Fusion Science Theater
The National Science Foundation funded Fusion Science Theater uses techniques from theater to create entertaining and educational science shows. The group not only performs shows, they are also available for workshops on their method, and can provide scripts and training for others to put on their shows.
Read MoreThe “Dance Your Ph.D.” Contest
A Ph.D. thesis in any science can be overwhelmingly esoteric and technical. This makes for ripe material for interpretive dance. The “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest awards cash prizes for the best videos of people’s dances representing their Ph.D. thesis research.
Read MoreTheater & Math
Victoria Gould has pursued a strange set of parallel paths through intellectual space: she has been a successful actor and a mathematician, working first as a researcher and now as a teacher and communicator of math. Recently she helped develop a theater production called ‘A disappearing number‘, on the collaboration between a famous English mathematician and an unknown Indian...
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