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French mathematician and Fields Medal winner Cédric Villani in a scene from “Colors of Math,” showing at Cornell Cinema.

‘Cyrano’ on stage

Risley Theatre hosts the classic love story “Cyrano de Bergerac” for three shows this weekend, March 7 at 7 p.m. and March 8 at 2 and 7 p.m.

Based on the exploits of a famed dramatist and duelist during the 30 Years’ War, the story by Edmond Rostand has been partially reimagined, with elements from the time of its writing in the 19th century.

Directed by Cornell graduate student Brian Mayer, the play features student actors and production crew members from Cornell, Ithaca College and the Ithaca community. The cast includes Adam Romero as Cyrano, Amanda Hellwig and Shira Polan as Roxane and Matthew Pegan as Christian.

Tickets are $6 for students with ID, $9 for the general public, available at risleytheatre.ticketleap.com/cyrano-de/.

V-Day benefit

The Cornell Women’s Resource Center presents “The Vagina Monologues,” March 7 and 8 at 7 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Based on V-Day founder Eve Ensler’s Obie Award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues” explores and celebrates women’s sexuality. All proceeds will go to the Ithaca Advocacy Center and V-Day, organizations working to end violence against women and girls. The annual Cornell production has raised more than $9,000 in a single performance at past events.

Tickets are $9 in advance and $10 at the door. Advance tickets are available at the Women’s Resource Center in Willard Straight Hall, the Straight Ticket Office and from cast members. Information: cuvaginas2014@gmail.com

Winning concertos

Violinist Ji Min Yang ’15 and cellist Daniel Cho ‘17, winners of the 10th annual Cornell Concerto Competition held Dec. 15, will perform with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra (CSO) March 7 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Free and open to the public.

Cho will perform the first movement of Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B Minor. He is co-principal cellist with the CSO, a freshman biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and studies music with John Haines-Eitzen.

Yang will perform the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Violin Concerto in D major. A chemical engineering major in the College of Engineering, she plays in the CSO’s first violin section and is a violin student of Ariana Kim.

The concert program includes two works – “Bata” and “Kabiosile” – by Pulitzer Prize-winning guest composer Tania León, a founding member and former music director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Graduate student Ryan McCullough is the piano soloist on “Kabiosile,” inspired by the deity Shango in Afro-Cuban religion. The concert closes with Richard Wagner’s overture to “Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman).”

Kim also conducts the Cornell Chamber Orchestra this weekend, March 8 at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. The free program features guest composer Joseph Phibbs’ Clarinet Concerto with soloist Richard Faria of Ithaca College, and Ottorino Respighi’s “Ancient Airs and Dances (Suite No. 3).”

CSA Fair

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County hosts a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fair, March 8 from noon to 3 p.m. in the Boynton Middle School Cafeteria, 1601 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca. Free and open to the public.

More than 25 CSA farmers serving Tompkins, Seneca, Cayuga, Tioga, Chenango and Schuyler counties will have information about their farms and CSA programs, partnerships between farmers and consumers. Area CSAs offer everything from vegetables and fruits to baked goods, meats, eggs, herbs and herbal products. The different CSA programs vary in share sizes, products offered, pickup locations, you-pick options and farm work opportunities.

The fair also offers quiet children’s activities and door prizes donated by the farms. Information: www.facebook.com/events/1426716780903059/or contact Avi Miner, 607-272-2292 or agm32@cornell.edu

Inequality without racism

Sociologist Nancy DiTomaso will speak on “The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism,” March 10 at 3:30 p.m. in 120 Physical Sciences. Presented by Cornell’s Inclusive Excellence Academy, her talk is free and open to the public.

DiTomaso will share research from her book of the same title, in which she argues that America’s racial divide is sustained more by preferential treatment by whites of members of their own social networks than by overt racial discrimination. She is vice dean for faculty and research and a professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School.

The Inclusive Excellence Academy offers programs with a focus on developing multicultural fluency, and customized courses and workshops designed for senior leadership, faculty and teaching staff, constituent leaders and community members.

‘Colors of Math’

To most people, math seems abstract, mysterious, complicated, inaccessible. But it’s merely a different language to express the world. It can be sensual, it can be tasted; it smells, it creates sound and color. One can touch it and be touched by it.

That’s the message of the one-hour documentary “Colors of Math” (2012), introduced by professor of applied mathematics Steven Strogatz March 13 at 7 p.m. at Cornell Cinema. The screening is co-sponsored by the Cornell chapter of the Association for Women in Math and the Math Library.

The Higgs boson “God particle” and the CERN Large Hadron Collider are major players in the 2013 documentary “Particle Fever.” Weaving science and stunning imagery, the film shows March 19 at 7 p.m., introduced by associate professor of physics Peter Wittich.

Cornell Cinema also presents two films by Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov – “Faust” (2011), March 7 at 7 p.m. (first 10 students admitted free) and March 9 at 4:15 p.m. (all tickets $5), co-sponsored by the Institute for German Cultural Studies; and “Russian Ark
” (2002), March 13 and 15, an account of Russian history told through multiple characters inside the Hermitage Museum.