Speaker: Jane Shi (MIT)Title: Katz's proof of the Riemann hypothesis for curvesAbstract:Reference: Katz, A Note on Riemann Hypothesis for Curves and Hypersurfaces Over Finite Fields, Sections 1-4.

Speaker: Chi Hong Chow (Virginia Tech)Title: Mirror symmetry and Gamma conjectures for flag varietiesAbstract: Mirror symmetry predicts that the quantum 𝐷-module of a Fano manifold should be isomorphic to the Gauss-Manin system of its mirror Landau-Ginzburg model. Furthermore, the Betti integral structure on the latter should correspond to an explicit integral structure on the former involving the Gamma class. Closely related is Gamma conjecture I proposed by Galkin, Golyshev and Iritani. In this talk, I will discuss this story in the context of flag varieties.

Fireside chat with Tang Tan, OpenAI Chief Hardware Officer, former Apple VP of iPhone Product Design, and MIT Course 2 alum.

Create solutions for a better future! Explore the intersection of art and social entrepreneurship with IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge and the Arts Startup Incubator. Hear from program managers about each one’s offerings—funding, mentorship, workshops, and stakeholder engagement—while you eat snacks and meet other students with creative ideas for positive change.MIT alum Blake Blaze will share about his experience participating in both programs with two different ventures: Front Row Fantasy, an interactive music discovery platform for up-and-coming artists, and SamWise, a personalized education platform for incarcerated students.October 16, 2025 5–6:15pm | E38-579 | iHQ Fifth Floor

This talk traces the political power of motherhood and childrearing in Arabic thought between 1850 and 1939. It shows how writers used ideas about childrearing (tarbiya in Arabic) to address key issues in modern social thought, such as freedom, labor, and democracy. While debates about childrearing in Arabic led to expansions in girls' education and women writers' authority, they also attached the fate of nations to women's unwaged labor in the home. Highlighting Arab women's writing offers a new way to think about the devaluation of social reproduction under capitalism, the stubborn maleness of the liberal subject, and why the idea of embodied, binary gender difference has proven so difficult to overcome.

Silent Meditation in the Chapel on Thursdays 6-8pm, open to everyone in the MIT Community. Some sessions include Guided Meditation at 6:30pm.