Events

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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...

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, December 10, 2019 at 8:00am to 6:00pm
Glass Lab Holiday Sale

The sale will feature a variety of items (everything EXCEPT pumpkins!) made by students and instructors in the Glass Lab. A portion of the proceeds supports...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 10:00am to 5:00pm
Physics Ph.D. Thesis Defense: Ivana Dimitrova

Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to attend the following thesis defense: 'Realizing quantum spin models with Li 7 atoms in an optical...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 11:00am
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, December 10, 2019 at 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar: Kang-Kuen Ni (Harvard University)

Title: Ultracold Chemical reactions with molecules in slow motion

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Systems Thinking Webinar: Atanu Mukherjee, “Enabling a gasification-based sustainable industrial economy for India”

Join us for a free webinar on Tuesday, December 10 at 12:00 PM EST with Atanu Mukherjee, SDM alumnus and president of the engineering consulting firm M. N....

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Catholic Mass

Weekday Mass

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 12:05pm
Menstruation Madness

UA Sustain and Pleasure educators collaborate to bring forth a celebration of sustainable and comfortable menstrual products. The event will feature sample...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 1:00pm to 3:00pm
SPAIN@MIT Christmas Lunch

Traditional Spanish food (croquetas, tortillas, albondigas, etc.) will be served to celebrate the end of the semester. Join us for this gathering event to...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Physical Mathematics Seminar

SPEAKER: Gary Pui-Tung Choi (Harvard University) TITLE: Geometric and topological control of kirigami ABSTRACT: The basic building block of any...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Faculty Forum Online: Autonomous Systems in Space

Alumni in faculty and research roles share their latest work on autonomous systems in space. After brief presentations, panelists will field questions from...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Biology Colloquium Series (Dr. Tim Stearns)

Speaker: Dr. Tim Stearns, Stanford University, Title, "Cells that break the rules: centriole amplification in normal and disease states." Hosted by Angelika...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Machine learning control for optimization of experimental jet mixing

Doctor Bernd R. Noack LIMSI, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, France; TU Berlin; TU Braunschweig & HITSZ Closed-loop turbulence control has engineering...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 4:00pm
PDE / Analysis Seminar

Featured Speaker : David Jerison (MIT) Title : Localization of eigenfunctions via an effective potential Abstract : We discuss joint work with Douglas...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 4:00pm
Professor Matthias Waegele, Boston College

Physical Chemistry Seminar TITLE: “Elucidating the Molecular Origins of the Product Selectivity of Electrocatalytic Reactions”

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Stata Center and public art

This talk covers work being done in the Retail and Consumer Products industries where there is a need to track and trace live goods including plants and...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Labor Market Power

Simon Mongey (University of Chicago)

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 4:15pm to 5:45pm
MIT Number Theory Seminar

SPEAKER: Abhishek Oswal (University of Toronto) TITLE: A non-archimedean definable Chow theorem ABSTRACT: O-minimality has had some striking...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm
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, December 10, 2019 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm
MIT PRIMES math reading groups mini-conference

5:30 pm: Sooyoung Choi and Minghan Sun, “Two proofs of Dirichlet’s theorem” (mentor Kaavya Valiveti) 5:50 pm: Yunseo Choi, Aneesha Manne, and Poonam Sahoo,...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5:30pm
Sports Rehabilitation – Game Changing Innovations

Winning in This Growth Marketplace Learn from a panel of experts in the sports rehabilitation space about how they started their companies and how they...

(Women's Basketball) Framingham State University vs. MIT

(Women's Basketball) Framingham State University vs. MIT

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 7:00pm
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Catalytic Combinations for Prostate Cancer and Beyond

Illuminating the science behind an ongoing clinical trial, Professor Michael Yaffe and his clinical and biotech collaborators tell the story of how a...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019