Photos | String theory: What is it?


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Professor Konstantin Goulianos opened the program with a playful introduction to string theory, “the theory of everything,” in three acts: The Atom, The Quark and The String. Sandy Simon, head of the Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics and “fortunately for the theater world, a retired actor,” as he joked at the podium, welcomed the audience and introduced the evening’s event.

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(L-R): Following the reading, playwright Jacquelyn Reingold, Goulianos and Chris Smith, EST/Sloan Project program director, answered audience members’ questions about playwrighting, string theory and making theater out of science. (L-R): Actors David Eigenberg and Cynthia Nixon of HBO’s “Sex and the City,” and Tom Mardirosian, were among actors who participated in the staged reading of String Fever.

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(L-R): Tom Mardirosian (“Oz”), Cynthia Nixon, Matte Osian (Richard II) and Christine Farrell (“Law and Order”)

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Michael Emerson (Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde) Goulianos talks with an audience member after the Q&A session.






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