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Magician Mark Mitton: Math, Magic, and Surprise
In conversation with MSRI Director David Eisenbud
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.
Commonwealth Club of San Francisco
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Come for an enlightening and entertaining conversation between professional magician and master of illusion Mark Mitton and MSRI Director and UC Berkeley Professor of Mathematics David Eisenbud about the relationship between technique and discovery. You'll learn about the deeper implications of magic for perception, and how it interacts with a sense of magic in mathematics.
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This event includes audience interaction and magical demonstrations, and all attendees will receive a "magic bag" from Mark Mitton with supplies to perform your own sleight of hand!
EVENT SCHEDULE
5:30 p.m. Doors open for check-in
6:30 p.m. Program begins
The Commonwealth Club
110 The Embarcadero
Taube Family Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105 (Google Maps)
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Tickets: $10 students, $15 Commonwealth Club members, $25 general public
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MARK MITTON
In addition to performing at private and corporate events all over the world,and creating magic for film, television, the Broadway stage and Cirque du Soleil, Mitton tirelessly explores the theme of "misdirection" from an interdisciplinary standpoint. He regularly presents on perception at universities and conferences in North America and Europe, including the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and has lectured with the late Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman of The Neurosciences Institute. Mitton was the apprentice to legendary sleight-of-hand master and vaudevillian Slydini, and a long-time student of Ozzie Malini – the son of turn-of-the-century magician Max Malini. He has performed for Mick Jagger, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, John Mayer, Katy Perry, Salman Rushdie, Sienna Miller, Mark Messier, Sting, Sylvester Stallone as well as at festivals in Europe and Asia; at the Olympic Games; in war-torn Liberia; in hospital wards around New York City; and in a Mexican orphanage with members of the band Guster. His magical hands are featured in a They Might Be Giants video. www.markmitton.com
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