Events

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Arctic Dynamics Workshop

About this Event mgl.mit.edu/arctic Arctic Dynamics Workshop Monday and Tuesday 18th-19th November, 2019 MIT, Whitaker College, 4th floor, Room E25-401...

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...

Friendship & Dating in the US, 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, November 19, 2019 at 12:00am to 6:30pm
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...

Systematic Innovation of Products, Processes, and Services - Nov 18-22, 2019

This 5-day program blends the perspectives of marketing, design, and engineering into a systematic approach to delivering innovation, and presents methods...

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, November 19, 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, November 19, 2019 at 10:00am to 4:00pm
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, November 19, 2019 at 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar: Marcus Cicerone (Georgia Tech)

Title: TBA

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Open Doc Lab Talk: Michelle Mizner

Making i-docs at FRONTLINE: A look back and look ahead Since 1983, FRONTLINE has been American television’s top long form news and current affairs series....

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Catholic Mass

Weekday Mass

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 12:05pm
Planetary Lunch Seminar: Ya Huei Huang (MIT)

The young and old on the Moon: Using impact cratering and observation to constrain the lunar impact flux and the ages of the lunar surface About the...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Special Lecture - EAPS - Kazushige Obara

About this Event Please join us for a special talk by a guest of Profs. Rob Van Der Hilst and Rachel Abercrombie (BU) Tuesday, 11/19, from 1-2:30 PM in...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Tour MIT.nano Building

Come visit MIT's big new home for the ultrasmall! Nanotechnology, the cutting-edge research field that explores ultrasmall materials, organisms, and devices...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Killian Court

SPEAKER: Mohit Dalwadi (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford) TITLE: A model for cryopreservation and a homogenization of bacterial nutrient...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 2:30pm to 3:30pm
“Worker Sorting, Work Discipline and Development” (w/ D. Atkin and S. Shinde)

Antoinette Schoar (MIT)

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Biology Colloquium Series (Dr. Allan Drummond)

Speaker: Dr. Allan Drummond, University of Chicago, Title: "Rethinking the cellular response to heat shock." Hosted by Mike Laub. The Biology Colloquium is a...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
MMEC Seminar - Jamming by Shear:  Transforming Fluids into Solids

Professor Heinrich Jaeger, University of Chicago Concentrated suspensions of small particles in a liquid have become an active area of research for the...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 4:00pm
Professor Eric Neuscamman (University of California at Berkeley)

Physical Chemistry Seminar “Excited State Specific Quantum Chemistry”

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Monetary Policy for Commodity Booms and Busts

Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics)

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 4:15pm to 5:45pm
Cortical and thalamic circuits for active vision

Speaker: Sonja Hofer, University College London Talk Title: Cortical and thalamic circuits for active vision My research group aims to understand the neural...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Killian Court

SPEAKER: Michael Stoll (Universität Bayreuth) TITLE: An application of "Selmer group Chabauty" to arithmetic dynamics ABSTRACT: The irreducibility or...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm
MISTI Italy Info Session

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

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 5:00pm
MIT Reads community discussion: "A Cup of Water Under My Bed" by Daisy Hernández

In her coming-of-age memoir, Hernández reflects on her struggle to make sense of the competing expectations of her family, her community, and her own...

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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, November 19, 2019 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Beantown Throwdown 2019

Home to over 60 colleges and universities, Boston has launched some of the most creative and inventive student-founded startups in the world. The Beantown...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 5:30pm to 8:00pm
Film Screening: The Way Out

Mindfulness is a psychological process of being present and relating to others and the environment with compassion. Can mindfulness also help us completely...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm
MIT IAP Biotech UROP Mixer

The MIT Biotech Group and UROP office are partnering to host a mixer focusing on bio-related UROPs on November 19th. There will be staff members from the...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm
B. Harun Küçük | Science Without Leisure

MIT Department of Architecture Fall 2019 Lecture Series 6:00 PM Room 7-429/Long Lounge --- November 19, 2019 6 PM, Room 7-429 Organized by MIT History,...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
TSUKIMI Festival 2019

Tsukimi Festival is a traditional party held in Fall in Japan to celebrate the coming of Fall. We would like to organize this partyto introduce Japanese...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Tuesday, November 19, 2019