Calendar briefs

Tuba player to perform
As part of the School of Music Guest Artist Series, Patrick Sheridan, tuba, will perform with Martha Fischer, piano, Saturday, Feb 26, at a free concert in Morphy Hall, Humanities. The performance starts at 8 p.m.

French poet visits
Noted French poet and activist Bernard Noël will give a public lecture on the art of writing entitled, “Writing the Body, Moving Through Space,” at 3:30 p.m. today, Feb. 16, at the Memorial Union, Inn Wisconsin room, 2nd Floor. The lecture will be delivered in French and translated into English. Admission is free.

Noël is known not only for his writing, but also for his political and social activism. His most recent works are “Le Roman d’Adam et Eve” (The Novel of Adam and Eve) and the volume of poems, “Le Reste du Voyage” (The Remains of the Journey). Information: Steven Winspur, 262-4065.

Hayter prints on display
The art exhibition, “Stanley William Hayter: Master Printer,” has opened at the Elvehjem Museum of Art and continues through April 12 in the Mayer Gallery. The exhibition features color prints of the ’50s and ’60s by influential British painter and printmaker S. W. Hayter (1901-1988), who founded Atelier 17 in Paris in 1927.

Physical Chemistry hosts Pines
Alexander Pines is this year’s Physical Chemistry John E. Willard lecturer. Pines’ research has been mainly in nuclear magnetic resonance theory and experiment; his techniques are widely used in chemistry and materials science. Pines will speak twice on campus: “Lighting Up NMR and MRI,” B371 Chemistry, Monday, Feb. 21, at 4 p.m., and “Ups and Downs of Nuclear Spins in Solids,” B371 Chemistry, Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 11 a.m.