Events

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Analytics Management: Business Lessons from the Sports Data Revolution - Oct 17-18, 2019

Are you looking to take your analytics strategy to the next level? This new 2-day program provides executives the opportunity to step back and engage in the...

Building Game-Changing Organizations: Aligning Purpose, Performance, and People - Oct 17-18, 2019

Participants in this organizational strategy program will learn what it takes to build game-changing companies that make their teams and areas of...

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...

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...

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NO SEMINAR (Harvard Dept. Wide Seminar Week)

Understanding and Solving Complex Business Problems - Oct 17-18, 2019

This 2-day program introduces participants to MIT's unique, powerful, and integrative system dynamics approach to assess problems that will not go away and...

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,...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 8:00am to 6:00pm
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...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 9:00am to 5:00pm
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...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 10:00am to 4:00pm
Cancelled: Choose to Reuse

March and April Choose to Reuse are cancelled. We will follow up in the spring about May Choose to Reuse Join us at Choose to Reuse in the mirror lobby of...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 11:00am to 1:00pm
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...

Catholic Mass

Weekday Mass

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 12:05pm
Collecting Data

This session will introduce a framework for beginning an administrative research project to answer questions and inform decision making at MIT. We will cover...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Should I join a startup or established company?

Experiences in a startup can be very different from working in an established company. Understand the differences and determine if a startup is right for...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Career Connect Consultations

**Please sign up in advance for a 30 minute private appointment here: https://careerconnect.youcanbook.me/ ** This consult is reserved solely for the...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Monitoring the Vote or Voting to Monitor? Evidence from Two Large Scale Field Experiments in Colombia

Juan Mateo Montenegro Zarama (MIT)

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 2:30pm to 4:00pm
How to Change the World with Shruti Sehra at New Profit

Each week MIT Solve is inviting social impact leaders to speak in our First Year Discovery class, "How to Change the World: Experiences from Social...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 3:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT D-Lab Tour

MIT D-Lab: designing for a more equitable world. This is a ~45-minute tour of MIT D-Lab intended for members of the general public. Hear about the history of...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Aiko Fukazawa (Kyoto University): Merck-Banyu Lecture in Organic Chemistry

Lecture title TBD

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Globalization for Sale

Paola Conconi ( Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Mark Bathe | EQ Mindfulness and Leadership

Dr. Mark Bathe is a professor at MIT in the Department of Biological Engineering. He runs an interdisciplinary research group focused on the targeted...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
SMSD Seminar - Brittle or elastoplastic behavior of soft solids or yield stress fluids

Professor Philippe Coussot, Université Paris-Est A wide range of materials (emulsions, gels, foams, suspensions, etc) are yield stress fluids, deforming...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 4:00pm
The Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture in Physics (10.17) | Eliot Quataert

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series The Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture in Physics Speaker: Eliot Quataert | UC Berkeley "Neutron...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Brandeis – Harvard – MIT – Northeastern  Mathematics Colloquium

Toti Daskalopoulos (Columbia University) Title: Ancient solutions to Geometric Flows” Abstract: Some of the most important problems in Partial Differential...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”

Vivek Bald, Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media, will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar

Featured Speaker : Nisha Chandramoorthy (Aerospace Computational Design Lab, MIT) Title : How to compute the linear response of chaotic systems Abstract...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Opening Reception for Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances

Join us for the opening reception celebrating Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances. The artist will be at the opening and refreshments will be provided. The...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 6:30pm to 8:30pm
The Resurgence of Software Performance Engineering

IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM 7:00 PM, Thursday, 17 October 2019 MIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva) This talk will be webcast on the MIT CSAIL Youtube channel...

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Thursday, October 17, 2019