As part of its ten year anniversary, UCI ADVANCE will host a west coast performance of "Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze" at 7:00 PM on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. In this compelling one-woman show, which has earned raves from critics and stirred audiences to standing ovations, Gioia de Cari dramatizes the experience of a female graduate student in the Mathematics Department at M.I.T. as she negotiates the politics of power and gender in the academy.

Please join us for this stimulating evening of theater to raise awareness about gender equity. Tickets may be purchased at the Irvine Barclay Theatre in person or online at http://tinyurl.com/http-truthvalues-com (Students - $7; UCI Faculty and Staff - $10; General Public - $15 in the month of March, and $20 afterwards).

This hilarious and deeply touching performance will mark the ten year anniversary of the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE Program, a national initiative committed to advancing gender equity in higher education (http://advance.uci.edu/).

Gender equity and diversity is a campus priority. This presentation of “Truth Values” is made possible by the support of campus leaders who lead student affairs, our academic schools, and divisions of graduate and undergraduate education and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity.

Expect Equity and Support Diversity.

Some youtube videos, including an interview with MIT mathematics professor David Vogan, President of the American Mathematical Society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwt7KZHfKKc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_92TytjUT8
You can visit the artist website at http://unexpectedtheatre.org/home.htm