Events

Friday, October 18, 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...

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,...

Friday, October 18, 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...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 9:00am to 5:00pm
COG3 Seminar - Kassandra Costa (WHOI)

About this Series The Chemical Oceanography, Geology, Geochemistry, and Geobiology Seminar [COG3] is a student-run seminar series. Topics include chemical...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:00am to 11:00am
Chemistry Student Seminar (CSS) - Chase Olsson (Movassaghi)

Chemistry Student Seminar (CSS) is a student-organized seminar series that host graduate students and postdocs to share their research in a friendly and...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:00am to 11:00am
GIS Level 1: Introduction to GIS & Mapping

Learn the basics of visualizing geographic information and creating your own maps in a Geographic Information System (GIS). We will introduce open source and...

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...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:00am to 4:00pm
Practice PLUS: Practice + Access Privileges

Practice+ is a series of panel discussions about contemporary architectural practice. Hosted by MIT 4.222, the Professional Practice course, each panel will...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
STAGE Seminar

Borys Kadets (MIT) "Finite flat group schemes" Abstract: I will start by giving an overview of Cartier theory from a geometric point of view, and by...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:10am to 11:40am
Environmental Science Seminar Series

"Underground markets in mutualisms: making fertilizer from thin air" Prof. Maren Friesen Washington State University

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
MIT List Visual Arts Center | Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances

Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade explores structures of reality such as time and space, as well as systems...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 12:00pm to 6:00pm
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...

MindHandHeart Innovation Fund Info Session

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

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Catholic Mass

Weekday Mass

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 12:05pm
Introduction to R

This hands-on workshop will teach you how to use R to import and manipulate data, install and manage packages, conduct basic statistical analyses, and create...

Alicja Kwade: Visibility of Time — Panel discussion including Taylor Perron

Join artist Alijca Kwade, Jimena Canales, historian of the physical sciences, and Taylor Perron, Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Public Program | Alicja Kwade Panel Discussion: Visibility of Time

In conjunction with the exhibition Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances, this conversation explores the relationship between Alicja Kwade’s work and principles...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Ethics & Computing: “Why Should We Care About Explainable Systems? Perspectives from Moral and Political Philosophy.”  Seth Lazar, Australian National University

Ethics and Computing is a lecture series focused on the interface of ethics, politics, and computing. It is sponsored by MIT’s Philosophy Section and...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 3:30pm to 5:30pm
 EAPS Active Talk Series (EATS): Andrew Babbin and Glenn Flierl

Speaker #1: Andrew Babbin (Professor), A bacterial view of Earth's climate Speaker #2: Glenn Flierl (Professor), Spread of plastic in the ocean About This...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Reimagine This Place

Reimagine This Place is an art-based benefit fundraiser organized by Media Lab students and staff in response to recent revelations of MIT’s ties to Jeffrey...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 5:00pm to 10:00pm
Advaita Discussion Series: Vivekachoodamani

This semester, we will be having, as part of the Satsanga, a Vivekachoodamani series led by our chaplain, Swami Tyagananda. The Vivekachoodamani is an...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 6:00pm to 7:00pm
FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience

Have you ever felt your productivity and creativity hindered by the constant pressure of an environment where “failure is not an option”? A misstep can...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Facial Recognition as Surveillance: The Need for Public Oversight

Join us for a substantive discussion on facial surveillance and other remote biometric monitoring technologies that pose unprecedendted risks to personal...

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
(Women's Volleyball) Middlebury College vs. MIT

(Women's Volleyball) Middlebury College vs. MIT, New England Challenge

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 7:00pm
ABSK Friday Night Bible Study with Special Guest Dr. Peter Lee, '84

Come join us this Friday for a special Bible Study with Pastor Peter Lee (Course 6, '85). Afterwards, we'll fellowship over delicious make-your-own...

ASO Fall Dinner

Join us for a night of Arab cultural celebration. Listen to the latest hits and try your hand at dabke. We will have food from Aceituna so come with a big...

Friday, October 18, 2019