Navigate your way to a career in semiconductorsA panel discussion and networking opportunity presented by MIT.nano with the GSA WLI.Who: All MIT students, postdocs, and alumni Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET Location: MIT Media Lab (Building E14, 6th floor)>> REGISTERMEET REPRESENTATIVES FROM:AMDAnalog DevicesArmCadenceGlobalFoundriesMarvellMetaSiemensSTMicroelectronicsTeradyneAGENDA:4:15 PM – 5:00 PM Panel Discussion—Driving Innovation: Key technologies shaping the future of semiconductors and AI5:00 PM – 5:45 PM Panel Discussion—Building the future: The power of diverse perspectives and talent in semiconductor innovation5:45 PM – 7:00 PM Networking with industry leadersMore details to be announced! Check the GSA WLI webpage for the latest updates.

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Noémie Pinardon-Touati University of Columbia

Writing a journal article can be a daunting task, characterized by frustration instead of progress. This four-part workshop series will breakdown the task of writing an empirical journal article into manageable pieces so that you can move your project forward. Led by WCC lecturer Adrienne Tierney, Ed.D, we will discuss how to approach each section and how to use writing as a problem-solving tool in creating a meaningful paper that conveys your research clearly and effectively. We encourage you to attend all sessions of the series, but you are also welcome to sign up for separate sessions.Part 1. Getting Started: Creating a Plan and Drafting an IntroductionTuesday, February 11th, 4:00-5:30pmPart 2. Getting to the Data: Methods and ResultsTuesday, February 18th, 4:00-5:30pmPart 3. Interpreting Your Findings: DiscussionTuesday, February 25th, 4:00-5:30pmPart 4. From Paper to Publication: Revision and SubmissionTuesday, March 4th, 4:00-5:30pm

Speaker: Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute & the Hebrew University, Simons Distinguished Visiting Professor, MIT)Title: High Dimensional Expanders (HDX) and their applications in pure math and computer scienceAbstract:Expander graphs have been an intensive topic of research in math and CS during the last six decades. In the last two decades a high dimensional theory has emerged with (very different) applications in math & CS.In this series of 8 independent (but related) lectures we present some aspects of the theory of HDX and its applications, a number of open problems and suggestions for further research.A more detailed plan:1. Thursday 2/20/25, 4:30pm, 2-190 (Math Colloquium); refreshments served at 4pm in 2-290  Introduction: three main problems(a) Gromov overlapping property(b) Locally testable codes(c) Are all groups sofic?2. Tuesday 2/25/25, 4:15-5:15pm, 32-G449 (Theory of Computing Colloquium), refreshments served at 4pmGood Locally testable codes3. Wednesday 2/26/25, 9:30-11am, 2-449Expander graphs: combinatorics, spectral gap, representation theory(Kazhdan property (T), property (\tau) and more) and property testing4. Wednesday 3/5/25, 9:30-11am, 2-449Geometric & topological expanders, Coboundary expanders, Random simplicial complexes and Property testing5. Wednesday 3/12/25, 9:30-11am, 2-449From Ramanujan graphs to Ramanujan complexes6. Wednesday 3/19/25, 9:30-11am, 2-449Stability and group approximation, Garland Theorem and the p-adic Deligne central extensionsWednesday 3/26/25 - Spring vacation7. Wednesday 4/2/26, 9:30-11am, 2-449Some more CS: Agreement tests, direct product test; PCP8. Wednesday 4/9/25, 9:30-11am, 2-449Are there non-sofic groups? The Aldous-Lyons conjecture and more

Speaker: Tonghai Yang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)Title: (A)FL at infinity and arithmetic generating series of CM cyclesAbstract:In this talk, we propose a FL and AFL at the real place with a proof of FL (if time permits). We also define a generating series of arithmetic CM cycles indexed by integer and conjecture it to be modular. Finally, we explain the connection between the two. This is a preliminary report of my joint work with Andreas Mihatsch and Siddarth Sankaran.