CHAMBER MUSIC GUEST ARTIST SERIES - San Francisco Symphony members, including David Tanenbaum, guitar; Lisa Weiss, violin; Katherine Kyme, violin; Christina King, viola; and David Goldblatt, cello, perform works by Haydn, Prokofiev, Beethoven and Kernis. 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 4, Ives 119. $12 General; $10 FANS (Faculty, Alumni, Staff); $8 Seniors/Students. SSU Students Free. (707) 664-2353 or www.sonoma.edu/performingarts/events.
HOW ATOMS DANCE AND JOIN TOGETHER IN THE ULTRACOLD - Dr. Chris Greene of the University of Colorado discusses recent studies of the strongly-interacting limit for dilute quantum gases, emphasizing some unusual states just observed within the past year. What Physicists Do Lecture Series. 4 p.m., Monday, Feb. 5, Darwin 103. (707) 664-2119.
"BECOME THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD" - When he was 12 years old, Steven Cozza took a stand against the discrimination of gay youth and adults in the Boy Scouts of America. He and his father, Scott Cozza, founded an organization called Scouting for All, an educational and advocacy organization reaching out to GLBT youth in its attempt to get the BSA to change its policies. Cozza discusses his continued activism in Scouting for All at the Queer Studies Lecture Series. Noon, Tuesday, Feb. 6, Stevenson 1002. (707) 664-2574.
"VANISHED: UNDERSTANDING EXTINCTION AND HONORING LIFE" - Mary Gomes, psychology lecturer and eco-psychologist, looks at "an extinction crisis unparalleled in human history." Gomes speaks to the question: How can we inform people about extinction in a way that encourages openness, creativity, and the willingness to make needed changes, rather than leading people to feel overwhelmed, depressed, and avoidant? Spring School of Social Science Brown Bag Series. Noon, Tuesday, Feb. 6, Stevenson 2011.
ENDING THE IRAQ WAR - Project Censored hosts two anti-war activists for a talk and discussion on "the importance of ending the Iraq War." They include Liam Madden, veteran of a four-year tour of service in the U.S. Marine Corps, including seven months in Iraq and co-founder of the Appeal for Redress, a campaign of active service members who are appealing to Congress to remove all American military forces and bases from Iraq, and Sunsara Taylor, co-founder of World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime, speak on the Iraq war, torture, the rise of theocracy and its assault on women, gays and science, as well as the criminal treatment of Blacks during Katrina. 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 6, Darwin 102. (707) 664-2500.
LEARNING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY - Eric Hsu, San Francisco State University surveys different examples of learning communities of practice, both functional and dysfunctional. Communities of math teachers, graduate students and K-12 students, are considered along with live versus online communities. Are functional communities of practice possible in school settings? he asks. Math Colloquium. 4 p.m., Feb. 7, Darwin 103. (707) 664-2368.
EXPLORE SUBURBIA!: 3 OPERAS ON THE THEME OF LOVE - Mozart, Menotti and Bernstein. These three composers take a look at love relationships: love rebuffed, love unrequited, love in need of repair. Lynne Morrow (Music) and Adrian Elfenbaum (Theatre Arts) discuss these suburban love stories and play some of the music from the upcoming CPA production. Noon, Feb. 8, Stevenson 1068. (707) 664-4177.
EHREN TOOL - Ehren Tool, a veteran of the Gulf War, creates artwork that attempts to reckon with his transformative experiences on the battlefield. Tool makes ceramic cups with military motifs and symbols of destruction skirting their perimeters. Tool has sent his cups (unsolicited) to Presidents, CEOs and any one else in the military-industrial complex he can find. Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Noon, Thursday, Feb. 8., Art 102. (707) 664-3042.
SCIENTIFIC-COMPENDIA: A NEW, INTERNET-BASED COMMUNICATIONS-METHODOLOGY - Don Jewett, Abratech Corporation, Sausalito explains the solution for the need for a guide to the current ideas and evidence in both science and medicine - a network of "Scientific Multi-Level Compendia", where each compendium can be visualized as a Web-based, highly-organized and moderated Review-Article and Forum, with two critical additions: a multi-level format that allows readers to access only those parts of the Compendium which interests them and context-containing cytation-lists which provide immediate access to any citing text on the Web that has cited a given compendium-entry . Computer Science Colloquium. Noon, Thursday, Feb. 8, Darwin 102.
BLACK COMEDY JAM - A night of comedy with leading Black comics. No charge. 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 9, Cooperage. (707) 664-2537.
PUBLIC VIEWING NIGHTS - Explore the night sky at the SSU Observatory. Special focus this night is placed on the Orion Nebula, the other Orion and the Crab. Call ahead, as weather may cancel the viewing. 7-9 p.m., Friday, Feb. 9, SSU Observatory. (707) 664-2267.
"ART FROM THE HEART" ART AUCTION & PARTY - 23rd annual art auction benefitting the University Art Gallery. An evening of art, food, and fine wine, featuring 150 modestly-priced works of art sold during a silent auction. 6-9 p.m, Saturday, Feb. 10. (Free previews of the artwork on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Thursday, Feb. 8, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; and Friday, Feb. 9, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. $30 donation at the door. (707) 664-2295.
Films
THE DEPARTED Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities. 9 p.m., Feb. 10, Cooperage. Free to all. Part of Scene It film serIEs from Residential Life.
