DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

CEVE Seminar Series – Fall 2006

Date and Time	Location	Speaker	Affiliation	Abstract / CV
September 8^th, 2006 12:00 Noon	Mechanical Laboratory, Room 251	Mr. Richard Johnson	Rice University	How green is my university?
September 11^th, 2006 3:45 PM	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. Stefan Hurlebaus	Texas A&M University	Smart structures in engineering applications
September 15^th, 2006 2:00 PM *	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. Christos Vrettos	University of Kaiserslautern, Germany	Design of immersed tunnels in seismic regions
September 18^th, 2006 3:45 PM	Mechanical Laboratory, Room 251	Dr. Jeffrey Haberl	Texas A&M University	Quantification of NOx emissions reductions from energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Texas
September 29^th, 2006 2:00 PM	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. Marc Levitan	Louisiana State University	LSU research and operations support during and after hurricane Katrina
October 2^nd, 2006 3:45 PM	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. Tracy Volz	Rice University	Successful technical presentations
October 9^th, 2006 12:00 Noon	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. Armen Der Kiureghian	University of California, Berkeley	System reliability and importance measures
October 12^th, 2006 4:00 PM *	Mechanical Laboratory, Room 254	Dr. Kelvin Gregory	Carnegie Mellon University	Prokaryote power: Decentralized electricity and environmental restoration using microbe-electrode technology
October 20^th, 2006 3:00 PM	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Rom 201	Dr. Jorge Gardea-Torresdey	University of Texas, El Paso	Metal uptake, reduction, and nanoparticle formation by plants
October 27^th, 2006 3:00 PM	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. Ian Dobson	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Criticality, self-organization, and cascading failure in electric power system blackouts
November 10^th, 2006 1:30 PM	Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium	Dr. Jerome Gilbert	Consulting engineer; Kappe Lecture Series	Water Management: Optimizing Systems in an Era of Limits
November 17^th, 2006 4:00 PM	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. Joseph Zabner	University of Iowa	Quorum-sensing interference
November 20^th, 2006 3:45 PM	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. James Kilduff	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Factors controlling membrane performance for natural organic matter removal
November 27^th, 2006 3:45 PM	Mechanical Laboratory, Room 251	Ms. Delina Lyon	Rice University	Bacteria and buckeyballs: The microbial response to fullerene water suspensions
December 1^st, 2006 3:00 PM *	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. Nii Attoh-Okine	University of Delaware	Bidimensional Hilbert-Huang transform analysis for civil infrastructure condition assessments
December 4^th, 2006 3:45 PM	Ryon Engineering Laboratory, Room 201	Dr. Albert Kim	University of Hawaii	Concentration polarization in a simple shear flow: An analytic solution approach

*Specialty seminar; attendance not mandatory for graduate seminar course.