Events

Friday, January 21, 2022

IAP Session: Giving Voice: A Poster Project

The List Visual Arts Center invites MIT community members to participate in Giving Voice: A Poster Project. This project challenges participants to consider...

Medical Interpreting Course

ActLingual and the Prehealth Advising Office are teaming up to offer a medical interpreting training this IAP through the University of Massachusetts Medical...

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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...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 7:45am to 8:00am
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BWSI 2022!

Nominating high school students (rising seniors) for the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute (BWSI) 2022 Summer Program prerequisite online courses is now...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 8:00am to 9:00am
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What is holography? It is not merely art!

This course will explore the fascinating applications of holography. What is holography? It is not merely art; holography encompasses a variety of...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 9:00am to 12:00pm
IAP 2022: Mission Innovation Program—Dual-use Ventures: Navigating Both Commercial & Defense Markets

Program Description The Dual-use Ventures non-credit IAP course helps technology startups navigate early-stage challenges in market research, use cases, and...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 9:00am to 5:00pm
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IAP Course: Eyes in the Sky

Hands-on Workshop for using UAVs in mapping the built environment and Climate Change risk assessment (Non-credit) Enrollment Limit: 15 students Complete...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 9:00am to
WCC Consultations are open during IAP 2022. 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....

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 9:00am to 6:00pm
Killian Court

Offered by Prof. Greg Olson and Clay Houser. This activity is an introduction to the Thermo-Calc software and how it may be used to perform thermodynamic...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 9:30am to 12:30pm
Spice Up Your Writing: Add Music, Personality, and Voice

Academic writing does not have to be boring and insipid. During this hands-on virtual workshop, you will play with sentences, explore rhetorical devices, and...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 10:00am to 11:30am
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Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data

Ashesh Rambachan, Harvard- Virtual Presentation

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 10:30am to 12:00pm
Special Seminar in Physical Chemistry: Dr. Micheline Soley, Yale University

Title: From Ultracold Chemistry to Quantum Computing:Chemical Reactions Under Quantum Control This is a virtual seminar. Join us on Zoom:...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
Killian Court

Offered by Tara Fadenrecht. Enameling is the process of fusing powdered glass to copper, steel or silver resulting in a glossy, colorful finish. Students in...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 11:30am to 1:30pm
What it takes to make it to the C-Suite “Now”

How has Covid-19 changed the path to the C-Suite? Before the pandemic, the journey to the top might have looked a certain way. Nowadays, as a result of the...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 12:00pm
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Biocementing with Microbes (BioMaker Workshop)

Description: This workshop introduces students to the process of biocementing with microbes. Today, the production of cement for concrete accounts for 8% of...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Killian Court

Offered by Mike Tarkanian. Students will learn basic blacksmithing techniques using traditional tools to hand forge mild steel. Drawing a taper, forming a...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Carpentries @ MIT: Intro to UnixShell/Python/Git

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 1:00pm to 5:00pm
IAP: The long road to 20 tesla on the SPARC Toroidal Field Model Coil: A magnet origin story

The long road to 20 tesla on the SPARC Toroidal Field Model Coil: A magnet origin story Speaker: Zach Hartwig In the early morning hours of September 5...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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Mathematics Lecture Series

The Odd-Town Theorem We will discuss the so-called "Odd-Town Theorem", a theorem in extremal combinatorics (or, more specifically, in extremal set theory)....

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Pleasures of Poetry 2022

Pleasures of Poetry meets this IAP 2022 in 14E-304 from 1:00 - 2:00pm every weekday through the first three weeks of IAP (Jan. 3-21), with the exception of...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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Explore the basics of clothing construction by creating a simple garment such as a tank top, skirt, or sweatshirt. Learn to use a sewing machine and serger,...

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Three habits - gratitude, self-compassion, and mindfulness practices - can have a positive effect on mood and reduce stress. In this workshop, try some of...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 1:00pm to 1:45pm
Stata Center and public art

This four-session introduction to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) will utilize self-compassion strategies to help facilitate changes in core beliefs,...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Experimental Apparatus Design

In this course you will work with a team to generate concept documents for idea generation, to evaluate concept documents, to create mini-proposals for an...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Mika Braginsky Thesis Defense: Language learning at scale: Data‐driven and model‐motivated analyses of lexical and morphological development

Mika Braginksy, PhD candidate in Brain and Cognitive Sciences Advisor: Edward Gibson (MIT) Abstract: Studying how children learn language gives...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 2:00pm
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Command Line Fundamentals

Do you find yourself needing to use the command line for your class, research project, or internship, but don’t know how to use it properly? Would you like...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 3:00pm to 4:30pm
MIT TLO Speaker Series Image

Explore the public domain in this seminar. When does copyright expire, and how do you know when something is free to use? Katie Zimmerman, Director of...

Friday, January 21, 2022 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
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Friday, January 21, 2022