives"
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
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Admission Charge
Speaker: David Eagleman
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
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November 02
6:30 PM
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La última palabra: poesía española de hoy
Sponsor: Hispanic Studies
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November 02
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 03
8:00 AM
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Cyberspace in America: A Status Report
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Speaker: Dale Meyerrose
Sponsor: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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November 03
4:00 PM
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Condensed Matter - INTERPLAY BETWEEN ANTIFERROMAGNETIC QUANTUM CRITICAL POINT AND SELECTIVE MOTT TRANSITION IN PURE AND DOPED YbRh2Si2
Speaker: Frank Steglich
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 03
4:00 PM
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Distinguished Lecture: Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery - Ben Shneiderman
Speaker: Ben Shneiderman
Sponsor: Computer Science
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November 03
4:00 PM
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Del Pezzo surfaces over finite fields with few rational points
Open to the Public
Speaker: Shuijing Li
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 03
5:30 PM
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Piano Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 03
8:00 PM
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The Great Dictator (1940). Directed by Charles Chaplin.
Sponsor: German and Slavic Studies
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November 03
8:00 PM
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Doctoral Lecture Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 04
9:00 AM
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Controller's Office 101
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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November 04
11:30 AM
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November 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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November 04
11:30 AM
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NSF ADVANCE Research Symposium Poster Session
Open to the Public
Sponsor: ADVANCE Program
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November 04
2:00 PM
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The Counter-Intuitive Properties of Ensembles for Machine Learning, or, Democracy Defeats Meritocracy
Speaker: Philip Kegelmeyer
Sponsor: Statistics
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November 04
3:30 PM
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NSF ADVANCE Research Symposium Presentations
Open to the Public
Sponsor: NSF ADVANCE Program
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November 04
4:00 PM
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Nanostructure -- Biomolecule Interactions: Implications for Nanomedicine and New Materials
Open to the Public
Speaker: Richard W. Siegel
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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November 04
4:00 PM
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Pyramidal Shells: a Platform for Designing Multifunctional Plasmonic Particles
Speaker: Teri Odom
Sponsor: Chemistry
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November 04
4:00 PM
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Reflections: Sixty Years of Fondren Library
Open to the Public
Speaker: Melissa Kean, Peggy Barnett, Cindy Dinh, Ira Gruber, Dean James
Sponsor: Fondren Library
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November 04
4:00 PM
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Geometry-Analysis: Rigidity and skinning maps
Open to the Public
Speaker: David Dumas
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 04
7:30 PM
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Shepherd School Opera
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 05
12:00 PM
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Dining with the Dean: CEE and ECE undergrads
Sponsor: Dean of Engineering
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November 05
12:00 PM
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Reinvention of Tradition in Architecture in Postwar Japan: Katsura (1960), a Photographic Collaboration by Tange Kenzo and Ishimoto Yasuhiro
Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies
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November 05
1:00 PM
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Biophysics - NANOSENSORS FOR SUPERBUGS AND SUPERDRUGS
Speaker: Rachel McKendry
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 05
2:30 PM
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Dr. Robert Tranquillo - Minnesota - Title "Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Based on Cell-Remodeled Biopolymers"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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November 05
4:00 PM
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Chapman Lecture - WONDER IN FLAT CARBON WORLD: Graphene
Speaker: Philip Kim
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 05
4:00 PM
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Rice Earth Science Thursday Seminar Series - "Earthquake Occurrence and Fault Slip in Fault Systems"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Dr. James H. Dieterich
Sponsor: Earth Science
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November 05
4:00 PM
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Metabolism: The Silent Choreographer of Cellular Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Speaker: Deepak Nagarath
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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November 05
4:00 PM
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When is a modifier a modifier? A Radical Construction Grammar approach
Speaker: William Croft
Sponsor: Linguistics
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November 05
5:00 PM
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Smalley Institute open house celebrates 10 years of HiPco
Sponsor: Dean of Natural Sciences
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November 05
6:00 PM
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The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money
Open to the Public
Speaker: Timothy Carney
Sponsor: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy - Student Forum
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November 05
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 06
8:30 AM
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Transitioning Technologies from Labs to Least Developed Countries
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Sponsor: Rice 360° Initiative
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November 06
9:00 AM
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RCM simulation of the March 23rd 2007 substorm event using the OpenGGCM
Open to the Public
Speaker: Bei Hu
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 06
11:00 AM
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Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic - Erik Demaine
Open to the Public
Speaker: Erik Demaine
Sponsor: Computer Science
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November 06
12:00 PM
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K2I Luncheon - November 2009
Speaker: Stanislav Sazykin
Sponsor: Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
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November 06
1:00 PM
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Biophysics - DESIGNER DNA ARCHITECTURES FOR NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
Speaker: Hao Yan
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 06
1:30 PM
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Resistive Switching in SiOx-Based Systems
Open to the Public
Speaker: Jun Yao
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 06
3:00 PM
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“Thinking Laterally: A Conjunctural History of the Late Nineteenth Century World"
Speaker: Mark Metzler
Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies
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November 06
4:00 PM
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Two Poems: Poetic Sequence and Poetic Series
Open to the Public
Speaker: James Longenbach
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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November 06
4:00 PM
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Keck Seminar: "The Origin of Anomalous Mesoscopic Phases in Protein Solutions"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Vassiliy Lubchenko
Sponsor: Gulf Coast Consortia
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November 06
4:00 PM
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Chapman - PSEUDO SPINS IN GRAPHITIC CARBON NANOSTRCTURES: From Analogy of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to Carbon Based Electronics
Speaker: Philip Kim
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 06
5:30 PM
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Master's Composition Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 06
7:00 PM
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Starlight Movie Night presents Kung Fu Panda
Open to the Public
Sponsor: University Relations
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November 06
7:30 PM
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*SOLD OUT* Shepherd School Opera *SOLD OUT*
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 06
8:00 PM
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United Nations Association Travelling Film Festival: Salim Baba (India) & Face2Face (Palestine/Isreal/France)
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 06
8:00 PM
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Cello Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 07
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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November 07
8:00 PM
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Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 08
12:00 PM
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Junior Flute Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 08
1:00 PM
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Field Fest: An Afternoon with Linguists Documenting Endangered Languages
Sponsor: Linguistics
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November 08
2:00 PM
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Shepherd School Opera
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 08
5:30 PM
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Junior Bassoon Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 08
8:00 PM
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Senior Bassoon Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 09
12:00 PM
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Next Generation X - Aptamers for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Speaker: David G. Gorenstein, PhD
Sponsor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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November 09
12:15 PM
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Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 09
2:00 PM
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Evaluating the Role of Overdiagnosis in Lung Cancer Screening
Speaker: Deborah Goldwasser
Sponsor: Statistics
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November 09
3:00 PM
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On the Mathematical Theory for the Boltzmann Equation
Speaker: Ricardo Alonso
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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November 09
3:00 PM
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Deterministic and Stochastic Responses of Smart Variable Stiffness and Damping Systems and Smart Tuned Mass Dampers
Open to the Public
Speaker: Ertan Sonmez
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 09
4:00 PM
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"Sleeping in a society: Mapping sleep in a hive of honey bees & Vigilance in the context of INVASION"
Speaker: Barrett Klein-hosted by Dave Queller
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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November 09
4:00 PM
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Condensed Matter - EMERGENT SUPERSYMMETRY AND STRING IN CONDENSED MATTER SYSTEMS
Speaker: Sung-Sik Lee
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 09
8:00 PM
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Chamber Music for Brass
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 10
10:00 AM
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Towards Large Scale Production and Separation of Carbon Nanotubes
Open to the Public
Speaker: Noe Alvarez
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 10
12:00 PM
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IBB NIH Biotechnology Seminar Series: Michael Cuchiara, Associate at AlphaDev and Rice Doctoral Candidate
Sponsor: Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
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November 10
1:00 PM
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VIGRE TOPOLOGY WORKING SEMINAR: The Classification of Links up to Link-Homotopy
Open to the Public
Speaker: Carolyn Otto
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 10
4:00 PM
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Orbit Parametrizations of Curves
Open to the Public
Speaker: Wei Ho
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 10
4:30 PM
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Reflexiones sobre el cine español actual
Sponsor: Hispanic Studies
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November 10
5:30 PM
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Senior Violin Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 10
7:00 PM
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Scientia Institute: Networks and the Architecture of Complexity: From the WWW to the Cell
Open to the Public
Speaker: Albert-László Barabási
Sponsor: Scientia
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November 10
7:30 PM
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* SOLD OUT* Shepherd School Opera *SOLD OUT*
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 11
9:00 AM
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Property and Fixed Asset Management...It's No Big Deal, Until It's a Big Deal
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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November 11
10:30 AM
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Advantage Way High Impact Learning Managers' Booster Session
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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November 11
11:00 AM
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Veterans Day 2009 Ceremony
Sponsor: Human Resources
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November 11
12:00 PM
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Power Hour Conversations to Develop Great Managers
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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November 11
4:00 PM
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Welding Development for the World's Strongests Pipeline: X120
Open to the Public
Speaker: Mario Macia
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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November 11
4:00 PM
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Geometry-Analysis Seminar: Exponential Decay of Green's Function for Discrete Alloy-Type Models on Z with (Sign-Changing) Single Site Potential of Finite Support
Open to the Public
Speaker: Martin Tautenhahn
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 11
4:00 PM
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Franklin Lecture - Excitation Transfer in Light Harvesting Complexes
Speaker: Robert Silbey
Sponsor: Chemistry
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November 11
4:00 PM
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THE QUEST TO UNDERSTAND PHYSICS IN THE MICROWORLD: Physics at Hadron Colliders
Speaker: Yuri Gershtein
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 11
4:00 PM
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Managing Sensor Networks Resource Usage and Monitoring Active Volcanoes - Geoffrey Werner Challen
Open to the Public
Speaker: Geoffrey W. Challen
Sponsor: Computer Science
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November 11
6:00 PM
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Climate Change in the Next Century, effects on the Maldives and the Belize and Australian Great Barrier Reefs
Open to the Public
Speakers: Claudio Leoncavallo, Andre W Droxler
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Environment and Society
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November 11
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 11
8:00 PM
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RPC Presents Homecoming Comedian: Eddie Ifft
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Student Center (RMC)
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November 12
9:00 AM
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Increasing Interpersonal Effectiveness: Communicating with Diplomacy and Tact
Registration Required
Sponsor: Human Resources
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November 12
12:00 PM
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Dining with the Dean: CS undergrads
Sponsor: Dean of Engineering
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November 12
12:15 PM
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Doctoral Lecture Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 12
12:15 PM
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"Collecting Field Data"
Speakers: Elise McCarthy, Lina Dib, Anthony Potoczniak, Laura Jones, Elitza Ranova
Sponsor: Anthropology
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November 12
1:00 PM
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Biophysics - LABEL-FREE IMMUNOSENSING BY LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE
Speaker: Kathryn Mayer
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 12
4:00 PM
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Rice Earth Science Seminar- "Thermal and Chemical Evolution of Earth's Deep Interior: The New Paradigm"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Dr. John Hernlund
Sponsor: Earth Science
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November 12
4:00 PM
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BIOE 698 Graduate Seminar
Speaker: Cathy Ambrose
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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November 12
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: Eigenvalue Statistics for Ergodic Localization
Speaker: Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 12
4:00 PM
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Cleft sentences in Indonesian and Kimaragang
Speaker: Paul Kroeger
Sponsor: Linguistics
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November 12
4:00 PM
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“Hindutva in Transnational Alignments”
Open to the Public
Speaker: Deepa Reddy
Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies
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November 12
4:00 PM
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Undergraduate Advising Meeting
Sponsor: Dean of Engineering
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November 12
6:00 PM
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Junior Double Bass Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 12
6:30 PM
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Greater Houston Amazing Faiths Dinner Dialogues
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
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November 12
8:00 PM
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Houston Friends of Music - Pavel Haas Quartet
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 12
8:00 PM
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Bassoon Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 13
1:00 PM
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Biophysics - TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING OF BACTERIAL TOXIN TRANSLOCATION
Speaker: John Collier
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 13
2:00 PM
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Natural Sciences Alumni Open House
Sponsor: Dean of Natural Sciences
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November 13
2:00 PM
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Natural Sciences Alumni Open House
Sponsor: Chemistry
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November 13
3:45 PM
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Distributed Energy Resources, Transportation Futures, and Air Quality in the Urban Environment
Open to the Public
Speaker: Donald Dabdub
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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November 13
4:00 PM
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Keck Seminar: Nano-Optofluidic Detection of Single Viruses and Proteins
Open to the Public
Speaker: Lucas Novotny
Sponsor: Gulf Coast Consortia
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November 13
4:00 PM
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“The Part That Has No Part: Sexuality, Autology, Genealogy, and the End of Recognition in Contemporary Australia”
Open to the Public
Speaker: Elizabeth Povinelli
Sponsor: Study of Women & Gender
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November 13
4:00 PM
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Social Sciences Homecoming Alumni and Faculty Reception
Sponsor: Dean of Social Sciences
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November 13
4:00 PM
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Software for SMRT Biology - Mark Maxham
Open to the Public
Speaker: Mark Maxham
Sponsor: Computer Science
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November 13
4:00 PM
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REA Reunion and Awards Presentation
Sponsor: Dean of Engineering
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November 13
5:00 PM
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Not Just a Truthometer: Taking Oneself Seriously, but not Too Seriously, in Cases of Peer Disagreement
Speaker: David Enoch
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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November 13
5:00 PM
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Master's Flute Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 13
7:00 PM
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WHEN IT WAS BLUE (film by Jennifer Reeves & Music by Skúli Sverrisson) - Cinema Arts Festival
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 13
7:00 PM
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THREEPENNY OPERA - Opening Night
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 13
7:30 PM
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Master's Viola Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 13
All Day
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Rice Homecoming & Reunion 2009 - Novemver 13 to 15
Registration Required
Sponsor: University Events
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November 14
10:00 AM
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Graduate Colloquium
Speaker: Elizabeth Povinelli
Sponsor: Study of Women & Gender
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November 14
1:00 PM
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THE TIME WE KILLED (film by Jennifer Reeves)- Cinema Arts Festival
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 14
2:30 PM
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Rice vs. Tulane
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Athletics
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November 14
4:00 PM
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LIVING AT RISK: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family (w/ filmmaker Susan Meiselas) -Cinema Arts Society
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 14
7:00 PM
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THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (w/ YES MAN Andy Bichlbaum) - Cinema Arts Festival
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 14
7:30 PM
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RPC's Centennial/Homecoming Concert
Sponsor: Student Center (RMC)
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November 14
8:00 PM
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THREEPENNY OPERA
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 14
All Day
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Rice Homecoming & Reunion 2009 - November 13 to 15
Registration Required
Sponsor: University Events
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November 14
All Day
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Shepherd School Chamber Music Festival: Spotlight on Beethoven and His Time
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 15
1:00 PM
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Beethoven and Brunch: Sunday with the Shepherd Society
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 15
1:00 PM
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REMEMBERING DICK ROGERS (presented by Susan Meiselas) - Cinema Arts Festival
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 15
2:00 PM
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THREEPENNY OPERA
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 15
4:00 PM
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Master's Voice Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 15
4:00 PM
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PASSAGES FROM JAMES JOYCE'S FINNEGAN'S WAKE & PASTORALE (A Tribute to Mary Ellen Bute) -Cinema Arts Festival
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 15
7:00 PM
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BIOMODD (ATH1): A LIVING GAME COMPUTER AS SOCIAL STRUCTURE (dir. Morgan Riles) - Cinema Arts Festival
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 15
All Day
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Rice Homecoming & Reunion 2009 - November 13 to 15
Registration Required
Sponsor: University Events
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November 15
All Day
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Spring Registration Begins
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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November 16
10:00 AM
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Campus Blood Drive
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Sponsor: Community Involvement Center
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November 16
11:00 AM
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Diluted Bitumen Emulsion Characterization and Separation
Open to the Public
Speaker: Tianmin Jiang
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 16
12:00 PM
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Clarinet Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 16
1:00 PM
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Discrete Element Simulations of Density-Driven Volcanic Deformation: Applications to Martian Caldera Complexes
Open to the Public
Speaker: Lindsay Zivney
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 16
2:00 PM
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TBA
Speaker: Statistics Colloquium
Sponsor: Statistics
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November 16
3:00 PM
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Optimal Flu Shot Design Under Uncertainty
Speaker: Andrew Schaefer
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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November 16
3:00 PM
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Routing in Multi-Homed Wireless Mesh Networks: extending OLSR for performance and transparency
Speaker: Renato Lo Cigno
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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November 16
3:45 PM
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Scalable Parallel Simulation of Granular Dynamics on the GPU
Open to the Public
Speaker: Dan Negrut
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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November 16
4:00 PM
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"Reassembling a South American community of phorid fly parasitoids in Texas to control imported fire ants: the invasion and community assembly processes"
Speaker: Edward LeBrun-Hosted by Tom Miller
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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November 16
4:00 PM
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A Chemist Discovers a New (Electronic Circuit) Element
Speaker: Stan Williams
Sponsor: Chemistry
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November 16
4:00 PM
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Stulken Topology Seminar: Torsion and Open Book Decompositions
Open to the Public
Speaker: Shea Vela-Vick
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 16
5:00 PM
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Protons and Protoneers: technology challenges hierarchies of proof in medical research
Speaker: Helen Valier
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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November 16
8:00 PM
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Violin Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 16 through December 15
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STENCILING POWER, an exhibition by Michael Adair-Kriz
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 17
5:30 AM
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“Un-Making Mestizaje and Sinophobia: Reflections on Sergio de la Torre's Video Installation 'Nuevo Dragon City' (2008)”
Speaker: Tarek Elhaik
Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies
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November 17
11:00 AM
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Guest Artist Master Class
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 17
2:30 PM
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Colloquium: The Picard Group of the Moduli Space of Curves with Level Structures
Open to the Public
Speaker: Andrew Putman
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 17
4:00 PM
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Maps of toric varieties in homogeneous coordinates
Open to the Public
Speaker: Jarek Buczyn'ski
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 17
4:00 PM
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State Cycles, Quasipositive Modification, and Constructing H-Thick Knots in Khovanov Homology
Open to the Public
Speaker: Andrew Elliott
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 17
4:00 PM
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THESIS DEFENSE: Constructing Thick knots in Khovanov Homology
Speaker: Andrew Elliott
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 17
5:00 PM
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The Two Faces of Cleopatra
Open to the Public
Speaker: Jennifer Gates-Foster
Sponsor: Art History
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November 17
5:30 PM
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Life in Schools
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Education
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November 17
7:00 PM
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BETWEEN THE FOLDS. Hosted by Houston PBS Community Cinema Program
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 17
7:00 PM
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World Religions Lecture: Islam
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
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Admission Charge
Speaker: Ata Anzali
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
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November 17
7:00 PM
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Making Gains: Closing the Racial/Ethnic-Economic Divide in Academic Achievement in the Early Years of Schooling
Open to the Public
Speaker: Madlene P Hamilton
Sponsor: History
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November 17
8:00 PM
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President's Lecture Series presents Douglas Hofstadter
Open to the Public
Speaker: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Sponsor: President's Lecture Series
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November 17
8:00 PM
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DIVAS WORLD PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS — “GALILEO’S MUSE”
Open to the Public
Speaker: Dr. Don Pettit
Sponsor: Rice Space Institute
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November 18
9:30 AM
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Methods for detecting multi-locus genotype--phenotype association
Open to the Public
Speaker: Jeffrey Kilpatrick
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 18
10:00 AM
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Processing, Spinning, and Fabrication of Continuous Fibers of Singled-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Open to the Public
Speaker: Richard Booker
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 18
12:00 PM
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“‘I'm Not Too Aware Down There’: Incorporating the Vulva into the Female Body Image”
Speaker: Christine Labuski
Sponsor: Study of Women & Gender
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November 18
12:00 PM
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Guest Artist Master Class
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 18
1:00 PM
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Lung Carcinogenesis Modeling: Resampling and Simulation Approach to Model Fitting, Validation, and Prediction
Open to the Public
Speaker: Millennia Foy
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 18
4:00 PM
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Challenges towards complex nanostructures: synthesis, theory and characterization
Open to the Public
Speaker: Humberto Terrones
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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November 18
4:00 PM
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Geometry-Analysis Seminar: Spectral Properties of Limit-Periodic Schrödinger Operators
Open to the Public
Speaker: Zheng Gan
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 18
4:00 PM
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PRECISION QUANTUM METROLOGY AND OPTICAL ATOMIC CLOCK
Speaker: Jun Ye
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 18
4:30 PM
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Effects of Fuel Alcohols on BTEX Plume Dynamics: An Assessment of Natural Attenuation Using RT3D with a General Substrate Interaction Module
Open to the Public
Speaker: Diego Gomez
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 18
8:00 PM
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Shepherd School Percussion Ensemble
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 18
8:00 PM
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Chamber Music for Winds
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 19
8:30 AM
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Modeling of Asphaltene Precipitation and Arterial Deposition
Open to the Public
Speaker: Francisco Vargas
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 19 through November 22
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Hindu Transnationalism: Organizations, Ideologies, Networks
Sponsor: Anthropology
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November 19
12:00 PM
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Teaching With Technology - Collaboration Tools
Speaker: Angela Rabuck
Sponsor: Information Technology
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November 19
12:15 PM
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"Cosmopolitics and the Recoding of Memory Machines"
Speaker: Lina Dib
Sponsor: Anthropology
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November 19
2:30 PM
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Dr. Dave Austgen - Shell - "Techno-economic challenges in commercializing lignocellulosic biofuels"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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November 19
4:00 PM
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Rice Earth Science Thursday Seminar - "Ocean acidification: emerging impacts on North American coastal ecosystems"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Dr. Simone R. Alin
Sponsor: Earth Science
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November 19
4:00 PM
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Distilled Sensing and the Power of Active Sampling for Sparse Recovery
Open to the Public
Speaker: Jarvis Haupt
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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November 19
4:00 PM
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BIOE 698 Graduate Seminar
Speaker: Ananth Anapragada
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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November 19
4:00 PM
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Applicative preverbs in Sikuani: semantic and morphosyntactic aspects
Speaker: Francisco Queixalos
Sponsor: Linguistics
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November 19
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: On uniformly effective boundedness of Shafarevich Conjecture-type
Open to the Public
Speaker: Gordon Heier
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 19
4:00 PM
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FROM FRUSTRATION TO CORRELATION VIA FLUCTUATION
Speaker: Yong-Baek Kim
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 19
4:00 PM
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Quasi-Static Study on the Fluid and Structure Interactions of the Subsurface Safety Valves (SSSV) for Extreme High Pressure and High Temperature (XHPHT) Applications
Open to the Public
Speaker: Xiaoge Gan
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 19
7:00 PM
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REA Fall Energy Lecture: An Overview of Biofuels
Speaker: Paul M Ayoub
Sponsor: Dean of Engineering
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November 19
7:00 PM
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CCE Fellows Program Info Session
Sponsor: Center for Civic Engagement
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November 19
7:30 PM
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"In Habit" Rice Dance Theatre Concert
Open to the Public
/
Admission Charge
Sponsor: Rice Dance Programs / Rice Dance Theatre
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November 19
8:00 PM
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THREEPENNY OPERA
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 19
8:00 PM
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Composers' Forum
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 20
9:00 AM
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A Hybrid Relaying Protocol for the Parallel-Relay Network
Open to the Public
Speaker: Samantha Summerson
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 20
11:00 AM
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A Computational Analysis on an Initial Application of a Hemiwedge® Based Sub-surface Safety Valve for Use in Ultra-deepwater Oil Wells and Extreme High Pressure, High Temperature Environments
Open to the Public
Speaker: Joel Martin
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 20
12:00 PM
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Responding to peak oil and climate change
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Speaker: William Aal, Zaida Amaral
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Environment and Society
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November 20
2:00 PM
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DIMENSION REDUCTION METHODS WITH APPLICATION TO MICROARRAY GENE EXPRESSION DATA WITH A CENSORED RESPONSE
Open to the Public
Speaker: Tuan Nguyen
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 20
4:00 PM
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Keck Seminar: Calmodulin, Intrinsic Disorder, and Cell Death – The PEP-19 Connection
Open to the Public
Speaker: John Putkey
Sponsor: Gulf Coast Consortia
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November 20
4:00 PM
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Interacting with the Fourth Dimension - Andrew J. Hanson
Open to the Public
Speaker: Andrew J Hanson
Sponsor: Computer Science
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November 20
7:30 PM
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"In Habit" Rice Dance Theatre Concert
Open to the Public
/
Admission Charge
Sponsor: Rice Recreation Center Dance Programs
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November 20
8:00 PM
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THREEPENNY OPERA
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 20
8:00 PM
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SYZYGY, New Music at Rice
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 20
All Day
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Gazing at Bolivar's Body: The Culture and Politics of the Body in Venezuela
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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November 20
All Day
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Last day to register for Spring 2010 by 5:00 PM without a Late Registration Fee.
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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November 21
10:30 AM
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Piano Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 21
1:00 PM
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Piano Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 21
2:30 PM
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Rice vs. UTEP
Open to the Public
/
Admission Charge
Sponsor: Athletics
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November 21
2:30 PM
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Violin Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 21
3:00 PM
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Doctoral Viola Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 21
5:00 PM
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Master's Cello Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 21
5:30 PM
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Master's Voice Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 21
7:30 PM
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Violin Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 21
7:30 PM
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"In Habit" Rice Dance Theatre Concert
Open to the Public
/
Admission Charge
Sponsor: Rice Dance Theatre / Rice Dance Programs
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November 21
8:00 PM
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*POSTPONED* Student Recital *POSTPONED*
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 21
8:00 PM
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THREEPENNY OPERA
Open to the Public
/
Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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November 21
All Day
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Late Registration Begins
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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November 22
3:00 PM
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Cello Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 22
8:00 PM
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Campanile Orchestra
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 22
8:00 PM
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Viola Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 23
9:00 AM
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High-level Tasks to Correct, Low-level Robot Control
Speaker: Hadas Kress-Gazit
Sponsor: Computer Science
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November 23
12:00 PM
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Molecular mechanisms of action of miRNAs
Speaker: Nahum Sonenberg, PhD
Sponsor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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November 23
12:00 PM
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Space Physics - MULTI-FLUID MHD SIMULATIONS USING THE LYON-FEDDER-MOBARRY MODEL
Speaker: Viacheslav Merkin
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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November 23
12:00 PM
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Life-Cycle Cost-Benefit (LCC-B) Analysis for Bridge Seismic Retrofits
Open to the Public
Speaker: Kristina Dennemann
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 23
2:00 PM
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TBA
Speaker: David J. States
Sponsor: Statistics
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November 23
3:00 PM
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Some Graph Optimization Problems in Data Mining
Speaker: Paul Van Dooren
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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November 23
3:00 PM
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Orthogonal approaches for studying glycosaminoglycan biopolymer
Open to the Public
Speaker: Vittal Srinivas
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 23
3:00 PM
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Stulken Topology Seminar: Milnor fillable contact structures
Open to the Public
Speaker: Burak Ozbagci
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 23
4:00 PM
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"Fungal Ecology in Native and Disturbed Coastal Prairie Soils"
Speaker: Philip Lyons-Hosted by Jennifer Rudgers
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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November 23
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: The Picard Group of the Moduli Space of Curves with Level Structures
Open to the Public
Speaker: Andrew Putman
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 23
5:30 PM
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Piano Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 23
7:30 PM
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Violin Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 23
8:00 PM
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Master's Clarinet Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 23 through November 25
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Workshop of the China-US Center for Environmental Remediation and Sustainable Development
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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November 24
12:30 PM
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Meteorite evidence for deep crustal magma chambers on Mars suggests crustal growth driven by underplating and intrusion
Open to the Public
Speaker: Heather Dalton
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 24
1:30 PM
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Model-based Clustering for Multivariate Time Series of Counts
Open to the Public
Speaker: Sarah Thomas
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 24
2:30 PM
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Young Tableaux with Applications to Representation Theory and Flag Manifolds
Open to the Public
Speaker: Christian Bruun
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 24
4:00 PM
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Exploring materials science at the nanoscale - Insitu dynamic experiments inside electron microscopes
Open to the Public
Speaker: Mauricio Terrones
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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November 24
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: Kac-Wakimoto Characters and Mock Theta Functions
Open to the Public
Speaker: Amanda Folsom
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 24
6:30 PM
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*CANCELLED* Composers' Orchestra Concert *CANCELLED*
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 24
7:30 PM
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*POSTPONED* Doctoral Organ Recital *POSTPONED*
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 24
8:00 PM
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Cello Class Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 26 through November 27
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Thanksgiving (Holiday) No Classes
Speaker: Thanksgiving Recess
Sponsor: Statistics
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November 26 through November 27
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Thanksgiving Recess (Holiday - No Scheduled Classes)
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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November 30
9:30 AM
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Gleaning Network Wide Congestion Information from Packet Markings
Open to the Public
Speaker: Florin Dinu
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 30
11:00 AM
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Nanomagnetite Enhances Sand Filtration For Removal of Arsenic From Drinking Water
Open to the Public
Speaker: Jesse Farrell
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 30
12:00 PM
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The glycobiology of embryo implantation
Speaker: Daniel D. Carson, PhD
Sponsor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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November 30
1:00 PM
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Improvement of image reconstruction and simulation speed with GPU in cone beam CT breast imaging
Open to the Public
Speaker: shuaiping ge
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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November 30
2:00 PM
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Generalized Linear Models for the Covariance Matrix of Longitudinal Data
Speaker: Mohsen Pourahmadi
Sponsor: Statistics
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November 30
3:00 PM
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Optical Tomography
Speaker: John C. Schotland
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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November 30
3:00 PM
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Stulken Topology Seminar: Curves on surfaces and fixed point Floer homology
Open to the Public
Speaker: Tim Perutz
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 30
3:45 PM
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Copenhagen or bust? an introduction, analysis, and assessment of international climate change agreements and the role of the United States.
Open to the Public
Speaker: Charles Irvine
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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November 30
4:00 PM
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"Battle between or within the sexes? Conflict in coercive livebearing fishes"
Speaker: Raelynn Deaton-Hosted by Amy Dunham
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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November 30
4:00 PM
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Automatic Generation of Network Protocol Gateways - Laurent Réveillère
Open to the Public
Speaker: Laurent Réveillère
Sponsor: Computer Science
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November 30
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: Modular Representations of p-adic Groups
Speaker: Florian Herzig
Sponsor: Mathematics
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November 30
8:00 PM
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Master's Flute Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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November 30
8:00 PM
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Rice Chorale Concert
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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