Banners are up in Cambridge!

With over 200 events packed into 9 days this year’s Cambridge Science Festival is hard to sum up, other than to say that if you are in Boston this April you won't miss it!

There’s an overture this Friday evening 23^rd April, when 10 of Cambridge’s smartest scientists get on stage for precisely ten minutes each to talk about the big ideas shaping their field. Then the concert itself really gets under way at Noon the next day, with a never-before-seen Laser Show and “Science Carnival” at the magnificent new Cambridge Public Library. Check out all the events online, and find ways to follow along, at cambridgesciencefestival.org.

On the Science Festival Alliance front, several groups planning their own science festivals will be coming to Cambridge, MA to observe the 2010 Festival. Start-up festival initiatives that will be represented here this year include The Bay Area Festival, Philadelphia Science Festival, Colorado Springs Science Festival, Hoosier Science and Engineering Fair, Newport Science Festival, the Armenian Science Festival, and representatives from the American Physics Society. To top off the festival collaborations, the Cairo Science Festival, which is celebrating for the first time in Egypt this April, will be linked in via live web-cast to the MIT Museum’s daily “Lunch with a Laureate” program.