SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday, November 7
-- "What's New? Recent Acquisitions" by Joyce Robinson, gallery talk, noon, Christoffers Lobby, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- "Teaching Visual Culture," panel discussion, 4 p.m., Palmer Museum of Art.
Sunday, November 9
-- "Steps to Safety 5K Walk/Run," 12:30 p.m., Red A parking lot. To register, call (814) 237-6620.
Thursday, November 13
-- Self-portrait workshop with Cynthia Nixon, 7 to 9 p.m., 315 Visual Arts.
MUSIC
Saturday, November 8
--Baroque Ensemble, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Sunday, November 9
-- Concert Choir and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, 8 p.m., Pasquerilla Spiritual Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-0431.
Monday, November 10
-- Musica Nova, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Tuesday, November 11
-- Zehetmair Quartet, 7:30 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Wednesday, November 12
-- San Francisco's Alexander String Quartet, 7:30 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- Symphonic Wind Ensemble, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Thursday, November 13
-- Bach's Lunch Series, Mallet Ensemble, 12:10 p.m., 122 Music II.
Friday, November 14
-- Marty Guillespie and Jim Chapman Quintet, noon, 1st floor, HUB-Robeson Center.
-- 311, O.A.R., Alien Ant Farm, 7:30 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Sunday, November 16
-- "The Mystery of King Tut," 2 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
SEMINARS
Monday, November 3
-- Christiane Makward on "Visual Metaphor and Ellipses: Idrisso Ouedraogo's Film Style," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- John Collins on "Microscopic Lorentz Invariance Violation Implies Macroscopic Lorentz Invariance Violation," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
Tuesday, November 4
-- William Banholzer on "Personal Experience in the Application of Chemical Engineering to Non-Traditional Fields and Recent Research Topics in GE Plastics," 11:30 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Andrew L. Feig on "RNA Conformational Change — A Tale of Thermodynamics and Riboregulation," 4 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
Wednesday, November 5
-- Michael Bowser on "In Vitro Evolution of Functional DNA Using Capillary Electrophoresis," 11:15 a.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Kristine E. Pringle on "Alcoholism, Treatment and Consequences Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: Sociodemographic, Economic and System Effects," noon to 1 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Celene Domitrovich on "A Comprehensive Preschool Program to Improve Academic Outcomes for At-Risk Urban Students," 4 to 5 p.m., 102 South Henderson.
Thursday, November 6
-- Blake Peterson on "Non-Natural Cellular Receptors and Related Synthetic Cellular Probes," 12:15 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Jane Lipson on "Adventures in Polymers Blends: Connections Between Theory and Experiment," 1:15 to 2:15 p.m., 26 Hosler.
-- John L. Hall on "Optical Frequency Standards, Measurements and Their Applications," 3:50 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Malia Fullerton on issues related to genome, population and politics, 4 p.m., 102 Weaver.
-- William Bingham on "The Role of Reservoirs in Sustainable Water Resources Development in the United States," 7:30 p.m., Applied Research Laboratory.
-- Paul DiMaggio on "Was There a Culture War? Conflict and Consensus in Americans' Views on Values, Media and the Arts," 8 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
Friday, November 7
-- Helmut Schwarz on "Elementary Steps in Catalysis: Looking at and Learning from Bare Transition-Metal Ion Chemistry," 10:30 a.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Paul DiMaggio on "Beyond the Digital Divide: Understanding the Implications of the Internet for Social Inequality," 11 a.m., 301 Steidle.
-- Leslie Sombers on "The Detection and Analysis of Presynapticmechanism Modulating Exocytotic Neurotransmitter Release Events from Single PC12 Cells Utilizing Amperometry and Electron Microscopy," 11:15 a.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Partha Banerjee on "Self-Organization in Nonlinear Optics," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
-- Caitlin Thompson on "Aging and Neurotransmitter Control of Skin Blood Flow," 4 to 5 p.m., 127 Noll Physiological Research Center.
-- Robert Farris Thompson on "New York, the Secret African City," 7:30 p.m., Palmer Lipcon Auditorium.
Monday, November 10
-- Deborah Clarke on "Race Cars and Race Men" Modernism, Gender and Automobiles," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Larry Ford on "Quantum Fluctuations of Gravity," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
Tuesday, November 11
-- Deborah Fygenson on "Life in the Hollow of a Microtuble: Crowding and Cooperation in the Smallest Cytoplasmic Compartment," 4 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
Wednesday, November 12
-- Sam Richards and Laurie Mulvey on "Race Matters in Advising: A Politically Incorrect Discussion," noon to 1 p.m., 124 Thomas.
-- Pius Adesanmi on "Africa, India and the Postcolonical: Notes Towards a Praxis of Infliction," 2 to 3:30 p.m., 216 Willard.
-- James Brasseur on "Relationships Between Physical and Fourier Space Dynamics of Burger Shocklets Through the Wavelet Transform," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
-- John Beale on "Photographing History: The Constitution in Pictures," 7 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
Thursday, November 13
-- Dudley Herschbach on "The Impossible Takes a Little Longer," 12:15 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Paul Becher on "Influence of Additives on the Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of Silicon Nitride Ceramics: Experimental Observations and Mechanisms," 1:15 to 2:15 p.m., 26 Hosler.
Friday, November 14
-- Panel discussion on the University Libraries' progress toward building a culture of assessment, 8:30 to 10 a.m., 404 Old Main. To attend, call (814) 863-8721.
-- Martin Bojowald on "Two-Dimensional Models in Loop Quantum Gravity," 11 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Mark Schoenfisch on "Nitric Oxide-Releasing Sol-Gels: Towards Improved In Vivo Biosensors," 11:15 a.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Roger Cohen on "America's World: The Complications of Power," 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m, The Nittany Lion Inn. For tickets, call (814) 865-7590.
Randy Albelda on "Working it out? Welfare Policies and Poor Single-Mother Families," 1:30 to 3 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Jonathan Skone on "Protein Conformational Searching: The Entropy Sampling Monte Carlo Algorithm," 2:30 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Thomas Larrabee on "Electronic Structure Calculations for Weak Molecular Interactions," 2:30 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Heather McConnell on "Grrrrr' in ghrelin? Ghrelin's Role in Maintaining Energy Balance and Controlling the Weight Set-point in Normal-Weight Young Women," 4 to 5 p.m., 127 Noll Physiological Research Center.
Saturday, November 15
-- Cary Libkin on "Penn State Musical Theatre," 9 a.m., The Nittany Lion Inn.
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