Calendar

Events scheduled for Monday, November 4 (after 5 p.m.), through Monday, November 18 (before 5 p.m.)

MEMORIAL ART GALLERY EVENTS

MAG--x5-3081; http://mag.rochester.edu

November 7--What's Up. Lucy Durkin, Creative Workshop coordinator of art history, speaks on prints by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec featured in Meanwhile: Works by Contemporaries of Degas. Free with gallery admission. Lockhart Gallery, 5:30 p.m.

November 7, 9--Concert. Music director Christopher Seaman leads the Rochester Philharmonic and pianist Pascal Rogˇ in French Impressions, music by French masters Debussy, Ravel, Faurˇ, and Saint-Sa‘ns. For tickets, call 454-2100. Eastman Theatre, pre-concert chat, 7 p.m.; concert, 8 p.m.

November 8, 15--Preschool Workshop. Children can enjoy an art project, story reading, and gallery tour, all with a unified theme. For ages 2 1/2 to 5 with adult. Registration fee required. For reservations, call 473-7720, ext. 3056. Creative Workshop, 10:30 a.m. to noon.

ONGOING EXHIBITS AND TOURS

At Memorial Art Gallery

Gallery Highlights Tour--Free with admission. Meet at the admission desk. November 7, 14, 6:30 p.m.; November 8, 10, 15, 17, 2 p.m.

Through January 5--Meanwhile: Works by Contemporaries of Edgar Degas. This exhibition includes pastels, prints, watercolors, and sculptures by friends and contemporaries of French impressionist master Edgar Degas. The works, from the gallery's permanent collection, are by such masters as Toulouse-Lautrec, Cassatt, Mucha, Renoir, and Rodin.

Through January 5--Edgar Degas: Figures in Motion. The works of this legendary impressionist include one of the icons of world art--Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen. Paintings, pastels, and prints from such major collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Clark Art Institute; period photos of Paris; turn-of-the-century couturier costumes and furniture; and decorative arts.

At Hartnett Gallery

Through November 10--First Comes Love. Canadian-born artists Cecilia Berkovic and Katharine Mulherin project notions of failure and hope, sentimentality and sarcasm through photography-based work with quirky narratives. Free and open to the public.

At Rush Rhees Library

November 10--Opening Reception. Considerations: My Painting and My Mother. Free and open to the public. Gallery at the Art and Music Library, G-134, Rush Rhees Library, 5-7 p.m.

Through December 2--Considerations: My Painting and My Mother. Local artist Barbara Fox exhibits her latest paintings about her mother and the challenges of growing older. Gallery at the Art and Music Library, G-134, Rush Rhees Library.

November 15-February 1--'The Crisis is Here': The Beecher-Tilton Scandal. A collection of correspondence and other items related to the major players in the scandal. Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation in Rush Rhees Library.

Through February 15--Mid-Century Jazz in Rochester, 1955-1962: Photographic Prints from the Paul Hoeffler Archive. This collection of almost 100 black-and-white photographs includes portraits of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, and Sonny Rollins. Free and open to the public. Hilfiker Gallery and the Seward Room in the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation in Rush Rhees Library.

Through February 15--Scaling the Heights: Rochester's Musical Innovators. An exhibit highlighting the many significant composers and performers who have Rochester connections, including Alec Wilder, Chuck Mangione, and Renee Fleming. Free and open to the public. Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation in Rush Rhees Library.

FILMS

Africa Video and Film Series--Sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Institute. Free and open to the public. Refreshments provided. Morey 302.

November 6--Reparations to African-Americans for Slavery. 5 p.m.

University Cinema Group--All films shown in the Hoyt Hall Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets available in advance at the Common Market, Wilson Commons.

November 8--Dirty Dancing. 7, 9, 11 p.m.

November 9--National Lampoon's Van Wilder. 7, 9, 11 p.m.

November 15--Minority Report. 6:30, 9:15, midnight.

November 16--Baran. 7, 9:30, midnight.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Health Bites--Informal series of useful and timely health and wellness topics. For more information, visit www.urmc.rochester.edu/eap/bites. html or call x5-4987.

November 12--Women and Money. Maggie Ridge, financial consultant, speaks on women and finances. Special attention will be placed on prioritizing and setting goals as well as taking control of personal finances. Strong Memorial Hospital 2-6408 (K 207), noon to 1 p.m.

November 12--College Fund Planning. Maggie Ridge, financial consultant, discusses the projected costs of college, reviews the pros and cons of a variety of savings vehicles, explains what not to do with college funds, and presents a brief overview of how financial aid works. 300 East River Road Auditorium, 5:15 & 6:15 p.m.

The Center for Lifetime Wellness--Monroe Community Hospital, 435 E. Henrietta Road, Education Room, 760-6660. Registration fee required.

November 5, 12--Strong and Stable Shoulders. Overview anatomy, identify imbalances and weaknesses, and practice appropriate exercises. Barb Battle, instructor. 6:15 & 7:15 p.m.

November 7--Smart Snackin. Learn techniques and tips that can make snacking a valuable part of healthy eating. Maria Justice, instructor. 12:30-1:30 p.m.

November 7, 14--All About Abdominals. Learn how to strengthen abodominals. Barb Battle, instructor. 12:30 & 1:30 p.m.

CPR Classes--Classes are offered by the Office for Educational Resources (OER) from September through December 2002. Registration fee required. All classes held in the OER Department (2-7500 area of the Medical Center). To register, call x5-7666.

November 6--Basic Life Support Refresher Courses, 8:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m.

November 7--Basic Life Support Original Courses, 9 a.m. to noon.

November 11--Basic Life Support Refresher Courses, 5-9 p.m.

November 14--Basic Life Support Original Courses, 9 a.m. to noon.

MUSIC

Eastman School of Music--24-hour Music Line x4-1100, www.rochester.edu/Eastman. Events are free unless otherwise noted.

November 4--Musica Nova. Music of Lutoslawski, Mellits, Liderman, and Weir. Mark Scatterday, conductor. Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

November 5--Kilbourn Concert Series. Orlando Consort. Medieval and early renaissance music. Tickets required. Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

November 6--Chamber Jazz Concert. Claudia Quartet, guest artists. John Hollenbeck, director. Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

November 8--Eastman Brass Guild. Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

November 10--Faculty Artist Series. Thomas Schumacher, piano. Music of Schubert and Albéniz. Tickets available at the door (one free ticket per University ID holder). Kilbourn Hall, 3 p.m.

November 11--Eastman Wind Orchestra. Music of Grainger, Gounod, Benson, and Dukas. Paul Shewan and Cindi Johnson-Turner, conductors. Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

November 12--Faculty Artist Series. Alan Harris, cello. Music of Beethoven, Chopin, Gnattali, and Carter. Tickets available at the door (one free ticket per University ID holder). Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

November 13--Eastman Wind Ensemble. Music of Poulenc, Viadana, and R. Strauss. Mark Scatterday and Paul Shewan, conductors. Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

November 14--Eastman New Jazz Ensemble/ Eastman Jazz Lab Band. Dave Rivello and Brian Shaw, directors. Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

Nobember 15--Eastman Philharmonia. Music of Wagner, Schumann, and R. Strauss. Neil Varon, conductor. Eastman Theatre, 8 p.m.

Eastman at Washington Square--"Thursday Lunchtime Concerts" at the First Universalist Church, corner of South Clinton and Court Streets, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Brown bag lunches welcome during performance.

November 7--Jazz Performance Workshop. Eastman students from the class of professor and bassist Jeff Campbell perform a concert of popular American standards and jazz.

November 14--Figaro Follies. Highlights with narration from Mozart's 1778 opera Le Nozze di Figaro performed by the voice students of CED instructor Patricia Alexander.

River Campus

November 13--Acoustic Concert by Native American Musician Tonemah. Performance combines contemporary Native rock, folk music, and country music with Native American traditional and contemporary stories in celebration of Native American Heritage Month. Call x5-3157 for more information. Free. Strong Auditorium, 8:30-10 p.m.

November 15--Midnight Ramblers. Tickets required. Tickets available at the Common Market in Wilson Commons. Strong Auditorium, 8 p.m.

RELIGION

River Campus Interfaith Chapel--x5-4321; www.rochester.edu/chapel/services.html

Roman Catholic Mass

November 10, 17, River Level, 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.

November 5, 12, Sanctuary, 5:15 p.m.

November 6, 13, Friel Lounge, 10 p.m.

Jewish Services

Conservative: November 8, 15, River Level, 6 p.m.; November 9, 16, River Level, 10:30 a.m.

Orthodox: November 8, 15, Conference Room, 6 p.m.; November 9, 16, Commons Room, 10 a.m.

Reform: November 8, 15, Commons Room, 6 p.m.

Muslim Services-- All prayers will be held in the Meditation Room 200 unless otherwise specified.

Daily Prayers: Fajr, 5:45 a.m.; Zuhr, 1:30 p.m.; Asr, 3:30-5 p.m.; Magrib, sunset; Isha, 9 p.m.; Jumma, Friday, 1:15 p.m.

Protestant Services

University of Rochester Christian Fellowship: November 10, 17, 3 p.m., Sanctuary.

Protestant Community Chapel: November 10, 17, 5 p.m., Sanctuary.

Sikh Services

Rahiras: November 6, 13, 7 p.m. Meditation Room

Medical Center Interfaith Chapel

Roman Catholic Communion Service

November 8, 15, 12:30 p.m.

Interdenominational Protestant Worship

November 10, 17, 10:15 a.m.

SPORTS

Athletics and Recreation--www.rochester.edu/living/athletics

Football--Case Reserve, November 9, noon.

THEATER

Six Characters in Search of an Author--Luigi Pirandello's tragi-comedy. Directed by Micheal Barakiva. Tickets can be reserved online at www.rochester.edu/College/eng/theatre or by calling x5-4088. Tickets can also be purchased at the door starting one hour before the performance. Todd Theatre, November 14, 15, 16, 8 p.m.; November 17, 3 p.m.

RIVER CAMPUS LECTURES

November 7--Neilly Series Lecture. Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, will discuss the need for facts before attacking Iraq. Free and open to the public. Hoyt Hall, 5 p.m.

November 15--'A Holocaust for Womanhood': The Beecher-Tilton Scandal and the Women's Rights Movement in the 1870s. Lecture by author Richard Wightman Fox. For more information or to RSVP, contact Richard Peek at x5-4477. Plutzik Library, Rush Rhees Library, 5 p.m.

Department of Biology Donut Talks--Hutchison Hall, Room 473.

November 11--Nuclear Transport, Autophagy, and Apoptosis in Yeast. David Goldfarb, department of biology. Noon to 1 p.m.

November 18--RTK Signaling in Drosophila Development. Willis Li, Medical Center. Noon to 1 p.m.

Department of Chemistry--Hutchison Hall, Room 473 (unless otherwise noted), x5-8286.

November 4--Recent Insights into Signal Transduction in the O2-Sensing Heme Protein, FixL. Inorganic seminar: Kenton Rodgers, North Dakota State University, 4:45 p.m.

November 5--Pattern Formation in and out of Equilibrium: Examples from Supercooled Liquids and Nanocrystal Solutions. Special physical seminar: Phillip Geissler, MIT, 4 p.m.

November 6--Designing Catalysts for Green Oxidation Technologies. Colloquium: Terry Collins, Carnegie Mellon, noon.

November 8--Practical and Powerful NMR Methods for Studying Organic Reactions, Processes, and Structures. Organic seminar:Thomas Hoye, 9:30 a.m.

November 8--Long-lived Photophysics of Conjugated Polymers. Ph.D. defense: Christine Cuppoletti, 1:30 p.m.

November 11--Electron Spin Resonance in Studies of Membranes and Proteins. Physical seminar: Jack Freed, Cornell University, 4:45 p.m.

November 13--Synthesis and Applications of Expanded Porphyrins. Colloquium: Jonathan Sessler, University of Texas, noon.

November 15--Zinc-mediated Chain Extension Reactions: Methodology, Natural Products and Isosteres. Organic seminar: Charles Zercher, University of New Hampshire, 9:30 a.m.

Department of Modern Languages and Cultures--Free and open to the public. For more information, call x5-4251.

November 7--Festival of Food and Film. Features Japanese cuisine and the 1985 comedy film Tampopo. Free and open to the public. Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library, 6 p.m.; film, 7 p.m.

Department of Physics and Astronomy--x5-4351

November 4--Mechanical Constraints on Gene Expression: Possible Mechanisms for Regulation? Condensed matter physics seminar: Michelle Wang, Cornell University. Bausch & Lomb 372, 3:45 p.m.

November 8--Webworks. Teaching seminar: Michael Gage, department of mathematics. Bausch & Lomb 208, noon.

November 13--Interface Studies of Organic Thin Transistors. Ph.D. defense: Neil Watkins, Department of Physics. Bausch & Lomb 372, 3:30 p.m.

Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies--Free and open to the public. For more information, call x5-7235 or e-mail FDI@troi.cc.rochester.edu.

November 14--FDI Visiting Speakers Series. Herman Bennett, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, presents a talk on "Sex, Lies and Incest: The Seventeenth-Century Afro-Mexican Experience." Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library, 4:30 p.m.

Laboratory for Laser Energetics Science and Technology Seminar Series--LLE Coliseum, noon to 1 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

November 8--Revolutionary Xerographic Digital Production Press. Paul Garsin, Xerox Corporation.

November 15--Suicide in Later Life. Yates Conwell, Department of Psychiatry MD, Geri/Neuropsych, SMH.

MISCELLANY

November 7--Native American Dance, Music, Storytelling, and Art. A program by Zuni Pueblo Chester Mahooty, an internationally known singer, dancer, and master silver smith, and his troupe, incorporating tribal dances, storytelling, history, and a talk on jewelrymaking. Call x5-5260 for more information. Free. The Pit of Wilson Commons, 6-8 p.m.

November 8--Middle Eastern Dance, featuring Morocco. An acclaimed expert on Middle Eastern dance, Morocco (Carolina Varga Dinicu) gives a lecture-demonstration and discusses the emergence of Middle Eastern dance in the United States, its representation in film, cultural perceptions, and dance and spirituality. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Dance Program, x3-5150. Spurrier Dance Studio, 7:30 p.m.

November 8-9--Department of Philosophy Graduate Conference in Epistemology. Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa, presents "Epistemic Internalism, Philosophical Assurance, and the Skeptical Predicament." Professor Earl Conee, commentator. For more information, visit http://mail.rochester.edu/~nobs/conference/2001.html or call x5-4105.

November 9--Viennese Ball. University Chamber Orchestra and the University Choir perform. Light refreshments served throughout the evening. Guests may come in evening dress or period costume. Open to the public. Tickets required. Wilson Commons, 9 p.m.

November 12--Simon School Part-Time MBA Programs Information Reception. Lunch provided. For reservations, call x5-3533. NE Conference Room, Kornberg Building, Medical Center, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

November 16--South Asian Expo. Annual cultural fair sponsored by the Association for the Development of Interest in the Indian Subcontinent, featuring information on history, sports, music, fashion, language, religion, and art. Instrumental and dance performances by students. May Room, Wilson Commons, 2-6 p.m.

Information Technology Services--No registration required. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Briefings will be held in Rush Rhees G113, noon to 1 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

November 6--Introduction to Dreamweaver.

November 7--Search Services On and Off Campus.

November 12--Introduction to Digital Video: iMovie.

November 13--Advanced Dreamweaver.

November 14--What Every Manager Should Know About the Web.

ACTIVITIES PROGRAM

Discounts for activities are available to all University staff, faculty, and students through the University Activities Program. All tickets are available at the hospital Cashier's Office and the Customer Service Center in the Susan B. Anthony Halls on the River Campus. The Eastman School and Memorial Art Gallery carry movie theater tickets only. For further information check the University Activities Program flier or call x5-7942. The current list can be accessed at www.rochester.edu/working/services/auxops/ActivitiesProg1.htm

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