Speaker: Chen Wan (Rutgers University)

Unsure about summer plans or how to make the most of your internship? Swing by CAPD on 5/7 from 4-6pm to gain clarity and tackle your summer confidently. Spend time learning how to secure that return offer, planning how to maximize your summertime, polishing your resume or LinkedIn, exploring career options, or getting ready for finals season. CAPD volunteers will be there to give advice and answer questions. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided!This CAPD event is open to MIT graduate and undergraduate students.

We have two Sign Language Study Breaks coming up, with free Cafe 472 pizza and activities for all skill levels! When #1: Thurs, April 24th, 4:30-6:00pmWhen #2: Wed, May 7th, 4:30-6:00pmWhere: MIT building 33, room 33-206What: Sign language practice + Cafe 472 pizzaRSVP (encouraged): https://asl.mit.edu/asl-study-break-rsvp-march-2025/ Come to socialize, learn the ASL fingerspelling alphabet, practice some basic signs, play sign language games, and for more experienced signers, we can practice conversational skills. All MIT community members are welcome! An ASL interpreter will be provided. Please RSVP to notify us of any other accommodations needed.

The energy transition is no longer enough: Transformation, intervention, and adaptationThis event is for the MIT Community. Please register with an MIT.edu email.Please join us to hear from Emily A. Carter, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment at Princeton University.Climate change mitigation strategies must include not only decarbonizing energy sources to eliminate new carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions but also removing substantial quantities of existing CO2 from the atmosphere. We must do so by capturing it from air or oceans, then converting and storing it for centuries. However, even in a “decarbonized” future, society will still need carbon-based products that will need to be created from waste carbon. Finally, as part of those mitigation strategies, electrifying everything else, coupled with other possible climate interventions and adaptation, is the path to sustain life on Earth.About the speakerEmily A. Carter is a distinguished scientist, leader, and educator, recognized with many honors for her pioneering contributions to quantum chemistry, materials science, sustainable energy, and carbon mitigation research. She is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and a professor of applied and computational mathematics at Princeton University. Carter is also a senior strategic advisor and associate laboratory director at the Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. She has held multiple leadership positions at Princeton and UCLA, and strategically serves on multiple energy- and climate-related advisory boards.About the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition speaker seriesWe are in the midst of a major global shift in the types of energy we use and the ways we use them. We know that if we are to stabilize the planet’s climate and eliminate harmful emissions, we must transform our energy systems. This speaker series will connect you with energy experts and leaders who are actively working on the scientific, technological, and policy solutions we urgently need, and will explore how we must work together to accelerate this complicated process.

Every Wednesday night you are invited to come to The Table for peaceful Christian worship in the Chapel at 5:15 pm and dinner in the Main Dining Room of W11 at 6:30 pm.We worship with beautiful songs, open conversation about the Scriptures, prayers and a simple sharing of communion around the altar. Then we enjoy dinner together and good company together. Whether you come every week or just drop by once in a while, there is a caring community for you at the Table.You are truly welcome to come as you are: undergrad, grad, or post-doc; sure of your faith or wondering what it is all about; gay, straight, bi, trans*, questioning. Please join us for no-pressure worship and fellowship.Hosted by the Lutheran Epsicopal Ministry @ MIT. For more information, or to verify gathering times during holiday and vacation periods, please contact chaplains Andrew Heisen (heisen@mit.edu) and Kevin Vetiac (kvet246@mit.edu).

Many people think gentle yoga is too easy and not an effective form of fitness. Think again! You can practice yoga in ways that are both active and gentle at the same time.Come enjoy the many known benefits of yoga through:the practice of active yet gentle, rhythmic movementheld yoga poses and vinyasa flow (moving from pose to pose via the breath)pranayam (breath work)relaxation and meditationIn this well-rounded class, Celeste LeMieux, 500 hr certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor, provides clear instructions and modifications, making it accessible and beneficial to practitioners of all ages and stages of yoga practice and life.You will leave class feeling both stretched and strengthened while also feeling more calm and relaxed. This class is the perfect mid-week reset for body and mind. Come see how less really can be more!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.

Refuge @ MIT. Join our weekly gathering for Christian students and seekers as we have worship, prayer and Bible study each Wednesday evening. We share some food and enjoy an in depth Bible study, open to all students at MIT.

The Mindful BrainJoin us to explore new insights into the effects of meditation and mindfulness on brain healthFeaturing:Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Tibetan Buddhist master and leader of the Tergar Meditation Community Seventh incarnation of Yongey Mingyur DorjeRichard Davidson William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin–Madison Founder and Director, Center for Healthy MindsJohn Gabrieli Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT Investigator, McGovern Institute and Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MITSusan Whitfield-Gabrieli Tommy Fuss Professor of Precision Psychiatry, Massachusetts General HospitalProgram is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here: https://forms.gle/Ms1tXa7XpJMhpJKD7

Join us at the MIT Museum as we welcome award-winning designers Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby to discuss their new book, Not Here, Not Now, in conversation with John Ochsendorf, Founding Director of MIT Morningside Academy of Design. The event will be moderated by MIT Museum Director Michael John Gorman.When reality fails us, what can designers do? Question design's relationship to reality, as Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby do, in this exhilarating, yet thoughtful, journey to the edges of science, philosophy, and literature to find new ways of thinking about the possible -- and about the meaning, function, and place of design in that speculative world of "not here, not now." A conceptual travelogue of sorts, Not Here, Not Now brings together words, images, and objects that capture, in design form, some of the ideas encountered along the way. Itself a design experiment, the richly illustrated book explores ways to bring these ideas into conversation with objects through imagined archives, libraries, glossaries, taxonomies, lists, tales, and essays.Copies of Not Here, Not Now will be available for purchase onsite from the MIT Press Bookstore.Presented in collaboration with MIT Morningside Academy of Design (MIT MAD).$5

The Sixth Annual MIT Playwrights LabA weeks-long festival of new student plays from Senior Lecturer Ken Urban’s Course 21T.355 workshopped and performed by professional actors and directors.SCHEDULE OF STAGED READINGSWhat Remains of the Sun by Sofia Galiana Wednesday, May 7 at 8pmAll readings will take place in Building W97-160Free and open to the publicThe MIT Playwrights Lab is made possible thanks to the generous funding of the Richard Price Rudy (1968) and Robert Paul Rudy (1937) Memorial Fund.

Time: 3:30 PMLocation: Cambridge, MA

All kids from newborn age to 3.5 years old are welcome! You can bring siblings as well.It's a chance for kids to have fun while parents can chat, share parenting tips, and socialize.Please register if you plan to attend the group. Contact Maria at mwiegandl@udd.cl if you have any questions.This group is sponsored by the Executive Committees of Westgate and the Graduate Tower at Site 4, and MIT Spouses & Partners Connect, a dedicated network for the significant others of MIT students, postdocs, staff and faculty who have relocated to the Boston area.

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.

MIT Free English Class is for international students, sholars, spouses. Twenty seven years ago we created a community to welcome the nations to MIT and assist with language and friendship. Join our Tuesday/Thursday conversation classes around tables inside W11-190.

Ten minutes for your mind@2:50 every day at 2:50 pm in multiple time zones:Europa@2:50, EET, Athens, Helsinki (UTC+2) (7:50 am EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88298032734Atlantica@2:50, EST, New York, Toronto (UTC-4) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349851047Pacifica@2:50, PST, Los Angeles, Vancouver (UTC=7) (5:50 pm EST) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85743543699Almost everything works better again if you unplug it for a bit, including your mind. Stop by and unplug. Get the benefits of mindfulness without the fuss.@2:50 meets at the same time every single day for ten minutes of quiet together.No pre-requisite, no registration needed.Visit the website to view all @2:50 time zones each day.at250.org or at250.mit.edu

Speaker: Johan Asplund (Stony Brook)

Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition with Joni Wallis, PhD, University of California, BerkeleyDate: Thursday, May 8, 2025Time: 4:00pmLocation: 46-3002, Singleton Auditorium (Third floor of MIT Building 46)Zoom: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92722264638&nbspTalk title and abstract to come.

Speaker: Graeme Milton (University of Utah)Title: Guiding Stress: From Pentamodes to Cable Webs to Masonry StructuresAbstract: Pentamode materials are a class of materials that are useful for guiding stress. In particular, they have been proposed for acoustic cloaking by guiding stress around objects and have been physically constructed. A key feature of pentamode materials is that each vertex in the material is the junction of 4 double cone elements. Thus, the tension in one element determines the tension in the other elements, and by extension uniquely determines the stress in the entire metamaterial. Here we show how this key feature can be extended to discrete wire networks, supporting forces at the terminal nodes and which may have internal nodes where no forces are applied. In usual wire or cable networks, such as in a bridge or bicycle wheel, one distributes the forces by adjusting the tension in the wires. Here our discrete networks provide an alternative way of distributing the forces through the geometry of the network. In particular the network can be chosen so it is uniloadable, i.e. supports only one set of forces at the terminal nodes. Such uniloadable networks provide the natural generalization of pentamode materials to discrete networks. We extend such a problem to compression-only 'strut nets' subjected to fixed and reactive nodal loads. These systems provide discrete element models of masonry bodies. In particular, we solve the arch problem where one wants the strut net to avoid a given set of obstacles and also allow some of the forces to be reactive ones. This is joint work with Ada Amendola, Guy Bouchitte, Andrej Cherkaev, Antonio Fortunato, Fernando Fraternali, Ornella Mattei, and Pierre Seppecher.

Birding 101: No matter where we are, we are always in nature.Learn how to look and listen for wildlife using binoculars, then go on a short walk around the MIT Open Space in search of local birds. This program is co-hosted by Mass Audubon Magazine Beach Park Nature Center.We will be offering four 30-minute sessions starting at 5:00pm, 5:30pm, 6:00pm, and 6:30pm.Meet your group in the MIT Open Space at the Against the Run clock. Space is limited and spots will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.Participating adults (21+) may also be interested in purchasing tickets for our May After Dark: Birds, happening inside the MIT Museum from 6-9pm.May 8 5-7pm Free