584611 event 1480952578 1492118023 <![CDATA[Mathematician Matt Baker Brings Magic to Holiday Banquet]]> Matt Baker will be providing magical entertainment at the Georgia Tech Foundation Holiday Banquet on Dec. 8, 2016. Baker is an award-winning professor in the School of Mathematics who also happens to be an award-winning magician. Last year, he won his second major honor in the magic world, being named the 2015 Greater Atlanta Magician of the Year by the Atlanta Society of Magicians and Georgia Magic Club. Recipients are chosen by a combined peer vote in both organizations.

Baker will be joined by full-time professional magician Dan Garrett, who also happens to be a Georgia Tech alumnus, graduating with a B.S. in Physics.

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