Proton Prom: Stories from our Proton Prom storytellers
b"In anticipation of our upcoming Proton Prom, this week we\\u2019re re-airing the first Story Collider stories from two of the storytellers who will be performing at the event.\\nPart 1: When Aparna Nancherla's science fair project goes awry, she and her fellow students make some unethical choices.\\nPart 2: After a reluctant start, mathematician Ken Ono makes an unexpected discovery.\\nAparna Nancherla is a comedian and general silly billy. Her sense of humor is dry, existential, and absurd, with notes of uncalled-for whimsy. Think a wine you didn\\u2019t order. You can watch Aparna as Grace the belabored HR rep on the Comedy Central show,\\xa0Corporate\\xa0or hear her as the voice of Hollyhock on\\xa0Bojack Horseman. She also has a half-hour special on the second season of\\xa0The Standups\\xa0on Netflix, as well as appearances on\\xa0Late Night with Stephen Colbert\\xa0on CBS and\\xa0Two Dope Queens\\xa0on HBO. Other acting credits include\\xa0A Simple Favor,\\xa0Crashing,\\xa0High Maintenance,\\xa0Master of None,\\xa0and\\xa0Inside Amy Schumer. Aparna was also named one of \\u201cThe 50 Funniest People Right Now\\u201d by\\xa0Rolling Stone. She also co-hosted the 2018 Women\\u2019s March Rally in NYC. In 2019, she was in a Super Bowl commercial with Michael Bubl\\xe9 for sparkling water ne\\xe9 seltzer. \\nIn 2016, she released her debut album,\\xa0Just Putting It Out There, on Tig Notaro\\u2019s label, Bentzen Ball Records, and recorded a half hour special for Comedy Central. On Monday nights, she co-hosts\\xa0Butterboy\\xa0at Littlefield in Park Slope, Brooklyn at 8 p.m. with genius treasures\\xa0Jo Firestone\\xa0and\\xa0Maeve Higgins. \\nKen Ono is the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia and the Chair of Mathematics at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published over 200 research articles in number theory. Professor Ono has received many awards for his research, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship and a Sloan Fellowship. He was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) by Bill Clinton in 2000, and he was named the National Science Foundation's Distinguished Teaching Scholar in 2005. He was an associate producer of the 2016 Hollywood film The Man Who Knew Infinity, which starred Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel. Earlier this year he put his math skills to work in a Super Bowl week commercial for Miller Lite beer. \\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"