Events

Monday, October 28, 2019

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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 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...

Strategies for Sustainable Business - Oct 28-30, 2019

This innovative three-day program uniquely applies MIT frameworks of process improvement and system dynamics to the topic of sustainability in an effort 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,...

Monday, October 28, 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...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 10:00am to 4:00pm
Chez Pierre seminar

Israel Klich - University of Virginia "Highly entangled spin chains and exact holographic tensor networks."

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Graduate Student Lunch Seminar

Featured Speaker : Pavel Etingof (MIT Mathematics) Title : Mentoring in the high school and undergraduate math research programs:PRIMES, RSI, SPUR, and...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Keynote Address: Erika Angle

Erika Angle, CEO of Ixcela joins GW@MIT to talk about her career in STEM as both a scientist and entrepreneur. Lunch is served! More information and RSVP on...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
LinkedIn Lab

Your LinkedIn profile provides an opportunity for potential employers to learn about your skills, interests, personality and strengths. Furthermore, over 75%...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
PAOC Colloquium - Kristen Schild

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Carl D'Apolito-Dworkin and Yushiro Okamoto

MIT Department of Architecture | Fall 2019 Lecture Series Practice in Rationalization : Discretization in Practice Case Studies from DS+R and Preston Scott...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Constructive Procrastination and a Healthy Writing Process

Susan Spilecki (Lecturer, WCC) and Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze (Lecturer, WRAP) Society tells us that procrastination is bad, when in fact it can be a useful...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Scaling Auctions as Insurance: A Case Study in Infrastructure Procurement

Shoshana Vasserman (Stanford)

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Geometry and Topology Seminar

Michael Willis (UCLA) Title: Generalizing Rasmussen's s-invariant, and applications Abstract: I will discuss a method to define Khovanov and Lee homology...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT $100k Competiton

The MIT $100K returns for its 31st year, with the first of three competitions this year: PITCH! In PITCH, finalists have 90 seconds to pitch their startup...

CBMM Special Seminar: Beyond Empirical Risk Minimization: the lessons of deep learning

Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Belkin, The Ohio State University Abstract: "A model with zero training error is overfit to the training data and will typically...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Top Wealth in the United States: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich

Owen Zidar (Princeton) and Eric Zwick (Chicago Booth)

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Xin Zhang  (Penn State)

CHEMICAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR Chemical Biology of Protein Aggregation in the Membraneless Organelles and Stressed Proteome

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Applied Math Colloquium

Speaker: Catherine Sulem (Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto) Title: Bloch theory and spectral gaps for linearized water...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 4:15pm
Probability Seminar

Featured Speaker : Patrick Lopatto (Harvard University, Department of Mathematics) Title : Spectral Statistics of Lévy matrices Abstract : Lvy matrices...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 4:15pm to 5:15pm
Algebraic Topology Seminar

Featured Speaker : Paolo Salvatore (Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata) Title : A Cellular decomposition of the Fulton Mac Pherson operad Abstract : We...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 4:30pm
Make an Online Map: Intro to Carto

This workshop will introduce Carto as a tool for creating customized online maps and performing basic data analysis. You will learn how to find and add a...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda

Ben Faber (University of California, Berkeley)

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm
CEE C.C. Mei Distinguished Speaker Series- Prof. Stéphane Zaleski- Challenges in the modeling of multip hase flow from large to small scales

Abstract: I shall describe Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of multiphase flows, with particular emphasis on two phenomena: a large scale, large Reynolds...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 5:00pm
10 Years of GW@MIT: The Founders' Perspective

Hear from a few Graduate Women at MIT (GW@MIT) founders about the challenges they faced founding GW@MIT, how it shaped their time at MIT, and how the...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 5:30pm to 6:30pm
AKPIA@MIT Lecture by D. Fairchild Ruggles: Water and Community in Islamic Granada

Monday, October 28 Water and Community in Islamic Granada D. Fairchild Ruggles Department of Landscape Architecture University of Illinois at...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 6:00pm
AUTHORS@MIT | Daniel M. Russell in conversation with Marie Lufkin Lee

Join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness at Google Daniel M. Russell, author of The Joy of...

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Weekly Yoga Class

We will be having yoga class every working Monday followed by a musical meditation session.

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Catholic Mass

Weekday Mass

Monday, October 28, 2019 at 7:30pm

Monday, October 28, 2019