OR (MY TREASURE) - Keren Yedaya's movie about an aging Tel Aviv prostitute and her eighteen-year-old daughter, Or, who fights to keep her mother off the streets. Sonoma Film Institute. 4 p.m. Sunday, October 16, Warren Auditorium, (707) 664-2606.
VORTICES LARGE AND SMALL: STUDYING CYCLONES THROUGH SUPERFLUIDS - Dr. Rena Zieve of the University of California, Davis will discuss her work on superfluid helium, a low-temperature quantum mechanical liquid, and the connections to classical fluids. What Physicists Do Lecture Series. 4 p.m. Monday, October 17, Schulz 3001, (707) 664-2119.
KAFFEESTUNDE - Weekly informal German conversation for those who enjoy the German language, want to brush up on their German skills or would like to learn more about the language. Noon, Tuesday, October 18, Charlie Brown's Cafe, (707) 664-2637.
TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST - Lecture with Myrna Goodman of the SSU Sociology Department. Social Sciences Brown Bag Lecture Series. Noon, Tuesday, October 18, Stevenson 2011, (707) 664-2112.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION - Lecture with Lynn Cominsky, Professor of Physics/Astronomy at SSU. War and Peace Lecture Series. 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 18, Ives 101, (707) 664-2543.
FILMMAKERS RESPOND TO WAR - The film "The Weather Underground" will be shown. 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 18, Art 102, (707) 664-3040.
TALKS ON TEXTS - Suzanne Tocyzski of the SSU Modern Languages and Literatures Department discusses "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Tony Mountain of SSU's Hutchins School of Liberal Studies will present Albert Camus' "The Stranger" and "The Plague." Noon, Wednesday, October 19, Schulz 3001, (707) 664-4240.
LORE OF THE TRIANGLE: FROM EUCLID TILL YESTERDAY - Dr Rick Luttmann of the SSU Math Department will review some well-known properties of triangles and then some more recent results he encountered over 30 years as an associate editor of the problem section of the American Mathematical Monthly. M*A*T*H Colloquium. 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 19, Carson 68, (707) 664-2368.
ART HISTORY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION-Lecture with Bruce Elliott, Ph.D., who also teaches courses in European History at San Francisco State University. Osher Lifelong Learning Lecture. 6:30-8:15 p.m., Wednesday, October 19, The Cooperage, (707) 664-2691.
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS - Lecture addressing the current state of the world and disaster preparedness. 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 19, The Cooperage, (707) 664-2785.
THE GRANDFATHER - "The Grandfather," a Spanish-language film with English-language subtitles will be screened. Cineforum. 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 19, Stevenson 3082, (707) 664-2351.
1 + 1 = 3 - Lecture with Marc LeBrun of Fixpoint, Inc., Novato. Probing familiar operations at subatomic scales, this lecture will sketch an introductory natural history of some arithmetics from alternate universes. Computer Science Colloquium. Noon, Thursday, October 20, Salazar 2016, (707) 664-2667.
WEST NILE VIRUS IN CALIFORNIA - Lecture by Dr. Kerry Padgett of the California Department of Health Sciences. Biology Colloquium. Noon, Thursday, October 20, Stevenson 1002, (707) 664-2189.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES FORUM - Christine Renaudin OF SSU's Modern Languages and Literature Department presents "Verlaine: Poet, Muse, and Music Maker," and Paul Draper of the SSU Theater Arts Department will present "Anouilh's Transparent Castle: Classism in Ring Round the Moon." Noon, Thursday, October 20, Schulz 1121, (707) 664-2146.
TURTLES CAN FLY - The story is set before the arrival of American forces to Kurdish encampments in 2003. Satellite is a boy of thirteen who brings television and news of war to a clamoring community. Sonoma Film Institute. 7 p.m. Friday, October 21, Warren Auditorium, (707) 664-2606.
PUBLIC VIEWING NIGHT - Come explore the night sky at the SSU Observatory. Special focus this night will be on the Dark Nebulae and Stephan's Quintet. Please call ahead, as weather conditions may cancel the viewing. 8 p.m. Friday, October 21, SSU Observatory, (707) 664-2267.
