The Overnight Festival of Ideas Returns

Celebrate free-flowing ideas in the company of others at a night of after-hours talks, performances, workshops and more. We'll explore truths, proofs and other paradoxes.

Here is a look at the lineup for Night in the Library: The Philosophy of Mathematics:

Talks

• Keynote address by renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog
• Megan Bedell on the Math of Discovering Other Worlds
• Robert Gower on The History of Mathematical Optimization in Blood and Booze
• Olivier Gingras on Scales of Reality
• Manil Suri on A Mathematician’s Dilemma: Beauty or Usefulness?
• Molly Crabapple on Humans Against the Slopbeast
• Alissa Quart and Suzanne Schneider on Our Era of Insecurity
• Lucia Perez on Cosmic Rulers to Map the Universe

Performances

• Saxophonist Marcus G. Miller's Beauty & Logic
• Joe Goodkin performs The Blues of Achilles, a song cycle based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
• Jazz trumpeter Lőrinc Barabás

Workshops and More

• One-on-one tarot readings with Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
• Tap dance with Irene Koloseus and Féraba
• Learn “How to Enter the Garden” with Enrique Enriquez
• Get clued into your free-speech rights with the ACLU