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January 24 through March 20
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Keep on Dancing
Sponsor: Recreation Center
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February 21 through March 15
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KATRINA: Evacuation and Inspiration New Orleans Louisiana Artists
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 01
11:00 AM
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Creative Movement for Toddlers and Parents
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Recreation Center
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March 01
11:00 AM
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Creative Movement for Infants and Parents
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Recreation Center
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March 01
7:00 PM
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"When the Levees Broke" - Part III
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 01
7:00 PM
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WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. Directed by Spike Lee
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 01
9:00 PM
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"When the Levees Broke" - Part IV
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 01 through March 09
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Midterm Recess (No Classes)
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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March 03
4:00 PM
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Condensed Matter/AMO - MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY WITH ULTRACOLD ATOMS IN AN OPTICAL LATTICE
Speaker: Aníbal Iucci
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 03
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Midterm Recess (No Classes)
Sponsor: Statistics
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March 04
9:00 AM
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Oil and Gas HPC Workshop
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Sponsor: Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
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March 04
1:30 PM
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On the Iterative Design of Lp Digital Filters
Speaker: Ricardo Vargas
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 04
4:00 PM
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Manipulating spins and photons in semiconductors
Speaker: Vanessa Sih
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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March 04
7:30 PM
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POSTPONED: Bridge Builder Lecture--Rabbi Shmuel Goldin
Open to the Public
Speaker: Shmuel Goldin
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
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March 05
4:00 PM
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Chemistry Seminar - Richard Larock
Speaker: Richard Larock
Sponsor: Chemistry
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March 06
4:00 PM
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Plasmonics in highly integrated optoelectronic systems
Speaker: Peter Catrysse
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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March 07
10:30 AM
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3D Simulaitons of Magnetic Fields in the Solar Atmosphere: Preparing for STEREO Data Analysis
Speaker: Anne Sandman
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 07
11:30 AM
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Rice Global E&C Forum - Roundtable Meeting
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Rice Global Forum
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March 07 through April 20
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FOTOFEST. Lui Ren: Someday, Somewhere, Paradise, Memory, Us
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 08
9:00 AM
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Stride4Stroke race and charity walk
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Rice University
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March 08 through March 29
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Buffalo Bayou: Photographs by Rice University Professor Geoff Winningham
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 10
12:00 PM
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Genetic regulation of gastrulation in zebrafish
Speakers: Liliana Solnica-Krezel, hosted by: Mary Ellen Lane (melane@rice.edu)
Sponsor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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March 10
2:00 PM
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On the Estimation of the Extremal Index Based on Scaling and Resampling
Speaker: Kam Hamidieh
Sponsor: Statistics
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March 10
3:00 PM
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The Relationship between Tropospheric Ozone Pollution and Human Mortality
Speaker: Michelle Bell
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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March 10
3:00 PM
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Computational Design of Devices Exposed to Waves
Speaker: Martin Berggren
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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March 10
4:00 PM
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EEB Seminar TBA
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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March 10
4:00 PM
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Bedrock River Incision in the Field, Lab and Matlab
Open to the Public
Speaker: Joel P. Johnson
Sponsor: Department of Earth Science
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March 10
7:00 PM
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The Tournées French Film Festival
Sponsor: French Studies
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March 10
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital - Jon Kimura Parker
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 10 through March 20
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Summer 2008 Registration Begins for Rice Undergraduate Students
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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March 11
12:00 PM
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IBB NIH Biotechnology Seminar Series (co-sponsored with Rice Jones School Biotechnology and Health Care Club)
Speaker: Nila Bhakuni
Sponsor: Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
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March 11
4:00 PM
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Nadar's Balloon: Modernism Inside Out
Speaker: Carol Armstrong
Sponsor: Lucinda Cannady
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March 11
4:00 PM
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DISCOVERIES AT RHIC AND THE QCD PHASE DIAGRAM
Speaker: Paul Sorensen
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 11
5:00 PM
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Properties, Individuals, and Contingency
Speaker: Timothy Williamson
Sponsor: Philosophy
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March 11
6:30 PM
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The United States and the Emerging Second World
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Speaker: Edward J Perkins
Sponsor: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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March 11
8:00 PM
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Houston Friends Of Music - Florestan Trio
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 12
9:00 AM
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On the Design Principles of Network Coordinates Systems
Speaker: Guohui Wang
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 12
11:00 AM
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Schlumberger Tech Talk: Meet Schlumberger Software Developers
Sponsor: Computer Science
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March 12
11:30 AM
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March 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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March 12
12:00 PM
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Teaching With Technology: Second Life in Teaching and Learning
Sponsor: Information Technology
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March 12
2:00 PM
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CS Seminar: APGAS: Programming for concurrency and distribution
Speaker: Vijay Saraswat
Sponsor: Computer Science
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March 12
3:00 PM
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Samuel Johnson and the Sublime
Speaker: Dwight Codr
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 12
4:00 PM
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Atraidas por la aventura: Gender, Migration, and Mass Culture in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Speaker: Laura Isabel Serna
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 12
4:00 PM
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Chemistry Seminar: Marcey Waters
Speaker: Marcey Waters
Sponsor: Chemistry
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March 12
4:00 PM
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HELIOPHYSICS
Speaker: George Siscoe
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 13
12:15 PM
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An 'Ethno-Health Disparities' Approach: Using Anthropology to Address Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Health Disparities
Speaker: Shedra A Snipes
Sponsor: Anthropology
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March 13
2:00 PM
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Insights into Aortic Valve Calcification: A Mechanobiological Study
Speaker: Philippe Sucosky
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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March 13
2:30 PM
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Fotofest Forum: Conversations with Chinese Contemporary photographers/artists of Fotofest 2008
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Lucinda Cannady - Department of Art History
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March 13
2:30 PM
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Fotofest Forum with Photographers from China
Registration Required
Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies
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March 13
2:30 PM
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Quantifying phenotype in dynamic metabolic networks using 13C tracers and comprehensive flux analysis
Speaker: Jamey Young
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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March 13
3:45 PM
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Processing of Single-Walled Carbon-Nanotube Metal Matrix Composites and a Finite Element Model for the Process
Speaker: Kenneth Wilson
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 13
4:00 PM
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How Much Can We Trust Global Tomographic Models?
Speaker: Adam M. Dziewonski
Sponsor: Department of Earth Science
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March 13
4:00 PM
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Computer Science Faculty Candidate Colloquium - Nickolai Zeldovich
Speaker: Nickolai Zeldovich
Sponsor: Computer Science
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March 13
7:00 PM
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The Image of Thomas Aquinas in Dominica Painting
Speaker: Michele Mulchahey
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 13
8:00 PM
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Sonia Nazario - President's Lecture
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Alumni Affairs
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March 13
8:00 PM
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Baker Shakespeare presents: Richard III
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Baker College
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March 13
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 13
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Copy of Codex Judas Congress
Open to the Public
Speakers: Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst
Sponsor: Religious Studies
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March 14
12:00 PM
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KIIT Luncheon - March 2008 - Baylor College of Medicine – New Directions and Computational Challenges
Speaker: Tony Elam
Sponsor: Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
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March 14
12:00 PM
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Third Annual Rice University Medieval Studies Undergraduate Symposium
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Dean of Undergraduates
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March 14
3:30 PM
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Provost's and Academic Deans' Lecture - Monica Biernat - Gender Bias Complexity and Subtlety in Patterns of Stereotyping and Prejudice
Open to the Public
Sponsor: ADVANCE Program
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March 14
4:00 PM
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Comadres, Cowgirls, and Curanderas: Spanish/Mexican Women in the Southwest, 1540-1900
Speaker: Vicki Ruiz
Sponsor: History
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March 14
4:00 PM
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Keck Seminar: Algorithms and software tools for the prediction of allergenicity
Speaker: Werner Braun
Sponsor: Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Program
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March 14
4:00 PM
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Other Caribbean Confederations: Sexiles
Speaker: Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 14
7:00 PM
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The Tournées French Film Festival
Sponsor: French Studies
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March 14
7:00 PM
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Codex Judas Congress
Open to the Public
Speakers: Elaine Pagels, Karen King
Sponsor: Religious Studies
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March 14
8:00 PM
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Baker Shakespeare presents: Richard III
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Baker College
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March 14
8:00 PM
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CALCULUS: The Musical! presented by Rice Players
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 14
8:00 PM
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On Campus Observatory Open House
Sponsor: Rice Space Institute
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March 14
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Last Day for Sophomores to Declare a Major
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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March 15
8:00 PM
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Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra Concert
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 15
8:00 PM
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Baker Shakespeare presents: Richard III
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Baker College
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March 17
9:00 AM
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National Instruments Day
Sponsor: Computer Science
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March 17
12:00 PM
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Organelle formation and biomineralization in magnetotactic bacteria
Speaker: Arash Komeili, hosted by: Jonathan Silberg (joff@rice.edu)
Sponsor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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March 17
2:00 PM
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No Colloquium Today
Sponsor: Statistics
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March 17
3:00 PM
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Background Velocity Estimation Using Cross Correlations of Incoherent Waves
Speaker: Josselin Garnier
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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March 17
4:00 PM
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"Effect of population density on offspring number and size in the burying beetle Nicrophorous pustulatus"
Speaker: Claudia Rauter
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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March 17
4:00 PM
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Houston Lecture - THE HISTORY AND FATE OF THE UNIVERSE OR CSI RICE
Speaker: George Smoot
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 17
6:00 PM
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France and America: A New Era for Old Friends
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Speaker: Pierre Vimont
Sponsor: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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March 18
12:00 PM
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IBB NIH Biotechnology Seminar Series (co-sponsored with Rice Jones School Biotechnology and Health Care Club)
Speaker: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris
Sponsor: Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
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March 18
12:00 PM
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Brown Bag Lunch for March
Open to the Public
Speaker: Jennifer Rudgers
Sponsor: Staff Advisory Committee
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March 18
12:30 PM
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Artist Talk: Christopher Sperandio
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 18
1:00 PM
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Independence Systems and Stable Set Relaxations
Speaker: Benjamin McClosky
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 18
1:00 PM
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Structure of the Alamethicin Pore Reconstructed by X-ray
Speaker: Shuo Qian
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 18
3:00 PM
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Bio-inspired Assembly of Functional Materials
Speaker: William Murphy, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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March 18
4:00 PM
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Scientia Lecture - “Implicit Memory and Aging”
Open to the Public
Speaker: Lisa Geraci
Sponsor: Scientia
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March 18
4:00 PM
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Marian Fox Martel Distinguished Lecture in Gender and Science
Open to the Public
Speaker: Anne Fausto-Sterling
Sponsor: Study of Women & Gender
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March 18
4:00 PM
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COSMOLOGY TODAY
Speaker: George Smoot
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 18
4:30 PM
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Philosophy in Germany after 1945 given by Dr. Hans Poser, Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Professor at the Humanities Research Center, Technische Universität Berlin
Sponsor: German and Slavic Studies
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March 18
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 19
12:00 PM
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The Age Of The Earliest Continental Crust And Onset Of Plate Tectonics
Open to the Public
Speaker: Janne Blichert-Toft
Sponsor: Department of Earth Science
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March 19 through March 20
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Spring Equinox
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Rice Space Institute
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March 19
4:00 PM
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Biogeochemistry of charcoal in the environment: carbon cycle roles and carbon sequestration options
Speaker: Carrie Masiello
Sponsor: Dean of Natural Sciences
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March 19
4:00 PM
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MEMS Dept. Seminar
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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March 19
4:00 PM
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HOT MATTER MATTERS AT RHIC
Speaker: Frank Geurts
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 19
4:00 PM
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Empire of Ice Cream: How Life Got Sweeter in the Postwar Soviet Union
Speaker: Jenny Smith
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 19
4:00 PM
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Towards Microfluidic Quantitative Cell Biology
Speaker: Dino DiCarlo, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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March 19
4:00 PM
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"Hybrid Design Strategies around 1300: Indications of a 'Post-classical' Gothic Arachitecture?
Open to the Public
Speaker: Norbert Nussbaum
Sponsor: Art History
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March 19
7:00 PM
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The Tournées French Film Festival
Sponsor: French Studies
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March 19
7:30 PM
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Shepherd School Opera Performance
Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 20
12:00 PM
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SAC Monthy Meeting
Sponsor: Staff Advisory Committee
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March 20
1:00 PM
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IBB "Commercialize It" 2008 Thursday Sessions
Sponsor: Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
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March 20
2:30 PM
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Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites for Neural Interfaces
Speaker: Jessica O. Winter
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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March 20
4:00 PM
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How Strong Is The Tectonic-Climate Connection? The Eocene-Oligocene Boundary, Carbon Cycle, And The Opening Of Southern Ocean Gateways
Speaker: Mitch Lyle
Sponsor: Department of Earth Science
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March 20
4:00 PM
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Computer Science Faculty Candidate Colloquium - Shan Lu
Speaker: Shan Lu
Sponsor: Computer Science
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March 20
7:30 PM
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Shepherd School Opera Performance
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 20
8:00 PM
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Baker Shakespeare Presents: Richard III
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Baker College
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March 21
10:00 AM
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Cosmopolitan Southerner: The Life and World of William Alexander Percy
Speaker: Benjamin Wise
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 21
10:00 AM
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The Role of Black Loyalists in the American Revolution
Speaker: Cassandra Pybus
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 21
2:00 PM
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Realization of the Bohr Atom
Speaker: Brendan Wyker
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 21
4:00 PM
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The Geochemistry of Rare Earth Elements in Acid Sulfate Soils (or What I Found When I Fell in the Mud)
Open to the Public
Speaker: Susan A. Welch
Sponsor: Department of Earth Science
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March 21
4:00 PM
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DELOCALIZATION INDUCED BY LOW-FREQUENCY DRIVING IN DISORDERED 1-D LATTICES
Speaker: Dario F. Martinez
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 21
4:00 PM
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Catch Me If You Can: BioMEMS Devices to Capture and Analyze Rare Circulating Tumor Cells for Cancer Diagnostics
Speaker: Siyang Zheng, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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March 21
7:00 PM
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The European Convention on Human Rights: The First Half Century
Open to the Public
Speaker: A.W. Brian Simpson
Sponsor: The Harold E. & Margaret H. Rorschach Lecture in Legal History
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March 21
8:00 PM
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Baker Shakespeare Presents: Richard III
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Baker College
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March 21
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Registrar Deadlines
Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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March 21 through March 22
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Writing the History of Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Europe
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 22
4:00 PM
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Scientia Lecture - "Impossible Memory: Cinema, History, Information"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Charles Dove
Sponsor: Scientia
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March 22
7:30 PM
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Shepherd School Opera Performance
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 22
8:00 PM
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Baker Shakespeare Presents: Richard III
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Baker College
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March 24
2:00 PM
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A Stochastic Partitioning Method to Associate High-Dimensional Datasets
Speaker: Mahlet Tadesse
Sponsor: Statistics
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March 24
2:00 PM
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Karol Szymanowski's Musical Language in Myths for violin and piano, op. 30
Speaker: hyojin ahn
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 24
2:00 PM
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Thesis Defense
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 24
2:30 PM
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Nanoconfinement Effects on Glass Formation and
Speaker: Rodney Priestley
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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March 24
3:00 PM
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Adaptive Numerical Methods for Cardiac Fluid-Structure Interaction and Electrophysiology
Speaker: Boyce Griffith
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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March 24
4:00 PM
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EEB Seminar
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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March 24
4:00 PM
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From Engineering to Intellectual Property
Speaker: Robert Shaddox
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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March 24
4:00 PM
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CS Department Faculty Candidate - Christopher Jermaine
Speaker: Chris Jermaine
Sponsor: Computer Science
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March 24
4:00 PM
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Microfluidics for Biology: Methods, Components and Applications
Speaker: Dongshin Kim, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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March 24
4:00 PM
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Condensed Matter/Keck - RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF Cu_xTiSe_2
Speaker: Lance Cooper
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 24
7:30 PM
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Shepherd School Opera Performance
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 25
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The 2008 Southwest Catalysis Society (SWCS) Spring Symposium
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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March 25
12:00 PM
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IBB NIH Biotechnology Seminar Series (co-sponsored with Rice Jones School Biotechnology and Health Care Club)
Speaker: Will Rosellini
Sponsor: Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
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March 25
12:00 PM
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Table Talk - Rice People Talking With Rice People Over Lunch - Brought to you by Scientia, the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, and Cohen House
Speaker: Randy G. Hulet
Sponsor: Scientia
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March 25
12:15 PM
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Past Presence: Ife art in Yoruba History
Open to the Public
Speaker: Suzanne Blier
Sponsor: Anthropology
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March 25
12:30 PM
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Artist Talk: Matthew Sontheimer, "Reading Pictures & Drawing Words"
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 25
1:00 PM
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Structure of the Alamethicin Pore Reconstructed by X-ray Diffraction Analysis
Speaker: Shuo Qian
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 25
4:30 PM
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SPECIAL PLANETARIUM SHOWING FOR RSI Members
Sponsor: Rice Space Institute
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March 25
7:00 PM
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Dealing with Contemporary Genocide
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Speaker: Romeo Dallaire
Sponsor: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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March 26
8:00 AM
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THE CONFERENCE ON CONVERGENCE AND CONNECTIVITY 2008: BROADBAND, WIRELESS AND MOBILE
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Sponsor: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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March 26
12:00 PM
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Conflicting Chronometric Evidence On Shergottites: How To Cheat On Its Age And Get Away With It
Open to the Public
Speaker: Francis Albarede
Sponsor: Department of Earth Science
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March 26
4:00 PM
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Novel Concepts in Rapid Prototyping and Fabrication of Mesoscale Electronic Multilayers and Sensors through Direct Write Technology
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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March 26
4:00 PM
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ECE Distinguished Lecture
A System Theoretic Approach to Bandwidth Estimation
Speaker: Jörg Liebeherr
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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March 26
4:00 PM
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PROBING THE MISSING STATE OF QCD
Speaker: Aneta Iordanova
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 26
4:00 PM
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Networks of Microchannels: Mimicking the Microvasculature, Separating Blood Cells, and Immobilizing Worms
Speaker: Sergey Shevkoplyas, Ph.D.
Sponsor: Bioengineering
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March 26
7:00 PM
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The Tournées French Film Festival
Sponsor: French Studies
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March 26
7:00 PM
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Education and Womens' Activism
Speaker: Leslie Brown
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 26
8:00 PM
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Faculty Recital
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 27
8:00 AM
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Digital Discovery 2008: Issues in Scholarly Publishing
Open to the Public
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Registration Required
Speakers: Richard Baraniuk, Geneva Henry, Jack W Smith, Charles W Bailey, Niels Weertman, Kathy A Johnson-Throop, Sweitze Roffel
Sponsor: Fondren Library
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March 27
8:45 AM
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Metabolic Engineering of the Terpenoid Indole Alkaloid Pathway of Catharanthus roseus Hairy Roots
Speaker: Christie Peebles
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 27
10:00 AM
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Magnetic Flux Leakage Sensing: The Forward and Inverse Problems
Speaker: Sushant Dutta
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 27
2:00 PM
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Collagenous Tissue Engineered Constructs to Study the Role of Decorin on Collagen Fibrillogenesis and Tissue Mechanics
Speaker: Zannatul Ferdous
Sponsor: Office of the Vice Provost of Research and Graduate Studies
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March 27
4:00 PM
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Seismic Waveform Tomography At The Global And Continental Scale: Inferences On Mantle Dynamics
Open to the Public
Speaker: Barbara Romanowicz
Sponsor: Department of Earth Science
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March 27
4:00 PM
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James Baker Hughes Lecture: Applying DSP to the Analysis of Paintings: An Experiment in Cross-Disciplinary Stimulation
Speaker: Rick Johnson
Sponsor: Dean of Engineering
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March 27
4:00 PM
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CS Department Faculty Candidate - Olga Papaemmanouil
Artist: Olga Papaemmanouil
Sponsor: Computer Science
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March 27
7:30 PM
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Galileo's Telescope: Science and History
Speaker: Albert Van Helden
Sponsor: The Ervin Frederick Kalb Lecture in History
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March 27
8:00 PM
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Shepherd School Brass Choir
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 27
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The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity
Registration Required
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
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March 28
1:30 PM
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Computational Study of Defects Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes
Speaker: Kun Jiao
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 28
2:00 PM
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Numerical Solution of Miscible Displacement Arising in Tertiary Oil Recovery Process
Speaker: Béatrice Rivière
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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March 28
2:00 PM
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“Kinetic and Statistical Approaches in Metabolic Networks”
Speaker: Venetia Rigou
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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March 28
3:30 PM
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Program Analysis and Transformation in Mathematical Programming
Speaker: Joseph Young
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 28
4:00 PM
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Keck Seminar: Bacterial gene activation via AAA+ sigma54 activators
Speaker: Xiaodong Zhang
Sponsor: Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Program
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March 28
4:00 PM
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Colloquium: Karen Wooley
Speaker: Karen Wooley
Sponsor: Chemistry
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March 28
4:00 PM
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THE PHYSICS BEHIND PROTON THERAPY
Speaker: Stephen Peterson
Sponsor: Physics & Astronomy
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March 28
5:00 PM
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R2 - Rice Review - Launch Party
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Art History
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March 28
7:00 PM
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Wood Burning Cinema - The Eagle Pennell Film Series
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 28
8:00 PM
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Shepherd School Concerto Competition
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 29
10:00 AM
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Shepherd School Concerto Competition
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 29
1:00 PM
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Wood Burning Cinema - Masters' Class
Open to the Public
ArtistArtistsArtistsArtistsArtistsArtists: Lou Perryman, Sonny Davis
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 29
7:00 PM
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Wood Burning Cinema - The Eagle Pennell Film Series
Open to the Public
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Admission Charge
Sponsor: Visual and Dramatic Arts
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March 31
9:30 AM
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The Effect of Simultaneous, Controlled Release of Angiogenic and Osteogenic Growth Factors on the Enhancement of Osteogenesis Within Craniofacial Defects
Speaker: Simon Young
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 31
10:00 AM
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Using Routing Information to Improve MAC Performance in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Speaker: Shu Du
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 31
10:30 AM
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When Marriages Fail:Divorce in Nineteenth-Century Texas
Speaker: Francelle Blum
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 31
12:00 PM
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Hand of Man, Wing of Bat, Fin of Porpoise: Fields Studies in Mammalian Developmental Biology
Speaker: Richard R. Behringer, hosted by: Dan Wagner (dswagner@rice.edu)
Sponsor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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March 31
12:45 PM
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Metabolic Flux Analysis of Fermentative Carbon Metabolism in Escherichia coli
Speaker: Abhishek Murarka
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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March 31
1:00 PM
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Investigating the Lateral Mobility of Outer Hair Cell Plasma Membrane Constituents by Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching
Speaker: Louise Organ
Sponsor: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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March 31
2:00 PM
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Baseline Correction and Peak Detection in Proteomics
Speaker: John Wagaman
Sponsor: Statistics
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March 31
2:30 PM
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Antenna Chemistry with Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Speaker: Howard K. Schmidt
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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March 31
3:00 PM
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Hyperbolic Balance Laws with Dissipation
Speaker: Cleopatra Christoforou
Sponsor: Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
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March 31
4:00 PM
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EEB Seminar, "Evolving strategies for protein engineering"
Speaker: Joff Silberg
Sponsor: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Hosted by Dr. Dave Queller
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March 31
4:00 PM
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CS Department Faculty Candidate - David Brumley
Speaker: David Brumley
Sponsor: Computer Science
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March 31
4:00 PM
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Be part of an industry transformation
Open to the Public
Speaker: Mark D Dankberg
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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March 31
4:00 PM
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Fluorinated Surfactants in the Environment
Speaker: Bryan Boulanger
Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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March 31
5:00 PM
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The Magic of Language Benjamin and Heidegger, as part of the Walter Benjamin Lecture Series
Sponsor: German and Slavic Studies
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March 31
7:00 PM
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The Tournées French Film Festival
Sponsor: French Studies
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March 31
7:00 PM
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A tribute to the Spanish Poet Ángel González
Sponsor: Hispanic Studies
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March 31
7:30 PM
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China's Past & Our Future: Temporal and Spatial Perspectives on China's Contemporary Transformations
Speaker: R. Bin Wong
Sponsor: Ervin Frederick Kalb Lecture in History
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March 31
8:00 PM
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Guest Artist Recital - Mark O'Connor, violin
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Shepherd School of Music
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March 20
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Sponsor: Academic Calendar
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