Upcoming Events (11)
State Capacity and Infrastructure Costs
A scholarly lecture at MIT on how state capacity shapes infrastructure costs, featuring Yale Law School scholar Zachary D. Liscow with Cailin Slattery and William Nober. The talk blends legal and economic perspectives to assess the governance and fiscal dimensions of large-scale public infrastructure projects.
PDE/Analysis Seminar
Two-part PDE/analysis seminar in Boston (Building 2, 136) with Ryan Unger (UC Berkeley) 3:00–4:00 PM and Guilherme Vedana (IPAM) 4:15–5:15 PM. The session titled 'A complete classification of Fourier summation formulas on the real line' introduces FS-pairs, a generalization of Poisson summation for real-line analysis.
Lie Groups Seminar
MIT hosts the Lie Groups Seminar featuring Si'an Nie (Chinese Academy of Sciences) on Lie group theory on 2026-04-01 at 16:00 UTC. Schedule is tentative as speaker availability is confirmed. Venue: Building 2, Room 142, MIT, Boston.
Symplectic Seminar
Melissa Liu (Columbia) tackles the Remodeling Conjecture with descendants at MIT's Symplectic Seminar, connecting Gromov–Witten invariants of toric Calabi–Yau 3-folds to topological recursion on the mirror curve. The talk is in Building 2, room 449, Boston, welcoming researchers and students.
Seminar on Arithmetic Geometry
MIT-hosted seminar on arithmetic geometry exploring rational points and zero-cycles on rationally connected varieties over number fields. Speaker Leonid Gorodetskii discusses torsors and rational points, referencing Wittenberg and Skorobogatov, in Building 2, 139, Boston.
MIT Music Tech Speaker Series Presents: Akito van Troyer
MIT's Music Tech Speaker Series presents Akito van Troyer in Sonic Alchemy: Transmuting the Everyday into Music. The talk surveys two decades of creative technology research on designing instruments from everyday objects, bodies, and environments to spark musical discovery, expression, and intervention.
Polynomial Paradigm and Applications
Shayan Oveis Gharan presents Polynomial Paradigm and Applications, exploring how encoding discrete phenomena in multivariate polynomials reveals connections between coefficients, zeros, and function values. Examples include hard-core lattice gas states, spanning trees, and matroid bases, illustrating powerful combinatorial methods in a unifying framework.
Thesis Defense - Zhenhao Li
PhD candidate Zhenhao Li defends a study of microlocal structures of forced internal waves in a 2D aquarium, showing how attractors govern long-time wave propagation in bounded domains and connect to Maas et al.'s experiments. The talk blends rigorous microlocal analysis with a 2D aquarium model to illuminate wave dynamics in constrained geometries.
GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption
Filipe Campante (Johns Hopkins) presents field-experiment evidence on how Generative AI shapes misinformation, trust, and news consumption. Joined by Ruben Durante, Felix Hagemeister, and Ananya Sen, the talk analyzes audience responses and implications for media, policy, and digital literacy.
Politics of Reproduction and Abortion in Palestine
MIT's Spring McMillan Stewart Lecture with Prof. Frances Hasso (introductions by Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu) revisits the politics of reproduction and abortion in Palestine, analyzing Islamic jurisprudence and laws from the colonial era to today. It situates contemporary debates within a longer history of law, gender, and collective futures.
Extremal Hyperplane Problems on the Hypercube
MIT hosts a thesis defense by Zixuan Xu on Extremal Hyperplane Problems on the Hypercube. The talk explores covering vertices and slicing every edge of the hypercube [-1,1]^n with affine hyperplanes, blending combinatorics and geometry; venue Building 2 with a remote Zoom option.