SPECIAL EVENTS
Monday, October 11
-- "Cafe Hunger" and auction, 5:30 p.m., Frizzell Room, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center. For tickets, call (814) 863-0249.
Tuesday, October 12
-- "Mamma Mia!" Eisenhower Auditorium, through Oct. 17. For times and tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Wednesday, October 13
-- College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Geospatial Information Science Open House, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., museum, Deike.
Tuesday, October 19
--"The Rimers of Eldritch," through Oct. 30. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
MUSIC
Monday, October 11
-- Susan Boardman, faculty soprano recital, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Wednesday, October 13
-- Pennsylvania Quintet, composed of School of Music faculty members, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Thursday, October 14
-- Bach's Lunch, Mallet Ensemble, 12:10 p.m., 128 Music Building II.
Sunday, October 17
-- Steinway pianist Joe Augustine, 6 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- Rascal Flatts with Chris Cagle and Julie Roberts, 7:30 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Tuesday, October 19
-- Susan Boardman, soprano, Steven Smith, piano, noon, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- Concert Band, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. Tickets required.
-- Neal Corwell, euphonium soloist of Pershing's Own Army Band, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Wednesday, October 20
-- Marylene Dosse, piano, James Lyon, violin, noon, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt, music director, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Thursday, October 21
-- Amy Myers, piano, noon, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- Bach's Lunch, Glee Club and the Hi-Lo's, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Chamber Orchestra, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
Friday, October 22
-- Andrew Jackson Jazz Ensemble, noon to 1 p.m., first floor, HUB-Robeson Center.
-- Sei-Eun Kim, piano, noon, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- Castalia Trio, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Saturday, Oct. 23
-- Glee Club Homecoming Concert, 8 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. Tickets required.
Sunday, Oct. 24
-- Velvet Brown, faculty tuba recital, 2 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
-- University Choir, 4 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
Monday, Oct. 25
-- Trombone Choir, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
FILMS
Monday, October 11
-- "The Promise," by Heifer International, 10 a.m.; "Sowing Seeds of Hunger," by Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 1 p.m.; "Remedies: Healing the Earth," Heifer International, 3 p.m.; all in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center.
Wednesday, October 13
-- "Segovia: The Mirror of Spanish History," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Wednesday, October 20
-- "Imagining New Worlds," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Thursday, October 21
-- "Une femme de ménage (The Housekeeper)," 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., 113 Carnegie.
SEMINARS
Monday, October 11
-- Matt Liebman on "Crop Diversity, Granivory and Weed Population Dynamics: A Tale of Seeds, Mice, Crickets and Models," 10 a.m., 324 Agricultural Sciences and Industries.
-- Glenn Geelhoed on "Hunger and Our Response to It: Malnutrition and Obesity," noon, Worship Hall, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center.
-- John Badding on "Semiconductor Nanowire Arrays," noon, S-5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Aldon Nielsen on "The Beach Boys and the Black Arts," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Anne Davis Basting on "Forget Memory: Imaging the Self after Memory Loss," 3 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- Shane Larson on "Close Encounters of a Different Kind: Extreme Mass Ratio Capture Orbits in the LISA Band," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
Tuesday, October 12
-- Erwin Vogler on "Controlling Role of Water in Protein Adsorption to Hydrophobic Surfaces," 11:30 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Peter Drummond on a subject to be announced, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Foster Conference of Distinguished Writers: Walter Mears, 7 p.m., HUB-Robeson Center.
Wednesday, October 13
-- Foster Conference of Distinguished Writers: Cynthia Tucker, 10:10 a.m., Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library.
-- "Identifying Multicultural Lecture Points, Student Assignments and Group Activities for your Courses," faculty-led discussion, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., 315 Rider II.
-- Research Unplugged: Jim Lantolf on "Is it Ever too Late to Learn a Second Language?" noon, Penn State Downtown Theatre.
-- David Kirkman on "Elder Fraud: Crime Groups Exploiting Age-Related Cognitive Decline," noon to 1 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Farhan S. Gandhi on "Factors in the Design of Morphing Aircraft Structures," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering.
Thursday, October 14
-- Robert Stahlbush on "Mechanisms of Stacking Fault Growth in 4H-SiC PiN Diodes," 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 135 Reber.
-- Kunihito Ioka on "Relativistic Stars with Magnetic Fields," 12:30 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Sankar das Sarma on "Spin and Pseudospin Quantum Computation in Semiconductor Nanostructures," 4 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Fadwa El Guindi on "The Politics of the Veil of the Islamic World and Beyond," 8 p.m., 112 Kern.
Friday, October 15
-- Parampreet Singh on "Phenomenological Issues in Loop Quantum Cosmology: Part III," 9 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Jodi Mathieu on "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Informed Consent," noon to 1 p.m., 102 Kern.
Monday, October 18
-- David Pan on "Herder, Rousseau and the Origin of Language," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Phil DeShong on "New Coupling Methods using Hypercoordinate Silicon Derivatives: Applications to the Total Synthesis of Natural Products," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Kelly Holley-Bockelmann on "Bringing Black Holes Together: An N-Body Mechanic's Collision Report," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
Tuesday, October 19
-- Raphael Rubinstein on "The Crisis of Criticism/Some Problems in Painting," 11:30 a.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Musuem of Art.
-- Tim Piccirillo on "The Magic of Your Potential," 7 p.m., 101 Chambers.
Wednesday, October 20
-- Research Unplugged: Brian Dempsey on "Progress without Pollution," noon, Penn State Downtown Theatre.
-- Paul Eslinger on "Neuropsychology and Aging, Part I," noon to 1 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Lewis Rothberg on "New Approaches to Oligonucleotide Sensing Using Electrostatics," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Ronald J. Huss on "Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, October 21
-- Mary Lott on "Effects of Diabetes on the Myogenic Responses in Diabetes," noon to 1 p.m., 7 Sparks.
-- Ness Shroff on "Opportunistic Scheduling in Wireless Communication Networks," 4 p.m., 113 Information Science and Technology.
Friday, October 22
-- Forian Conrady on "Free Vacuum for Loop Quantum Gravity," 9 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Peter J. Landschoot on "Publish or Perish: An Editor's Perspective on Manuscript Preparation," 12:20 to 1:10 p.m., 101 Agricultural Science and Industries.
-- Rebecca Golombeck on "Deep Sea Methane Hydrate Solubility," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Steven Wasserstrom on "Siblings or Enemies? Jews and Muslims in the Formation of Islam," 3:30 p.m., Frizzell Room, Pasquerilla Spiritual Center.
Saturday, October 23
-- Kent Vrana on "To Clone or Not to Clone: The Future of Stem Cells," 9 a.m., The Nittany Lion Inn.
Monday, October 25
-- Judy Van Zile on "Politics and Dance in Korea," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Nick Krogman on "Electronically Conductive Polymers for Uses in Photovoltaic Devices," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Phoebe Hoban on "Alice Neel et milieu," 7 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- "Body Bags," Eric Symons, large soft sculpture, Art Foyer, through Dec. 12.
-- "Brandywine Collection: Prints from the Diaspora," HUB Gallery, through Oct. 15
-- Dawoud Bey, photographic portraits, Robeson Gallery, through Oct. 17.
Palmer Museum of Art
-- "Recent Acquisitions," Works on Paper Gallery, through Jan. 23.
-- The Olympia-Steinway Piano, by glass artist Dale Chihuly, Oct. 17 through Oct. 30.
-- "Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy," Special Exhibitions Gallery II, through Dec. 5.
-- "The Seligmann Portfolio," by Kurt Seligmann, through Jan. 30.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "Paying Dues: Labor and Diversity in Black and White," main exhibit area, through Oct. 29.
For a full listing of University Park activities, including sporting events, go to the Web at http://events.psu.edu/ and for a detailed listing of upcoming Conference and Institutes' conferences, visit the Web at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/conferences.html