Improbable dramatic readings at Harvard Friday

You are invited:

This Is Improbable: Dramatic Readings




When:
Dec 07, 2012 | 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm


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)
Georgia Lyman  (actress and theatrical producer)
Jean Berko Gleason  (prof emerita, BU psychology)
others to be announced

The event will begin with a wine and cheese reception hosted by Dean Cherry Murray.

Organizers: Ros Reid, Sandra Klemm, Michael Rutter. [TWITTER: #IgNobel]