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> GSA Events
> ~~~~~~~~~
> Friday, Sept 29, 5-7pm at Skibo Cafe
> GSA Happy Hour
> Serving Beer and Nachos
> Jazz/Funk Live! Band
> ~~~
>
> Performances
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> Friday, October 13 at 8:00 PM, Sunday, October 15 at 2:30 PM, Heinz Hall
> Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
> Paavo Jarvi         conductor
> Pamela Frank        violin
> Program:
> * Part          Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
> * Dvorak     Concerto in A minor for Violin and Orchestra
> * Nielsen    Symphony No. 5
> http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/pghsymph.nsf/concert+listings/
> Tickets: $5 order at the UC Info desk
> * Limited to 2 per grad student ID
> * Orders need to be in by Thurs noon of the wek's performance
> * Tickets will be issued at the Box Office on the day of the performance
> ~~~
> Saturday, Oct. 14, 8 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
> Carnegie Mellon Concert Choir and Jazz Ensembles
> The music of Duke Ellington.
> Tickets: $5 general admission; $4 for students and senior citizens.
> For tickets and information call 268-2383.
> ~~~
> October 14,17,20 and 22, 7 pm, 801 Penn Avenue
> PITTSBURGH OPERA PRESENTS
> "Anna Bolena" an opera by Gaetano Donizetti
> The court of Henry VIII is in turmoil.  Friendships dissolve, vows are
> broken, and betrayal leads to madness.  Internationally acclaimed dramatic
> coloratura soprano June Anderson leads the fireworks in her first
> performance of the role of Anne Boleyn, a vocal and dramatic tour-de-force.
> Anna Bolena is bel canto (beautiful singing) at its best.
> http://www.PghOpera.org/annach.html
> Student Rush Tickets by Telephone (456-6666) for just 10 dollars
> ~~~
> Wednesday, Oct. 18, 8 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
> The School of Music presents
> The Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble
> Tickets: $5 general admission; $4 for students and senior citizens.
> For tickets and information call 268-2383
> ~~~
> Oct. 18-21, Philip Chosky Theatre, Purnell Center
> 8 p.m. nightly, Oct. 21 matinee at 2 p.m.
> The School of Drama presents
> John O~Hara's "Appointment in Samarra."
> Ticket information: 268-2407.
> ~~~
>
> Things to Do
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> Tuesday October 17, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, Carnegie Conference Room,
> Warner Hall, First Floor
> Eberly Center Graduate Teaching Seminar
> "Communicating Across Cultures"
> Info: http://www.cmu.edu/provost/teaching/calendar.htm
> RSVP: Michelle Pierson, mg2e@andrew.cmu.edu.
> ~~~
> Wednesay, October 18, 3:15 - 4:30 pm, Wright Room, University Center
> Thursday, October 19, 3:15 - 4:30 pm, Baker Hall 129
> Curriculum Conversations
> "What should the goals of higher education curricula be in a research
> university like Carnegie Mellon?"
> Info: http://www.cmu.edu/provost/teaching/conversation.htm
> RSVP: Michelle Pierson, mg2e@andrew.cmu.edu.
> ~~~
> Thursday, Oct. 19, all day, McConomy Auditorium, UC
> School of Computer Science celebrates the opening of Newell-Simon
> Hall with a symposium on the impact of computers over the next 50 years
> "Earthware: a good world in 2050. Will computers help or hinder?"
> ~~~
> Through Oct 29, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center
> Opening reception: Friday, Oct 13, 5-7 pm
> In conjunction with the
> International Festival of Latin America and the Caribbean
> * Floor 1
>   "New (re-)Presentation of Latin America on Video"
>   A screening of cutting-edge video works by young Latin American artists
>   curated by Carolina Loyola Garcia
> *Floor 2
>   "African Spirits in the New World: A Celebration of African Religious Art
> and
>   it's New World Descendants"
>   Alter arrangements of sacred art of Brazil, Haiti and Cuba collected by
>   Frank McGlynn
> *Floor 3
>   "cortocircuito-short circuit"
>   Mixed media installations by Patricia Villalobos Eccheverria
> ~~~
> Through Oct. 31, IC Light Amphitheatre, Station Square
> 8th Annual Super Phar-Mor Fright Fest
> "Clown Asylum"
> Tickets: $12
> Info: 323-1919
> ~~~
> Through December 1, Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Pitt
> Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m
> Thursdays 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
> "Cross Currents: Work of Women Artists across Culture & Time"
> Featuring works by Delanie Jenkins, Prajna Paramita Parasher, & Belinda
> Otero Raczka
> ~~~
>
> Seminars
> ~~~~~~~~
> Monday, Oct. 16, 4 p.m., Baker Hall A53
> Department of Psychology Chase Memorial Award Lecture
> "Contextual Cueing of Visual Attention"
> Speaker: Marvin M. Chun (Vanderbilt University)
> ~~~
> Monday, Oct 16, Adamson WIng, BH 136
> "Taking the Byte out of Cookies: Privacy, Consent and the Web"
> Speaker: Michael C. Loui (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
> ~~~
> Monday, Oct 16,  4:30 pm, 7500 Wean Hall
> CMU-Pitt Physics Colloquia
> "Magnetically Glassy Behavior in Disordered Alloys"
> Speaker: Diandra Leslie-Pelecky (University of Nebraska)
> ~~~
> Tuesday, Oct. 17, 4:45 p.m., Singleton Room, Roberts Hall
> Annual Dowd Seminar
> "What Every Good Professor and Student Needs to Know about
> Engineering and the Environment (Even if You~re an Electrical
> Engineer)."
> Speaker: Ed Rubin (alumni professor of environmental engineering
> and science)
> ~~~
> Tuesday, Oct. 17, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Rangos I, UC
> Verizon Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series in
> Telecommunications and Information Technology
> "The Internet and the Role of Government Under the Next Administration"
> Speaker: Reed E. Hundt  (senior adviser, Information Industries, McKinsey
> & Co., Inc., and former chairman, Federal Communications Commission)
> RSVP required: hnz-rsvp@andrew.cmu.edu.  Free.
> ~~~
> Wednesday, Oct. 18, Noon - 1:30 p.m., Rachel Mellon Walton Room, Posner
> Hall.
> Graduate student luncheon seminar
> "Making the Most of Advisers, Mentors and Friends"
> Speaker: Carol Goldburg (research economist, Engineering and Public Policy)
> Registration: http://www.cmu.edu/adm/apaa/grad/programdate.html.
> ~~~
> Thursday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Adamson Wing, Baker Hall
> Adamson Visiting Writers Series
> Karen Volkman, a winner of a National Poetry Series Award, will read from
> her collection "Crash~s Law" and other work.
> ~~~
> Thursday,  Oct. 19, 5 p.m., Doherty Hall 2315
> School of Art Lecture Series
> Filmmaker Tom Kalin.
> ~~~
>
> Advanced Notice
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Monday, October 23, 7.30pm Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
> Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society presents
> Tokyo String Quartet
> Program:
> * SCHUBERT     Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703
> * SHOSTAKOVICH     String Quartet No. 1
> * BEETHOVEN     Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127
> GSA is sponsoring grad tickets: $5 order at the UC Info desk
> * Limited to 2 per grad student ID
> * On sale till noon, October 20
> Info: http://trfn.clpgh.org/pcms/Tokyo.shtml
> Contact: 624-4129
> ~~~
> Tuesday, October 24, 12:15pm - 1:15pm, Venue TBA
> Graduate Women's Connecting Lunch
> This lunch will provide the opportinity to meet other graduate women
> around campus and create professional and personal support networks.
> Registration is on-line at
> http://www.cmu.edu/adm/apaa/grad/programdate.html.
> ~~~
>
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