Events

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

FREE WORKSHOP: Negotiate Your Job Offer

Don't miss this unique FREE online negotiation workshop with MIT Sloan faculty, Jared Curhan, focusing on how to negotiate compensation packages. Training...

Executive Education – Supply Chains: Driving Strategic Advantage

Today’s companies are realizing the importance of the supply chain as a revenue generator — it's not just a cost of doing business. In order to remain...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 8:00am to 5:00pm
Executive Education – Supply Chains: Driving Strategic Advantage

Today’s companies are realizing the importance of the supply chain as a revenue generator — it's not just a cost of doing business. In order to remain...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 8:00am to 3:00pm
Inclusive Classrooms: How to Leverage Identity to Improve your Teaching Practice

Darcy Greer Gordon Postdoctoral Associate, MITx Biology Digital Learning Lab David Bergman Postdoctoral Associate, Research Laboratory of Electronics,...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 9:00am to 12:00pm
Introduction to R Graphics with ggplot2

This hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the popular ggplot2 R graphics package. It will cover how to create a wide variety of graphical displays...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 9:30am to 12:30pm
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...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 10:00am to 11:30am
Using Search Tools for Market Research

Are you conducting research related to intellectual property? The MIT Libraries and the Technology Licensing Office will review the best tools for this type...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 10:00am to 11:30am
Using Search Tools for Market Research: 2020 Intellectual Property Speaker Series

Are you conducting research related to intellectual property? The MIT Libraries and the Technology Licensing Office will review the best tools for this type...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 10:00am to 11:30am
Autonodyne Site Visit

About Autonodyne (autonodyne.com): We build aviation software specializing in Autonomy, Smart Automation, Mission Planning, Mission Execution, Autonomous...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:00am to 1:00pm
MATERIALS DESIGN AND DISCOVERY  IN HETEROSTRUCTURAL SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS

Sebastian Siol EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Science and Technology, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland When materials with different crystal...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
The Academic Job Search for PhDs and Postdocs

Wondering how to mount a successful job search in this highly competitive academic job market? This workshop will discuss important elements of preparing a...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:00am to 3:00pm
Legal Dos & Don'ts: What to Know When Starting Your Startup

What legal steps do you need to take as you spin your technology out of MIT? How do you divide the equity between founders? When should you incorporate, and...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 12:00pm to 1:30pm
MIT List Visual Arts Center | List Projects 20: Becca Albee

Becca Albee (born Portland, ME) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose photo-based installations often emerge from her encounters with historical materials,...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Commercialization of MIT Technology: Innovation, Technology Transfer, and Licensing

Have you ever wondered how technology that’s developed in universities and other academic institutions gets translated into a product to benefit the public?...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 12:30pm to 2:00pm
3 Steps to Optimizing Your Presentation

Don’t make the mistakes everyone else does. Learn how the brain takes in and processes information so that you can craft a persuasive presentation. Sue Acton...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Lockedletter Book Making

Create a unique tactile experience by developing your own artists’ book with movable and lockable components to match the narrative you develop in this...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Pleasures of Poetry

Free and open to the public; as well as staff, alumni, and students (non-credit IAP activity). This popular activity – which aims to reach all those with an...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Taking the Next Step in Academic Science Series: "How to Find a Postdoctoral Position "

Christopher Brennan Postdoc, Pfizer Ian Campbell Postdoc, Harvard Medical School Kristin Knouse Whitehead Fellow, Whitehead Institute Are you...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Fracture pattern observed at the surface of a thin layer of a cohesive granular material. The fractures appear when the layer, deposited onto an elastic membrane, is stretched in one direction and compressed in the perpendicular direction due to the Poisson effect (white arrows).

Dr. Jean-Christophe Géminard Directeur de Recherches (CNRS), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon The mechanics of granular materials, i.e., assemblies...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 4:00pm
Wikipedia Public Domain Day edit-a-thon

Join the MIT Libraries for a Public Domain-themed Wikipedia edit-a-thon! January 1st, 2020 is Public Domain Day – the day when works published in 1924 go out...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Service outing to Community Servings

Help prepare meals from scratch to be home-delivered to people living with a life-threatening illness and unable to shop or cook for themselves. We will be...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 4:45pm to 8:00pm
(Men's Basketball) Emerson College vs. MIT

(Men's Basketball) Emerson College vs. MIT

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 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, January 15, 2020 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Building 56, 162
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Swing dance lesson and social

The MIT Lindy Hop Society hosts free swing lessons and social dances throughout the month of January. Beginners welcome, no partner necessary. The lessons...

Wednesday, January 15, 2020