This week New York City welcomed back the Annual World Science Festival, a five-day event
whose mission is to bring the wonder of science to the public. From June 1st through 5th, the Festival presents
approximately fifty events, performances, and panel discussions featuring prominent scientists and artists.
On June 1st the Festival celebrated its Opening Night Gala with a stage reading of actor
Alan Alda’s new play Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie
at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Performers included
Bill Camp, Mireille Enos, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Allison Janney, David Morse, Liev Schreiber,
and Brent Sexton. Bob Balaban directed the performance.
(left: Alan Alda)
The World Science Festival's mission is to make science accessible to the public. It offers events and discussions on a wide variety of intriguing subjects throughout New York City. Topics include: Music and the Body; Risk, Probability, and Chance; Women in Science; Mysteries of the Mathematical Universe; Where Do You Go When You Go to Sleep?; The Art and Science of Parallel Universes; The Invisible Language of Smell; and Living with Thinking Machines, a panel discussion with IBM's WATSON supercomputer and world-renowned roboticists and computer scientists. The festival also offers weekend family events including Science on Site: Explorations on Governors Island and a street fair in Washington Square Park featuring interactive exhibits, experiments, games, and shows.
World Science Festival co-founder Brian Greene is a Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University, and co-director of Columbia's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics. He is known for his groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory, as well as for his bestselling books, The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos. Greene has been a guest on Charlie Rose and David Letterman. His NOVA special based on The Elegant Universe won both an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award.
Co-founder Tracy Day is an Emmy award-winning journalist,
who has produced live and documentary programming for network television, PBS, The Discovery Channel,
CNN, Lifetime, and CNBC. She has produced on-location coverage of major international and high profile domestic stories.
Director/Actor Bob Balaban
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actress Mireille Enos
Actor Brent Sexton
World Science Festival Co-Founders Brian Greene and wife Tracy Day
Tracy Day
Actress Allison Janney
Actor David Morse
Biologist E.O. Wilson
Nobel Prize Winner
Robert Engle
Actress/Choreographer Mimi Lieber and Producer
Daniel Sullivan
Performance curtain call
Audience at Alice Tully Hall
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