SPECIAL EVENTS
Tuesday, November 18
-- "Twelfth Night," The Playhouse Theatre, through Dec. 6. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Friday, November 21
-- Leo Mazow on "Alfred H. Maurer: The First American Modern," gallery talk, noon, Christoffers Lobby, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- "Twelfth Night," The Playhouse Theatre, through Dec. 6. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
MUSIC
Monday, November 17
-- Oboe Studio Recital, 8 p.m., 210 Music I.
Tuesday, November 18
-- Cassandra Wilson and jazz trio, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Thursday, November 20
-- Bach's Lunch Series, Oboe Studio, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Krasnoyarsk Dance Company of Siberia, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
SEMINARS
Monday, November 17
-- Dmitri Averin on "Coulomb Blockade and Quantum Dynamics of Solid-State Qubits," noon, 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- David Louapre on a subject to be announced, noon, 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Gerhard Strasser on "Francesco Petrarca and Cola di Rienzi at the Habsburg Court in Prague in the 1350s," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
Tuesday, November 18
-- Dmitri Averin on a subject to be announced, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Kanika Vats on "The Biochemistry of Visual Cycle," 4 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
Wednesday, November 19
-- Lisa Dillenbeck on "Organic Light-Emitting Diodes for Lighting and Other Applications," and Shawn Parry on "Bioelectrocatalytical and Electrocatalytical Processess Activated by Magneto-Switches," 11:15 a.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Josip Novakovich on "Gathering Facts for Making Fiction," noon, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.
-- Gita Talmage on "An Introduction to Liquid Metal MHD Applications," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
-- Peter T. Kiefer on "Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians: The Radio Years, 1933-1950," 4 p.m., 109 Pattee Library.
-- Sarah Rich on "The Work in Jules Olitski's Painting," 7 p.m., Palmer Lipcon Auditorium.
Thursday, November 20
-- Richard McCullough on "Highly Conductive Block Copolymer Nanowires, Nanocables, MEMS Sensors and Other Cool and Useful Stuff," 12:15 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Suparna Rajaram on "Remembering, Knowing, Priming and New Learning: Processing and Neural Constraints," 1 p.m., 352 Moore.
-- Peter Schiffer on "Topics in the Physics of Novel Magnetic Materials," 1:15 to 2:15 p.m., 26 Hosler.
-- Xiaoxing Xi on "'Penn State' Films of Sperconductor MgB2: A Success Story of Interdisciplinary Research," 3:50 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Jonathan Brockopp on "The History of the Qur'an: From Compilation to Canonization," 4 p.m., 102 Weaver.
-- Leadership issues panel, featuring Catherine Brune, senior vice president and CTO, Allstate Insurance Co.; Deborah Johnson, president and CEO, Infinity I/O; Samantha Howland, vice president for strategic accounts, Vis.align; and Susan Shuman, assistant dean for equity and diversity, on "Women in IT: Balancing Career and Personal Life," 7 p.m., Room 102, Thomas Building.
-- Christopher Palma on "Galactic Cannibals," 7:30 p.m., 100 Thomas.
Friday, November 21
-- Artem Starodoubtsev on "Generalized Boundary Conditions for Quantum Spacetime with Nonzero Cosmological Constant," 11 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Jonathan P. Mathews and John A. Dutton on "Engaging Students Online: Tools, Tricks and Bribes in EGEE 101," noon to 1 p.m., 141 Computer.
-- Bernd Brutschy on "Small Microsolvated Molecules in Gas Phase and Large Noncovalently Bonded Biomolecules in Solution, Both Studied with IR Lasers," 2:30 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Laurie Ringaert on "Universal Design of the Built Environment: The New Paradigm," 3 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- Priscilla Clarkson on "Exertional Rhabdomyolysis: Causes and Consequences," 4 to 5 p.m., 127 Noll Physiological Research Center.
-- Bart O-Brien on "LC/MS Strategies for Profiling of Bioactive Phytochemical Metabolites," 4 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
Monday, November 24
-- William Hancock on a subject to be announced, noon, 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Robert Edwards on "Ricardian Dreamwork: Chaucer Meets Cupid Again," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern..
-- Abhay Ashtekar on "Quantum Gravity: An Overview," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
Tuesday, November 25
-- Manos Mavrikakis on "First Principles Methods Applied to Heterogeneous Catalysis: From Resolving Puzzles to Identifying Promising Materials," 11:30 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Stanislav Shvartsman on "Modeling and Manipulation of Cell Communication in Tissues," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Alex MacKerell on "Computational Studies of Base Flipping in DNA Alone and Bound to the Cytosine-5-Methyltransferase from Hhal," 4 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
Wednesday, November 26
-- Alan A. Luo on "Magnesium Alloy Development and Automotive Applications," 1:30 p.m., 301 Steidle.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- "Kids at Work" by Artistic Horizon, through Dec. 7.
-- "Media Exploration," by Florence Putterman, through Dec. 4.
-- Sally Frehn, ceramic art, through Dec. 10
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "A Gallery of Ways," photo exhibit, by John Beale, through Jan. 5.
-- "Photographing History: The Constitution in Pictures," John Beale, through Jan. 5.
-- "Dancing by the Book: European Dance and Dance Notation, 1531-1801: Selections from the Mary Ann O'Brian Dance Collection," through Jan. 30.
For a full listing of University Park activities, including sporting events, go to the Web at http://cac.psu.edu/calendar/. For a detailed listing of upcoming Conference and Institutes' conferences, visit the Web at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/conferences.html.