Rice University

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6100 Main
Houston, TX 77005

Neighborhood: Southgate

Rice University is housed in the Museum District of Houston, Texas. The goal of Rice has been to combine the intimate size and teaching emphasis of a li... read more

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Apr 11		Soo Sunny Park: Unwoven Light	Get Details
May 22	10:00 AM	Understanding and Improving the Efficiency of Failure Resilience for Big Data Frameworks	Get Details
May 23	2:00 PM	Robustness and Optimality in CSMA Wireless Networks	Get Details
May 24	9:00 AM	Computer Simulations on Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Nanoscale Materials	Get Details
May 24	10:00 AM	Adaptive Reduction of Large Spiking Neurons	Get Details
May 24	1:00 PM	Synthesis and Biomodification Gold Nanoparticles for Multimodal Cancer Therapeutics	Get Details
May 28	9:00 AM	HPC Summer Institute - Basics	Get Details
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May 30		Darra Keeton: In My Nature/Thirty-Years of Work	Get Details
May 30	9:00 AM	Structural and Functional Studies on the Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus Nucleoprotein	Get Details

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Rice University is housed in the Museum District of Houston, Texas. The goal of Rice has been to combine the intimate size and teaching emphasis of a liberal arts college with the scholarship of a major research university. It has recently become most known globally for its early groundbreaking research in nanotechnology, and its faculty are at the forefront of this rapidly expanding field. Much of the initial development of artificial hearts has also been conducted with the help of Rice faculty. Rice University established the world's first department of space science (now the Rice Space Institute) and donated the land that established the Johnson Space Center for NASA (which eventually led to "Houston" being the first word spoken by a human on the Moon). Fullerenes were discovered at Rice, leading to a Nobel Prize for two faculty members in 1996.