Member Lunches
The Ken Kennedy Institute hosts monthly member lunches featuring a talk by a member invited to present their current area of focus/research. Talks generally highlight work that is interdisciplinary in nature and serve to stimulate scholarly discussion and further collaborations.
1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000
2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
2010-11 2011-2012
2011-12
May 2012 Swarat Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
April 2012 David Alexander, "The Rice Space Institute: Broadening Rice's Involvement in Space"
March 2012 Genevera Allen, "Modern Statistical Methods for Massive Data"
February 2012 Olivier Lichtarge, "Evolutionary Action: a Guide to Biological Function and Personal Genetic Variation"
December 2011 Rouzbeh Shahsavari, "From Electrons to Microstructure of Cement Hydrate: A Shift of Paradigm"
November 2011 Alan Levander, "Imaging North America with USArray"
October 2011 James McLurkin, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
September 2011 Marcia O'Malley, Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
2010-11
May 2011Wayne D. Newhauser - TBA
April 2011 Mark Embree - RCEL: Challenging Rice engineers to realize their leadership potential
March 2011 John T. McDevitt - Building the Biomarker Highway One Biomarker at a Time
Feb. 2011 Canceled Due to Weather
Dec. 2010 Frank Geurts - Hot Matter Matters
Nov. 2010 Beatrice Riviere - Multiphysics and multinumerics couplings
Oct. 2010 Nick Putnam - Reconstructing ancient animal genomes
Sept. 2010 Moshe Vardi - P vs NP
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2009-10 May 2010 Phyllis McBride - Office of Research: Introducing the Office of Proposal Development
April 2010 Oleg Igoshin - Bioengineering: Reverse engineering self-organization of bacterial biofilms
March 2010 Hector Ruiz - former CEO & executive chairman of AMD and
Rice PhD '73: Computing as a driver for business innovation and critical enabler for science, engineering, and societal change
Feb. 2010 Hadley Wickham - Statistics: 5 W's and an H of Visualizing Data
Dec. 2009 Chris Jermaine - CS: Detecting Anomalies in Spatial Data
Nov. 2009 Stan Sazykin - PHYS: Computer Simulations of Space Plasmas
Oct. 2009 Cindy Farach-Carson - BRC: Cancer, Collaboration, and Computation: Tackling Three Big C's in Translational Research
Sept. 2009 Lin Zhong - ECE: Taming the Power Hog in Wireless Broadband Access
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2008-09
May 2009 Jan Odegard - K2I: Leveraging the NSF TeraGrid and other National Open Commuting Facilities
April 2009 Krinshna Palem - VISEN:
March 2009 Michael Kohn - Ecology: Computational inferences of non-independent evolution of pairs of genes
Feb. 2009 Daniel Cohan - CEE: Assessing the Uncertainty of Air Quality Models
Dec. 2008 Yousif Shamoo - IBB: Overview of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Nov. 2008 Paul Padley - Physics and Astronomy: The Large Hadron Collider
Oct. 2008 Kim Andrews - IT: What do Resorts, Condominiums and Timeshares have to do with Rice's strategy for supporting research computing infrastructure?
Sept. 2008 Vivek Sarkar - CS: The Rice Habanero Multicore Software Research Project
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2007-08
May 2008 Jan Odegard - K2I: Information Science and Technology as a Universal Enabler
April 2008 Steve Cox - CAAM: Functional Localization of Calcium Handling Machinery
March 2008 Tony Elam - Baylor: Baylor College of Medicine – New Directions and Computational Challenges
Feb. 2008 Jim Coleman - Rice: Research at Rice: Some Observations after Six Months
Dec. 2007 Jack Smith - UTHS: Translational Research Informatics
Nov. 2007 Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio - CEE: Performance of critical infrastructure systems subjected to natural hazards and intentional disruptions
Oct. 2007 Kevin Kelly - ECE: Imaging by Compressive Sensing: A 1-Pixel Camera & Beyond
Sept. 2007 Chris Bronk - BIPP: IT and Public Policy, New Avenues for Interdisciplinary Research
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2006-07
May 2007 Rick Petersen - IT & Moshe Vardi - CS: Scalable Research Computing Support - The Service Center Model
April 2007 Timothy Warburton - CAAM: Advances in Numerical Wave Propagation: Hanging Nodes, Spurious Modes, & Simulation Codes
March 2007 Farinaz Koushanfar - ECE: Emerging applications of statistical models in complex embedded systems
Feb. 2007 Scott Rixner - CS: Networking in the Age of Virtualization
Dec. 2006 Moshe Vardi - CITI/CS: Globalization of Software
Nov. 2006 Geneva Henry - Library:
Oct. 2006 Rob Raphael - BIOE:
Sept. 2006 Kamran Khan - IT & William Deigaard - IT: Network infrastructure and on demand computing at Rice University and beyond; or The Perfect Bit Storm
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2005-06
May 2006 Andrew J. Meade, Jr. - MEMS: Biologically-inspired engineering and computing efforts in developing the next generation aerospace systems
April 2006 Dan Sorensen - CAAM: Projection Methods in Scientific Computing
March 2006 Walid Taha - CS: Resource Aware Programming: A new way to write small programs that do just what you want
Feb. 2006 Nila Bhakuni - OTT: The Mission of the Office of Technology Transfer: Intellectual Property Rights in the Computational Area
Dec. 2005 Luay Nahkleh - CS: TBA
Nov. 2005 Rolf Riedi - STAT: Networking: A Case for Scale-free Statistics and Engineering
Oct. 2005 Julia Morgan - ES: Particle Dynamics Simulations of Earth Processes
Sept. 2005 Michael Deem - BIOE: Glassy Dynamics in the Adaptive Immune Response Prevents Autoimmune Disease
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2004-05
May 2005 Eugene Ng - CS: Internet Geometry
April 2005 Jan Odegard - CITI: CITI State of the Union/Annual Update
March 2005 Cecilia Clementi - CHEM: Optimal Combination of Theory and Experiment to Explore the Protein Folding
Feb. 2005 Thanos Antoulas - ECE: Approximation of Large-Scale Dynamical Systems
Dec. 2004 Nikos Mantzaris - CENG: From single-cell genetic architecture to heterogeneous cell population phenotypes
Nov. 2004 Ed Knightly - ECE: TAPs: An Architecture and Protocols for a High-Performance Multi-hop Wireless Internet
Oct. 2004 Mark Embree - CAAM: Pitfalls of Eigenvalue Analysis for Nonsymmetric Matrices
Sept. 2004 Paula Sanders - HIST: Cairo of the Arabian Nights
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2003-04
May 2004 Tony Brandt - MUSIC: ERIT: Sound Reasoning - Connexions web-based curriculum & Michael Decker - CSC: ERIT: Archive of Near East Explorations
April 2004 Michael Liebschner - BIOE: Evolution of Vertebroplasty – An Engineering Perspective
March 2004 none
Feb. 2004 Marek Kimmel - STAT: Deterministic and Stochastic Effects in Metabolic Pathways
Dec. 2003 Ken Kennedy - CS/HiPerSoft: Research in the Center for High Performance Software: a Status Report
Nov. 2003 John Mellor-Crummey - CS/HiPerSoft: High Performance Computing for Human Beings
Oct. 2003 Rebekah Drezek - BIOE: Optical Imaging for Minimally Invasive Medical Diagnosis
Sept. 2003 Scott Cutler - ECE: PC Technology: its Past, Present and Future
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2002-03
May 2003 Marcia O'Malley - MEMS: Haptic Interfaces: Design, Evaluation and Control Issues
April 2003 Matteo Pasquali - CENG: Computing Complex Flows of Complex Fluids
March 2003 Jan Odegard - CITI: CITI Status and Directions (Union report)
Feb. 2003 Rich Baraniuk - ECE: Connexions: Education for a Networked World
Dec. 2002 Lydia Kavraki - CS: Physical Computing: from Robots to Biomolecules
Nov. 2002 Chris Kelty - ANTHRO: How to Do Things with Code: Law, Software, and Social Organization
Oct. 2002 Marek Behr - MEMS: Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling
Sept. 2002 Phil Bedient - CIVI: TBA
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2001-02
May 2002 Tony Elam - DENG: High Performance Computing across Texas
April 2002 Nate Dean - CAAM: Graphs of Puzzles and Games
March 2002 Robert Nowak - ECE: Internet Tomography
Feb. 2002 Paul Padley - PHYSICS: Grids of Computers in High Energy Physics
Dec. 2001 John Dennis - CAAM: Collaborating with Industry or My Life as an Evangelist
Nov. 2001 Robert Cartwright - CS: Adding Generics to the Java Programming Language
Oct. 2001 Satish Nagarajaiah - CEVE: Smart Structural Dynamic Systems
Sept. 2001 Boris Yakobson - MEMS: Materials by Numbers
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2000-01
May 2001 Moshe Vardi - CS/CITI: CITI, Past and Future
April 2001 Mike Byrne - PSYCH: Computational modeling of Human Performance for HCI
March 2001 Dave Johnson - CS: Routing in Multi-Hop Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Feb. 2001 Walter Chapman - CENG: Applications of Molecular Modeling and Other Computational Methods in the Chemical Processing Industry
Jan. 2001 Ken Kennedy - CS/HiPerSoft: HiPerSoft: Status and Plans
Dec. 2000 Devika Subramanian - CS : Adaptive Systems
Nov. 2000 Kathy Ensor - STAT: Overview of Department of Statistics and the Analysis of Dependent Data
Oct. 2000 Behnaam Aazhang - ECE: Multitier Wireless Communications
Sept. 2000 Leslie Miller - CTTL: Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning - Current Projects
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1999-2000
May 2000 Markus Boettcher - PHYSICS: Monte-Carlo Simulations of High Energy Emission from Accreting Compact Objects
April 2000 Don Johnson - ECE: From Signal Processing to Information Processing
March 2000 Moshe Vardi - CS: A Formal Approach to the Verification Crisis
Feb. 2000 Peter Druschel - CS: The ScalaServer Project: designing scalable, high performance cluster-based network servers
Dec. 1999 John Clark - ECE: Research Activities of the Biological Systems Instrumentation Group (BSIG)
Nov. 1999 Liliana Borcea - CAAM: Imaging electrical properties of heterogeneous media with low frequency electromagnetic fields
Oct. 1999 Keith Cooper - CS: Compiling for Low-Performance Computers
Sept. 1999 Larry McIntire - BIOE: Current Research Projects
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1998-99
June 1999 Tony Elam - CITI: Discuss procedures for Texas ATP Grants
May 1999 Tony Elam - CITI: CITI's State of the Union Report
April 1999 Steve Cox - CAAM: Electrical and Mechanical Prospection of Tissue
March 1999 Tayfun Tezduyar - MEMS: Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling
Feb. 1999 Daryl Boudreaux - OTT: Rice's new policy regarding patents, intellectual property and copyrights
Dec. 1998 Scott Collis - MEMS: Modeling and Simulation of Active Turbulence Control
Nov. 1998 Alan Thornhill - ECOL/ EVOL BIO: Web Technologies and database interactivity in support of the classroom
Oct. 1998 Richard Tapia - CAAM: The Fundamental Role of Interior Point Methodology in Constrained Optimization
Sept. 1998 Pablo Yepes - PHYSICS: A Fast Solution for a Large Challenge
Aug. 1998 Joe Cavallero - ECE: USLI in DSP Designs
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1997-98
June 1998 TBA
May 1998 Alan Carle - CAAM: Automatic Differentiation Technologies
April 1998 Yin Zhang - CAAM: Research in Cont. Optimization
March 1998 Tony Gorry - CS: Computing in Education and Organizational Changes
Feb. 1998 Kyriacos Zygourakis - CENG: Chemical Engineering/Design Research
Nov. 1997 Dennis Cox - STAT: Monte Carlo Methods and Statistics and Applied Mathematics
Oct. 1997 Moshe Vardi - CS: Data Base Research
Sept. 1997 Matthias Heinkenschloss - CAAM: Research Interests and Collaborative Options
Aug. 1997 Sarita Adve - CS: Research Interests
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