‘Sound Ideas’ — Teen Science Cafe at MIT Museum, Dec. 2

The MIT Museum will host its next Teen Science Cafe for high-school students on December 2, 6-8:30PM, focused on the science of sound and music.  Admission is free and dinner will be provided.  Seating is limited and registration is required.  Doors will open at 5:45PM and no one will be admitted after 7PM. The event will include a musical performance by Newton South HS’s Crescendo acapella group and these talks:

  • Converting Sound to Neural Signals
  • Musician and Mega-Machine: Compositions Driven by Real-Time Particle Collision Data from the ATLAS Detector
  • Using Sound Waves to Separate Cancer Cells from the Blood
  • Fabric Keyboard – Multimodal Textile as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface