Events

Tuesday, April 02, 2024 at 4:00pm  Room 6-120 TITLE: Functional Bond-Selective Microscopy for Subcellular Bioanalysis

 Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm  Building NW17, 218 175 ALBANY ST, Cambridge, MA 02139 Abstract: We present an overview of the priority topics for...

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 8:00am to 9:30am  Emma Rogers Room, Emma Rogers Room 10-340 The Breakfast Series is a regular series from the MIT Women’s League. ...

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm  Room 6-120 TITLE: Built-in DNA switches modulate transcription and translation

 Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 11:30am to 1:00pm  Building 12, 0168 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 This semester, the Women’s League is proud to be...

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 4:00pm Stata, Kirsch auditorium, 32-123 Speaker: Elaine Hsaio, UCLA Host: Sara Prescott Title: “Microbiome Interactions with the Nervous System...

 Monday, February 26, 2024 at 12:30pm to 1:30pm  Building 46, 3189 43 VASSAR ST, Cambridge, MA 02139 Laura Gwilliams is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University,...

Friday, February 23, 2024 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm Simons Center Conference room, 46-6011, 46-6011 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm...

Event is free but registration is required. Register at mcgovern.science/MEGIN This exciting new event, “McGovern-MEGIN symposium: MEGnificent brain discoveries,” aims to showcase innovative applications...

2023 Nobel Laureate and Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry Moungi Bawendi presents a lecture on quantum dots, the discovery for which he was awarded...

The nuts and bolts of preparing a New Venture Plan and launching the venture will be explored in this 35th annual course offering. The...

WHEN Friday, July 14, 2023 WHERE Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Science and Engineering Complex 150 Western Ave Allston...

WHEN Tuesday, July 11, 2023, 4 – 5 p.m. GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Special Events ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Radcliffe Institute SPEAKER(S)...

Learn about the MIT Reactor’s design, research, safety features, and how it’s operated during this interactive live-narrated virtual tour. Join one of the MIT...

WHEN Thursday, June 8, 2023, 1 – 2 p.m. GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences, Special Events ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Radcliffe Institute SPEAKER(S) Garrett Dash Nelson...

WHEN Monday, May 22, 2023, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Conferences, Education, Health Sciences, Mental Health / Wellness, Support/Social ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR The Lyme Wellness Initiative SPEAKER(S) Annie...

WHEN Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 1 – 2 p.m. WHERE FXB G13 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 677 Huntington Ave Boston GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Health Sciences,...

WHEN Saturday, May 13, 2023, 2 – 3:30 p.m. WHERE Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford St. Cambridge GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Classes/Workshops, Environmental Sciences, Science, Special Events...

Speaker: Dan Yamins, Stanford University Abstract: The emerging field of NeuroAI has leveraged techniques from artificial intelligence to model brain data. In this talk, I will...

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

**NEW DATE**Event had originally been scheduled for March 23 Join entrepreneur, investor, author, advisor, philanthropist, and MIT Corporation Life Member Dr. Desh Deshpande for...

Speaker: Nicola Marzari: Chair, Theory and Simulation of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Head, Laboratory for Materials Simulations, Paul Scherrer Institut...

Join MIT’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble for an evening of joy and music, directed by Laura Grill Jaye!

Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 Location: 46-3002 (Singleton Auditorium) and YouTube Stream (https://youtu.be/B8gSpIoEpjQ) Speaker: Robert Seyfarth, Ph.D. Affiliation: Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Host: Dr. Ev Fedorenko Talk...

Physical Chemistry Seminar: “TITLE: Constrained Nuclear-Electronic Orbital (CNEO) Framework: Accurate Vibrational Spectra and Reaction Rates from Efficient Incorporation of Nuclear Quantum Effects

Speaker: Kelly Stevens, The University of Washington  Host:  Kristin Knouse Title:  “Programming human organoids, organs, and societies.” The Biology Colloquium is a weekly seminar held throughout...

Please join us for a fireside chat with Dr. Tina Opie – author, speaker, educator, and former MIT MLK Visiting Scholar – about her Shared...

Please join us on Monday, April 3 at 4:00pm for the IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar with Prof. Lisa Goldberg, Professor of the Practice of...

Where does science fiction meet reality, and how can it inspire future innovation? Jeremy Lasky, co-founder of Perception, a motion graphics studio, will join...

In this webinar, Whitehead Institute Member David Bartel will explore how microRNAs function and their role in health and disease. He’ll consider questions such as: How...

Talk Title: Ecological networks in dynamics and Evolving landscapes Network approaches in conservation planning and natural resource management have undergone rich developments since their first...

Date: Friday, March 24, 2023 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: SCSB Conference room 46-6011 + Zoom Meeting (https://mit.zoom.us/j/92171523539) Speaker: Danielle Tomasello, Ph.D. Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rudolf Jaenisch Laboratory,...

Urban Science (11-6) and Sustainable Urbanization Lab (SUL) at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning are hosting a talk by Daizong Liu (刘岱宗), China...

About Doros Theodorou Doros Theodorou is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (NTUA). He holds a Diploma from...

MIT Program in Polymers and Soft Matter Seminar

With enthusiasm, we invite you to join us for the first in a new series of guest lectures and campus conversations called “Dialogues Across...

Former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf PhD ’81 will deliver the Muh Award Lecture on Tuesday, March 21. The event begins at 5 pm in...

WHEN Monday, February 13, 2023, 12 – 1:15 p.m. WHERE Harvard Kennedy School Rubenstein Building, Room 414AB 1 Eliot St. Cambridge AND Online via Zoom GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION...

WHEN Thursday, February 9, 2023, 4 – 5:30 p.m. WHERE Hoffmann Room Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St. Cambridge GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Education, Humanities, Lecture ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Colloquium...

WHEN Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 12 – 1 p.m. GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Lecture, Science, Social Sciences, Sustainability ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR Harvard Radcliffe Institute SPEAKER(S) Karen...

WHEN Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. WHERE Harvard Chan Bldg I, Room 1302 665 Huntington Ave. Boston GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Research...

Alfred Nicol was the recipient of the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award for his first book of poems, Winter Light. His other publications include Animal Psalms and Elegy for...

Young K. Park, MIT ’71 President, Berkeley Investments, Boston MA Young Park sets strategic priorities for Berkeley Investments and directs investment production, investor relations and development...

Physical Chemistry Seminar TITLE: Broken Patterns of Broken Patterns

Speaker:  Gijs Heuts (Utrecht University)

The C.C. Mei Distinguished Speaker Series was founded and has been organized since 2015 in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in...

The MIT Product Conference is a student-led event at MIT Sloan School of Management. At this year’s inaugural product conference, cross- functional leaders will...

MIT Sloan’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion presents The ComMITment, its capstone event for students. Join us Thursday, February 23 from 6pm to 7:30pm...

Lecture Title: Chemical Catalysis Linking Physical and Life Sciences Kanai faculty site: https://gousei.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp/member/e_index.html

MIT Program in Polymers and Soft Matter Seminar

The lack of transparency concerning the climate impact of digital resources and infrastructure is leading to less-than-optimal decision-making, and little information has been shared...

The Knight Science Journalism Program is excited to welcome back best selling author Annalee Newitz, KSJ 2003, to talk about their new work of...

Speaker:  Prof. Ching-Yao Lai (Princeton University) Title:  Physics-informed neural networks for fluid and ice dynamics Abstract:  Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a new class of...

Lecture Titles: 2/16: Metal-Mediated Cycloadditions and Macrocyclizations for Scalable Syntheses of Polycyclic, Fused-Ring Nanocarbons 2/17: Transition Metal-Silicon and -Main Group Chemistry in Bond Activations and...

Speaker: Lauren Orefice, Ph.D. Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School Host: Dr. Polina Anikeeva Talk title: Understanding somatosensory circuit alterations in autism...

Zero trust, a widely used approach to cybersecurity, combines the adoption of continuous risk management and the application of skepticism, whether evaluating the trustworthiness...

The Knight Science Journalism Program is excited to welcome back Bethany Brookshire, KSJ 2020, to talk about her new book Pests: How Humans Create Animal...

Wedyan Babatain, Postdoctoral Fellow MIT Media Lab Inertial sensing technologies, including accelerometers and gyroscopes, have been invaluable in numerous fields ranging from consumer electronics...

Co-hosted by the City Design & Development Program (CDD), SMArchS Urbanism Program and Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT. The lecture, Homes...

Pathways to Healthy Aging: How Lifestyle, Genetics, and Environment Interact to Promote Resilience Against Alzheimer’s Disease The Aging & Brain Health Alliance at Rutgers University-Newark fosters...

Abstract: Temporal expectation is the ability to use information from past events to predict their occurrence in the future, which allows the allocation of appropriate...

The MIT Sloan Investment Conference is an annual student-led event that brings together some of the most notable individuals in the investment world to...

Lecture Title: Radical-Based Approach for Synthesis of Complex Natural Products Inoue Group site: https://inoue.f.u-tokyo.ac.jp/e_index.html

ABSTRACT The advent of two-dimensional atomic crystals (2DACs) and bonding-free van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures has inspired a new thinking on heterostructure construction beyond...

Synopsis: It is widely assumed that becoming an entrepreneur is an ideal path to achieving both social mobility and the “American Dream.” Yet, due to...

Direct C–H amination chemistry via electrophilic subvalent nitrogen intermediates could radically simplify access to nitrogen-containing small molecules by providing the chemical tools to selectively...

MIT Program in Polymers and Soft Matter Seminar

SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Anne Sartori, Research Scientist at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. The talk will be broadcast live on the MIT...

Speaker:  Petur Bryde (Harvard University) Title:  Steelpans and singing saws:  Localized vibrational modes in inhomogeneously curved shells Abstract: A thin elastic shell with spatially...

Speaker:  Diana Skrzydlo (University of Waterloo) Title:  Authentic Assessment for Today’s Students Abstract:  The role of assessment in education is wideranging, and how we choose to assess our...

Speaker:  Elden Elmanto (Harvard University) Title:  Motivic cohomology and two rivers Abstract:  I want to explain what I’ve learned about motivic cohomology by being around two rivers the...

Laura Gee (Tufts University (Visiting MIT))

MIT Earth Resources Laboratory presents Biondo Biondi, Professor at Stanford University, on “Large-scale monitoring of urban environments by fiber-optic seismology: lessons from six years...

Joseph Wong Vice-President, International Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School; Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. Kathryn Ibata-Arens Vincent...

Acceleration of tropical cyclone development by cloud-radiative feedbacks – A complete understanding of the development of tropical cyclones (TC) remains elusive and forecasting TC...

Please join us for the June MIT.nano Seminar Series: Matteo Rinaldi, PhD Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Director, Northeastern SMART Center and Kostas Nanotechnology Laboratory Northeastern...

The 8th Semi-Annual New England CryoEM Symposium will highlight innovative projects that use CryoEM/ET methods. Hosted by MIT.nano and MIT Biology, this symposium is...

The MIT AgeLab hosts monthly ‘chat hours’ bringing together high school & college students, older adults, educators, and professionals in aging who are interested in...

Legged robots take inspiration from animals with the goal of traversing the world in a way that wheeled robots can’t, seamlessly moving around homes,...

Design Thinking is a protocol for imagining human-centered innovations and solutions for ambiguous challenges. Central to teaching and learning in several disciplines in higher...

In this framework and training, we conceptualize compassion as an essentially systemic property of mind: to cultivate compassion is to be able to appreciate...

This exhibition is of paintings by MIT alumna Susan E. Schur. Her work utilizes various techniques of employing oil paint on paper and board...

Now that the semester is over and summer distractions slow our productivity, join Writing Together Online with the Writing and Communication Center to stay...

At our online ceremony, C/T Research Academy second-year trainees will present the results of their research projects as a capstone requirement, and first-year trainees...

Join curator Lynette Roth for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July...

The Mission of the The Heal Ukraine Group (HUG) is: The war in Ukraine has created an urgent medical crisis that is growing by...

Join Sophie Lynford, curatorial fellow and exhibition contributor, for an introduction to the exhibition Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities, on...

Many of us will experience illness, trauma, and loss in our lives. So how do we move forward after these events? Join Annie Brewster,...

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years has prompted renewed appreciation of the excitement and pleasures, as well as the challenges...

This talk centers on One of the Ten Kings of Hell, a hanging scroll from Ming dynasty China (1368–1644) that will be on view...

This conference will highlight Elliott Lieb’s vast contribution to the mathematics and physics.

Join exhibition curators Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson for an in-depth tour of Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, on view May 21–August 14,...

How have women globally been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? From their specific health needs–including pregnancy–to their roles in their families and communities, women...

Joe Corkery, MD will discuss his personal journey along the intersection of health care and technology from his perspectives as a physician as well...

In surgery, some of the biggest risks to patients arise with invasive procedures and large incisions, but intersecting emerging technologies are starting to change...

This event is hybrid. Register to receive the Zoom link or attend in-person: 35-225. *** Paul Eremenko ’01 is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Universal Hydrogen...

Speaker: Dr. Lewis Cantley, Cornell Weill Medical School.  Hosted by Omer Yilmaz.  Title: “Cancer Biology”. The Biology Colloquium is a weekly seminar held throughout the...

TITLE:  Action at the nanoscale:  Single-molecule studies of protein motion

Title TBA This is a hybrid seminar. Join us in person in bldg. 4-370 or via Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93401237597 (MIT Touchstone authorization required). In-person attendees are required...

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required Limited to 35 participants Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions Prereq: Matrix Mathematics Big Data describes a new era...

Title: “Substrate-Selective Control of Insulin-Degrading Enzyme Reveals the Untapped Enzymology of Exosite Inhibition” This is a hybrid seminar. Join us in person in bldg....

Title: “Chemistry at the Biomedicine Interface: Synthesis and Catalysis” This is a hybrid seminar. Join us in person in bldg. 6-120 or via Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94809874922 (MIT...

Bhagavad Gita Summary Study is a weekly gathering meant to dive deeper into the teachings of Lord Krishna. Every week, we will be carefully...

The Del Favero Thesis Prize, established in 2014 with a generous gift from alum James Del Favero (SM ’84), is awarded to a PhD...

Celebrate the enduring legacy of cancer research at MIT. Current and former directors reflect on the past five decades of progress—from seminal discoveries in...

Recently, there has been a surge of research activity on internal gravity wave beams – time-harmonic plane waves with locally confined profile – in...

Title: “New Catalytic Strategies for Pharmaceutical and Natural Product Synthesis” This is a hybrid seminar. Join us in person in bldg. 4-270 or via...

Join the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative for an info session about the MIT-wide undergraduate Environment & Sustainability Minor, which offers interdisciplinary coursework and investigations...

Alisa Bokulich is a professor of philosophy and the director of the Center for Philosophy & History of Science at Boston University. In this...

Technology is now part of our lives in ways that were not possible only 10-20 years ago. Smart devices, like watches, phones, and speakers,...

It is widely assumed that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. Some do – but many do not. Stephen Biddle will discuss his...

Open to students of history and those valuing a historical perspective on their professions.

This presentation will go over the multiple disastrous situations Lebanon has faced in the past decade: Syrian Refugee Crisis (on top of Palestinian and...

Many scientific applications heavily rely on the use of brute-force numerical methods performed on high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. Can artificial intelligence (AI) methods augment...

Pathology plays a critical role in the diagnosis of disease and the development and implementation of tissue-based prognostic and predictive biomarkers. In this talk,...

In this lecture, economist Darrick Hamilton argues that throughout human history racism, sexism, and other “isms” have been used strategically to consolidate economic and...

Join Chidi Ugwu, an anthropologist at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, as he discusses his examination of how practitioners of complementary and alternative forms...

The volume of information available to human rights practitioners has grown steadily since the globalization of Internet access and the widespread adoption of smartphones...

EVENT CONTENT University of California, Irvine Sociology of Anthropology Take you to know the study and research of anthropology and sociology The American Advanced...

EVENT CONTENT Harvard University Department of Psychology Take you to know the study and research of psychology The American Advanced Educational Association (AAEA) organized nearly...