You are invited:
This Is Improbable: Dramatic Readings
| When: | Dec 07, 2012 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
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| Where: | Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Marc Abrahams and an all-star lineup will do dramatic readings from bizarre studies featured in the book This Is Improbable. Featuring…
- Margo Seltzer (prof, Harvard computer science)
- Melissa Franklin (chair, Harvard physics)
- Mahadevan (Ig Nobel Prize winner in physics, for explaining how sheets wrinkle)
- Chris Balliro (meteorologist and Italian basketball star)
- Dudley Herschbach (Nobel laureate, chemistry)
- Robin Abrahams (“Miss Conduct” columnist, Boston Globe)
- Corky White (prof, BU food anthropologist)
- Daniel Rosenberg (Ig Nobel performing chemist)
- Mary Carmichael (higher ed reporter, Boston Globe)
- Gus Rancatore (proprietor, Toscanini’s Ice Cream)
- Georgia Lyman (actress and theatrical producer)
- Jean Berko Gleason (prof emerita, BU psychology)
- others to be announced
Free. The event will begin with a wine and cheese reception hosted by Dean Cherry Murray.
Organizers: Ros Reid, Sandra Klemm, Michael Rutter. [TWITTER: #IgNobel]