Events

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

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The Cultural Exchange @ MIT is an initiative to celebrate International Education Week (Nov 14-18). GSC DEI and ISO have been working with multiple...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 12:00am
South Asia and the Institute: Transformative Connections

Researched by current MIT faculty, students, alumni, and staff, this historical exhibit tells the remarkable story of South Asia at MIT and MIT in South Asia...

Join Writing Together Online to Beat Your November and December Deadlines

Days become shorter and deadlines get closer. Do not wait! Join Writing Together Online to finish your projects before the holidays. Our 90-min writing...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 7:30am to 9:00am
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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 15, 2022 at 7:45am to 8:00am
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2022 MIT Research and Development Conference

Long before the current pandemic, MIT has fostered a culture which believes that innovation is about change, and that change is about resiliency. Enduring...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 8:00am to 5:30pm
Join Writing Together Online to Beat Your November and December Deadlines

Days become shorter and deadlines get closer. Do not wait! Join Writing Together Online to finish your projects before the holidays. Our 90-min writing...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 9:00am to 10:30am
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Project NEI Launch Event

Following up on the launch of the New Educational Institution white paper, the co-authors will be hosting a symposium on Tuesday November 15 @ 9:00 a.m....

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 9:00am to 3:00pm
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12.SP51: Geophysics Seminar - Michele Cooke (UMass Amherst)

About this Series Only students may enroll in this class but all members of the MIT community are welcome to attend the talks. This seminar series is an...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 10:00am to 11:00am
Building 54, Room 209
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Andreas Refsgaard: Doodle Tunes & Sounds from the Mouth

Try out Andreas Refsgaard's interactive exhibits, now on view at Lewis Music Library. A 2022-23 visiting artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science &...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 10:00am to 6:00pm
Thesis Defense:  Byron Lee

Calo-Velazquez lab I "A Unified View of Low-complexity Regions (LCRs) Across Species” I Password: 2468

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 10:00am
CANCELED: Career Connect Workshop Fall 2022: Interview Session with Bori Stoyanova

Learn the basics and the dos and don'ts of the interview process. Led by Bori Stoyanova, Human Resources Administrator in Department of Civil and...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
STAGE Seminar

Speaker: Alice Lin (Harvard University) Title: Torsors over a scheme Topics: Torsors over a scheme; torsor sheaves; torsors and H1H^1H1; geometric...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 11:00am to 12:30pm
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This live, virtual 15-minute class is a combination of simple stretches to release tension in the body and guided meditation to mentally reset during the...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 12:00pm to 12:15pm
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Join us in the center of "the most innovative square mile on the planet" and build your professional network. In this 45 minute activity, participants will...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 12:15pm to 1:00pm
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 15, 2022 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Planetary Lunch Seminar (PLS) - Rachel Moore (Georgia Tech)

Working toward genome-informed habitability of planetary environments Early Mars was likely habitable for life as we know it due in part to the relative...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Building 54, Room 517
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Drop-In Sustainability Chat Opportunities (DISCO)

A walk-in event with FREE FOOD in the MIT Libraries DEN. Want to make climate and sustainability a priority after you graduate, but not sure how? Talk to...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Thesis Defense: Grace Liu

Sabatini lab I "Evolution of nutrient sensing in the mTORC1 pathway” I Password: mtor

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 1:00pm
MSE Seminar Series: Shane Ardo

Speaker: Shane Ardo, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine Title: Technoeconomically Viable Ensembles of Artificial...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 2:00pm to 3:00pm
The Alchemist

Speaker: Aminur Rahman (University of Washington) Title: Bouncing droplets as a damped-driven system Abstract: Damped-driven systems are ubiquitous in...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Seminar in Organizational Economics

"Communication, Perception and Strategic Obfuscation" | Kareen Rozen (Brown)

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 2:30pm to 4:00pm
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Ten minutes for your mind @2:50 PM EST every day (Eastern U.S. and Canada) Almost everything works better again if you unplug it for a bit, including your...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 2:45pm to 3:00pm
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Siddarth Kannan (Brown University)

Featured Speaker: Siddarth Kannan (Brown University) Title: Cohomology of heavy/light moduli spaces of curves. Abstract: Given integers g, m, and n, the...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Biology Colloquium

Speaker: William Greenleaf, Stanford University Host: The Biology Postdoctoral Association, Andrew Savinov Title: "Exploring the physical genome" The...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Dominique Maldague (Brown University)

Featured Speaker: Benoit Pausader (Brown University) Title: Stability of a point charge for the repulsive Vlasov-Poisson system Abstract: We consider...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 4:00pm
Science Hub Inspiration Series

Moderated by Aude Oliva This event series will feature research presentations and Q&As with the graduate student recipients of the Science Hub’s Amazon...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Macro Seminar

Safe Assets: A Dynamic Retrading Perspective | Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton) w/ Sebastian Merkel and Yuliy Sannikov

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 4:15pm to 5:45pm
MIT Number Theory Seminar

Speaker: Barinder Banwait (Boston University) Title: Towards strong uniformity for isogenies of prime degree Abstract: Let E be an elliptic curve over...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 4:30pm to 5:30pm
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This live, virtual 20-minute class is a combination of simple stretches to release tension in the body and guided meditation to release tension in the...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 5:00pm to 5:20pm
Happy Hour Tuesday with MS&PC Conversation Group

Come relax at the end of the day with the MS&PC conversation group! Meetings are held on Zoom. Please contact ecgatmit@gmail.com if you would like to...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm
What Does an Innovator Look Like?

Hear from a panel of current student and postdocs about how identities influence their understanding of being an innovator & entrepreneur and a discussion on...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Book cover, Vivek Murthy's "Together"

A New York Times bestseller, Together is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness, and the social power of community. ...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Paula Johnson, President, Wellesley College

Join the conversation as Whitehead Institute Director, Ruth Lehmann, and Wellesley College President, Paula Johnson, discuss how to improve healthcare for...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 5:30pm to 6:30pm
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Dear residents, Thank you to all who attended Zumba/BollyX and Mat Pilates! I hope you've been enjoying the fitness classes so far. If you haven't been...

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This 2-hour class covers many important aspects of breastfeeding such as: how does breastfeeding work advantages getting off to a good start (what to do...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Inside Stories

A lively conversation exploring the news behind the news of today’s top science stories. This evening series explores the inside stories of research and...

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Tuesday, November 15, 2022