Events

Tuesday, October 29, 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...

Creating High Velocity Organizations - Oct 29-30, 2019

What makes some organizations capable of generating and sustaining high-velocity, unparalleled, relentless improvement and innovation? This 2-day program...

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,...

Tuesday, October 29, 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...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 10:00am to 4:00pm
The Power of Daily Mentoring

In this interactive session, you will explore research-based, practical strategies to improve your day-to-day mentoring. Given the real-time pressures faced...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 10:30am to 11:30am
Lunch and Learn with Sara Beck

Come hear from Sara Beck: female scientist, engineer and amateur cyclist who rode the Tour de France to highlight cycling's gender disparity Lunch will be...

Tuesday, October 29, 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...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 12:00pm to 6:00pm
MITell: Storytelling

Join us to share your spoken 5-minute story with an audience of storytelling enthusiasts! This MITell event is partnering with Anne Stuart, who organized...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Open Doc Lab Talk: David Green

Who says VR is a good platform for nonfiction? The last five years have seen a turn towards immersion within documentary. However, while there has been...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Catholic Mass

Weekday Mass

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 12:05pm
HCED Student-Faculty Meeting

Join the Housing, Community, and Economic Development Group for a student & faculty meeting. Topics of discussion TBA

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Planetary Lunch Seminar: Open Discussion

About the Series The MIT Planetary Lunch Seminar [PLS], formerly PICS, is a weekly seminar series organized within the EAPS department. Colloquia topics...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Designing Your Life Mini-Course for Grad Students

Careers are ill-defined, "wicked" problems. Learn how proven design thinking mindsets like curiosity, bias to action, reframing, and collaboration can help...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 2:00pm to 4:00pm
The Alchemist

SPEAKER: Elisabetta Matsumoto (Georgia Institute of Technology) TITLE: Twisted Topological Tangles or: the knot theory of knitting ABSTRACT: Imagine a...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 2:30pm to 3:30pm
“Individual Identity and Organizational Identification: Evidence from a Field Experiment”  (w/ Z. Kinias and F. Schloderer)

Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD, visiting MIT)

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Dano Kim (Seoul National University) Title: Canonical bundle formula and degenerating families of volume forms Abstract: For a degenerating family of...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Data Management: File Organization

Do you struggle with organizing your research data? Wonder if there’s a better way to arrange and name your data files to optimize your work? This workshop...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 3:30pm to 5:00pm
(Women's Soccer) WPI vs. MIT

(Women's Soccer) WPI vs. MIT

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:00pm
Biology Colloquium Series (Dr. Celeste Simon)

Speaker: Dr. Celeste Simon, Title: "Inflammation, Metabolism, and Tumor Progression," Hosted by Matt Vander Heiden. The Biology Colloquium is a weekly...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Brains, Minds + Machines Seminar Series: Calibrating Generative Models: The Probabilistic Chomsky-Schützenberger Hierarchy

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Icard, Stanford University Abstract: How might we assess the expressive capacity of different classes of probabilistic generative...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Hacking Study Abroad: Departmental Exchanges

Thinking about studying abroad, but worried that it won't fit into your MIT study plan? Departmental Exchanges are a great way to go abroad with the...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
MIT Climate Action Symposium: Challenges of Climate Policy

Chair: Richard Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Sloan School of Management and Department of...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:00pm to 7:00pm
MMEC Seminar - Growing structural proteins into advanced materials for food security.

Dr. Benedetto Marelli Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Applications of robotics and sensing...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:00pm
PDE / Analysis Seminar

Featured Speaker : Maja Taskovic (Emory University) Title : On the relativistic Landau equation Abstract : In kinetic theory, a large system of...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:00pm
Prof. Anastassia N. Alexandrova (UCLA)

Physical Chemistry Seminar “Dynamic heterogeneous catalytic interfaces: ensembles of metastable states break the rules of catalysis”

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Optimal Paternalistic Savings Policies

Christian Moser (Columbia University)

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:15pm to 5:45pm
Our Hidden Borders: Guantanamo, Interdiction, and the Rise of Offshore Migration Policing

Jeffrey Kahn is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on issues of migration, mobility, border...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Hacking Sleep, 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...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm
MISTI Israel Info Session

Spend your Summer in Israel! Fully-funded Internships for UG, G & Recent Alumni No language requirement Opportunities in all courses 100% Placement Rate ...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 5:00pm
Hands with dark-painted fingernails holding white mug

SSOMIT Hangouts are our regular meetups for secular and secular-curious members of the MIT community to get to know and catch up with one another, and engage...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm
 The Technical Revolution of Esports, Gaming, Gambling, and Blockchain

In recent years, esports, gambling, and gaming companies have embraced technological advances in broadcasting, content distribution, and blockchain...

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
(Women's Volleyball) Emerson College vs. MIT

(Women's Volleyball) Emerson College vs. MIT

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 7:00pm

Tuesday, October 29, 2019