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Science & the Arts
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
(at 34th Street)

Science & the
Arts Series

Past Events

Fall 2011

Contemporary Art and Neuroscience >
Thursday, October 6, 6:00 PM

Suspended Animation: Flatliners >
Wednesday, October 19, 7:00 PM




A Happy End > Monday, December 12, 6:30 PM

Spring 2011

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout >
Friday, January 21, 7:30 PM

Into Focus: Art / Science in the University Classroom >
Thursday, February 10, 12:30 PM

No Dinosaurs in Heaven >
Tuesday, March 15, 6:30 PM

Arcadia: Science on Stage > event cancelled
Wednesday, March 23, 6:00 PM

Intelligence-Slave >
Wednesday, April 20, 6:30 PM

Earth Day: The Civilians’ The Great Immensity >
Friday, April 22, 6:30 PM

The Four Percent Universe >
Monday, May 9, 6:00 PM

RADIOACTIVE: MARIE & PIERRE CURIE, A TALE OF LOVE AND FALLOUT
	Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus, MD, talks with the artist Lauren Redniss about science, art, process, discovery, and the current New York Public Library exhibition of Redniss’s new book – Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout. Friday, January 21, 7:30 PM New York Public Library South Court Auditorium, Steven A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Ave. and 42nd St. Free, but reserve at: www.nypl.org/events/conversations-cullman-center Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts and the New York Public Library

RADIOACTIVE: MARIE & PIERRE CURIE, A TALE OF LOVE AND FALLOUT

Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus, MD, talks with the artist Lauren Redniss about science, art, process, discovery, and the current New York Public Library exhibition of Redniss’s new book – Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout.

Friday, January 21, 7:30 PM

New York Public Library
South Court Auditorium, Steven A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Ave. and 42nd St.
Free, but reserve at: www.nypl.org/events/conversations-cullman-center
Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts and the New York Public Library

INTO FOCUS: ART/SCIENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY CLASSROOM
	How can art and science be taught together in the university classroom? In this lively discussion, presented in affiliation with the College Art Association, panelists will present examples of best practices in the field. Thursday, Feb. 10, 12:30 PM Rooms 9206 / 9207 Free Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts and the Leonardo Education and Art Forum.

NO DINOSAURS IN HEAVEN
	Creationism in the Classroom? View a screening of this new documentary, followed by a panel discussion. The film argues why science education is crucial in a healthy democracy, and documents the ongoing struggle to keep pseudo-science out of the science classroom. Tuseday, March 15, 6:30 PM Martin E. Segal Theatre Free

ARCADIA: SCIENCE ON STAGE
	event cancelled

INTELLIGENCE-SLAVE
	Based on a true story. A concentration camp prisoner is kept alive by the Nazis because he has invented the world’s first hand-held four function calculator. What will happen when he completes the invention and he becomes dispensable? This riveting new play by Kenneth Lin will be read by the acting company Break A Leg Productions. Wednesday, April 20, 6:30 PM Elebash Recital Hall Free Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts and the Center for Jewish Studies

INTELLIGENCE-SLAVE

Based on a true story. A concentration camp prisoner is kept alive by the Nazis because he has invented the world’s first hand-held four function calculator. What will happen when he completes the invention and he becomes dispensable? This riveting new play by Kenneth Lin will be read by the acting company Break A Leg Productions.

Wednesday, April 20, 6:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
Free
Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts and the Center for Jewish Studies

EARTH DAY: THE CIVILIANS' THE GREAT IMMENSITY(Excerpts)
	The Civilians, a New York-based theater company, creates original work derived from investigations into the world beyond the theater. Hear excerpts from their new play-with-music, The Great Immensity, exploring the themes of climate change, deforestation and extinction. Friday, April 22, 6:30 PM Elebash Recital Hall Free Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts and the Martin E Segal Theatre Center

THE FOUR PERCENT UNIVERSE
	Did you know that everything you see, touch, hear, smell, and taste makes up only 4 percent of what is actually out there? The rest of the universe is completely unknown, or “dark”, and scientists have been working rigorously to determine what’s out there. Richard Panek will speak about his new book The Four Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality. Monday, May 9, 6:00 PM Room 4102 Free

THE FOUR PERCENT UNIVERSE

Did you know that everything you see, touch, hear, smell, and taste makes up only 4 percent of what is actually out there? The rest of the universe is completely unknown, or “dark”, and scientists have been working rigorously to determine what’s out there. Richard Panek will speak about his new book The Four Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality.

Monday, May 9, 6:00 PM
Room 4102
Free

Fall 2010

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves >
Tuesday, September 28, 6:00 PM

Powers of Ten>
Wednesday, October 6, 7:00 PM

Creation >
Wednesday, Oct 20, 7:00 PM

Conference: Communicating Science to the Public Through The Performing Arts >
Fri Oct 29, Sat Oct 30

The Making of the Big Bang Theory >
Friday, October 29, 7:00 PM

Copenhagen >
Friday, November 12, 6:30 PM

THE SHAKING WOMAN OR A HISTORY OF MY NERVES

Siri Hustvedt, bestselling novelist and author of the memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, will offer a reading as well as a discussion of neuroscience, psychoanalysis and the novel. Rebecca Jordan-Young (Barnard College), author of Brain Storm: Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences, will serve as discussant.

“Siri Hustvedt, one of our finest novelists, has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind. Hustvedt’s erudite book deepens one’s wonder about the relation of body and mind.” —Oliver Sacks

Tuesday, September 28, 6:00 PM
Segal Theatre
No reservations. First come, first seated.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Women and Society, the Ph.D. Program in English, and the Center for the Humanities.

POWERS OF TEN
	Celebrate 10/10/10 (a few days early). We will observe the date with a tribute to the classic short film Powers of Ten, by designers Charles and Ray Eames, which is a journey of scale, from the infinitesimal to the cosmic. Discussion with Beatriz Colomina, D Graham Burnett, and Eames Demetrios. One of the most widely seen short films of all time—at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for decades and still widely used in schools around the world—Powers of Ten has influenced pop culture from The Simpsons to the rock band Coldplay, from Hummer commercials to the movie Men in Black. Wednesday, October 6, 7:00 PM Elebash Recital Hall No reservations. First come, first seated. Co-Sponsored by Cabinet Magazine

POWERS OF TEN

Celebrate 10/10/10 (a few days early). We will observe the date with a tribute to the classic short film Powers of Ten, by designers Charles and Ray Eames, which is a journey of scale, from the infinitesimal to the cosmic. Discussion with Beatriz Colomina, D Graham Burnett, and Eames Demetrios. One of the most widely seen short films of all time—at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for decades and still widely used in schools around the world—Powers of Ten has influenced pop culture from The Simpsons to the rock band Coldplay, from Hummer commercials to the movie Men in Black.

Wednesday, October 6, 7:00 PM

Elebash Recital Hall

No reservations. First come, first seated.

Co-Sponsored by Cabinet Magazine

CREATION

A screening of Creation, a film about Charles Darwin’s personal and religious struggles to finish his legendary book “On the Origin of Species.” The screening will be followed by a discussion with Randal Keynes, Darwin's great great grandson and biographer, and the eminent biologists Sean B Carroll and Cliff Tabin, moderated by science writer Carl Zimmer. Expected appearance by film director Jon Amiel. Shown in collaboration with the Imagine Science Film Festival and the Science & Entertainment Exchange of the National Academy of Sciences.

Wednesday, Oct 20, 7:00 PM

Elebash Recital Hall

No reservations. First come, first seated.

CONFERENCE: COMMUNICATING SCIENCE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE PERFORMING ARTS

Fri Oct 29, Sat Oct 30

Tickets and information at

http://www.sciartconference2010.com/

THE MAKING OF THE BIG BANG THEORY

How does the CBS television situation-comedy The Big Bang Theory keep it's science references accurate? Physicist David Saltzberg (UCLA) is the series consultant. Saltzberg checks scripts and meets with the producers, writers, actors, set decorators, prop masters, and costume designers to help ensure scientific accuracy. He also writes a blog The Big Blog Theory that explains the science behind each episode.

Friday, October 29, 7:00 PM

Proshansky Auditorium

Reserve your free seat :
http://community.gc.cuny.edu/netcommunity/Big_Bang_Theory

COPENHAGEN

A reading of selections from the play Copenhagen and a discussion by scientists and historians. Reading performed by Break A Leg Productions. Copenhagen is a Tony-award winning play by Michael Frayn, based around an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, at a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.

Friday, November 12, 6:30 PM

Elebash Recital Hall

No reservations. First come, first seated.

Spring 2010

Eye Tracking Forum >
Wednesday, January 13, 9:00 AM The Madame Curie Complex > Thursday, March 11, 6:30 PM Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero > Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 PM Imaging / Imagining The Skeleton > Friday, April 30, 1:00 PM Transistor Shock > Wednesday, May 26, 6:30 PM Astronomy’s New Messengers: Science and Design Collide > Thursday, June 3, 6:30 PM

Eye Tracking Forum
	How do we look at art? Fast, slow, in detail or in its entirety? Scientists have developed a tool that tracks the movement of a person’s eyes. In this special event, which focuses on the examination of a painting by Vasily Kandinsky, eye tracking will be looked at from many perspectives. A symposium for scholars co-sponsored by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Wednesday, January 13, 9:00 AM Segal Theatre The Eyetracking Forum, which was inspired by the Kandinsky retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, examined eyetracking technology from the perspectives of art, psychology and data visualization. It can be viewed at the CUNY YouTube channel here.

Eye Tracking Forum

How do we look at art? Fast, slow, in detail or in its entirety? Scientists have developed a tool that tracks the movement of a person’s eyes. In this special event, which focuses on the examination of a painting by Vasily Kandinsky, eye tracking will be looked at from many perspectives.
A symposium for scholars co-sponsored by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Wednesday, January 13, 9:00 AM
Segal Theatre

The Eyetracking Forum, which was inspired by the Kandinsky retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, examined eyetracking technology from the perspectives of art, psychology and data visualization. It can be viewed at the CUNY YouTube channel here.

The Madame Curie Complex
	Why are science and technology still considered predominantly male professions? In her new book, The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science, Julie Des Jardins provides historical context and unexpected revelations about women's contributions to the sciences. Co-sponsored by The Feminist Press and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. Thursday, March 11, 6:30 PM Segal Theatre No reservations. First come, first seated. Julie Des Jardin’s presentation on her new book The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science can be viewed here at the C-SPAN2 Book TV site.

The Madame Curie Complex

Why are science and technology still considered predominantly male professions? In her new book, The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science, Julie Des Jardins provides historical context and unexpected revelations about women's contributions to the sciences.
Co-sponsored by The Feminist Press and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.

Thursday, March 11, 6:30 PM
Segal Theatre
No reservations. First come, first seated.

Julie Des Jardin’s presentation on her new book The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science can be viewed here at the C-SPAN2 Book TV site.

Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero

MacArthur Fellow Elizabeth Streb has been testing the potential of the human body since childhood. Can she fly? Can she run up walls? Can she break through glass? How fast can she go? In her new book Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero, she conveys how she developed a form of movement that’s more NASCAR than modern dance, more boxing than ballet.
Co-sponsored by The Feminist Press

Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 PM
Proshansky Auditorium
No reservations. First come, first seated

Imaging / Imagining The Skeleton

A symposium on how conceptions of the skeleton have evolved alongside the increasing ability of science to represent the body. Medicine, critical theory, anthropology, and art history will be represented.

Symposium details

Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History

Friday, April 30, 1:00 PM
Rooms 9206 / 9207
No reservations. First come, first seated

Transistor Shock

A university is offered funding, but only if they'll name a building for William Shockley, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the transistor, but was infamous for his support of eugenics. What do they do?

Join us for a dramatic reading of Transistor Shock, a new play by Ivan K. Schuller and Adam Smith, performed by Break A Leg Productions. William Shockley was an American physicist and inventor. Along with two colleagues, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Shockley's commercial enterprises helped create California's "Silicon Valley." In his later years, Shockley espoused eugenics -- the practice of selective breeding applied to humans.

Following the performance, the playwrights will hold a discussion with the audience.

Wednesday, May 26, 6:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
No reservations. First come, first seated

Astronomy’s New Messengers: Science and Design Collide

Learn about the power and beauty of LIGO, a new kind of telescope-one that observes not light but gravitational waves from millions of light years away. In a panel discussion, LIGO scientist Marco Cavaglia, designer Lee Skolnick and light artist Leni Schwendinger will offer an in-depth look at the design process for the exhibit Astronomy's New Messenger at the 2010 World Science Festival. The exhibition aims to communicate the wonder of our universe and explain the search for gravitational waves from the most violent astrophysical events. The panel will present a brief overview of the project and discuss the design challenges of translating this complex science into an educational exhibition for all ages.

In affiliation with the World Science Festival
Co-sponsored by LIGO, Light Projects, and LHSA+DP

Thursday, June 3, 6:30 PM
Segal Theatre
No reservations. First come, first seated

Fall 2009 Events

Reykjavik >

Wednesday, Sept. 9, 6:30 PM

Truth Values: One Girl's Romp Through M.I.T.'s Male Math Maze >

Friday, Oct. 9, 6:30 PM

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odeyssey

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7:00 PM

Science Film Shorts >

Thursday, Oct. 22, 7:00 PM

The Theory of Everything >

Saturday, Nov. 14, 2:00 PM

DJ Spooky and The Science of Terra Nova >

Sunday, Nov. 15, 4:00 PM

The Age of Stupid >

Tuesday, Dec. 1, 6:30 PM

Darwin's Universe >

Thursday, Dec. 17, 6:30 PM

Reykjavik
	Reading of play by renowned historian Richard Rhodes about the nuclear disarmament talks held in Reykjavik, Iceland between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Rhodes will conduct a post performance discussion. Wednesday, September 9, 6:30 PM Elebash Recital Hall

Truth Values: One Girl's Romp through M.I.T.'s Male Math Maze
	Writer/performer and recovering mathematician Gioia De Cari offers a woman's perspective on the exotic boys club of higher mathematics at MIT, in this autobiographical solo show. Friday, October 9, 6:30 PM Elebash Recital Hall

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

In collaboration with the Imagine Science Film Festival, Science & the Arts presents the New York City premier of this animated film about space exploration, followed by a panel discussion featuring film writer/director Harry Kloor.

Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 PM
Proshansky Auditorium

Science Film Shorts

In collaboration with the Imagine Science Film Festival, Science & the Arts presents an evening of short narrative films with a connection to science.

Thursday, October 22, 7:00 PM
Elebash Recital Hall

The Theory of Everything

Encompass New Opera Theatre's The Theory of Everything has music by John David Earnest and a libretto by Nancy Rhodes. The opera, a work-in-progress, is a scientific and metaphysical search into other dimensions and alternate universes. There will be a post-performance discussion with Sultan Catto, Professor of Physics, CUNY Graduate Center.

Saturday, November 14, 2:00 pm
Elebash Recital Hall

DJ SPOOKY AND THE SCIENCE OF TERRA NOVA

An exploration of the science and history behind Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica,, a new multimedia performance by Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky). A co-presentation with the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History. Ticket information.

Sunday, November 15, 4:00 PM
American Museum of Natural History

THE AGE OF STUPID

A man living alone in the devastated world of 2055 watches archive footage from 2008 and asks, "Why didn't we stop climate change?" See the film about global warming, set in the future, when our era appears to be "The Age of Stupid." After the screening, hear a response from Dr. Charles Vorosmarty, Director of the CUNY Environmental Cross-Roads Initiative. You may read about Dr. Vorosmarty here and hear him discuss water resources here.
Co-sponsored by the RSA.

A transcription of Dr. Charles Vorosmarty's remarks can be read here.

Tuesday, December 1, 6:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall

DARWIN'S UNIVERSE

An encore presentation! Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday with Richard Milner, the singing Darwin scholar. Milner is an anthropologist and author of Darwin's Universe. He is also a performer of humorous songs about Darwin, in the style of the music hall and Gilbert and Sullivan. An evening of science, history, hilarity, and music entwined! Listen to an interview with Milner on the Voice of America.

Thursday, December 17, 6:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
No reservations. First come, first seated.

Spring 2009 Events

Starry Messenger >

Thursday, Feb. 26, 7:00 PM

Our Future Scientists: A Townhall Meeting >

Wednesday, March 4, 6:30 PM

Experimental Man >

Tuesday, March 17, 6:30 PM

Evolution: Darwin's Top 10 Choices >

Wednesday, April 29, 6:30 PM

Artists & Science Writers: Finding Common Ground >

Monday, May 11, 1:00 - 5:00 PM

Between the Folds: The Art and Science of Origami >

Monday, May 11, 6:30 PM

Tickets: worldsciencefestival.com
No reservations. Seating is first come, first served beginning 1 hour before the event.

This season, Science & the Arts has focused primarily on the Manhattan Project, the program to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. Our events were presented in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera, which presented John Adams' new opera Doctor Atomic this fall. In addition to a remarkable slate of speakers -- including Nobel Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners -- we had over 10 octogenarian and nonagenarian scientists who were active participants in the Manhattan Project, making this an event of historic importance. Picturing the Bomb - an exhibition
	Photographers Rachel Fermi (granddaughter of the physicist Enrico Fermi) and Esther Samra curate an exhibition of photographs from the secret world of the Manhattan Project. Included are images of scientific experiments and their consequences, as well official portraits and casual snapshots. Exhibition Hallway, first floor. October 6 - ongoing
The History, Science and Scientists of the Bomb
	-Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Making of the Atomic Bomb -Norman Ramsey, Nobel Laureate, Physics, Harvard University Eyewitness to the Manhattan Project -Edward Gerjuoy, Physics, University of Pittsburgh Recollections of J. Robert Oppenheimer -Robert S. Norris, Senior Research Associate, Natural Resources Defense Council The 1,000 Days to Trinity Saturday, October 11, 1:00 PM
The Making of the Opera Doctor Atomic
	-Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera -John Adams, Composer -Penny Woolcock, Director -Julian Crouch, Set Designer -Gerald Finley, Baritone, "J. Robert Oppenheimer" Saturday, October 11, 4:30 PM
J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Man, the Manager, the Physicist
	-David Cassidy, historian, Hofstra University Oppenheimer and his Physics -Robert Crease, philosopher, SUNY Stony Brook Oppenheimer: A Tragic Hero? -Jeremy Bernstein, physicist and author Personal Reflections on Oppenheimer Tuesday, Oct. 14, 6:30 PM
The Manhattan Project: Places, People and Power
	-Rachel Fermi and Esther Samra, Photographers Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project -Harold Agnew, Former Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chicago, Los Alamos, Tinian Island and the Atomic Bomb -Manhattan Project Veterans offer their recollections: Harold Agnew, Albert Bartlett, Benjamin Bederson, Robert J. Brown, Morton Camac, Hans Courant, Roy Glauber, E. Leonard Jossem, Nathan T. Melamed, Murray Peshkin Friday, Oct. 17, 3:00 PM
Wartime Decisions and the Atomic Age
	-Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, George Mason University J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb -Harry Lustig, Physics, City College of New York Did the Allies Know That The Germans Were Not Building an Atomic Bomb? -Gar Alperovitz, Political Economy, University of Maryland The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb Friday, Oct. 17, 6:30 PM
Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project
	Ruth Howes, Physics, Marquette University Learn about the scientific problems the women of the Manhattan project helped to solve as well as the discrimination they faced in their work. How did they cope with their abrupt recruitment and with everyday life in the clandestine, improvised communities? What happened to them after the war? Monday, October 20, 6:30 PM
Los Alamos - a novel
	Joseph Kanon, Novelist, New York In a dusty, remote community of secretly constructed buildings and awesome possibility, the world's most brilliant minds have come together. In Kanon's bestselling novel, set in Los Alamos, there also resides an unraveler of human secrets - a man in search of a killer. Tuesday, October 21, 6:30 PM
Imagine Science Film Festival
	Join us for the NY premier of BLAST!, a new feature film by Paul Devlin. Journey from Sweden to Antarctica following physicists who attempt to look back in time and take a snap shot of the universe's beginnings by launching a Balloon-borne, Large Aperture, Sub-millimeter Telescope (BLAST) into the atmosphere. Working with NASA, the crew members encounter problems which stand to render the entire multi-million dollar project dead in the water. BLAST! will take you to new heights while tiptoeing on the rim of disaster in the pursuit of scientific achievement. Imagine Science Film Festival Also - short film "Apollo 10-1/2" Thursday, October 23, 7:00 PM
Remembering the Manhattan Project
	Cynthia Kelly, President, Atomic Heritage Foundation Preserving the Manhattan Project Ben Bederson, Manhattan Project Veteran at Los Alamos Memoirs of an SED David Pines, Former Student of J. Robert Oppenheimer Remembering Opje Theodore Rockwell, Manhattan Project Veteran at Oak Ridge Creating the New World Saturday, November 8, 2008 - C 198, 10:15 am
Uranium + Peaches - a play reading
	A Play in One Act by Peter Cook & William Lanouette Staged Reading by Break-A-Leg Productions, www.breakalegproductions.com The scientist behind the bomb wants to stop it... The politician behind the president wants to drop it... In the dramatic and fateful confrontation between Einstein's protégé, Leo Szilard, and Truman's mentor, Jimmy Byrnes, science battles politics in the timeless struggle against the corruption of human ingenuity. See www.uraniumandpeaches.com Monday, November 10, 6:30 PM
International Polar Year Celebration
	Sound and video from new media artist Andrea Polli (you heard her on NPR’s Studio 360) and a preview of Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. Both artists had residencies in Antarctica. Featuring Dr. Karen St.Germain, NOAA’s Division Chief for the next generation of polar-orbiting environmental satellites, which will monitor the earth's weather, atmosphere, oceans, land, and near-space environment. Monday, December 8, 6:30 PM

Galileo's Muse
	Galileo's Muse celebrates the surprising relationship between one of history's greatest scientists and the spirited music of late Renaissance Italy. Who would have thought the lute (a close cousin of the guitar) held the key to one of Galileo's most important breakthroughs? This concert shows how -- with lively music, engaging explanations, and a reenactment of the experiment that led Galileo to formulate the Law of Falling Bodies. Co-sponsored by the Doctoral Program in Music Performance. #7564 - Wednesday, January 30, 8:00 PM (note later time)
BrainwavE: The NeuroScience of the Groove
	What is the explanation for our love of music, rhythm and dance? In this evening of erudition and performance, Columbia University neuroscientists Dave Sulzer (a.k.a. composer Dave Soldier) and John Krakauer will discuss the brain activity that makes us groove to the beat of music. Krakauer co-directs the Motor Performance Laboratory and Soldier investigates synaptic connections that underlie memory, learning and behavior. Featuring the premiere of Soldier’s "Trio for percussion and brain waves," a live performance/experiment with drummers and electroencephalographs. #7533 - Monday, March 24, 6:30 PM
Bubbles in Beijing: Architecture, Physics, and the Olympics
	The Olympic aquatics pavilion in Beijing resembles a box of bubbles. This extraordinary structure and the feat of engineering required to build it will be discussed by Denis Weaire, physics professor at Trinity College Dublin, who first observed the efficiency of bubble structures. He'll be joined by Daniel Brodkin, a principal in the New York office of the engineering firm Arup, famous for their design contributions to some of the greatest buildings of our times. #7534 - Tuesday, April 1, 6:30 PM
FEROCIOUS BEAUTY: DANCE AND GENETICS
	Liz Lerman, choreographer, believes in the power of art to enhance civic dialogue. Her new dance/theater piece, Ferocious Beauty: Genome, investigates the implications of genetic research. Among her collaborators in creating the work was Bonnie Bassler, renowned Princeton University microbiologist, who will join her in a dialogue. The talk will be illustrated with video segments, providing a preview of the dance piece before its first performance in the New York area. #7535 - Monday, April 7, 6:30 PM
Manhattan / Farm Hall
	A play reading about the moral dilemmas surrounding the building of The Bomb, written by French actor Olivier Treiner and his father, physicist Jacques Treiner, who will be present at the performance. How did American scientists wrestle with their concerns about the use of atomic weaponry? How did German scientists react to the bomb that leveled Hiroshima? The play, based in part on actual transcripts of conversations, delves into these complex issues. Reading by Break A Leg Productions. #7567 - Thursday, April 24, 6:30 PM
Hollywood science EVENT CANCELLED
	From space travel and genetic engineering to global warming, science is portrayed on movie screens with fact and fantasy, and scientists are heroes, nerds, and villains. Sidney Perkowitz, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University and author of the new book Hollywood Science, discusses the portrayal of science in films, from science fiction to scientific biographies and documentaries, and screens some examples. #7536 - Tuesday, April 29, 6:30 PM
Oxygen
	Who deserves the Nobel Prize for the discovery of oxygen? Three scientists -- Lavoisier, Priestley, and Scheele -- lay claim to the prize in this play, written by two renowned chemists, Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann. The play, which takes place in both 1777 and 2001, examines the nature of discovery and the desire for recognition that motivated scientists then as now. Reading by Break A Leg Productions. Limited seating. This event is FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED. A World Science Festival event #7568 - Thursday, May 29, 6:30 PM
Einstein's Dreams
	May 29, 30, 31 The young Einstein dreams... Berne, Switzerland, 1905: Einstein is a modest patent clerk in a new marriage, struggling to make ends meet while in the back of his mind re-conceiving time! This brilliant new stage adaptation by Wesley Savick of Alan Lightman's internationally acclaimed novel Einstein's Dreams will be performed by Boston's Underground Railway Theater. The play, an inventive, poetic and charming work, was the inaugural event in a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Underground Railway Theater, conceived to develop new plays about science. The performances will be followed by informal discussions with guest writers. General admission $20. Purchase Tickets: A World Science Festival event Thursday, May 29, 8:00 PM Alan Lightman - post-performance discussion Lightman's novel Einstein's Dreams was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. Both a distinguished physicist and an accomplished novelist, Lightman was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities. AND Walter Isaacson - post-performance discussion Isaacson is President of the Aspen Institute. He has been Chairman of CNN and the editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe. Friday, May 30, 8:00 PM Alan Lightman - post-performance discussion INovelist Lightman returns for a second discussion. Saturday, May 31, 2:00 PM Alan J. Friedman - post-performance discussion Co-author of Einstein as Myth and Muse, published by Cambridge University Press. For 22 years Dr. Friedman served as Director of the New York Hall of Science, New York City's public science-technology center. Press Materials Here
ICSI and Taboos
	The plays ICSI and Taboos dramatize -- with wit -- the social transformations and contested viewpoints created by advances in reproductive science. Readings from the plays will be performed by the theater company Break a Leg Productions. Playwright Carl Djerassi is "the father of The Pill" (he was awarded the National Medal of Science for the first synthesis of an oral contraceptive) and has had a prolific additional career as a writer of fiction and plays about science. Produced by Redshift Productions in collaboration with Science & the Arts. Thursday, July 31, 7:00 PM

Illuminating Coney Island
	Thirty-seven years have passed since the closing of Coney Island's world-renowned Parachute Jump ride. In 2006 the 277-foot structure was illuminated by Leni Schwendinger and her firm, Light Projects. Colored light transforms the filigreed steel Parachute Jump framework into a shimmering icon for Coney Island and all of Brooklyn. With designer Leni Schwendinger, Martin Maher, Brooklyn Chief of Staff, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, and Peter Jacobson, Lighting Specialist, Con Edison. #7427 - Tuesday, September 25, 6:30 PM
Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction
	During the Nazi era, over 1,400 synagogues were destroyed. Through a student initiative at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, several synagogues have been virtually recreated using computer aided design, revealing a rich and diverse architectural history. Manfred Koob and Marc Grellert (Darmstadt University of Technology) and Carol Herselle Krinsky (New York University) will show the re-creations and provide historical and contemporary context. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Science & the Arts, and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa). #7428 - Monday, October 29, 6:30 PM
SCIENCE AS A CREATIVE ADVENTURE OF THE MIND
	The Pari Center for New Learning, located in a quiet hilltop village in Italy, fosters an interdisciplinary approach linking science, the arts, ethics and spirituality. David Peat, author, physicist and philosopher, directs the Center and will speak on the relationship between language, reality and physics. He will ask if science is about what we know about the world, or what we can say about the world. He will also explore the way science and the arts can stimulate and cross fertilize each other. With stand-up comedy from Jena Axelrod. #7455 - Tuesday, November 6, 6:30 PM
A Scientist Goes to the Movies: The Matrix
	The 1999 science fiction action film, The Matrix, describes a future in which the world we know is actually the Matrix, a simulated reality created by sentient machines in order to subdue and make use of the human population as an energy source. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History) and Corey Powell, Executive Editor at Discover Magazine, will show selected scenes and discuss the science onscreen. Thursday, November 8, 6:30 PM
Background
	Reading of a play by Lauren Gunderson. In 1948, as a young doctoral student, Ralph Alpher wrote the first mathematical model for the creation of the universe and predicted the discovery of cosmic background radiation that proves the Big Bang theory. He was ahead of his time. Decades later, two radio astronomers tuning their equipment stumbled on proof of Alpher's background radiation. They got the credit-and the Nobel Prize. Presented by Break A Leg Productions. Following the play will be a question & answer period with the playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times science reporter, John Noble Wilford, moderated by Brian Schwartz. #7457 - Tuesday, November 20, 6:30 PM

A Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society
	The popular website, the "Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society," named after a 17th-century polymath, inspired this evening of the wondrous and the arcane. Featuring ancient automata, extinct languages, curious inventions, and one notable savant. For ticket information: http://kirchersociety.org/ Tuesday, January 16, 2007 7 PM This event is sold out
Robot Dance Competition
	Robo Cup Junior is an international robot design competition organized in elementary through high schools. Witness the crazy, colorful dance moves of the 'bots, designed by the New York City-area teams. 7321 - Thursday, February 1, 2007 2 PM
The Physics of the Buffyverse
	Author Jennifer Ouellette's The Physics of the Buffyverse uses the characters, concepts and plot lines of the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer to illustrate a wide range of fundamental concepts in the physical sciences: everything from sound, electricity, materials science, and thermodynamics, to concepts of time (and time travel), wormholes, black holes, and string theory. The evening will include demonstrations of the martial art of ju-jitsu. Two performances on one evening: 7322 - Thursday, February 1, 2007 6 PM 7323 - Thursday, February 1, 2007 8 PM
"Flight," a play by Arthur Giron
	A comedic drama about the family life of the young Wright Brothers. "...[A] witty, touching flashback to the Wright brothers' boyhood and the events that led to those momentous first flights in Kitty Hawk." (NY Times). A play reading by Break A Leg Productions 7324 - Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:30 PM
Ben Franklin's Glass Armonica
	The glass armonica's celestial sound is created by placing moistened fingers on the edges of revolving crystal bowls of different sizes. Learn the history of Franklin's invention and hear a performance by Cecilia Brauer including Mozart's composition for the instrument. Composer Peter Kirn will discuss the physics behind the sound and how he has re-imagined the instrument in digital sound with visual effects. 7276 - Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:30 PM -- no seats left for the 6:30 show. 7337 - Wednesday, March 21, 2007 8:00 PM
Yuri's Night: A Celebration of Space Exploration
	In 1961 Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, became the first human being to leave Earth's atmosphere. On April 12, revelers on all seven continents celebrate Yuri's Night, the anniversary of his unprecedented voyage as well as the launch of the first Space Shuttle exactly 20 years later. This year New Yorkers will join them. The astronomy-themed festivities will include: a virtual tour of the universe created by the Hayden Planetarium Edward Belbruno, author of Fly Me to the Moon Greg Olsen, Private Space Explorer/Cosmonaut who spent 8 days on the International Space Station sound art by CUNY's Intermedia Arts Group 7277 - Thursday, April 12, 2007 6:30 PM
Geometry and Art: From Escher to Animation
	Geometry is a mathematical language of nature and art. It inspires sculptors and painters. Computer animators rely on it. Learn about mathematician Donald Coxeter and the work of contemporary artists who utilize geometry. With Siobhan Roberts, author of King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry and Emmy Award-winning animator Mark Neumann. 7278 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 6:30 PM
String Theory for Dummies
	An entertaining and informative discussion explaining string theory for a general audience. Many scientists feel string theory explains and unifies all of physics. Others feel it is a mathematical exercise that cannot be proven by experiment. All sides of this issue will be revealed. 7279 - Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:30 PM

Benjamin Franklin’s Arcs and Sparks
	The spirit of Ben Franklin comes alive as lightning bolts and electrical fire dance on the stage and some of Franklin’s most dramatic experiments are recreated using reproductions of eighteenth-century equipment. Join this celebration of Franklin’s 300th birthday with Jim Hardesty, physics historian and scientific instrument maker. 7136 - Monday, October 16, 2006 7:00 PM
Being Beakman
	Paul Zaloom is a political satirist and puppeteer, but he’s best known as the title character on the award-winning children’s television series Beakman's World, an irreverent look at science concepts from thermodynamics to the mechanics of flatulence. Beakman's World will return to TV screens in fall 2006 and Zaloom will reveal the creative process in making science hip and entertaining. 7135 - Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:00 PM

Science Valentine
	Celebrate with a vaudeville evening featuring Lynda Williams, the “Physics Chanteuse”(Santa Rosa Junior College), and Bob Friedhoffer, magician and educator. 6982 - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6pm Free
Soft Science
	Experimental films on science Soft Science is a collection of videos created by artists and scientists, curated by Rachel Mayeri. This unique program includes digital movies by biologists alongside contemporary video art. Rachel Mayeri is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA. 6954 - Wednesday, March 1 2006
An Experiment with an Air Pump
	Furtive romance, farce, science and buried secrets. Reading of a play by Shelagh Stephenson about ethical choices made in the pursuit of scientific progress. The play flashes between 1799 and 1999, both years of extraordinary medical breakthroughs. Presented by Break A Leg Productions 6955 Tuesday, March 28 2006 FREE
Robot Dance Competition
	RoboCup Junior is an international robot design competition organized in elementary through high schools. Witness the crazy, colorful dance moves of the 'bots, designed by the NYC-area teams. 6956 - Friday, March 31 2006
The Violin: De-Coding Perfection
	Learn the history of the famous Stradivarius violins from Toby Faber, author of Stradivari’s Genius: Five Violins, One Cello and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection. Then learn about the new approaches to the craft employed by a renowned contemporary instrument maker, Sam Zygmuntowicz , who makes faithful copies of classic instruments as well as fresh interpretations in the classic style. Co-sponsored by the Ph.D./D.M.A. Programs in Music. More information 6957 - Wednesday, April 5 2006
Nanotech: When Things Get Small
	What could a stadium-sized bowl of peanuts, a magic tennis ball, shrinking elephants, and a crazed hockey player possibly teach us about nanoscience? Not Too Serious Labs’ production “When Things Get Small” - a departure from your typical science-for-television fare - uses these and other comic inventions to take viewers on a comically corny romp into the real-life quest to create the smallest magnet ever known. View the half-hour film and hear from renowned physicist Ivan Schuller on making physics fun on film. First showing in NYC. More at http://www.ucsd.tv/getsmall/ 7060 - Wednesday, April 26 2006
Some Fantastic Realities
	A talk by Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 and Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT, to celebrate the publication of his new book Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm. More at http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/6019.html Friday, April 28, 2006 3:30PM
Big Bang
	Premiere of a new work of concert theater inspired by astrophysics. Music by composer Patrick Grant, who combines live performance with cutting edge technology. Narration by Dr. Charles Liu, astronomer on the faculty of College of Staten Island, CUNY. 6959 - Monday, May 15 2006
“Intelligent Design” under the Microscope
	An evening of presentations on the controversial movement. What is the history of the movement? What are its scientific claims? What impact will it have on our schools? Hear speakers from the fields of science, journalism, theology, and law. Co-organized by Science & the Arts and the Center for Inquiry. Supported in part by the Albert and Lin Bildner Foundation. Speakers include: James E. Darnell, molecular biologist, who'll address the scientific strength of the theory of evolution. Steve Harvey, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the case of Kitzmiller vs Dover, the Pennsylvania legal case against teaching creationism in science classrooms Linda Froschauer, Middle school science teacher and President-elect of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). Chris Mooney, author of the best-selling book “The Republican War on Science.” Moderator: Austin Dacey, The Center for Inquiry. 6958- Monday, May 22 2006
Street Fair Science
	Why does popcorn pop and cotton candy spin? Savor science demonstrations while enjoying the fun of your neighborhood street fair! See science magic tricks. Have your photo taken with “Albert Einstein.” Enjoy hands-on experiments. Saturday, June 17, 11 am-6 pm - Third Avenue between 12th and 13th St. Sunday, June 18, 11 am-6 pm - Lexington Avenue between 37th and 38th St. Participants include: Science & the Arts at The Graduate Center of CUNY The New York Hall of Science The New York City Zoos and Aquarium Robot Village The Liberty Science Center The New York Public Library The Rutgers University Physics Department The American Physical Society The Amateur Astronomers Association The Center for Inquiry Bob Friedhoffer More Information -- Click for pictures of the Street Fair!
Copenhagen
	Readings of excerpts from Michael Frayn’s renowned play Copenhagen, performed by Break A Leg Productions. The play reenacts the 1941 visit of Werner Heisenberg, who was then in charge of the Nazi nuclear power program, to Niels Bohr, his mentor and collaborator in creating quantum mechanics. The play won the 2000 Tony award for Best Play. Monday, June 26, 2006 5:00 PM
Big Bang
	Performance of a new work in progress -- concert theater inspired by astrophysics. Music by composer Patrick Grant, who combines live performance with cutting edge technology. Narration by Dr. Charles Liu, astronomer on the faculty of College of Staten Island, CUNY. Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:00 PM
Lovesong of the Electric Bear, by Snoo Wilson
	A reading of a new play on the life and times of Alan Turing, code breaker and father of artificial intelligence. British writer and fantasist Snoo Wilson explores Turing's chaotic and creative life through the eyes of his teddy bear, Porgy. Directed by Cheryl Faraone, Middlebury College "A humorous, smart and moving piece of theatre." The Washington Post, July 2005. Wednesday, July 26, 2006 7:00 PM

Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane
	A Talk by Daina Taimina and David Henderson The surface of an orange is a sphere—what is the opposite of a sphere? The answer is a hyperbolic surface. Confused? Mathematicians Daina Tamina and David Henderson will explain the concept and share their exciting discovery that crocheting is an excellent means of modeling and understanding hyperbolic surfaces, and for exploring the ruffles of lettuce leaves and sea slugs, exponential growth, and potential shapes of the physical universe. David Henderson and Daina Taimina, mathematicians, Cornell University Authors of Experiencing Geometry: Euclidean and Non-Euclidean With History (Prentice-Hall, 2005) http://www.math.cornell.edu/~henderson/ExpGeom/ Co-sponsored by Science & the Arts and the Institute For Figuring http://www.theiff.org 6375 - Thursday, September 22, 2005 6366 - Thursday, September 22
Flyer
	Staged reading of a play by Kate Aspengren. Should women be astronauts? The play leapfrogs through time and includes testimony from Congressional hearings on the subject in 1962. Presented by Break A Leg Productions. 6367 - Monday, October 17, 2005 6pm Free
Albert Einstein and Religion
	A talk by Corey S. Powell. Corey S. Powell, Senior Editor, Discover magazine; author, God in the Equation: How Einstein Became the Prophet of the New Religious Era. 6368 - Monday, October 24, 2005, 6pm Free
Voodoo Science in the Age of Intelligent Design
	A talk by Robert L. Park. Robert L. Park, Professor of Physics, University of Maryland; author, Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud. 6369 - Monday, October 31, 2005, 6pm Free
Visual Art & the Brain: At the Interface of Art and Science
	Registration and further event information at www.nyas.org/brainandart This conference will explore the nature of the science-art interface, the inspiration this interface provides to scientists and artists alike, and the impact of such interactions in areas of research and other human endeavors. The morning session will explore scientific perspectives: what is vision? How do we perceive art and why do we respond to it emotionally? The afternoon session will feature discussions with artists and scientists on communicating the beauty and power of science as well as its social and ethical implications. This event is suitable for scientists interested in art and artists interested in science. Participants: Margaret Livingstone - Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; author, Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing. V.S. Ramachandran - Director, the Center for Brain and Cognition, UC-San Diego; author, A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers. David Freedberg - Professor of Art History; Director, Italian Academy, Columbia Univ.; author, The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Respons.e Felice Frankel - Director, Envisioning Science Project, MIT; author, Envisioning Science Project: The Design and Craft of the Science Image. Barbara Tversky - Professor of Psychology, Stanford University. Eric Heller - Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Harvard University. Suzanne Anker - Chair, Department of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts; co-author, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age Devorah Sperber - Visual Artist. Torsten Wiesel - President Emeritus, Rockefeller University and Nobel Laureate. Nell Breyer – Visual Artist, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT Co-organized by Science & the Arts and the New York Academy of Sciences. Supported in part by the David Schwarz Family and the National Science Foundation. 6370 - Saturday, November 5, 2005 10am-6pm. Registration and further event information at www.nyas.org/brainandart
Magic and Comedy about Science
	Idea Café – Crossing Disciplines Do you have an idea that you have been thinking about, something that you really want to share with others? Here is your chance to have your ideas engaged with others. Or just come to hear what others are thinking. In the tradition of great intellectual programming at The Graduate Center, CUNY, we invite you to join faculty and students in our Idea Café. Each week will have a theme. You will have a chance to sign up for your short presentation and then be joined by all others in dialogue. Beverages and light food will be available for purchase from the Café. -- We welcome people from outside CUNY, but we will give first priority to CUNY-associated speakers. -- We welcome any kind of presentation on that evening’s topic, limited to 5 minutes. Do you wish to speak? Please download the form here. Fill out the form and return it to continuinged@gc.cuny.edu 6371 - Monday, November 7, 2005 7PM FREE
Big Bang: The Origins of the Universe
	A talk by Simon Singh Singh, the Cambridge-educated physicist and author of the international best-seller Fermat's Enigma, has an uncommon talent for explaining difficult science to the layman. In his new book Big Bang he leads readers on a journey back into history and out into the cosmos as he explains how scientists arrived at the remarkable theory of the universe and why it is almost certainly correct. 6583 - Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 7PM FREE
Perpetual Motion: Revolutions in 17th Century Science and Music
	Dava Sobel and Galileo's Daughters A performance featuring award-winning science writer Dava Sobel and the early music ensemble, Galileo's Daughters (Sarah Pillow, soprano; Mary Anne Ballard, viola da gamba). With Ronn McFarlane, lute (as Vincenzo Galilei). Dava Sobel will weave stories of science history with the music of the period. Dava Sobel, author, Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, and The Planets. 6373 - Monday, November 28, 2005 6PM FREE

Science to a Samba Beat
	Nobel Laureate chemist Roald Hoffmann and the dancers and drummers of Samba New York! celebrate Carnaval in Rio. 6373 - Monday, November 28, 2005 6PM FREE More information
Einstein Simplified: Cartoons on Science
	Illustrated lecture by Sidney Harris More information
Celebrate Einstein's Birthday
	Two of His Associates Reminisce Frederick Seitz, Former President of the Rockefeller University and Colleague of Einstein at Princeton, and William T Golden, Architect of U.S. science policy, the National Science Foundation and the President's Science Advisory Committee.
Einstein's Greatest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story
	Lecture by Lawrence M Krauss, Chair, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University Author of The Physics of Star Trek (BasicBooks) More information
I Spy Walter Wick
	Walter Wick, co-author of the best-selling I Spy and author of Can You See What I See?, has been entertaining and engaging children for years with his photographs and books. In this interactive slide show, he will offer a behind-the scenes look at the games, puzzles, science, and illusions that have made his books such a phenomenal success. Monday, March 28, 2005 6 PM Room 4102. Free and appropriate for families.

Science & the Arts

Past Events

Fall 2011

Spring 2011

RADIOACTIVE: MARIE & PIERRE CURIE, A TALE OF LOVE AND FALLOUT

INTO FOCUS: ART/SCIENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY CLASSROOM

NO DINOSAURS IN HEAVEN

ARCADIA: SCIENCE ON STAGE

INTELLIGENCE-SLAVE

EARTH DAY: THE CIVILIANS' THE GREAT IMMENSITY(Excerpts)

THE FOUR PERCENT UNIVERSE

Fall 2010

THE SHAKING WOMAN OR A HISTORY OF MY NERVES

POWERS OF TEN

CREATION

THE MAKING OF THE BIG BANG THEORY

COPENHAGEN

Eye Tracking Forum

The Madame Curie Complex

Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero

Imaging / Imagining The Skeleton

Transistor Shock

Astronomy’s New Messengers: Science and Design Collide

Reykjavik

Truth Values: One Girl's Romp through M.I.T.'s Male Math Maze

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

Science Film Shorts

The Theory of Everything

DJ SPOOKY AND THE SCIENCE OF TERRA NOVA

THE AGE OF STUPID

DARWIN'S UNIVERSE

Starry Messenger

Our Future Scientists: A Townhall Meeting

Experimental Man

Evolution: Darwin's Top 10 Choices

Artists & Science Writers: Finding Common Ground

Between the Folds: The Art and Science of Origami

Picturing Earth: The Story of Life in Images

Origami: From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes

Picturing the Bomb - an exhibition

The History, Science and Scientists of the Bomb

The Making of the Opera Doctor Atomic

J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Man, the Manager, the Physicist

The Manhattan Project: Places, People and Power

Wartime Decisions and the Atomic Age

Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project

Los Alamos - a novel

Imagine Science Film Festival

Remembering the Manhattan Project

Uranium + Peaches - a play reading

International Polar Year Celebration

Galileo's Muse

BrainwavE: The NeuroScience of the Groove

Bubbles in Beijing: Architecture, Physics, and the Olympics

FEROCIOUS BEAUTY: DANCE AND GENETICS

Manhattan / Farm Hall

Hollywood science EVENT CANCELLED

Oxygen

Einstein's Dreams

ICSI and Taboos

Illuminating Coney Island

Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction

SCIENCE AS A CREATIVE ADVENTURE OF THE MIND

A Scientist Goes to the Movies: The Matrix

Background

A Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society

Robot Dance Competition

The Physics of the Buffyverse

"Flight," a play by Arthur Giron

Ben Franklin's Glass Armonica

Yuri's Night: A Celebration of Space Exploration

Geometry and Art: From Escher to Animation

String Theory for Dummies

Benjamin Franklin’s Arcs and Sparks

Being Beakman

Theatre of Science

A Scientist Goes to the Movies

Verse and Universe

Tesla's Letters, a play by Jeffrey Stanley

Science Valentine

Bubbles in Beijing: Architecture, Physics, and
the Olympics

Staged Readings of 2 One-Act Plays about Einstein
Mass, by playwright Lauren Gunderson; Performed by Break A Leg Productions