Curious about consulting? Join us for an interactive Consulting Case Competition, where you'll get hands-on experience tackling consulting-style cases! - Kickoff (15 min): Learn key case-solving strategies from an industry expert. - Mini Case Round (30 min): Work in teams to analyze a real-world business problem. - Team Presentations (30 min): Pitch your solution in a 5-minute presentation. - Judges’ Feedback (15 min): Receive insights from experienced consultants. No prior experience needed—just bring your problem-solving skills and teamwork!

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Speaker: Elia Gorokhovsky (Harvard)Title: The Kodaira--Parshin familyAbstract:Reference:$\bullet$ Lawrence and Venkatesh, Diophantine problems and $p$-adic period mappings, Section 7.

There’s something very special about the opportunity to hear directly from a leader about what her path to success was really like, how she learned to lead, and what has helped her to thrive. In this “Spilling the Tea” event, join an informal chat with MIT alumna Colleen Akehurst, who in her current leadership role serves as Chief Executive Officer at Sterilex. Don’t miss this chance to talk with an accomplished alumna mentor and ask her advice on leadership in graduate school and beyond. Learn more about Colleen Akehurst here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleen-akehurst-a797426/. This CAPD event is open to MIT graduate students.

Join Megan Masterson, a PhD candidate in Physics at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research for a conversation around Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning.In this talk, Megan will connect many of the themes that permeate Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning, including temporality, intensity, and alignment, to the mysteries of the cosmos. She will specifically discuss how these themes persist in her own research on the growth of supermassive black holes, where the intense gravity distorts our view and influences our perception.About the SpeakerMegan Masterson is a Physics PhD candidate at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, where she works on some of the most extreme objects in the universe — supermassive black holes. Megan’s work focuses on understanding how these black holes grow; she uses both ground- and space-based telescopes spanning multiple different wavelengths of light to map how material accretes onto these cosmic beasts. Megan is involved in many astronomy outreach initiatives, including Astrobites, Astronomy on Tap, and MIT Astrogazers, through which she shares her passion for science communication and the wonders of the cosmos.Graduate Student TalksMIT graduate students explore current exhibitions at the List Center through the lens of their own research, background, and interests. Join us for this interdisciplinary lecture series where we dive into how art and research are overlapping on MIT’s campus.

The Kevin Lynch Award was established to honor the memory of Kevin Lynch, an MIT alumnus, urban designer, author and member of the faculty of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning for thirty years. Through his practice, research and writing, Lynch encouraged planning and design professionals and students to adopt approaches to planning that are sensitive to the importance of place as well as the importance of people’s experience of place and to the importance of balancing physical interventions with consideration for the natural environment. As someone who accepted the reality of climate change early on, Lynch understood the delicate relationship between humans and their environment, and he worked to develop methods of practice to better integrate individuals’ perceptions into professional recommendations and theories to better explain the complex relationships among people and the built environment. Since its establishment in 1988, the MIT department of urban studies and planning has granted Kevin Lynch Awards to individuals or organizations whose work embodies and advances Kevin Lynch’s research, as developed in his seminal works, Image of the City (1960), What Time is this Place? (1972), Good City Form (1981) and Site Planning (1984). Nominees have been selected for their plans, books, research, designed projects, media productions, public processes, or similar contributions to merit the award.This year's awardee will be Kofi Boone, FASLA. Kofi Boone is a Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor and University Faculty Scholar at NC State University. Kofi is a Detroit native and a graduate of the University of Michigan. His work is in the overlap between landscape architecture and environmental justice with specializations in democratic design and interpreting cultural landscapes. He is the founder of the Just Communities Lab, Immediate Past President of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and serves on the boards of Black Landscape Architects Network and the Land Loss Prevention Project.This year’s Lynch Award nominations and deliberations were done in collaboration between the City Design and Development faculty at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Urbanism faculty at the Department of Architecture at MIT.