Acclaimed drummer-vocalist Lumanyano Mzi returns to the Midday Music series with his unique brand of South African-infused jazz.While you listen, enjoy a delicious hot cup of soup from Souper Roll Up Cafe (on us, while supplies last!). To keep things sustainable, we encourage you to bring your own mug or bowl. If you do, you’ll get a special sweet treat!

Title: Advances in Polynomial Nonnegativity: Novel Certificates and Symmetry-Based MethodsSpeaker: Mitchell HarrisZoom Link: https://mit.zoom.us/my/harrismit

Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2019 | Amory Gethin

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

A robot has never stolen a worker’s job! This claim may seem far-fetched, however, no technology—yes, not even an artificially intelligent robot—has socioeconomic agency or autonomy: What technologies such as AI and robotics can and cannot do, and what their a/effects and meanings are, is an all human rather than mechanical affair. This talk will introduce my research on the history and political economy of automation in the United States, and demonstrate that whatever impact automation had, has, or will have, must be investigated and understood in terms of not what automation does, but in terms of the individual, institutional, and structural forces that shape who can do what with automation, when, where, why, and how.Presented by:SALEM ELZWAY Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California Society of Fellows in the Humanities

Speaker: Lucas Mason-Brown (University of Texas, Austin)Title: The FPP Conjecture for Real Reductive GroupsAbstract: The FPP Conjecture of Barbasch and Adams-van Leeuwen-Miller-Vogan proposes a strong upper bound on the unitary dual of a real reductive group. In this talk, I will review what is known about the structure and shape of the unitary dual and then sketch a short proof of the FPP conjecture. This is based on recent joint work with Dougal Davis.