Yang Sheng "Life Nourishing" Qigong is an extremely powerful tool for bringing out one's natural human potential and optimal fitness. Physical health and mental well being are a direct result of the practice.The core of our training is 'Zhan Zhuang' (Standing Meditation). It is designed to activate 'Zheng Qi' (True or Proper Qi). The effects of this training are rapid with deep therapeutic results producing a unified and balanced 'mind, body, and breath.'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 fee-based class and open to the entire MIT community.

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.

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.

Meet other expecting and first time parents of infants under one year to connect, share information, and support each other. Bring your concerns, questions, and experiences to the group. And of course, your babies are welcome! This peer led group is organized by MS&PC members Kathrin and Maria.Contact Kathrin hauserkathrin1994@gmail.com or Maria maria.korompili24@gmail.com for more information.

As MIT continues developing its campus decarbonization plan, microreactors are emerging as potential solutions for providing reliable, carbon-free district energy. But how viable are they for MIT’s campus? What are the technical, economic, and regulatory challenges? This webinar is part of our ongoing series designed to engage the MIT community in exploring key solutions for decarbonization.In this session, Jacopo Buongiorno, MIT Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES) and the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, will demystify SMR technology and discuss its potential integration with district energy systems. Buongiorno will also explore key considerations in evaluating SMRs as part of MIT’s energy transition.

Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92182352856Speaker: Alicia ChenAffiliation: SaxeLabTitle: Signaling social identity in referential communicationAbstract: The words we use don’t just convey information about the world, they also convey information about who we are as speakers, marking our social identity. Yet formal models of referential communication have focused on the trade-off between informativity and efficiency, rather than how these considerations might also compete with a goal to signal social affiliation. In this project, we investigate how speakers intentionally signal in-group membership through their choice of referential expressions. Across three experiments, we measure the systematic interaction between audience (who we are talking to) and goal (what we want to accomplish in the social interaction). We find that the observed behavior is best explained by a model where speakers consider not only whether listeners will understand their message, but also whether their choice of words will mark them as an in-group member.