New York artist Liz Quisgard will give a free public lecture at 3:30 p.m. today in the HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium, titled "Going for Broke in New York: What every emerging artist should know about the obstacle course in the New York art world." A reception will follow, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the HUB Robeson Gallery.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering will host a seminar at 10 a.m. today in 333 Information Sciences and Technology Building. Shubu Mukherjee from Intel Corporation will speak about "Architectural Vulnerability Factor (or Does a Soft Error Matter)?"

Penn State's Peter Spaeth will speak at noon today in 114 McAllister Building about "C^0 Symplectic Topology: Part Two." The Department of Mathematics will host the event.
Kim Steiner of Penn State will speak at 12:20 p.m. today in 108 Tyson Building. The Department of Horticulture will host the speech, "An Update on the Arboretum and Botanic Garden."

The Department of Chemistry will host a seminar at 12:30 p.m. today in 102 Chemistry Building.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Paula Hammond will speak about "Electrostatics Driven Assembly of Hybrid Functional Thin Films for Biomaterials and Electrochemical Devices."
Stacey F. Bent of Stanford University will speak at 2:30 p.m. today in 110 Wartik Laboratory.
The Department of Chemical Engineering will host the speech, "Modifying Electronic Materials: From Functionalizing Surfaces to Making Devices."

The Department of Statistics will host a seminar at 4 p.m. today in 201 Thomas Building. Fang Yao of the University of Toronto (Canada) will be speaking about "Modeling Sparse Generalized Longitudinal Observations with Latent Gaussian Processes."

Penn State's Adrian Ocneanu will speak at 5 p.m. today in 106 McAllister Building about "Generating Series and Geometric Structure for Higher Root Systems." The Department of Mathematics will host the speech.