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MIT150 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines
This three-day symposium through Thursday explores the mysterious realm of intelligence. The relationship between the mind and the brain, and the ability of machines to “think” is the backbone of a new Intelligence Initiative (I2) that will bridge faculty across all five schools at MIT.The program be ...

IDEAS, Global Challenge winners announced tonight
The IDEAS Competition and the inaugural Global Challenge will award up to $150,000 in implementation grants — up to $25,000 per team — to teams with projects that demonstrate the greatest innovation, feasibility, and potential for impact. These awards include the Global Challenge Community Choice Awa ...

Starr Forum: Egypt's Revolution: The April 6 Movement
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Cambridge Science Festival taking place April 30-May 8
The annual Cambridge Science Festival (CSF), the first of its kind in the United States, is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering and math. A multifaceted, multicultural event taking place every spring, the CSF makes science accessi ...

Symposium: Earth, Air, Ocean and Space: The Future of Exploration
Whether earth, air, ocean or space, MIT has played an outsized role in exploring these domains and using that knowledge to achieve important discoveries in science and technology. This symposium will look back at exceptional achievements of the past and look ahead at what we might be exploring — and ho ...

IDEAS Competition and Global Challenge poster and judging session
The IDEAS Competition and the MIT Global Challenge will culminate next week with student teams presenting their ideas for projects addressing development issues around the world. This year’s proposals focus on solutions in a variety of areas, including agriculture, medicine, education, energy, water re ...

Government's Place in the Market
In the few short years since Wall Street took down the U.S. economy, popular sentiment has turned against government regulation. But Eliot Spitzer contends that markets run better with government help, and unregulated capitalism tramples our core values. As part of the Ideas Matter lecture series, a join ...

Earth Week at MIT
Earth Week at MIT will take place this week, with a series of events, lectures and more to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.On Thursday, April 21, some events include:Earth Day Fair11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Stata CenterIncludes free food, bike repair, massages, raffle, scavenger hunt, SwapFest, gi ...

Rethinking climate change
"Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100," a panel discussion looking back at climate research and rethinking the way forward, will take place from 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, in Wong Auditorium. The event, sponsored by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ...

The Evolution of Engineering Systems
The annual Charles L. Miller Symposium will this year honor Professor Daniel Roos, with a symposium titled, "The Evolution of Engineering Systems: A Rich Past, an Exciting Future," from 1-5:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20, in Bartos Theater.Roos, the founding director of the MIT Engineering Systems Divisi ...

Lobby 7 Design Competition Award Ceremony and Exhibition Opening tonight
Final judging for the Lobby 7 Design Competition — where students submitted ideas to fill the plinths in Lobby 7 — will take place tonight from 5:30-7 p.m. starting in Starting in 7-431 then in the Wolk Gallery.Fourteen student finalists were selected in December 2010 to compete for one of two $10,0 ...

FAST New Music Marathon, Forum on the Arts this weekend
Friday, April 15 | NEW MUSIC MARATHON 7 p.m.–midnightMIT Kresge Auditorium | W1648 Massachusetts Avenue Tickets available hereCurated by Evan Ziporyn, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. The Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars and Chine ...

Brazil-MIT Forum: Pioneering Solutions for Global Challenges
The Brazil-MIT Forum brings together leaders from Brazil and MIT to seek solutions to common challenges. Sponsored by Santander Universities and hosted by the MIT-Brazil Program, the inaugural meeting will be held at MIT on April 14-15.Energy. Environment. Entrepreneurship. Policy innovation. Twenty-firs ...

Afghanistan: Mending It Not Just Ending It
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary to the United Kingdom from 2007-2010 and an alumnus of the MIT Department of Political Science, will discuss the war in Afghanistan at a Starr Forum public event at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, in 34-101.Learn more about the eventMiliband is also joining MIT's Cent ...

Campus Preview Weekend is here!
More than 1,100 admitted students and their families will be on campus April 7 through April 10 for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), the annual event sponsored by the Office of Admissions to give "prefrosh" a taste of life at MIT. In one jam-packed weekend, participants will check out MIT’s nearly 500 stu ...

Entrepreneurship competition launches YouPitch contest
The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition has launched a new video pitch contest called "YouPitch," where students from anywhere in the world can submit a 60-second video clip of a business plan pitch by uploading it to YouTube.The contest is the latest addition to MIT's renowned $100K competition, cons ...

MIT's Next Century Convocation this Sunday
The centerpiece of the MIT150 celebration, Sunday's Next Century Convocation is a formal academic event to recall the 1949 Mid-Century Convocation and to celebrate the scholarly accomplishments of MIT faculty and students. The theme of the Next Century Convocation is the “habits of mind” fostered by ...

Campus Preview Weekend is here!
More than 1,100 admitted students and their families will be on campus April 7 through April 10 for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), the annual event sponsored by the Office of Admissions to give "prefrosh" a taste of life at MIT. In one jam-packed weekend, participants will check out MIT’s nearly 500 stu ...

La Ronde
La Ronde is a comedy of lust and longing, with tragic overtones. Written by Arthur Schnitzer at the beginning of the last century, the play has been translated and adapted by Anna Kohler especially for MIT. With the help of today’s media, actors from other continents will, in a simulcast situation, per ...

AR – Artistic Research reception
A reception for the AR – Artistic Research project will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. on April 4 in the Media Lab Complex lobby at MIT, in the presence of the curators, artist Attila Csörgö, and György Kepes’ daughter, Juliet Kepes Stone. The reception will be followed by Turning Out the Space, a lectu ...

International Development Night at the MIT Museum
International Development Night at the MIT Museum — taking place from 7-9 p.m. on April 2 — brings together a diverse audience to share ideas and learn about MIT international development technologies and projects. The evening offers networking opportunities and promotes social awareness about press ...

Community picnic today to honor Clay
A community picnic will be held today, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on the first floor of the Johnson Athletics Center, to celebrate the many contributions of Professor Phillip Clay in his role as MIT's chancellor.Clay PhD ’75, who recently stepped down from the chancellor's role, had held that position sinc ...

Debating the Future of Marriage
As the fate of marriage equality hurtles toward the Supreme Court, legal thinkers and theorists step back to examine the arguments. What does the history of American marriage law tell us about its future? Is it a viable and just social institution? Those questions will be discussed from 5-6:30 p.m. today ...

Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT
MIT got a wake-up call with the landmark 1996 and 1999 reports of the Faculty Committees on Women in Science at MIT, which brought to light a pattern of gender discrimination at the Institute. Since then, significant changes have been made and on March 28 and 29, we will celebrate the leadership roles pl ...

MIT China Forum on April 1
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Mentors wanted!
The Mentor Advocate Partnership (MAP) program in the Office of Minority Education is an excellent opportunity to guide an undergraduate student. MAP is a volunteer mentoring program seeking to foster the holistic development of students along academic and non-academic dimensions. Studies show that studen ...

Sloan to host inaugural Africa Business Conference; African CEOs and political leaders to join academics on April 1
At the same time MIT is marking its 150th anniversary, more than 15 countries in Africa are celebrating 50 years of nationhood. It is against this backdrop that MIT Sloan School of Management will bring academics together with business and thought leaders from across Africa to discuss opportunities and c ...

Register today for Leaders in Science and Engineering symposium
Registration is open for the MIT150 symposium, "Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT," which will take place in Kresge Auditorium on March 28 and 29. This symposium will engage current students and postdocs, junior and senior faculty, alumni and friends of MIT, and is woven around the l ...

Introduction to MEG
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research has recently acquired a magnetoencephalography (MEG) imaging system, and on Monday, March 21, will host a lecture to introduce to the new system. MEG, which was originally developed at MIT, is a safe and noninvasive technique for measuring human brain activity wi ...

Of Note: U.S. premiere of Death and the Powers
Death and the Powers, a new opera created by Tod Machover and developed at the Media Lab, will make its U.S. premiere tonight at the Cutler Majestic Theater as part of MIT’s Festival of Art, Science and Technology.Hailed as "a grand, rich, deeply serious new opera" (Opera Magazine), this one-act, full- ...