Pitt

We hope you can join us for a fascinating and free EVENT on April 10. Graduating senior Cory Tamler has written a B Phil thesis titled “God’s Dice: A Dramatic Exploration of Quantum Metaphysics,” which includes “City Lights, Receding,” an original one-act play about physics. Her outside evaluator is none other than acclaimed novelist and mathematician Manil Suri. We are thrilled to host him at Pitt. Suri and I booted around the idea of his giving a talk titled “Capturing India Through Fiction” and/or another talk titled “The Mathematics of Fiction.” The trouble was, we wanted everything. After Suri read Tamler’s thesis on quantum metaphysics, he said: Hmmm. Manil Suri has 2 talks, one on fiction and one on Math. He is not scheduled to give only the Math talk He is not scheduled to give only the fiction talk He is not scheduled to give both He is not scheduled to give neither

Come to the Studio Theatre (Cathedral basement) on April 10 to find out what it all means. 6:45 pm

Manil Suri

8:00 pm

“City Lights, Receding” by Cory Tamler

Cory Tamler is a graduating student with majors in English Writing, Physics, and History and Philosophy of Science. She recently won an award through the National Council for Undergraduate Research for “God’s Dice.” Manil Suri was raised in Mumbai, India, and now lives in Silver Spring, MD. His first novel, The Death of Vishnu, won the 2002 Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 Pen-Faulkner Award. His second novel, The Age of Shiva, was released in 2008 in the US, UK and India. He was named by Time Magazine as a "Person to Watch" in 2000 and

received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction in 2004. His fiction has been translated into 24 foreign languages. In addition to being a novelist, he is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.