The MIT wrestling club holds practices in the du Pont Wrestling Room on weeknights 5:30-7pm. All levels of experience welcome! Whether you're looking to learn how to grapple or just want to get in a good workout, wrestling practice is a good time to learn technique, get in some live goes, and have fun with a great group of people.Current schedule is: structured practice MTRF, open mats W, and technique sessions 9-10:30am on Saturday. For more information, contact wrestling-officers@mit.edu.

This six-week course offers soon-to-be parents full evidence-based information about birth and the ability to learn coping techniques such as relaxation, breathing, position practice, and massage. You will have the opportunity to learn about each of these as well as gain hands-on practice.Classes will cover choices in the hospital and how to understand risk reduction for both mother and baby.This class focuses on vaginal birth but also covers what happens in a C-section in case one is needed.Partners are encouraged to attend and will leave with a "toolbox" of support techniques. Handouts are provided.A small introduction to breastfeeding and early post-partum are covered in this course.One registration is good for both the mother and 1 support person.The ideal time to take this course is during the late 2nd trimester to early 3rd trimester.Registration is required on our wellness class website. If you do not already have an account on this website, you'll need to create one. This is a fee-based class and open to the entire MIT community.

Barbara Engelhardt, Gladstone Institutes, Stanford UniversityThursday, February 6, 2025 4:00 – 5:00 pm (refreshments at 3:30 pm) Monadnock (Merkin building/415M 2040)📅 Add to your calendar🖊️ Register hereA week from today — please join us for a colloquium featuring Barbara Engelhardt, Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institutes and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, on Machine learning to analyze cellular behavior in live-cell imaging experiments of T cell—cancer cell co-cultures.This colloquium is part of a series hosted jointly by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.The colloquium will be held at the Broad Institute in Monadnock as well as virtually via YouTube Livestream: broad.io/ewsc. If you do not have a Broad badge, please show up at the 415 Main Street entrance 10 minutes prior to the event to be escorted to the talk.Register here and see the abstract.Questions? Email Amanda Ogden at aogden@broadinstitute.org.

Speaker: Karthik C.S (Rutgers University)Title: Extremal Combinatorial Objects in Hardness of Approximation in PAbstract: In the last decade, the area of hardness of approximation for problems solvable in polynomial time has emerged. One of the popular frameworks for proving such results is called threshold graph composition and relies on the existence and efficient construction of non-trivial extremal combinatorial objects.In this talk, we shall focus on defining and constructing these extremal objects while briefly outlining their applications to hardness of approximation in P.https://math.mit.edu/combin/

Speaker: Karthik C.STitle: Extremal Combinatorial Objects in Hardness of Approximation in PAbstract: In the last decade, the area of hardness of approximation for problems solvable in polynomial time has emerged. One of the popular frameworks for proving such results is called threshold graph composition and relies on the existence and efficient construction of non-trivial extremal combinatorial objects.In this talk, we shall focus on defining and constructing these extremal objects while briefly outlining their applications to hardness of approximation in P.https://math.mit.edu/combin/

You are invited to a webinar featuring Feroze Sidhwa, MD, MPH, FACS, a trauma and critical care surgeon in California who most recently volunteered in Khan Younis, Gaza, with the World Health Organization, and Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, MD, MPA with a specialty in internal medicine, a Palestinian Bedouin physician in Israel, who was a first responder treating incoming victims of Hamas’ attacks on October 7.Dr. Sidhwa and Dr. Abu Fraiha will discuss their personal experiences working in healthcare during the current conflict, the future of Gazan healthcare, and ways that audience members can offer support. This webinar will also offer means of connecting viewers/participants to projects and organizations on the ground. Dr. Eman Ansari, M.D., M.P.H, F.A.A.P., Boston Children’s Hospital, will moderate the webinar.Registration is required; attendees can ask questions to the doctors in advance of the webinar via the registration form.This webinar is hosted and organized by the following MIT faculty and units: Erica James (Anthro/DUSP), Tanalis Padilla (History), Marzyeh Ghassemi (EECS/IMES), Nancy Kanwisher (BCS) and MIT Libraries.More about the speakers Feroze Sidhwa, MD, MPH, FACS, is a humanitarian surgeon, having worked most extensively in Palestine, but also in Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso. He most recently volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, from March 25-April 8, 2024, with the World Health Organization. Dr. Sidhwa has written and spoken extensively about surgical humanitarian work, the United States’ role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the political consequences of medical relief work. He approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a secular American and as a humanitarian physician.Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, MD, MPA, specializes in internal medicine and is currently completing both a clinical fellowship in critical care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and a research fellowship at the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a Palestinian Bedouin physician in Israel, she was a first responder treating incoming victims of Hamas’ attacks on October 7. On that day she lost many colleagues, friends and neighbors, and in the subsequent weeks and months she lost friends in Gaza during Israel’s devastating military campaign. Throughout this traumatic period in her life, she refused to surrender her sorrow or concern for all innocent victims of violence.Moderator: Dr. Eman Ansari is a pediatric pulmonologist and critical care medicine physician and a practicing pediatric emergency physician at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Since 2021, she has served as chair of the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PICU) Committee and as a member of the Palestine Children Relief Fund (PCRF) and HEAL Palestine Medical Advisory Boards (MAB), and is a member of PCRF board of directors.