Events

Thursday, October 24, 2019

  2020 Open Enrollment

Employees can make changes or enroll in our health insurance plans. Open Enrollment will take place from Monday, October 21 - Friday, November 1, 2019.

Community Wellness Class Registration Open!

Classes begin the week of November 4. Classes include yoga, pilates, qigong and more. Community Wellness also offers a class beneficial to those with...

Digital Marketing and Social Media Analytics - Oct 24-25, 2019

Digitization is revolutionizing marketing strategy. From tablets and big data to new customer monitoring tools and the global emergence of social networking,...

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...

Maximizing Your Personal Productivity: How to Become an Efficient and Effective Executive - Oct 24-25, 2019

This 2-day course will show you how to get more done in fewer hours, so you have more time to spend with your family, or any other activity. The program...

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...

Transforming Your Leadership Strategy - Oct 24-25, 2019

As organizations move away from a “command and control” model to a more “cultivate and coordinate” model, executives can no longer rely on old ways of...

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 24, 2019 at 8:00am to 6:00pm
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 24, 2019 at 10:00am to 4:00pm
Author Reading in German with Thomas Pletzinger

Reading in German by Thomas Pletzinger from his newest novel: The Great Nowitzky, (Kiepenhauer & Witsch, 2019) Discussion with advanced German students...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 12:00pm
CCE Seminar: Sometimes all we have left are pictures and fear/Daniel Simpson

Daniel Simpson Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences University of Toronto Abstract: Data is getting weirder. Statistical models and techniques are...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Engineered Porous Materials: Growth and Separation of Noble Gases and Critical Materials Praveen K Thallapally and Sameh Elsaidi

seminar/lecture

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 12:00pm to 2:00pm
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...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 12:00pm to 8:00pm
Special SMSD Seminar - Underwater Flight of the Pteropod

Professor Donald Webster, Georgia Tech The swimming characteristics achieved by flapping wings, translating motion, and shell pitching are studied from...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 12:00pm
Catholic Mass

Weekday Mass

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 12:05pm
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 24, 2019 at 1:30pm to 3:00pm
MIT Logo light box

While your technical skills will get you the interview, it is your behavioral attributes that will get you the job. This session will discuss preparation and...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 1:30pm to 3:00pm
How to Change the World with Casey van der Stricht

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 24, 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 24, 2019 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Spin-Orbit Technologies: From Magnetic Memory to Terahertz Generation

Biography: Hyunsoo Yang obtained the bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University and the PhD degree from Stanford University. He worked at C&S...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
A fireside chat with Ana Maiques, CEO of Neuroelectrics

Ana Maiques is the CEO of Neuroelectrics, a company aiming to change the way we interact with the brain; developing innovative technologies to monitor and...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Biological Engineering Seminar

Iwijn De Vlaminck–Cornell University Precision Profiling of Microbiome-host Interactions Hosted by: Paul Blainey For more information about this event,...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 4:00pm
Franziska Schoenebeck (RWTH Aachen University): Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture in Organic Chemistry

Lecture title TBA Schoenebeck website: http://www.schoenebeck.oc.rwth-aachen.de/

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Machine Learning for Dynamic Discrete Choice

Vira Semenova (University of California, Berkeley)

Media Competition and Social Disagreement

Sevgi Yuksel (University of California Santa Barbara)

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:20pm
Physics Colloquium Series (10.24) | Haiyan Gao

The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series Speaker: Haiyan Gao | Duke University "The Proton Remains Puzzling" Nucleons (protons and...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
SMSD Seminar - Implementing, applying, and automating geometrically-flexible numerical methods in mechanics

Professor David Kamensky, UC San Diego Studies of mechanical analysis workflows identify geometry manipulation as the most time-consuming task. The...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 4:00pm
Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern Joint Mathematics Colloquium

Hao Huang (Emory University) Title: “A proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture” Abstract: In the n-dimensional hypercube graph, one can easily choose half of...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Starr Forum: The Kremlin’s Global Outreach: From Cyber to Russians Abroad

With speakers Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan A session of the Focus on Russia Lecture Series co-chaired by Carol Saivetz and Elizabeth Wood Andrei...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Quest Spotlight on Embodied Intelligence Research

Join us for an informal research mixer on the topic of embodied intelligence, featuring spotlight talks and posters. The evening will focus on approaching...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm
William Uricchio, “Why Co-Create? And Why Now? Reports from A Field Study”

Co-Creation is picking up steam as a claim, aspiration, and buzz-word du jour. But what is and why does it matter? Drawing on a just-released field study,...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 5:00pm to 6:30pm
MISTI Mexico, Colombia, and Spain info Session

All MIT Students welcome! Learn about internship, teaching, and research opportunities in Mexico, Colombia, and Spain.

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 5:30pm
 NUS Information Session

National University of Singapore Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering Information Session

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Beatrice Galilee with Ana Miljacki | Conversations on Care

MIT Architecture | Fall 2019 Lecture Series 6:00 PM, Room 7-429/Long Lounge Organized by the Critical Broadcasting Lab Conversations on Care Critical...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar

Featured Speaker : Sandeep Silwal (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT) Title : Applications of entropy to combinatorics Abstract :...

Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 6:00pm
Public Program | Graduate Student Talk: Objects in Mirror

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances, this talk will examine the space between the perceiver and object, where...

Thursday, October 24, 2019