Events

Friday, January 24, 2020

(Men's Swimming and Diving) MIT at No. 11 Williams College

(Men's Swimming and Diving) MIT at No. 11 Williams College, 2:00 PM

(Men's Track and Field) John Thomas Terrier Classic

(Men's Track and Field) John Thomas Terrier Classic, Boston University (Boston, Mass.), 1:00 PM

(Women's Swimming and Diving) MIT at No. 10 Williams College

(Women's Swimming and Diving) MIT at No. 10 Williams College, 2:00 PM

(Women's Track and Field) John Thomas Terrier Classic

(Women's Track and Field) John Thomas Terrier Classic, Boston University (Boston, Mass.), 1:00 PM

Entrepreneurship Development Program - Jan 19-24, 2020

Drawing from the vast culture of innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT, this unique 6-day course introduces participants to MIT’s entrepreneurial education...

Reflections from Beyond the Desk

Despite being known mostly for its strength in science and technology, MIT is home to many skilled artists who pursue their work inside and outside the...

Career Pathways: How One Engineer Pivoted to a Venture Capital Career

What does an engineer with a Ph.D and a partner at a venture capital firm have in common? For Dr. Joel Palathinkal, everything! Dr. Joel Palathinkal,...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 10:00am to 11:30am
Chemistry Student Seminar (CSS) - Julia Zhao (Johnson)

Chemistry Student Seminar (CSS) is a student-organized seminar series that host graduate students and postdocs to share their research in a friendly and...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 10:00am to 11:00am
Living with Parkinson’s - The Real Story

Parkinson's disease (PD) was first identified by James Parkinson as the “Shaking Palsey” in 1817. The term “shaking” stuck, but the disease has progressed to...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
Thesis Defense -- Sarah Bricault

Jasanoff Lab I "Investigating brain-wide neural mechanisms using fMRI and novel tools”

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 11:00am
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,...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Copyright Symbol

It has been said that content is king. Copyrighted works – whether media, software, or art – are a major portion of the world’s creative, intellectual, and...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 12:30pm to 2:00pm
 Writing your literature review: a hands-on workshop

Are you writing a literature review for a thesis or an article? Need to find background information and go deep into the literature to find out what has been...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm
GIS Level 3: Automating Arcgis Using Python

Learn to use Python and Arcpy, the Arcgis module for automating tasks in Arcgis Pro. This is a hands on class that requies significant experience with Arcmap...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 1:00pm to 4:30pm
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...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Videos by Robert Blanchon and Discussion with Becca Albee and Mary Ellen Carroll

In conjunction with List Projects 20: Becca Albee, the List Center will present a screening of three videos by Robert Blanchon selected from the Robert...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Cognos@MIT

Cognos is MIT's enterprise reporting tool. In this session, we'll discuss what it is, and how the MIT community can take advantage of this tool. Topics to...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Lobby 7

SPEAKER: Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard (University of Maryland) TITLE: Wave propagation in inhomogeneous media: An introduction to Generalized Plane...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Divination for the Next Century

In this IAP offering, we frame divination as the drive to ask questions, to seek guidance and advice, to build stories and nourishing narrative frameworks....

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Cathleen Crudden (Queen's University): Merck-Pfister Lecutre in Organic Chemistry

Lecture titles: “N-Heterocyclic Carbene-based Self-Assembled Monolayers” and “The Synthesis of Chiral Molecules via Cross-Coupling Chemistry” Crudden group...

Exhibition Opening: Reflections from Beyond the Desk

Please join Artists Beyond the Desk in the Rotch Library (Building 7, Room 238) for a reception celebrating the launch of a new exhibition of work by our...

(Men's Squash) No. 16 MIT at No. 22 Amherst College

(Men's Squash) No. 16 MIT at No. 22 Amherst College, Pioneer Valley Round Robin

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 6:00pm
(Men's Volleyball) No. 3 Stevens Institute of Technology vs. MIT

(Men's Volleyball) No. 3 Stevens Institute of Technology vs. MIT, JWU Invitational

Das Kapital - Wuming Theater Production IAP 2020

Wuming Theater Club is proud to present "Das Kapital", our IAP 2020 production at the W97 theater. Das Kapital is a play written by renowned playwright Nick...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 7:00pm
(Men's Volleyball) Baruch College vs. MIT

(Men's Volleyball) Baruch College vs. MIT, JWU Invitational

Board game night

Come take a break from the busy semester and play some poker and board games! We will have poker chips, cards, and various board games, as well as snacks and...

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 8:00pm to 10:00pm
The Importance of Being Earnest - A Play Presented by the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble

Smothered by the social pressures of country life, Jacqueline “Jack” Worthing regularly assumes the identity of a man named Ernest to escape to London. As...

Friday, January 24, 2020