INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference

The banquet will be on Wednesday, July 2nd, 6-8.30 pm and it includes a live magic show by Prof. Matt Baker from Math at GT. 

Matt Baker is an internationally renowned Georgia Tech mathematics professor by day and an accomplished magician by night. He has published three math books and over fifty research articles, and has won numerous awards for his teaching. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a two-time recipient of a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics. In his life as a magician, Matt has also met with acclaim. A protegé of the late, great Simon Aronson, Matt is a two-time winner of the Greater Atlanta Magician of the Year award. His first book on magic, The Buena Vista Shuffle Club, was published in April 2019 to rave reviews and is now in its third printing. Matt has performed three times at the invitation-only Fechter’s Finger Flicking Frolic, the world’s premier close-up magic convention. He was the instructor for Vanishing Inc’s acclaimed “Masterclass” series in September 2022, and in 2023 he appeared on the hit television show Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

For more information, here is his website https://mattbakermagic.com/

You can't miss it!