Join us for a lunchtime concert with the MIT Ribotones featuring solo and small group chamber performances of classical music.

​​​​​​Are you looking to advance your GIS skills? This workshop offers a comprehensive review of GIS fundamentals and its practical applications. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of how to utilize spatial analysis tools in ArcGIS Pro to analyze geographic data effectively. Through a step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to model site suitability based on social vulnerability, temperature data, and cooling adaptation infrastructure, providing valuable insights for climate adaptation decision-making. Additionally, the workshop will guide you in refining and enhancing map designs using Adobe Illustrator, equipping you with the skills to produce professional-quality visualizations.Goals:Review GIS Essentials: Gain a solid understanding of GIS fundamentals and its practical applications. Suitability Analysis for Climate Adaptation: Engage in a step-by-step tutorial to model site suitability based on social vulnerability, temperature data, and cooling adaptation infrastructure. Enhance Maps with Adobe Illustrator: Learn how to refine and elevate map designs using Adobe Illustrator for professional-quality results.

The MIT Disabilities ERG is proud to present a series of events for Disability Employment Awareness Month this October. Join us for an informal presentation and discussion with author, advocate, and MIT Staff member Laura Beretsky.Laura successfully challenged her former employer when she was given a negative performance review after having a seizure at work. Her memoir "Seizing Control" explores the challenges of living with a mostly invisible disability and gives hope to anyone who fears their path to fulfillment might be impossible to navigate.Come hear her story and learn about best practices for workplace inclusion.Refreshments provided!Please register to attend either in-person or through Zoom. If attending online, a Zoom link will be provided closer to the event date.Other events in this series10/6 -Making Inclusion and Accessibility Part of All Your Work with Rachel Tanenhaus10/8 -Disabled Artists in Conversation10/3, 10/7, 10/17 -Festival Henge

Ten minutes for your mind@2:50 every day at 2:50 pm in multiple time zones:Europa@2:50, EET, Athens, Helsinki (UTC+2) (7:50 am EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88298032734Atlantica@2:50, EST, New York, Toronto (UTC-4) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349851047Pacifica@2:50, PST, Los Angeles, Vancouver (UTC=7) (5:50 pm EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85743543699Almost everything works better again if you unplug it for a bit, including your mind. Stop by and unplug. Get the benefits of mindfulness without the fuss.@2:50 meets at the same time every single day for ten minutes of quiet together.No pre-requisite, no registration needed.Visit the website to view all @2:50 time zones each day.at250.org or at250.mit.edu

Speaker: Alexander Mramor (University of Oklahoma)Title: On the long-term behavior of the mean curvature flow in 3-manifoldsAbstract:In this talk I’ll discuss recent joint work with Ao Sun where we consider the fate of the mean curvature flow in closed 3-manifolds. Employing many important recent advances on the mean curvature flow we can show that almost regular flows, as introduced by Bamler and Kleiner, will either go extinct in finite time or converge, possibly with multiplicity, to a minimal surface; by a perturbation argument one can go on to construct piecewise almost regular flows where the limit, if nonempty, must be stable. Using this we can use the flow to construct minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds in a variety of circumstances, mainly novel from the point of view that the arguments are via parabolic methods.

Speaker: Sam Raskin (Yale University)Title: Unramified automorphic forms over function fieldsAbstract: I will discuss joint work with Gaitsgory and V. Lafforgue on the structure and spectral theory of unramified automorphic forms over function fields. In particular, we will explain how the Arthur-Ramanujan conjecture can be proved using the general theory.