Join us for the Grad Student Research Lightning Talks at the MIT SP Graduate Student Dinner Seminar Series. This initiative aims to close the gap between graduate and undergraduate research community. 

• Network with summer/fall UROP candidates
• Pitch your research, get feedback, and initiate cross-departmental collaborations
• Grad students: send an email to sign up for the speaking slots (gaikwad@mit.edu)
• Undergraduate students: send an email to sign up (gaikwad@mit.edu)

Dinner Served

Sponcers: ODGE Office of the Dean for Graduate Education 

Event: In a partnership with MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Office (UROP)

Goals of the SP General Audience Graduate Seminar Series:

The MIT SP Graduate Student Dinner Seminar Series provides the institute wide platform for students to communicate their research and passion to a large audience outside of their own field, in low-pressure, diverse, inclusive, and collaborative environment. 

Help students communicate STEM, Design, Entrepreneurship, and Arts Teaching and Research

• Give graduate students an opportunity to practice public speaking in a low-pressure environment of peers. 
• Help graduate students think about presenting their work to experts, non-expert, and UROPs. 
• Create a bridge to close the gap between graduate and undergraduate research community. 

Inspire Collaboration & Foster Inclusive Environment 

• Embrace diversity and creates an inclusive and supportive scientific environment 
• Help inspire interdisciplinary collaborations, as students learn about problems in other fields that could be attacked using their own expertise. 
• Help potential UROPs to connect with graduate students and mentors. 

Help students learn, grow, and Network

• Increase students' comfort levels with unfamiliar research topics and provide them exposure to fields and opportunities outside of their primary area of research. 
• Provide a networking platform to students and bring them together to talk about the work that they love and learn a bit more about what their fellow graduate students in different departments do in their everyday life. 

Join us for the seminar and dinner at MIT's Sidney Pacific graduate residence! 

Contact: Neil Gaikwad, gaikwad@mit.edu for more information