Diego  Gomez
Doctoral Candidate

Effects of Fuel Alcohols on BTEX Plume Dynamics: An Assessment of Natural Attenuation Using RT3D with a General Substrate Interaction Module

Location:  253 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Dan  Negrut
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mechanical Engineering Department

Scalable Parallel Simulation of Granular Dynamics on the GPU

Location:  201 Ryon Engineering Building
Time: 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Donald  Dabdub
University of California, Irvine
Professor

Distributed Energy Resources, Transportation Futures, and Air Quality in the Urban Environment

Location:  201 Ryon Engineering Building
Time: 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM

Ertan  Sonmez
Doctoral Candidate

Deterministic and Stochastic Responses of Smart Variable Stiffness and Damping Systems and Smart Tuned Mass Dampers

Location:  RL-112 Ryon Engineering Building
Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Bill  Batchelor
Texas A&M
Arthur McFarland Professor- Zachry Department of Civil Engineering

Redox Processes in Environmental Systems

Location:  251 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Paolo  Gardoni
Texas A&M University

Seismic Fragility Estimates for Pristine and Deteriorating Bridges and Bridge Networks

Location:  201 Ryon Engineering Building
Time: 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Kimberly A.  Gray
Northwestern University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Institute of Catalysis for Energy Processes

Chemical and physical synthesis of TiO2-based nanocomposites for solar energy production and other environmental applications

Location:  251 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Dharma Theja  Pasala
Masters Candidate

Repetitive Control of Hysteretic Systems using Robust H_8 Controller

Location:  112 Ryon Engineering Building
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Jan  Hewitt
Rice University
Office of the Dean of Engineering

Workshop: Plagiarism, Paraphrase, and Electronic Citation

Location:  251 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Yuling  Jia
Doctoral Candidate

Characterization of Saccharides and Other Organic Compounds in Atmospheric Particulate Matter and Source Apportionment Using Positive Matrix Factorization

Location:  253 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Tracy  Volz
Brown School of Engineering

Design and Deliver a Research Presentation

Location:  201 Ryon Engineering Building
Time: 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Dr. Pedro  Alvarez
Rice University

Ed  Segner
Rice University

Tips to Succeed in Graduate School and Engineering Ethics

Location:  201 Ryon Engineering Building
Time: 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Jonathan  Ray
Masters Candidate

Assessment of Flood Risk due to Storm Surge in Coastal Bayous Using Dynamic Hydraulic Modeling

Location:  253 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM

Hilary  Robinson
Masters Candidate

Flood Prediction using Distributed Hydrologic Modeling in the Dominican Republic

Location:  253 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Andrzej S.  Nowak
University of Nebraska

Reliability-based Calibration of the Design Code for Concrete Structures (ACI 318)

Location:  251 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Alexander J.B.  Zehnder
Alberta Water Research Institute (AWRI)
Scientific Director

Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar Series

Location:  251 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Alexander J.B.  Zehnder
Alberta Water Research Institute (AWRI)
Scientific Director

Evolution: the Toolbox

Location:  253 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Anthony  Fane
AEESP

Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar Series

Location:  Rice University
           6100 Main St
           Houston, Texas
           USA

Carlos E.  Ventura
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Civil Engineering

SPECIALTY SEMINAR: Seismic Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges

Location:  201 Ryon Engineering Building
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Sukanta  Basu
Geosciences Department Texas Tech University
Assistant Professor

Probing Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulence as a Complex System

Location:  201 Ryon Engineering Building
Time: 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Susan  de Long
The University of Texas at Austin
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

Molecular Biology Tools for Biological Perchlorate Treatment

Location:  251 Mechanical Laboratory
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM