| The World Science Festival, in collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image, invites you to a special program including a preview screening of The Imitation Game, Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30PM. The film chronicles the life of mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing, whose work during WW II is credited with cracking Germany's increasingly complex Enigma machine codes. He went on to become one of the most important pioneers of modern computing, but his intellectual triumphs did not spare him from tragedy in his personal life. Benedict Cumberbatch portrays Alan Turing; Keira Knightley co-stars. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's screenwriter Graham Moore, along with physicist and author Janna Levin (A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines). Journalist Faith Salie is the moderator. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students. World Science Festival's "Science and Story" series gathers the world's foremost writers and thinkers to discuss how they craft stories that bring the vitality and wonder of science to life. This program is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of its Public Understanding of Science and Technology Initiative. | 
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