LAN PARTY! It's gonna be good. Pay $5 ahead of time to Travis or Ryan and make sure to get your name on a list so we know how much FOOD to get, or RSVP with them by email and pay when you get here.

The party will be in Darwin 25 and 28 as usual. The fun starts at 7:00 PM as usual, and as usual there will probably be several people there early. We'll probably start with Babo and go to TF once more people show up, and there will most likely be console gaming in one of the other rooms.

Local company Teknovus, which recruits heavily from SSU, is giving a presentation in Salazar 2009A from 11AM to 1PM on Friday, October 24. Food will be provided. See the flyer [PDF] for more information.

CS375 (Computer Graphics) is hosting guest speakers Mike Farnsworth and Joel Davis from Tippett Studios on the 28th to discuss computer animation. Pizza will be provided; Ledin said he was buying for 30 people, but there are far fewer than that in the class, so feel free to drop in. The class is in Darwin 37.

Our first LAN party of the semester is scheduled for Friday, October 17, which should be right after midterms for most people. Pay Travis or Ryan $5 for food beforehand so we know how much food to get (the meeting on the 14th would be a good time to pay), and be sure they put your name on a list so they remember that you paid.

We plan to have one big game of Team Fortress 2 followed by one big game of Unreal Tournament 2004. These games work best when we have at least a dozen people in them and more is better, so please don't split the user base. We might also have a Wii for anyone who isn't into first-person shooters, and a few people are bringing Animal Crossing for Nintendo DS. The fun and violence is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM.

Michael King, Joe Muller, and Dylan Field will be presenting on the subject of encryption as it applies to e-mail security.

Do you ever wonder how the messages you send over the internet are secure? Speakers will give a brief introduction to cryptography using RSA; an overview of PGP and how it is used to secure communication over the internet; and an overview of hash functions (with MD5 algorithm as an example) used for password protection and message integrity. This is a student project from the Fall 2007 Math 485 class (Introduction to Cryptography).

The presentation will be at Wednesday November 5 at 4:00 PM in Darwin 103. Come early (3:45) for coffee and cookies. Pizza will be provided after the talk.

Visit the Math Colloquium page for more information about the weekly Math colloquiums.

Our own Bala Ravikumar will be giving a talk on how to approximate the computation of extremely large numbers that physically cannot be represented as plain binary code.

Numbers like 2^2^1000 are so large that even if every elementary particle in the universe is used to store one of its digits, it is still not possible to store the number. We address the problem of computing some of the specified digits of such numbers. Some interesting mathematical issues related to such computations will be discussed in this talk.

The presentation will be Wednesday October 1 at 4:00 PM in Darwin 103. Come early (3:45) for coffee and cookies. Pizza will be provided after the talk.

Visit the Math Colloquium page for more information about the weekly Math colloquiums.

The WICS club is hosting an ice cream social at noon of Tuesday, September 9 in Burgundy 2112 in the Sauvignon East dorms.

Update: This movie night has been rescheduled for 8:00 PM. The date and location remain the same.

A movie night is scheduled for Friday, November 7. The location is 833 Loadstone Ct in the 'L' section of Rohnert Park.

Directions from the SSU campus:

• Head west down East Cotati Avenue
• Turn left on Lancaster Drive at the stop light immediately at the chevron station. If you get to Adrian or Oliver's, you missed it.
• Take a left on Lord's Manor Way at the second stop sign down Lancaster
• Take the second left possible from Lord's Manor into Loadstone Court
• 833 will be on the left.

Since we actually made a profit off the LAN party, we plan to have food at this event. You are still welcome to bring something, especially to share.

The event will be in Salazar 2016 at noon. Food will be provided.

SSU CS students will be giving a presentation on the special projects that they have been working on over the semester. Details to come.

The presentation will be at noon in Salazar 2016. Pizza will be provided after the talk.