Events

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

At 2:50 logo

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...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 7:45am to 8:00am
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World map with graph of COVID cases

Andrew Ward, DISCoBio & Scripps. "Understanding the Structure of the Virus." In the fall of 2020, MIT students and the general public joined professors...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 9:00am
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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....

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...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 9:00am to 10:30am
Weekly Wednesday Meeting

These weekly meetings are organized by the MS&PC staff and volunteers for the spouses and partners of MIT students, scholars, staff, and faculty. If it is...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 10:00am to
GOVERNANCE FOR HUMAN SOCIAL FLOURISHING WITH JENNA BEDNAR

Jenna Bednar is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Michigan, a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute,...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
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Humanoid agents in AI

DATE: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 TIME: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. EST LOCATION: Join via Zoom. SPEAKER: Jeremy Schwartz, senior Unity 3D engineer and project...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
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STAGE Seminar

Speaker: Ryan Chen (MIT) Title: Moduli spaces of curves and abelian varieties Abstract: TBA _____________________________ Instructions for...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 11:00am to 12:30pm
Professor Nina Boyarchenko

Nina Boyarchenko (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

CyberSecure 2021

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

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Inside of mouse colon. Nerve cells shown in white and magenta, endothelial cells in green. All cell nuclei in blue. Courtesy of Orefice Lab.

Chronic disturbances in gastrointestinal function such as pain and dysmotility, which can negatively affect the quality of life, are often observed in...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Arturo Sotomayer

SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Arturo C. Sotomayor, George Washington University Mexico has been a pioneer of both regional nonproliferation efforts and...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 12:00pm to 1:30pm
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MITsdm logo

Join us on Wednesday, November 17 to learn about MIT’s master’s degree in engineering and management! Current students and program staff will be available to...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Inclusive Innovation Economy Logo

Hosted by the MIT Sloan School of Management, this event series focuses on accelerating inclusion in the innovation economy. Dive deep into different ways of...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills

Kate Orkin (Oxford)

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
IT Partners

Join the IT Partners Planning Team for a "Coffee Break"/Zoom Meetup Though MIT is now hybrid, our coffee breaks will continue virtually only on Zoom. Bring...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 3:00pm to 3:30pm
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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...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 3:00pm to 4:30pm
“Engineering protein electrostatic interactions for intracellular phase separation”  Prof. Allie Obermeyer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University

FORMAT: HYBRID (MIT 56-114/Zoom) MIT ID Bar Code or TIM TIcket Scan Required for entry ZOOM Information:...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 3:30pm to 4:45pm
Building 56, 56-114
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EAPS DLS Department Highlight Series: Dan Rothman

Carbon Cycle and Climate About this Series The Department Lecture Series at EAPS at MIT is a series of Weekly talks given by leading thinkers in the areas...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Geometric Analysis Seminar

Featured Speaker: Stephen Kleen (University of Rochester) Title: Non-compact families of minimal surfaces by matching compact pieces. Abstract: We...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Alexander Braverman - Perimeter Institute

Speaker: Alexander Braverman - Perimeter Institute Title: Examples of Hecke eigen-functions for moduli spaces of bundles over local non-archimedean field...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Testing Predictive Coding | Dimitris Pinotsis, PhD

Predictive Coding (PC) is a theory of brain function based on ideas from Bayesian inference and machine learning. It suggests that the brain tries to...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Building 46, 46-3189
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MIT-Harvard-MSR COMBINATORICS SEMINAR

Speaker: Anna Weigandt (MIT) Title: Bumpless pipe dreams encode Grobner geometry of schubert polynomials Abstract: The geometric naturality of...

Michael Payne (MIT - Dinca Group): Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Title: TBA

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 4:15pm to 5:15pm
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Text: Jewish Perspectives at MIT, celebrating religious diversity. Kosher dinner provided.

Explore religious diversity in practice and learn about different cultures! Jewish students, staff, and faculty will discuss how their faith and culture...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm
SEMINAR:  Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Speaker: Peter Baddoo (MIT) Title: Integrating physical laws into data-driven modal decompositions Abstract: Incorporating partial knowledge of physical...

Seminar:  Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Speaker: Peter Baddoo (MIT) Title: Integrating physical laws into data-drive modal decompositions Abstract: Incorporating partial knowledge of...

Andrew Norman Wilson, Impersonator, 2021(still). 4K video, color, sound. 20:00 min. (approximate). Image courtesy the artist.

Join artist Andrew Norman Wilson and Film and Media Studies scholar Dr. Joshua Glick for a virtual discussion on how Wilson’s work approaches intersecting...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 5:30pm
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Refuge: Dinner, Worship, Bible Study

Join us for 'Refuge' our interdenominational Christian gathering for dinner and Bible study each Wednesday that MIT class is in session. Those following...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm
MIT Venture Mentoring Service Social Impact Working Group: Funding Your Path to Impact

Early-Stage Venture Support & Funding to Help Build a Better World Register Here: https://bit.ly/3EEcG7x Are you interested in learning about programs...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Feminisms Unbound: Fashioning Futures

This panel starts with the premise that experiences of subjugated peoples have been rooted in a representational apparatus of vicious modernity. Subaltern...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 6:30pm to 8:30pm
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Bhagavad Gita Summary Studies

Bhagavad Gita Summary Study is a weekly gathering meant to dive deeper into the teachings of Lord Krishna. Every week, we will be carefully reading and...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Online Yoga with Aly

Westgate is offering Yoga classes for the MIT community. The classes are online and free of charge. Sign up to receive Zoom...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 7:30pm to 8:30pm
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021