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September 2018
Van Tuyl Lecture: Travis Swanson, Rice University
Travis Swanson, Rice University 241 Berthoud Hall, 4PM Topic: Exploring the Morphodynamic Response of Coastal Barriers to Sea-Level Rise along the Texas Gulf Coast Abstract: The Texas portion of the Gulf Coast spans nearly 600 kilometers and is chiefly composed of barrier islands and peninsulas that shelter bay environments and numerous coastal communities from damaging storm surge and waves. Presently, this coastal barrier system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, as sediment that comprises these protective barriers is being depleted while sea-level…
Find out more »Shell Seminar Series – Controlling Controlled Release to Make Medicine That Imitates Life
Dr. Steven Little of the University of Pittsburgh will present his talk on "Controlling Controlled Release to Make Medicine That Imitates Life"
Find out more »PE Distinguished Seminar Series: Transport Mechanisms for Oil Shale and Implications for the Solvent Huff’n-Puff Process
Dr. Russell Johns Penn State University, Visiting Scholar at Colorado School of Mines Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by solvent injection offers significant potential to increase recovery from shale oil reservoirs, which are typically between 3 and 7% OOIP. The rather sparse literature on this topic typically models these tight reservoirs based on conventional reservoir processes and mechanisms, such as by convective transport using Darcy’s law, even though there is little physical justification for this treatment. This talk will discuss a…
Find out more »Research Seminar: Lee Alston
Today, the notion that “institutions matter” is broadly accepted. Scholars have generated a rich literature on the causes and effects of institutions spanning from the micro to the macro level. The pioneering work of Buchanan, Coase, North, Ostrom, Williamson, and many others is the fertile soil in which the literature in Institutional and Organizational Analysis (IOA) has taken root and blossomed. There is a wealth of institutional scholarship that now spans disciplines, decades, and continents.
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