'PARTICLE PHYSICS AND THE NEW CENTURY': Top quark: the heaviest and least understood of the quarks, a family of subatomic particles that are the fundamental building blocks of matter.

Find out more when Robin Erbacher, associate professor of physics at UC Davis and leader of the team studying the top quark for Fermilab's Collider Detector experiment, presents "To the Top and Beyond: Particle Physics and the New Century," a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in the ARC Ballroom. Admission is $4, or free with student ID. The talk is part of the HEFTI Public Lecture Series sponsored by the UC Davis High Energy Frontier Theory Initiative and the Department of Physics.

HUMANITIES GOING 'BEYOND THE BOOK': The Davis Humanities Institute announced a conference titled Beyond the Book: Humanities Scholarship in the Digital Age, featuring leaders in the field of digital scholarship and publication. The conference is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center.

The cost is free, but preregistration is required; call (530) 742-4327 or e-mail dhi@ucdavis.edu. Organizers said lunch will be provided for people who register by Jan. 25.

More information: dhi.ucdavis.edu.

All seminars and colloquia: calendar.ucdavis.edu