This ensemble, composed of all instruments--including piano, strings, brass, and woodwinds--performs dance music of Eastern Europe. Students at all levels of experience will use their classical training to go beyond the printed page into the folk tradition, learning to play different modes of the tunes and employing 'untraditional' techniques that are traditional in this unique folk music.

Chamber Music for brass instruments

Chamber Music for mixed ensembles

Chamber Music for piano instruments

Chamber Music for string instruments

Chamber Music for string instruments

Chamber Music for wind instruments

This course is an introduction to asteroids and comets from both an astronomical and geological point of view. Topics that will be covered will include how these objects are discovered, their orbits, the mineralogies of asteroids and meteorites, how these objects are classified, impact hazard scales, and space missions. This course is appropriate for any student interested in the properties of these small bodies.

The explosion of new unstructured and structured data on the web increases the need for approaches for processing very large data sets. In this course, we will explore tools and techniques such a Map-Reduce and Hadoop in the context of search technologies such as web search (e.g. Google) and recommender systems.

Semi-private instruction available by arrangement and permission of instructor. Until further notice, private lessons are only available for those with their own horses or those with access to privately owned horses.