Events

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

(Sailing) Midweek Firefly

(Sailing) Midweek Firefly, 5:00 PM

Digital Transformation: from AI and IoT to Cloud, Blockchain and Cybersecurity

In a rapidly expanding digital marketplace, legacy companies without a clear digital transformation strategy are being left behind. How can we stay on top of...

Irrawaddy River: People, Landscapes & Boats

The Irrawaddy River is the major waterway and largest river in Myanmar. It flows from north to south and it is used by Burmese people daily to take baths, do...

Leading People At Work: Strategies for Talent Analytics - Oct 15-16, 2019

People analytics is a data-driven approach to improving people-related decisions for the purpose of advancing both individual and organizational success....

Machine Learning: From Data to Decisions

It’s a common challenge for decision makers: how do we make optimal choices with so many unknown variables? It turns out that business insights come from...

Machine Learning: From Data to Decisions (Spanish)

It’s a common challenge for decision makers: how do we make optimal choices with so many unknown variables? It turns out that business insights come from...

MindHandHeart Innovation Fund

The MindHandHeart Innovation Fund seeks to leverage the enthusiasm and problem-solving skills of the MIT community to find new and inventive ways of...

Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Creative Problem Solving, Innovation, and Change - Oct 15-16, 2019

What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem just by changing the question? This new, highly interactive 2-day program helps...

Understanding Global Markets: Macroeconomics for Executives - Oct 14-16, 2019

This 3-day program presents tools and frameworks to help executives understand and predict the medium- to long-run performance of economies in order to...

Vermeer Through a New Lens

This exhibition is by Boston-based writer and artist and 2007 MIT alumni Will Dowd. These thirteen prints use the paintings of Vermeer—those paragons of...

Parsing the Universe:  Paintings by Jane Goldman

Parsing the Universe, 2019 Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA Artist Statement I am fascinated by technologies that extend human vision,...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 8:00am to 6:00pm
Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition

Join hundreds of colleagues as 10 speakers from around the country and the world discuss the latest research underlying brain function. Speakers...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 8:30am to 5:00pm
Weekly Wednesday Meeting: Visit to Mt. Auburn Cemetery

PLEASE NOTE NEW MEETING TIME: Meet in front of the Marriott Hotel in Kendall Square on the Main Street side at 9:30 a.m. We will take the T and bus together...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 9:30am to 11:30am
WiXII Recruitment Session

About This Event: WiXII stands for 'Women in Course XII' but we are open to all. Come by for information and snacks!

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 9:30am to 10:30am
Mens et Manus: Making the Book at MIT 

MIT Libraries’ Distinctive Collections seeks not only to help hold history for all, but also to inspire the new. In Mens et Manus: Making the Book at MIT we...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 10:00am to 4:00pm
Cover Letter Lab

Writer’s block making you cringe? No worries! This interactive workshop will have you well on your way to writing a strong cover letter. We will review the...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
Weaving indigenous knowledge and science in environmental decision making

Join us on Wednesday at 11am in the E14 3rd floor atrium for a talk with Doug Jones, General Manager Māori at the New Zealand Environmental Protection...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
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Tom Ernst (Sloan Finance PhD Student)

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 11:30am to 1:00pm
Meridian Singers: Join us for fall rehearsals

Meridian Singers, an a cappella chorus directed by Michael Barrett and open to all in the MIT community, is seeking new members. During our fall season, we...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 11:45am to 1:15pm
MIT List Visual Arts Center | List Projects:  Farah Al Qasimi

The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi. In her richly textured photographs, Farah Al Qasimi considers how images inscribe...

NYU Law School Information Session

Join Jill Nussbaum, Associate Director of JD Admissions at New York University School of Law. This will be an hour-long presentation during which Ms....

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ethnic Identity: Developing a Latina/o Identity

A session of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the US -- roughly 18 % of the...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Community Giving at MIT Book Fair

Stock up on irresistible books at unbeatable prices at the Community Giving at MIT used book fair! You’ll find best sellers, classics, mystery, pulp fiction,...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Geometric Representation Theory Seminar

Dmitrii Pirozhkov (Columbia) Semiorthogonal decompositions of P^2 and torsion objects​. For projective spaces we know many different semiorthogonal...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Quick and Dirty Data Management: Five Things You Should Absolutely Be Doing with Your Data Now

Do you have data? (Who doesn't?!) Learn about the five basic things you can do now to manage your data for future happiness. These tools and techniques...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 3:30pm to 5:00pm
EAPS DLS - Francis Albarede (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

Title The chemistry of the Archean ocean and atmosphere: A tribute to John Edmond and Wally Broecker Abstract The abundance of phosphorus in the...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Combinatorics Seminar

SPEAKER: Satyan Devadoss (University of California, San Diego TITLE: Unfolding Geometry at Burning Man ABSTRACT: A 2-ton interactive sculpture came to...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 4:15pm to 5:15pm
Michael Geeson (MIT - Cummins Lab): Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Title: New Reactions and Reagents for Carbon-Phosphorus Bond-Forming Reactions

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 4:15pm to 5:15pm
David Patterson: Domain Specific Architectures for Deep Neural Networks: Three Generations of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)

CSAIL is pleased to welcome Prof. David Patterson as Dertouzos Distinguished Lecturer. Abstract: The recent success of deep neural networks (DNN) has...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm
MIT Lie Groups Seminar

Charlotte Chan (MIT) Title: L-packets of S-unramified regular supercuspidal representations Abstract: In 2001, Yu gave an algebraic construction of...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Culture Shock, Navigating MIT

Navigating MIT Series for International Students Topics throughout the fall to support international students with adjustment to MIT and the U.S. Open to...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm
The optimum allocation of available budget to joint climate control mechanisms

"The optimum allocation of available budget to joint climate control mechanisms" with John Deutch, Institute Professor, Department of Chemistry,...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 5:15pm to 6:15pm
Housing as History: Villa Victoria and the Fenway Community Development Corporation

In the 1960s and 1970s Boston struggled to stem urban flight and a landscape of deteriorating housing stock. Massive redevelopment projects, such as the...

Exponent - Company Presentation

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
(Men's Soccer) Gordon College vs. MIT

(Men's Soccer) Gordon College vs. MIT

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 7:00pm
COURSE - SRI ISOPANISAD

The 108 Upanishads are considered the essence of all the Vedas, and Shri Ishopanishad is foremost among them. Discover the distilled essence of all knowledge...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm
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Catholic Mass

Weeday Mass, Adoration and Confession

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 7:30pm
Nightclub Two-step lesson and dance

Beginner Nightclub Two-Step lesson 7:30-9; open social dancing 9-11:30, with more Nightclub Two-step music earlier in the evening, and more east coast /...

Wednesday, October 16, 2019