Wednesday, January 30, 2019 

This is a free event for MIT faculty, students, and staff. Registration is required. 

SCHEDULE

9:30-10:00 (10-250 Lobby) Continental Breakfast

10:00-11:00 (10-250) Keynote Address: "Math For All: Building a Thinking Society"
Po-Shen Loh, mathematician, Associate Professor Carnegie Mellon University, founder of Expii, coach of US International Math Olympiad Team
 

11:00-12:30 (10-250) Panel: "Virtual Experience, Real Liberation: Technologies for Education and the Arts"

Extended Reality (XR) Technologies for Social Empowerment and Learning 
D. Fox Harrell, Professor of Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence, MIT; Director of the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality

Using Immersive Virtual Environments to Combat Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat​
Tabitha Peck, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Davidson College; Associate Editor, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Bringing the Joy of Music Making to Non-Musicians
Eran Egozy​, Professor of the Practice in Music Technology, MIT; Co-founder Harmonix; Clarinetist with Radius Ensemble
 

12:30-2:00 (Lobbies 10 & 13) Learning Expo. Engage with thirty MIT initiatives from throughout the Institute. Lunch provided.
 

2:00 Workshops

Applying Learning Sciences to Instruction: An Introductory Workshop with Aaron Kessler, Senior Learning Scientist (2:00-4:00; 1-190)

Experiential Learning at MIT: What’s Our Future? with Kate Trimble, Senior Associate Dean, Director OEL, MIT (2:00-3:30; 36-156)

An Introduction to Body-Ownership Illusions with Tabitha Peck, Professor of Mathematics, Davidson College (2:00-3:00; 66-168)

Registration is open. There is no fee to MIT faculty, students, and staff, but registration is required. The Festival of Learning is a partnership between MIT OpenLearning (OL) and the Office of the Vice Chancellor.

openlearning.mit.edu/festival