MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the deFlorez Fund for Humor present Stand-Up Comedy Live! Come laugh with us and headliner Joel Kim Booster at this FREE event on Sunday, April 6 at 7 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.

A celebration of creativity and community at MITArtfinity is a new festival of the arts at MIT featuring 80 free performing and visual arts events, celebrating creativity and community at the Institute. Artfinity launches with the opening of the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building on February 15, 2025, continues with a concentration of events February 28-March 16, and culminates with the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts public lecture by 2025 recipient artist and designer Es Devlin on May 1, 2025, and a concert by Grammy-winning rapper and Visiting Professor Lupe Fiasco on May 2, 2025. Artfinity embodies MIT’s commitment to creativity, community, and the intersection of art, science and technology. We invite you to join us in this celebration, explore the diverse events, and experience the innovative spirit that defines the arts at MIT.About the Artists Artfinity features the innovative work of MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni, alongside guest artists from the Greater Boston area and beyond.About the Activities & Events All 80 events are open to the public, including dozens of concerts and performances plus an array of visual arts such as projections, films, installations, exhibitions, and augmented reality experiences, as well as lectures and workshops for attendees to participate in. With a wide range of visual and performing arts events open to all, Artfinity embodies MIT’s commitment to the arts and the intersection of art, science, and technology.About the Presenters Artfinity is an institute-sponsored event organized by the Office of the Arts at MIT with faculty leads Institute Professor of Music Marcus Thompson and Professor of Art, Culture and Technology Azra Akšamija. Departments, labs, centers, and student groups across MIT are presenting partners.Visit arts.mit.edu for more information about the arts at MIT.

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!Sun(nel) Walk Leaders will identify themselves by holding a white flag at the meeting location.Location details: Meet in the atrium by the staircase. [See image below]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: Tunnel 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 tunnel walks are open to the entire MIT community and you do not need to be a current getfit participant to join.

February 26, 2025 - July 17, 2025Hidden within MIT’s Distinctive Collections, many architectural elements from the earliest days of the Institute’s architecture program still survive as part of the Rotch Art Collection. Among the artworks that conservators salvaged was a set of striking windows of gypsum and stained-glass, dating to the late 18th- to 19th c. Ottoman Empire. This exhibition illuminates the life of these historic windows, tracing their refracted histories from Egypt to MIT, their ongoing conservation, and the cutting-edge research they still prompt.The Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) is open Monday through Thursday, 10am - 4pm, excluding Institute holidays.

Speaker: Josefina Correa (Brown Lab)Title: Bayesian Hierarchical Autoregressive Parametric Estimation with Application to the Analysis of Multilevel Electroencephalogram SignalsAbstract: Estimating the spectral content of electroencephalogram signals is a common approach to characterizing how the brain responds to external stimuli. In clinical studies, electroencephalogram signals are collected over multiple subjects and their spectra are computed using either Fourier-based or parametric approaches. A common analysis entails comparing the spectra of a wide-sense stationary data window after the stimulus onset to the spectra before. However, conventional approaches to analyzing these data do not account for between-subject variability, and could in turn provide inaccurate inferences. This work develops a Bayesian hierarchical auto-regressive modeling framework to estimate subject-level and population-level spectra. Our formulation provides a principled approach for constructing cohort-level estimates, which can be used to assess the extent to which a new subject is consistent with a cohort-level response. We validate our framework in simulation and apply it to the analysis of electroencephalogram signals from ten healthy volunteers undergoing propofol-mediated anesthesia.Speaker: Raleigh Linville (Heiman Lab)Title: Cross-species cellular atlas of the striatum defines cell type-specific and regional disease vulnerabilities.Abstract: The striatum integrates dopamine and glutamate signals to regulate decision-making, movement, and reward. Despite its importance, the molecular diversity of its constituent neurons is not fully understood. Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing across 85 human samples spanning both dorsal and ventral regions of the striatum, we identify 14 neuronal subtypes with distinct molecular signatures and spatial organization. Rare subpopulations of striatal neurons and spatial gene expression gradients along the dorsolateral-ventromedial axis show notable differences between human and rodent that suggest species-divergent connectivity, disease mechanisms, and pharmacological targets. By integrating our data with genome-wide association studies, we identify novel sites of human-enriched opioid receptor expression, implicate the ventral striatum in chronic antipsychotic action, and propose a molecular mechanism for the dorsal striatum’s heightened vulnerability in Huntington’s disease. Our findings lay the foundation for understanding how specific striatal neurons contribute to both normal brain function and neurological disorders.

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.