Events

Lecture: Brown Bag Lecture at Reiman Gardens
12 Nov 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM @ Reiman Gardens - Bring your lunch to the Gardens and enjoy an education program. Attend each month and experience a new topic presented by local and regional professionals and lecturers. Cost: Free for CoHorts' members; price of admission for general public. Free for ISU students.

Underground: POPular Hour
12 Nov 2009, 3:00 PM @ Underground, Memorial Union - 3pm-6pm. POPular Hour: Pop, Popcorn, Billiards, and Half Price Bowling. Cost: $3 student cover charge.

Seminar: Cloud computing
12 Nov 2009, 4:10 PM @ 207 Marston - "A View of Cloud Computing and its Service," Mark Baker, University of Reading, England. He is a research professor of computer science in Reading's School of Systems Engineering. He is currently involved in research projects related to the Grid, message-oriented middleware, the Semantic Web, Web Portals, resource monitoring and performance evaluation and modeling. Cost: free.

Lecture: "My Hollywood Career"
12 Nov 2009, 7:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Corey Moss co-directed, wrote and produced a 78-minute feature documentary Dear Jack about the Jack's Mannequin/Something Corporate singer Andrew McMahon and his bout with leukemia at the age of 22. An ISU alum, Moss is an executive producer at Yahoo! Originals, where he created "Primetime in No Time," the highest-rated show on the Web. He has also written and directed short films. A screening of his film will follow the lecture. Cost: free.

Presentation: "Mind, Material and Borrowed Time"
12 Nov 2009, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM @ Brunnier Art Museum, 295 Scheman Bldg. - Bringing the anatomy of animals together with digital art, this presentation addresses how we borrow from our natural environment to examine, understand, and view the physical world. Cost: Free.

SUB Film: The Ugly Truth
12 Nov 2009, 7:00 PM @ Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Free showings at 7PM & 10PM in the Pioneer Room of the Memorial Union. Cost: Free.

Wrestling
12 Nov 2009, 7:00 PM @ Hilton Coliseum - ISU vs. South Dakota State Cost: $5-$15.

Performance: "Mark Twain Tonight!"
12 Nov 2009, 7:30 PM @ Stephens Auditorium - "Mark Twain Tonight!" with Hal Holbrook. A living, breathing American Masterpiece! It is, quite simply, one of the most acclaimed and enduring performances in the history of theater. Nearly 50 years ago, a young actor took the stage in a tiny off-Broadway theatre and introduced the world to a man they'd never forget. The actor was Hal Holbrook. The man was Mark Twain. Cost: Adults: $43, $39; Youth: $25; ISU Students: $20.

Film: "Dear Jack"
12 Nov 2009, 8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - ISU alum Corey Moss co-directed, wrote and produced this 78-minute feature documentary about the Jack's Mannequin/Something Corporate singer Andrew McMahon and his bout with leukemia at the age of 22. Moss is an executive producer at Yahoo! Originals, where he created "Primetime in No Time," the highest-rated show on the Web. He has also written and directed short films starring Jackie Chan, Brett Ratner and Jamie Kennedy. Cost: free.

Lecture: Mississippi River water quality
12 Nov 2009, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - "Mississippi River Water Quality: Policy, Farm Landscapes and Hypoxia," Eugene Turner, Louisiana State University. A hybrid oceanographer and wetland ecologist, he is active in the scientific aspects of coastal environmental management. In particular, his work addresses hypoxic zones, or Dead Zones, in which water oxygen levels are reduced to a level that can no longer support living aquatic organisms. Reception at 7 p.m. in the South... Cost: free.

Lecture: Phase space and new materials
12 Nov 2009, 8:00 PM @ Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - "Cooking, Fishing and Jogging through Phase Space: A Practical Guide to Discovering and Understanding New Materials," Paul Canfield, ISU physics. He will outline the basic philosophy and techniques needed to search for novel materials, including a combination of intuition, experience, compulsive optimism and a desire to share discovery. A general lecture that will include mildly slanderous asides and references to philosophers living and dead. Cost: free.