Events

Friday, May 5, 2023

SP Regalia Rental

Need to reserve your PhD gown for graduation? Rent it now from SP! Hurry while they still last: https://sidpac.mit.edu/regalia/

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...

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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, May 05, 2023 at 2:45am to 3:00am
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Develop a Daily Writing Habit with Writing Together Online

Join Challenge 2 of the Writing Together Online program to make progress on your writing projects and complete your spring semester strong. Our 90-minute...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 9:00am to 10:30am
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Schedule Consultations with the Writing and Communication Center!

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

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 9:00am to 6:00pm
COG3 Seminar -  Chris Gerbi (University of Maine Orono)

Recipes for Rheologic Change in the Viscous Regime The development of many of fundamental geologic structures in the viscous regime, such as shear zones and...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 10:00am to 11:00am
Building 54, Room 915
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Chemistry Student Seminar (CSS) - Cathy Badding (Freedman)

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, May 05, 2023 at 10:00am to 11:00am
English Conversation Group

Meet other MS&PC members from all over the world, get resources and information about life at MIT/Cambridge/Boston, exchange ideas, and engage in cultural...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 10:00am to 11:30am
Physics PhD Thesis Defense: Junbo Zhu

You are cordially invited to attend the following thesis defense. “Magnetoresistance and Thermoelectricity in Low Dimensional Semimetals” Presented by Junbo...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 10:00am
Coffee Hour with MIT Spouses and Partners Connect

Stop by before you start your weekend to grab a warm drink and a breakfast treat! Connect with old friends, meet new ones, and let's talk about whatever you...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 11:00am
Special EAPS/ERL Talk: Levent Gulen (Sakarya U.)

The Devastating 6 February, 2023 Mw=7.8 and Mw=7.6 Earthquake Doublet in Southeastern Türkiye (Turkey) On 6 February, 2023 at 01:17:35 UTC an earthquake of...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 11:00am to 12:00pm
Building 54, Room 209
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Fall on Memorial Drive

Speaker: Johannes Feldmann (Co-Founder and CTO at Salience Labs - Oxford, UK) Title: Ultra-low latency energy saving computing with silicom...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Mentor Program— 2023 Open Application

The Mentor Program Makes Better Entrepreneurs. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis Entrepreneurs may apply to the program at any stage of...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 1:00pm to 11:00pm
Physics PhD Thesis Defense: Brandon Michael Roach

You are cordially invited to attend the following thesis defense. ’’Novel X-Ray and Antinucleus Searches for Dark Matter’’ Presented by Brandon Roach ...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 1:00pm
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Ten minutes for your mind @2:50 PM EST every day (Eastern U.S. and Canada) Take a short break together because chronic uncertainty may cause anxiety,...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 2:45pm to 3:00pm
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Charlotte Wickert '23, flute

Presented as part of the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Spring Recital Series. All Killian Hall concerts are livestreamed at this link:...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
ChemE Dept. Seminar Series: Markita Landry

Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Genetic Material Without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants Markita Landry University of California, Berkeley...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
MIT Infinite Dimensional Algebra Seminar

Speakers: Thomas Bitoun (U. of Calgary) Title: The D-module of an isolated singularity Abstract: : Let Z be the germ of a complex hypersurface isolated...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 3:00pm to 5:00pm
The Alchemist

Speaker: Max Wenqiang Xu (Stanford University) Title: Recent progress in random multiplicative functions Abstract: Random multiplicative functions are...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
PSFC letters in red square

Ignition and target gain at the National Ignition Facility Alex Zylstra (for the NIF Team) Thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory is a scientific grand...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Building NW17, 218
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Special Seminar in Geophysics - Chen Gu (Tsinghua U.)

Near-fault ground motion modeling due to the 2023 M7.8 Kahramanmaras earthquake and impacts on local buildings The M7.8 earthquake that occurred on...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Building 54, Room 209
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Buchi Lectures in Organic Chemistry: Véronique Gouverneur (University of Oxford)

Lecture Titles: TBD Gouverneur Group website: https://gouverneur.chem.ox.ac.uk/

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 4:00pm
Houghton Lecture Series - Dale Durran (University of Washington)

Lorenz revisited: The two- to four- day predictability of mid-latitude cyclones Ed Lorenz published two seminal papers on predictability. Lorenz (1963)...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Building 54, 54-915
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Sara Kornfeld Simpson (G), flute

Presented as part of the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Spring Recital Series. All Killian Hall concerts are livestreamed at this link:...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Sol Lewitt's colorful Terrazzo floor including red, green, orange, purple, and yellow tiles.

Join MIT List Visual Arts Center as part of Boston Design Week on a public art tour showcasing art and architecture highlights across campus. View...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Woman in red coat and glasses faces left towards text that reads, "Solving Together: The Big Idea"

Solving Together: The Big Idea is an exclusive opportunity to experience the work of Solve and connect with the amazing community of social impact leaders...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 6:30pm to 10:00pm
MIT Student Art Showcase

May 5, 2023, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm MIT Building E38 Floors 3 & 4 292 Main St, Cambridge, MA Arts at MIT presents the MIT Student Art Showcase in iHQ on Friday,...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Social Dance Crash Course

Let's wrap up the semester with some classy ballroom dancing this Friday! MIT Ballroom Dance Club invites you to its Social Dance Crash Course. Learn new...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Banner of LOST's Anon(ymous) with show dates and reservation QR code!

Come to W97-160 to join MIT's Life on Stage Theatre (LOST) present Anon(ymous)! Ticket reservations: https://tinyurl.com/anontix MIT's Life on Stage...

Friday, May 05, 2023 at 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Friday, May 5, 2023