Events

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

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Pause for ten minutes of daily mindfulness @2:50 PM EST every day (or 7:50 AM Eastern U.S. and Canada) Take a short break together because chronic...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 7:45am to 8:00am
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poster for the MIT Water Summit, Coastal Cities and Ecosystems

More than 40% of the world's population lives within 100 km (60 mi) of a coastline. How can we continue to sustain both these communities and the invaluable...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 8:00am to 7:00pm
Writing Together Online: November Edition

Join the Writing Together Online program organized by the Writing and Communication Center to finish your writing projects before the Thanksgiving break. Our...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 8:30am to 10:00am
WCC Consultations are open for scheduling. Don’t wait -- schedule today!

The Writing and Communication Center offers free one-on-one professional advice from communication experts with advanced degrees and publishing experience....

2021 MITEI Annual Research Conference: Getting to net-zero by 2050

November 16, 9:30 am-2:00 pm ET Virtual Event Register. MITEI’s Annual Research Conference seeks to frame the key technology, policy, and economic...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 9:30am to 2:00pm
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Validation of low-Z impurity transport theory using boron perturbation experiments at ASDEX Upgrade Rachael McDermott, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 10:00am to 11:00am
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Sustainable Development in Rural South Asia: Challenges, Trade-offs, and Prospects

Sustainable Development in Rural South Asia: Challenges, Trade-offs, and Prospects Our webinar panel will explore the complexities of these tradeoffs in...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
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Physics PhD Thesis Defense: Paul Niklas Jepsen

You are cordially invited to attend the following thesis defense. ’’Spin dynamics in a tunable Heisenberg magnet realized with ultracold...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 11:30am
CyberSecure 2021

MIT Technology Review's second-annual cybersecurity event, CyberSecure, distills the evolving threat landscape, outlines the technologies and innovations...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Harold Linnartz (University of Leiden) - Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar

Title: Molecular complexity in space; laboratory studies of diffuse and dense interstellar clouds

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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LNS Lunctime Seminar

Efrain Segarra Bound proton structure from tagged-neutron deep inelastic scattering on deuterium at JLab" Abstract: The EMC effect -- the modification of...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Lunch Break: Design for Climate Resiliency Walk & Talk

Registration recommended! Click here to register About this event How do MIT’s newest buildings and open spaces create a resilient campus in a changing...

Fiber Crafts Group

It's a good time to get creative and finish that project! The Fiber Crafts Group offers the space to craft online with friends. Meetings will be held...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm
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Join author Saul Griffith in conversation with engineer Sam Calisch and biochemist Shuguang Zhang on Griffith's new book, Electrify. Climate change is a...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm
20 Minutes of Calm: Meditation Community

20 Minutes of Calm Virtual Sittings--Online Meditation Sessions Tuesdays at 1PM ET

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 1:00pm to 1:20pm
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20 Minutes of Calm: Meditation Community

20 Minutes of Calm Virtual Sittings--Online Meditation Sessions Tuesdays at 1PM ET

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 1:00pm to 1:20pm
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Typical English Table

Class is now meeting again IN PERSON for Fall 2021. Led by an actual ESL teacher & native English speakers to help you improve your English speaking...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Physical Mathematics Seminar

Speaker: Arezki Boudaoud (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) Title: From plant form and morphogenesis to new problems in solid and fluid...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 2:30pm to 3:30pm
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“The Value of Privacy in Cartels: An Analysis of the Inner Workings of a Bidding Ring” (w/ K. Kawai & J. Nakabayashi)

Juan Ortner (BU, visiting MIT)

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Featured Speaker: Qianyu Chen (Stony Brook) Title: Limits of Hodge structures via D-modules. Abstract:It is well-known that each cohomology group of a...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
IDPs for PhDs

To develop as a successful researcher and professional, you must reach beyond the established milestones of your PhD program. You need to present at...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
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Professor Robert DiStasio, Cornell University

TITLE: "How Dimensionality, Topology, and Void Space Influence the van der Waals Scaling Landscape across the Nanoscale”

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 3:00pm to 4:30pm
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Seminar: When a Magnetic Insulator Meets a Topological Insulator

Prof. Mingzhong Wu Department of Physics, Colorado State University

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Biology Colloquium Series (Dr. Daniel Mucida)

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Mucida, The Rockefeller University. Hosted by Sebastian Lourido. Title: "Neuro-immune interactions in the gut." The Biology Colloquium...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 4:00pm
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MIT Kids Art Class

This is a free, online art class for children ages 4-12 of the MIT Community. Classes will be Tuesdays, beginning on 10/26 at 4:00pm There will be 5 lessons...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 4:00pm
New Pricing Models, same Old Phillips Curve?

Adrien Auclert (Stanford University)

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 4:15pm to 5:45pm
MIT Number Theory Seminar

Speaker: Levent Alpöge (Harvard University) Title: A "height-free" effective isogeny estimate for abelian varieties of GL2-type. Abstract: Let g ℤ+, K...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Biannual McMillan-Stewart Lecture Series: Dr. Anila Daulatzai: Afghanistan, Serial War and the Cunning of Imperial Time

While Afghanistan has recently returned to mainstream US media after years of explicit neglect, coverage continues to focus primarily on the last 20 years....

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 5:00pm to 6:30pm
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Join a Peer-Review Working Group to help you with your Master's Thesis or Capstone Project

The Writing and Communication Center opens graduate student-led working groups for theses/capstone writers, designed for students in SHASS, SAP, or Sloan....

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm
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Dharma Discussion: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind & Select Topics

Discussion sessions on a variety of topics facilitated by members of MIT Buddhist Student Club.

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 6:00pm to 7:00pm
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"Scaling Good Jobs and Culture at Start-Ups" Nov. 16 Event Flyer

How can start-ups maintain a positive corporate culture while growing rapidly? In this virtual discussion, three expert panelists will explore that question:...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
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MIT Listens: Palestinian & Muslim Student Sessions

Your voices matter. The Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life (ORSEL) & the Institute Discrimination and Harassment Response Office (IDHR) want...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm
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Mick Mountz

Kiva System’s order-fulfillment solution deploys hundreds-of-thousands of mobile robots into ecommerce pick-pack-and-ship fulfillment centers and kicked-off...

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 7:30pm to 8:30pm
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021