Join us after the 8pm show on Friday, September 14, 2018 for a reception celebrating the opening.

Join us after the 7:30pm performance on Thursday, September 20 for a conversation with Gigliola Staffilani and Juncal Arbelaiz.

Gigliola Staffilani is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Mathematics at MIT. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1991 and 1995 respectively. Following a Szegö Assistant Professorship at Stanford, she had faculty appointments at Stanford, Princeton and Brown, before joining the MIT mathematics faculty in 2002. At Stanford, she received the Harold M. Bacon Memorial Teaching Award in 1997, and was given the Frederick E. Terman Award for young faculty in 1998. She was a Sloan fellow from 2000-02. At MIT Professor Staffilani served as co-chair of the Graduate Student Committee in Pure Mathematics from 2009-2013, and is the Faculty Diversity Officer since 2015. In 2013 she was elected member of the Massachusetts Academy of Science and a fellow of the AMS, and in 2014 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017 she received a 2017 Guggenheim fellowship and a 2017 Simons Fellowship in Mathematics. In 2018 she was made the European Mathematical Society Lecturer of the year, and she received the MAA Hedrick Lecturer Award and the Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. As a member of the Department’s edX group Gigliola received the inaugural MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs by the MIT Office of Digital. Gigliola has three past graduate students and four current ones. She has also advised dozens of math majors at MIT.

Juncal Arbelaiz was born in the Basque Country (Spain) in 1992. She is currently a third-year PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at MIT. She is a La Caixa fellow since 2017 and a MIT Presidential fellow too. Before coming to MIT, she earned her Bachelors (2014) and Masters (2016) degrees in Industrial Engineering at the University of Navarra (Spain). She won the UNAV Award for Academic Performance and the Kutxa Excellence Award at the end of her undergraduate studies. Later, she was awarded with the National Award for Excellence in Higher Education by the Government of Spain. She is committed to breaking down the barriers to entry which women encounter in STEM fields. At MIT, she is part of the executive board of GW@MIT (Graduate Women at MIT), an organization that builds a strong community of graduate women within the Institute

Join CST Alumni and Friends, Barlow Adamson (Paradise, Marjorie Prime), Mesma Belsare (When January Feels Like Summer), Tess Degen (Matchless & the Happy Prince), Lisa Nguyen (Journey to the West and upcoming in Proof), Kira Patterson (Arcadia), Zack Rice, Alan White (Matchless & the Happy Prince), and Matthew Zahnzinger (The Midvale High School Fiftieth Reunion, Arcadia) at 7pm on Friday, September 8, 2017, for an evening of love and laughs at the Constellations pre-show, Missed Connections: An Unfortunate Reading! Hear local favorites read samplings from the Craigslist Missed Connections page to warm-up for dating in the multiverse.

This pre-show event will take place in the Studio.

Join The Boston Globe Magazine’s Melissa Schorr for her take on the attraction, infidelity, and intimacy in Constellations.

Melissa Schorr is a widely-published freelance journalist and semi-professional matchmaker. As a contributing editor at the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, she edits the popular “Dinner with Cupid” matchmaking column and writes on cultural topics from parenting to adultery. Schorr attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at M.I.T. She is also the author of two young adult novels, Identity Crisis, about a deceptive online romance, and Guy Crazy, a romantic comedy about interfaith dating. Her upcoming non-fiction title, Shame Nation (Sourcebooks, October 2017), addresses the global epidemic of online shaming. She currently lives outside Boston with her husband, their two daughters, and dog, Bailey. Find her on the web at MelissaSchorr.com.

Be amongst the first to see Constellations and join the cast and crew to celebrate with wine and refreshments after the show.