<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Carrie Cai <<a href="mailto:carriecai08@gmail.com">carriecai08@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">April 3, 2013 12:00:32 PM EDT</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Invitation to an Interdisciplinary/Multimedia Lecture with Charles Limb: "The Neuroscience of Musical Improvisation"</b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial">The MIT Presidential Lecture Series is hosting an exciting, interdisciplinary talk next Wednesday 4/10 at Sidney Pacific residence with a well-known TEDx speaker from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Peabody School of Music.</font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial">We would be very grateful if you could forward the announcement below to your respective departments.</font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial">Thank you!</font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial">Carrie Cai</font></p><p style="font-size:13px"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="Arial">-------------------------------------------------------</font></p><p style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><br></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The MIT Presidential Fellows / Sidney Pacific lecture series proudly presents:</span> </p><p align="center" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial">The Neuroscience of Musical Improvisation</span></b></p><p align="center" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:center">
<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial">Join us for a multisensory, multimedia, music-meets-neuroscience experience with TEDx speaker:</span></p><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; ">
<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Professor Charles <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Limb</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);font-size:15px;font-family:Arial">Associate Professor, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74);font-size:15px;font-family:Arial">Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><font color="#4a4a4a" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px">Johns Hopkins University / School of Medicine</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">RSVP:</div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fnntfWSSNOsHS6zEN3isGEVrzxT9EytbXwnsADtudDE/viewform?pli=1" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fnntfWSSNOsHS6zEN3isGEVrzxT9EytbXwnsADtudDE/viewform?pli=1</a></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><b>Wednesday, April 10, 2013</b></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><b>6 PM (refreshments), 6:30 PM (lecture)</b></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">
MIT Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence <span style="font-family:Arial">(map:</span><a href="http://goo.gl/gZUmY" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(9,78,229)">http://goo.gl/gZUmY</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial">)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-family:Arial">Multipurpose Room (ground floor)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">
<span style="font-family:Arial">...Also featuring a live jazz combo!</span></div><p style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">
<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><i>How do freestyle rappers create lyrics off the cuff? </i></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><i>How are musicians able to improvise on the spot?</i></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><i>What makes their brains tick? </i></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial">Professor Charles Limb (MD) is a hearing specialist, surgeon, and lifelong musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain. Dr. Limb has spent more than a decade studying the brain activity of musicians as they improvise. Known for his brain-imaging studies of jazz musicians, he has expanded his research into another musical genre that emphasizes rhythm and improv: hip hop. He and his team at Johns Hopkins have put freestyle rappers into functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machines to see what happens in their brains when they rhyme off the tops of their heads. </span></p><p style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial">His TEDx talk has been viewed more than 750,000 times online: </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial">http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv.html</a></p><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The MIT Presidential Fellows/Sidney Pacific Distinguished Lecture Series hosts leading thinkers at Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence, MIT's largest graduate community. Lectures are open to the public and followed by lottery-based dinner for up to 40 lecture attendees and the speaker in the Housemaster's Residence.</span></i></p><p style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Carrie</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Cai</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">and</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">David</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Rosen</span><br style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">
<span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Co-Chairs, Committee on Scholarly Interactions (CoSI)</span><br style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence</span><br style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">
<a href="mailto:sp-cosi-chair@mit.edu" target="_blank">sp-cosi-chair@mit.edu</a></p></div>
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