Events

Wednesday, October 30, 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...

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...

Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Jacklyn Dallas

Jacklyn Dallas is a 17 year old technology YouTuber who approaches every video with the goal of helping people make educated buying decisions, while also...

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,...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8:00am to 6:00pm
Morning Coffee Mingle

An informal drop-in to say hello and connect with the Women's League over coffee, tea and pastries - no heavy lifting or work required. Whether you stay for...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8:30am to 9:30am
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...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 10:00am to 4:00pm
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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (UC Berkeley)

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 11:30am to 1:00pm
Meridian Singers: Join us for fall rehearsals

Meridian Singers, an a cappella chorus directed by Michael Barrett and open to all in the MIT community, is seeking new members. During our fall season, we...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 11:45am to 1:15pm
How to Enlarge NATO: The Debate Inside the Clinton Administration, 25 Years On

Mary Sarotte (Johns Hopkins University) Security Studies Program Wednesday Seminar Newly available sources, declassified because of Prof. Sarotte’s...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:30pm
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...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12:00pm to 6:00pm
MIT SIAM Seminar

Speaker: Dixia Fan, Post-doc Associate, MIT Sea Grant Active and Physics-Informed Learning of Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV): A confession by a “lazy” fluid...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12:00pm
SLS Lecture - Hing Ong

About this Series The Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Sack Lunch Seminar Series is an informal seminar series within PAOC that focuses on more specialized...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Planning, policy and politics for a rapid low-carbon energy transition in the US

Given denial campaigns funded by the fossil fuel industry for four decades, the US has stalled on climate policy. We now have very little time to...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12:30pm to 2:00pm
"A prophage with DNA-based immunity to its own phage defence protein"

Siân Owen, Baym Lab, Harvard Medical School for the The Parsons Lab Microbial Systems Seminar Series @MIT

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
OPEN HOUSE Minor in Polymers and Soft Matter (MPSM)

Advance your career to the frontiers of interdisciplinary science! Meet with faculty to learn about MIT’s exciting new undergraduate Minor in Polymers and...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Weekly Wednesday Meeting: Pumpkin Carving

Come carve traditional jack-o-lanterns for Halloween! Bring your own pumpkin, and we will provide the carving supplies. Come in costume if you like! Please...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series - Professor Nancy R. Sottos

Control of Reaction Fronts for Rapid Energy-Efficient Manufacturing of Multifunctional Polymers and Composites Abstract: Reaction-diffusion processes are...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Wulff Lecture: Jim Yurko Ph.D. '01 – Alloy Design at Apple

How does materials science and engineering impact Apple product design and performance? Alloys play a critical role in Apple product enclosures. Designed by...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Combinatorics Seminar

SPEAKER: Jinyoung Park (Rutgers University) TITLE: The number of maximal independent sets in the Hamming cube ABSTRACT: Let Qn be the n-dimensional...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 4:15pm to 5:15pm
MISTI Portugal Info Session

All MIT Students welcome! Learn about internship, teaching, and research opportunities in Portugal.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 5:00pm
Atomically thin canvas for quantum optoelectronics: Enhancing all-optical integrated circuits to allow ultra-fast computing with ultra-low power consumption

Atomically thin canvas for quantum optoelectronics: Enhancing all-optical integrated circuits to allow ultra-fast computing with ultra-low power consumption...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 5:15pm to 6:15pm
MIT WATER LECTURE SERIES

Negotiating Water Resources: Interactive Coaching Session Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Resolution Adaptive Leadership Collaborative...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 5:45pm to 7:00pm
Infinite Careers: Anurupa Ganguly

Infinite Careers is an alumni speaker series designed to expose students to a variety of career paths and the non-linearity of career decision making. This...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 6:00pm to 7:00pm
COURSE - SRI ISOPANISAD

The 108 Upanishads are considered the essence of all the Vedas, and Shri Ishopanishad is foremost among them. Discover the distilled essence of all knowledge...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm
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GIC Investments - Company Presentation

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Catholic Mass

Weeday Mass, Adoration and Confession

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 7:30pm
Halloween Swing lesson and dance

Beginner East coast swing lesson 7:30-9; open social dancing 9-11:30. Free, Beginners welcome, No previous dance experience necessary, No partner...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019