ASAP presents Skeller Bingo on Thursday, Nov. 5 from 3-5 p.m. Skeller Bingo continues monthly throughout the fall semester.

Win tickets to sporting events

Do you want to win tickets to a Nuggets game? Bring your friends to the Ramskeller for an afternoon of free bingo! Enjoy half-price food while you play.

Learn successful ways to manage stress! This one-time workshop presents information about stress and symptoms, effective coping strategies, and relaxation techniques.

Please RSVP

Space is limited; please call to make a reservation at (970) 491-7121.

How our perceived identities leave a "social justice footprint"

On CSU's campus we hear a lot about going green and reducing our carbon footprint, but what does our social justice foot print look like? What impact do we leave on others just by showing up on campus with all of our identities each day?

This workshop will explore the privileges and assumptions that may come with each of our multiple identities. How do we perceive others and how might they perceive us? How do we break down barriers with dialogue and conversation? Participants should come prepared to interact and dialogue with each other.

This Thursday, Nov. 5, ASAP presents the film, Funny People as part of Tinsel Town Thursdays. The film is from the writer/director of 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. The story involves a famous comedian who has a near-death experience.

The film stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogan & Leslie Mann. Said to be the funniest serious movie of all time!

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Two showings of film at 5 and 7 p.m.

The film will be shown on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Lory Student Center Theatre.

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General admission

This event is general admission. The movie is $4 with complimentary pizza, drink and popcorn.

ASAP is the premier student event and programming board and apart of Campus Activities at Colorado State University. For further information, please contact Stephanie Corder or Michelle Avilla at (970) 491-2727 or email us at asap_film@mail.colostate.edu.

Join us for an hour of French conversation at Everyday Joe's (144 S. Mason St.) from 5-6 p.m. All levels are welcome.

Cercle Francais student organization

The purpose of the Cercle Francais student organization at CSU is to give students opportunities to experience francophone culture, history, cuisine, friendships outside of the classroom: to give them the chance to use their listening and speaking skills meeting French natives, seeing French films.

The Antarctic, the Climate, and Implications for the Ecosystem

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Explore the Antarctic with Colorado State University professor and senior research scientist, Diana Wall. Share Professor Wall's fascination with ecosystems, specifically how the ecological changes have affected the dry valleys of Antarctica. The McMurdo Dry Valleys form the largest ice-free area on the Antarctic continent. The dry valleys are the most extreme desert on Earth and represent a region where life approaches its environmental limits.

At CSU, Diana Wall is a professor of biology and director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. The event will be held at the Hilton Fort Collins, 425 W. Prospect Road.

- $10 Alumni Association for Members
- $15 Non Members

RSVP online by Wednesday, Nov. 4 by 5 p.m. or call (970) 491-6533.

Appetizers will be served and a cash bar will be available.

For more information call the CSU Alumni Association at (970) 491-6533 or email csualumni@ar.colostate.edu.

The Hatton Gallery at CSU is hosting an exhibition of emerging metalsmithing and jewelry artists, titled "to be (determined): an exhibition of the first five." Juried by Sarah Turner and Maria Phillips, the exhibition showcases a broad range of jewelry and objects that not only reflect tendencies and ideas that challenge tradition, but represents the growing range of diversity within the field of metalsmithing and jewelry as well.

Juror Maria Phillips will be visiting CSU to lecture on her own artwork; she will also be giving an informal and interactive gallery talk to discuss the works included in the exhibition Nov. 6 at 3 p.m. at the Clara Hatton Gallery, Visual Arts Building.

Maria Phillips received her MFA from the University of Seattle, WA. She has been a Visiting Lecturer in the Metalsmithing and Jewelry programs at the University of Washington, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Gerritt Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Holland. Her artwork has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include such venues as SOFA: New York, the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, WA, the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her work is published in Metalsmith magazine and American Craft magazine.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Additional events:

- Exhibition: Oct. 26 - Nov. 20, 2009, Clara Hatton Gallery, Visual Arts Building

- Exhibition Reception, Friday, Nov. 6, 6 - 8 p.m., Clara Hatton Gallery, Visual Arts Building

- Gallery Talk with Maria Phillips Friday, Nov. 6, 3 p.m., Clara Hatton Gallery, Visual Arts Building

» CSU vs. CU Ice Hockey, Pepsi Center

The first ever CSU vs. CU Hockey game at the Pepsi Center!

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Tickets only $20

Tickets for the game are only $20 and include the following:

▪ Parking at the Pepsi Center

▪ CSU vs. CU Men's Hockey Ticket

▪ CSU vs. CU Women's Hockey Ticket

▪ One Avalanche Hockey ticket

▪ No additional fees

CSU vs. CU Ice Hockey tickets

CSU Volleyball vs. Air Force

Thursday, Nov. 5

Moby Arena – 7:00 p.m.

“Hike and Spike” Night: if you made it out to the Oct. 31^st CSU vs. Air Force football game bring in your ticket stub and get into the CSU volleyball match for $3!

Pepsi 4-Pack Match: receive 4 tickets, 4 hotdogs, and 4 sodas for only $20.

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Admission

Admission is free for students with CSU Student ID.

Ticket prices:

Reserved - $8

General Admission - $6

Youth - $4

To order your tickets go online or call 800-491-RAMS.

Ticket Office: 1-800-491-RAMS

Special Guest Moran Woodwind Quintet

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A very active and visible quintet, the Moran Woodwind Quintet is the resident quintet of the University of Nebraska School of Music. Formed in 1986, the group tours extensively, often as guests at national and international music conventions. This program includes the music of:

- Classical composer Franz Danzi

- Contemporary composers Gyorgy Ligeti, Ronaldo Miranda, and Robert Muczynski

The performance followed by a Meet the Artist Reception.

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Tickets

$5/CSU students

$1/youth (2 – 17)

$15/adult

Purchase tickets to the Moran Woodwind Quintet concert

The 33rd Annual Math Day Competition is being held Thursday, Nov. 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Lory Student Center.

The event, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and the Yates Endowment Fund, draws approximately 300-400 students from Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska high schools. Without volunteers from faculty, emeriti faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students and staff, this annual event would not be possible.

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Students compete for scholarships and prizes

Students will participate in a written exam known as the PROBE: Problems Requiring Original and Brilliant Efforts. Students compete for scholarships and prizes, including a HP workstation for the top scoring student taking the exam.

Several of the top winners receive mathematics scholarships to Colorado State University. For those who choose to attend Colorado State, they must major in mathematics and maintain a 3.25 grade point average to continue receiving the annual scholarship.

Highlight of the day: A double elimination team competition!

A double elimination team competition is the highlight of the day with the brightest young mathematical students in the region competing against one another. Schools compete in this double elimination tournament on three-member teams. Trophies are awarded to each of the small and large school winners.

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Michael Holst to be honored with alumni award

During the awards ceremony, the College of Natural Sciences, along with the Department of Mathematics, will recognize Michael Holst, Ph.D., with an alumni award. Holst, a 1987 undergraduate alumnus in mathematics, later went on to receive his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He is currently a Professor at the University of California at San Diego in mathematics and physics. Professor Holst's general research background and interests are in a broad area called computational and applied mathematics; his specific research areas are in adaptive numerical methods, finite element methods, geometric partial differential equations (PDE), biophysics, and general relativity.

His research projects center around developing mathematical techniques (theoretical techniques in PDE and approximation theory) and mathematical algorithms (numerical methods) for using computers to solve certain types of mathematical problems called nonlinear PDE.

Jean and Heidi Nash will offer a fascinating presentation based on experiences and insights gained during their recent diplomatic mission to Iran. This program is free and open to all women of the community. CSU affiliation is not required.

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Jeane and Heidi to talk about their experiences with Iranians from all walks of life

Jeanne and Heidi Nash took advantage of an opportunity to join a study tour with the Seattle United Nations Association and spent two weeks in Iran in May of 2009. The tour was led by an Iranian-American filmmaker who had previously produced a travel film. Jeanne and Heidi met with mullahs and their wives, educators, and religious leaders and people on the street.

In Fort Collins, Jeanne Nash owns "Mundoville," a museum of miniatures and is a supporter of the U.S. Peace Corps.

(At right: young Iranian women)

The Guhan Srivatsan M.S. final defense takes place on Thursday, Nov. 5 from 10 to noon in the EECL Conference Room. The title of the thesis is, "Comparison of Two Stroke Retrofit Technologies."

Advisor: Daniel Olsen, Ph.D.

Committee members: Anthony Marchese, Ph.D., Joe Beebe, Ph.D.

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Abstract of thesis

Two stroke engines are ubiquitous in all developing nations. Their simplicity and rugged nature makes them irreplaceable. The Asian Development Bank estimates that there are about 50 million two stroke engines in Asia.

These vehicles emit the equivalent emissions of about 2.5 billion modern automobiles. This is due to the working of the two stroke engine which make them inherently polluting. The Direct Injection (DI) retrofit developed by Envirofit mitigates the design disadvantage of the Two stroke engine.

The Envirofit’s DI retrofit promises to reduce the hydrocarbon emissions by 88%, carbon monoxide emissions by 72% and also improves the efficiency by about 32%. One more technology that is very popular in these regions is using LPG (Liquefied Petroleum gas) retrofit kits.

These kits promise to reduce the emissions and also there are legislations in certain metropolitan cities in India where they have mandated the use of LPG as fuel in order to reduce the emission levels. Though they would reduce the emissions but due to the working of the Two stroke engine it would still make it environmentally unfriendly.

The comparison made in this thesis tries to compare the different technologies namely Carburetered, Direct injection and Liquefied Petroleum gas in a two stroke engine. The two stroke engine used in the testing used is a Yamaha RS100P engine which is very popular in the Philippines and used as a mode of public transport there.

Also part of this thesis uses software called Virtual Engines to simulate the characteristics of a tuned exhaust system developed for a Two stroke engine. The engine used is a Bajaj engine which is predominant in the Indian sub continent.

The Virtual Engines program takes various engine dimension inputs and based on this it develops the various characteristics of the engine. This software was used to develop a comparison between a normal exhaust system and a tuned exhaust system for the above mentioned engine.