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The Peking University Performing Arts Troupe will present a free performance Wednesdy, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Read the story.exhibits
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on the corner of University and Central avenues, is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Telephone: 255-6464.
* "Taboo and Transgression in Contemporary Indonesian Art," through March 20.
* "Material Matters," through March 20.
* "Elana Herzog," through March 27.
* "Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image," through May 15.
* Art for Lunch: On Jan. 27 at noon, join educator Jessica Evett-Miller on a tour of the collection in celebration of the "Light in Winter" festival.
* Artist's Talk: On Jan. 27 at 5:15 p.m., artist Jean Shin will speak about her work, including her installation at the Johnson created from student clothing, part of the "Material Matters" exhibition.
* Gallery Talk: On Friday, Jan. 28, at 4:15 p.m., curator Andrea Inselmann will introduce the exhibition "Material Matters."
* Opening Reception: The museum will hold a public reception for the opening of its winter exhibitions, Friday, Jan. 28, from 5 to 7 p.m. The event includes live music by Don Slatoff's Jazz Circus, and hors d'oeuvres. A shuttle bus from A Lot will run from 3:45 to 7:15 p.m.
* Artist's Talk: Thursday, Feb. 3, at 5:15 p.m., artist Tony Feher will speak about his work in conjunction with "Material Matters."Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema and held in Willard Straight Theatre, except where noted, and are open to the public. All films are $6 ($4.75 for undergraduates and seniors; $4 for Cornell graduate students and kids 12 and under). films
"Last Life in the Universe" (2003), directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, with Tadanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak and Laila Boonyasak, 7 p.m.
"La Dolce Vita" (1961), directed by Federico Fellini, with Marcello Mastroianni, 9:30 p.m.
"My Mother Likes Women" (2002), directed by Daniela Fejerman and Ines Paris, with Leonor Watling and Maria Pujalte, 7:15 p.m.
"Garden State" (2004), directed by Zach Braff, with Braff, Natalie Portman and Ian Holm, 7:15 p.m., Uris.
"Last Life in the Universe," 9:15 p.m.
"Napoleon Dynamite" (2004), directed by Jared Hess, with Jon Heder, Jon Gries and Aaron Ruell, 9:45 p.m., Uris.
"Shaun of the Dead" (2004), directed by Edgar Wright, with Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield and Nick Frost, 11:45 p.m., Uris.
"My Mother Likes Women," 5 p.m.
"Sex Is Comedy" (2002), directed by Catherine Breillat, with Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin and Roxane Mesquida, 7:15 p.m.
"Napoleon Dynamite," 7:15 p.m., Uris.
"Garden State," 9:15 p.m., Uris.
"Blissfully Yours" (2002), directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, with Kanokporn Tongaram, Min Oo and Jenjira Jansuda, 9:20 p.m.
"Blissfully Yours," 4:30 p.m.
"La Dolce Vita," 7:15 p.m.
"Wild Strawberries" (1957), directed by Ingmar Bergman, with Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson and Ingrid Thulin, presented by Pentangle, 7:30 p.m., Uris, free.
"Last Life in the Universe," 7 p.m.
"Shaun of the Dead," 9:30 p.m.
"Empathy" (2003), with guest filmmaker Amie Siegel, 7:15 p.m.
"Infernal Affairs" (2003), directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mark, with Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Andy Lau and Anthony Wong, 9:45 p.m.
"In the Realms of the Unreal" (2004), directed by Jessica Yu, 7:15 p.m.
"La Isla de los Niños Perdidos" (2001), directed by Florence Jaugey, presented by LASP and CUSLAR, 8 p.m., Uris, free.
"The Yes Men" (2005), directed by Dan Ollman, Sarah Price and Chris Smith, with Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, 9:15 p.m.
"In the Realms of the Unreal," 7:15 p.m.
"Days of Being Wild" (1991), directed by Wong Kar-wai, with Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing and Maggie Cheung, 9:15 p.m.lectures
Roessler Lecture: Herbert Waldmann of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, will give the following lectures, both at 4:40 p.m. in 119 Baker Laboratory: "The Chemical Biology of Protein Lipidation," Feb. 1; and "Natural Product and Protein Structure Similarity as Guiding Principles for Chemical Genomics," Feb. 2.
Civil rights attorney Fred Gray will speak on campus and downtown Ithaca Jan. 30-31. He will speak at the Sage Chapel service Jan. 30 at 11 a.m. on "Learning to Live With Life's Ups and Downs," and he will give a public lecture on "Why Do You Want to Be a Lawyer?" Jan. 31 at 12:30 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Auditorium. In Ithaca he will give a presentation titled "Civil Rights: Past, Present and Future" Jan. 30 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School gymnasium. Read the story.
On Saturday, Jan. 29, the following presentations will be held in Statler Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for each event. For tickets or information, call 273-4497 or visit http://www.LightinWinter.com.
* "The Alchemy of Color," Tom Eisner and Jerrold Meinwald, 10-11 a.m.
* "The Elegance of Motion," Jane Wang and Marilyn Rivchin, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
* "Math and the 'Mona Lisa,'" Bulent Atalay, 2-3 p.m.
* "Music and Meaning," Carol Krumhansl and Ithaca College's Ariadne String Quartet, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
As part of the Workshop on Developmnt Governance and Nature, Chavali Kameswara Rao, executive secretary, Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education, Bangalore, India, will give two lectures Jan. 31, both in G08 Uris Hall: "'Golden Rice' in the Context of GMOs in India: Biological and Political Prospects," 12:15 p.m.; and "Biopharming: The Interface Between Phytopharmaceuticals and Agricultural Biotechnology," 5 p.m.
"You Can Reduce Blood Pressure Without Medication," Ruth Merle-Doyle, Feb. 3, noon, G01 Biotechnology Building.music
* Jan. 29, 7 p.m., Barnes Hall: Finals for the first annual Cornell Concerto Competition.
* Jan. 30, 4:30 p.m., State Theatre: Ensemble X presents "Dance of the Machines," part of the Light in Winter Festival. Tickets: $30 general, $15 students; available at the ticket center in Clinton House, 273-4497.
* Feb. 1-2, 8 p.m., Barnes Hall: Mozart Birthday Concert. Read the story.
* Feb. 3, 12:30 p.m., B20 Lincoln Hall: Midday Music at Lincoln: Jian Liu, violin; Alexander Sarch, cello; and Aaron Herzog, piano, perform Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor.
The Kronos Quartet will perform Jan. 29 at 8 p.m. in the State Theatre. Tickets are available through the Light in Winter Festival Web site: http://www.lightinwinter.com.
Jan. 30: Bill Staines will perform. "Bound for Glory" is broadcast Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m. from Anabel Taylor Hall on WVBR-FM, 93.5 and 105.5.readings
Akin Adesokan will read from his novel Roots in the Sky Feb. 1 at 5:30 p.m. in 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.religion
Civil rights attorney Fred Gray will speak at the service Jan. 30 at 11 a.m. Read the story.
Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel.
Weekly prayer circle open to all faiths, sponsored by the Baha'i Club, held Sundays at 11 a.m. at 630 Stewart Ave. All are welcome.
Weekly Bible study meets Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in 314 Anabel Taylor Hall. For information contact Keith Bowman at kcb29@cornell.edu or 277-2283.
* Meditations: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 12:15-1 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall.
* Zen Meditation practice is Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Founders Room, ATH. Instruction is required before attending. For information, call Anne Marie at 273-4906.
Weekly large group meets Fridays at 7:30 p.m. in B14 Hollister Hall.
Sunday Mass schedule: 10 a.m. and 5:15 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium; 9:30 p.m., Sage Chapel.
Daily Masses: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 12:20 p.m., ATH Chapel; Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:15 p.m., ATH Chapel.
Testimony meetings: Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Church services: Sundays, 10:30 a.m., and Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., First Church of Christ Scientist, 101 University Ave., Ithaca.
The InterVarsity chapter meets Fridays at 7:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. For information visit the Web site at http://www.ccfiv.org.
Wednesdays, worship and Eucharist, 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Sundays, worship and Eucharist, 9:30 a.m., ATH Chapel. For more information, call 255-4219 or send e-mail to eccu@cornell.edu.
Meeting for worship, Sunday, 11 a.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. For information visit http://www.quaker.org/ithaca/ or call 273-5421.
The InterVarsity chapter meets Fridays at 7 p.m., B11 Kimball Hall. For more information visit the Web site at http://www.curw.cornell.edu/gcf.
Weekly religious service is Saturday at 4 p.m. in the Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, followed by a Gita reading at 5 p.m.
* Conservative: Fridays, 6:15 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall; Saturdays, 9:45 a.m., Founders Room, ATH.
* Reform: Fridays, 6:15 p.m., Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall.
* Orthodox: Friday, Center for Jewish Living, call 272-5810 for weekly times; Saturday, 9:15 a.m., Edwards Room, ATH.
Sundays, 11 a.m., One World Room (in English), and 1 p.m., chapel (in Korean), Anabel Taylor Hall. Call 255-2250 for more information.
Cornell student branch: Sundays at 9 a.m. Call 257-7313 for information.
Campus ministry at St. Luke Church, 109 Oak Ave., in Collegetown, Sundays, 10:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. Bible study Tuesday, 7 p.m. For more information call 273-6811 or e-mail rlb8@cornell.edu.
Daily congregational prayer at 218 Anabel Taylor Hall.
Weekly Juma'a Prayer, Friday, 1:20 p.m., One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall.
Weekly coffee hour Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m., Tower Café, Uris Library. For more information visit the Web site: http://www.meca-online.org/.
For information about United Pagan Ministries, call Cornell United Religious Work at 255-4214.
Sunday service at 11 a.m. in Anabel Taylor Chapel.seminars
"Rethinking Africa's Development After 50 Years of Economic Development," Stef Coetzee, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, Jan. 27, 12:20 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
"Proposed New Graduate Minor Field in Computational Science and Engineering," John Guckenheimer, Stephen Pope, Christine Shoemaker, Charlie Van Loan and Stephen Vavasis, Jan. 28, 3:30 p.m., 655 Rhodes Hall.
"Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Formation," Karen Zito, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Jan. 31, 2:30 p.m., Lecture Hall I, Veterinary Education Center.
"Quantitative Protein Profiling and Integration With DNA Sequence and mRNA Expression Profiles in E. coli," Kelvin Hao-Hua Lee, chemical engineering, Feb. 1, 4 p.m., Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower.
"Ephesia: Separation of Long DNA in Microfluidic Magnetic Arrays," Kevin Dorfman, Institut Curie, Jan. 31, 4 p.m., 165 Olin Hall.
"Snapshots of Cytochrome c Folding," Ekaterina Pletneva, California Institute of Technology, Jan. 27, 4:40 p.m. 119 Baker Lab.
"Development of Protein-Based Calcium Sensors and New Applications in Cellular Imaging," Amy Palmer, University of California-San Diego, Jan. 31, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker Laboratory.
"Graph Cut Algorithms for Computer Vision and Medical Imaging," Ramin Zabih, Cornell, Feb. 3, 4:15 p.m., B17 Upson Hall.
"Lensless Imaging of Magnetic Nanostructures by X-ray Spectro-Holography," Donald Bilderback, CHESS, Jan. 28, 2:30 p.m., 380 Wilson Lab.
"The End of the Republic of Parties," Theodore Lowi, government, Feb. 3, 4:30 p.m., 100 Caldwell Hall.
"Sustainable Development From Agricultural and Natural Resource Management Perspectives," Laurie Drinkwater, horticulture; John Duxbury, crop and soil sciences; and Alice Pell, animal sciences, Feb. 2, 12:20 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall.
"Microbe-Mineral Interfaces: New Approaches to Investigating Microbial Transformations of Heavy Metals and Geological Materials," Alexis Templeton, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, Feb. 1, 4:30 p.m., 2146 Snee Hall.
"Does Phylogeography Matter? Examining Patterns and Mechanisms of Biological and Evolutionary Distinctiveness in Spring Peepers," James Austin, ecology and evolutionary biology, Jan. 31, 12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"The Influence of Leaf Morphology on Mite Predator-Prey Dynamics," Jan Nyrop, Cornell, Jan. 31, 3:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Are CD40-CD40L Interactions Essential for Helper-Dependent CD8+ T Cell Responses?" Alexandra Livingstone, University of Rochester Medical Center, Jan. 28, 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Institute Auditorium.
"Novel Energy Technology Materials-Design and Synthetic Strategies," Venkatesan Manivannan, GE Global Research Center, Jan. 27, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall.
"Melding Cultivation-based and Molecular Ecological Approaches to Isolate and Study New Model Biosystems in Microbial Oceanography," Michael Rappé, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Jan. 27, 4 p.m., 105 Riley-Robb Hall.
"Coral Reef Disease: the Brink of Understanding," Susan Merkel, microbiology, Feb. 3, 4 p.m., 105 Riley-Robb Hall.
"Understanding How and Why Transposons Target Replicating DNA," Joseph Peters, microbiology, Jan. 28, 4 p.m., G10 Biotechnology Building.
"Single Molecule Imaging of LacI Repressor Protein Sliding Along DNA," Yan Mei Wang, Princeton University, Feb. 1, noon, G01 Biotechnology Building.
"How Many Countries Will Go Nuclear? Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and the NPT," Christopher Way, government, Jan. 27, 12:15 p.m., G08 Uris Hall.
Poster session, Feb. 1, 12:15 p.m., G10 Biotechnology Building.
"Measures of Diversity in Arbusular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Contributions to Understanding Evolution, Biology and Ecology of the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis," Joseph Morton, West Virginia University, Feb. 2, 12:20 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Fantasies of Free Enterprise: Frozen Food and Postwar Politics," Shane Hamilton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jan. 31, 4:30 p.m., 374 Rockefeller Hall.
"Ethnic-Minority Populations and Issues Associated With Physical Activity," Anne Lusk, Harvard University, Jan. 27, noon, 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
"Aerodynamics of Fluttering and Tumbling Cards," Anders Andersen, theoretical and applied mechanics, Feb. 2, 4:30 p.m., 205 Thurston Hall.theater
The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts presents Alan Ball's comedy Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Feb. 2-6 and 9-12 at 8 p.m., with matinees offered Feb. 6, 12 and 13 at 2 p.m. Read the story.miscellany
Property owners and managers, Cornell Housing and Dining Office and public service agencies will display information regarding housing options for next year, Friday, Jan. 28, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room. For more information, contact Cornell's Housing and Dining Office at 255-5368.sports
Jan. 29, Harvard, 2 p.m.
Jan. 30, Dartmouth, 2 p.m.
Jan. 28, at Harvard, 6 p.m.
Jan. 29, at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.
Jan. 29, Harvard, time TBA
Jan. 30, at MIT with Brown
Jan. 28, Clarkson, 8 p.m.
Jan. 29, St. Lawrence, 7:05 p.m.
Jan. 28, at St. Lawrence, 7:05 p.m.
Jan. 29, at Clarkson, 4 p.m.
Feb. 2, at Colgate, 7 p.m.
Jan. 29, Dartmouth, 10 a.m., and Western Ontario (tentative)
Jan. 28, Columbia, 4 p.m.
Jan. 29, Brown and Columbia, noon
Jan. 28, Princeton, 7 p.m.
Jan. 29, Penn, 3 p.m.