A 50 minute, (usually) student-led tour of MIT D-Lab, D-Lab prototypes, and our workshop! Hear about the 23-year history of D-Lab, our founding director Amy Smith, our 12+ MIT classes, research groups, humanitarian innovation program and more! Not free at tour time? Stop by anytime to look around or email d-lab-tours@mit.edu.

Presented by the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Solo Recital SeriesProgramTBDLivestream: https://mta.mit.edu/viewlisten/live-killian-hallAbout the PerformersOlivia Beniston is a fourth-year undergraduate studying Chemical-Biological Engineering. She has studied piano with Eileen Huang in the Emerson Scholar Program for the past four years, and has performed works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Debussy and Ravel. In addition to her studies, she played piano for the MIT Symphony Orchestra and is active in the Chamber Music Society.Olivia began studying piano at age 8 with Jill Telesco and continued studying with her throughout middle school and high school. She was also highly involved with music in her high school, performing violin with their Symphonic and Chamber Orchestras and serving as the school’s concert accompanist all four years. She has competed and won prizes at the Young Musicians Festival, The Schubert Club of Fairfield, the Crescendo Competition, and has performed at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. She furthered her devotion to music at the Royal Conservatory of Music, receiving top marks in her level 10 performance, history, and harmony and counterpoint exams.At MIT, Olivia is the co-president of MIT Student Events Board, a mentor for the AIChE ChemE Cube Competition Team, and a researcher at the Furst Lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering. In her free time, Olivia enjoys completing puzzle books and exploring Boston.About the Emerson/Harris Program for Private StudySupport for private musical study is available for students through the Emerson/Harris Program (E/HP), which offers merit-based financial awards for outstanding achievement on instruments or voice in classical, jazz, or world music. Each academic year, the program awards Scholarships and Fellowships to nearly seventy students who commit to a full year’s study and participate in the musical life of MIT.Auditions for the program are held at the beginning of each academic year. Private teacher selections, made in consultation with the E/HP jury heads, may include instructors from MIT staff and throughout Greater Boston. The Emerson/Harris Program is funded by the late Mr. Cherry L. Emerson, Jr. (SM, 1941), in response to an appeal from AssociateProvost Ellen T. Harris (Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus of Music). The Emerson/Harris Masterclass Series is supported, in part, by the Robert L. Malster (1956) Fund.This project is presented as part of Artfinity, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.

Date: Friday, April 18, 2025 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: Simons Center Conference room 46-6011 + Zoom (https://mit.zoom.us/j/99385139351)Speaker: Dr. Lukas Vogelsang Affiliation: Pawan Sinha Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MITTalk title: Temporal processing in autistic and non-autistic individuals Abstract: Every developing nervous system confronts its own version of what William James famously described as “one great blooming, buzzing confusion”. Transforming sensory experience into a sensorium of meaningful entities and their inter-relationships lies at the core of perceptual organization. In this talk, I argue that a powerful key to understanding this process may lie in the temporal structure of the sensory environment. I will describe experiments aimed at behaviorally assessing temporal processing in both typical and atypical development, including in autistic individuals. Collectively, these investigations may illuminate temporal processing mechanisms and can help advance our understanding of sensory processing in autism.

Your Humble Monument: 3D Capture and StorytellingParticipants in this workshop will learn best practices and tools for a range of 3d capture techniques, from photogrammetry to Gaussian splatting, that they will use to capture an object or place of meaning to them. They will then augment this digital twin with a recorded story of their own.If you sign up for this workshop, please bring:LaptopCharged phone with several gigs of spaceSmall object of personal meaning to you! This could be anything: a memento, a stuffed animal, a plant, etc. Conversely, you may select a site of personal significance as long as it is within a few minutes walk of the workshop location.Workshop is lead by Nadav Assor from the Humble Monuments team.

Have some fun(nel) on a tunnel or sun(nel) walk! Join us for a 30-minute volunteer-led walk either through MIT’s famous tunnel system or around Killian Court. As the weather gets warmer, walk leaders may choose to take the group outside. Is the weather warm and you missed the start? Find the group on Killian Court and join in!Location details: Meet in the lobby with the big mirror, right inside the Collier Memorial entrance to Stata. Location photo below.Sun(nel) Walk Leaders will identify themselves by holding a white flag at the meeting location.Prize Drawing: Attend a walk and scan a QR code from the walk leaders to be entered into a drawing for a getfit canvas boat tote bag at the end of the getfit challenge. The more walks you attend, the more entries you get. Winner will be drawn and notified at the end of April. Winner does not need to be a getfit participant.Disclaimer: These walks are led by volunteers. In the rare occasion when a volunteer isn’t able to make it, we will do our best to notify participants. In the event we are unable to notify participants and a walk leader does not show up, we encourage you to walk as much as you feel comfortable doing so. We recommend checking this calendar just before you head out!Getfit is a 12-week fitness challenge for the entire MIT community. These walks are open to the entire MIT community and you do not need to be a current getfit participant to join.

Find hidden eggs at the ORC. Have fun competing with your friends. Relax on a Friday afternoon. Held at the MIT ORC (E40-103). Sponsored by GSC Funding Board