September 23, 2009

Today's events

Wednesday, Sept. 23

-- Green Week. Monday to Friday; Wednesday theme: "Energy." Overview article including sign-up links for some events is at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/090916RidgwayGreen.html. Schedule summary and more is at www.purdue.edu/sustainability.

-- Seminar on Blue Waters petascale computer. ITaP and its Rosen Center for Advanced Computing. Featured speaker: William T.C. Kramer, deputy project director. 10 a.m. Burton D. Morgan Center. More at http://www.itap.purdue.edu/newsroom/detail.cfm?NewsID=1978.

-- A Day in the Life brown bag lunch talk. Discussion of student experiences and identities. Office of the Dean of Students with others. Noon-1:30 p.m. on alternate Wednesdays. This week: students who are non-native English speakers. Room G066, Haas Hall. Program information and schedule at www.purdue.edu/odos/dayinthelife.html.

-- Purdue Lectures on Theoretical Chemistry. Inaugural lectures; Department of Chemistry Theory Group. Henry F. Schaefer III, Univ. of Georgia. 3:45 p.m.: Reception in Room 201, Wetherill Laboratory. 4:30 p.m.: Lecture "From Donor-Acceptor Complexes to Gallium Nitride Nanorods" in Room B061, Neil Armstrong Hall. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/insidepurdue/2009/090903_ChemTheoryLectures.html. See also Thursday listing for second lecture.

-- World Film Forum. "Aniki Bobo" (1942, Portuguese, 102 min.). Dept. of of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Presenter: Silvia Oliveira, FLL. 4:30 p.m. West Lafayette Public Library, 208 W. Columbia St.

-- Spanish Conversation Table. Latino Cultural Center weekly table. All levels welcome. 6-7 p.m. LCC. 49-42530.

ONGOING EVENTS

All week

-- Exhibition: "Living Stone: The Casts Project." Purdue University Galleries. Setting in keeping with studio practice, using prints by Jim Dine, plaster casts, and artworks from classes and visitors. Through Oct. 11 in Stewart Center Gallery. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus until 8 p.m. Thursday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. More about Galleries is at www.purdue.edu/galleries.

-- Exhibition: Rotating Selections from the Permanent Collection. Purdue University Galleries. Current: "Shrouds, Masks, and the Floating World." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, PMU. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. More about Galleries is at www.purdue.edu/galleries.

Monday-Friday

-- Exhibition: "Purdue's Place in Space: From the Midwest to the Moon."  Libraries Archives and Special Collections. Includes items from Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and other Purdue astronaut alumni in celebration of 40 years since the first moon landing. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, fourth floor, STEW. Through Oct. 30. More at www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol. For a group tour, call 49-42839.

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are cream of tomato (soup) and chicken pot pie (entrée). 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Stone Hall. Reservations encouraged; call 49-46845. To access the full menu and learn about other dining options from the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.

TICKETS

Events are free unless noted (except that conference registrations may be omitted here). Ticket prices are for single events, not any series or discount offers. An exception to the following will be noted in the listing.

For varsity athletics tickets, call the Athletic Ticket Office, (765) 494-3194 or (800) 49-SPORT [497-7678]; or visit the office in the Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. The office is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events at IAF, Mackey Arena and Ross-Ade Stadium. For ticketed sports events at other Purdue venues, tickets will be on sale before the event at the venue. More at www.purduesports.com.

For Purdue Convocations and Purdue Theatre events and some others as announced, go to ticket offices in Elliott Hall (lower level, northeast end by Hovde Hall) or Stewart Center (west lobby), or call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW [914-7469]. The Elliott Hall box office is open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and two hours before ticketed events there. The Stewart Center box office is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and two hours before ticketed events there.

Purdue Theatre tickets are sold also at the Pao Hall box office. It is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and two hours before ticketed events there.

More about box offices and venues is at www.housing.purdue.edu/HTML/HallOfMusic.