Talks & Lectures

2016 Sep 29

Special Kavli/AM Seminar

4:00pm

Location: 

Pierce 306

Oren Raz

University of Maryland

The Markovian Mpemba effect

Under certain conditions, it takes less time to cool a hot system than to cool the same system initiated at a lower temperature. This phenomenon – the “Mpemba Effect”, has been observed in a variety of systems, including water, magnetic alloys and carbon nano-tube resonators. So far, no single generic mechanism to explain this counter-intuitive behavior was suggested. Using the theoretical framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, we construct a minimal model that describes this behavior and...

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2018 Aug 03

Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss - Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves

10:45am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Northwest Building, B103

Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves

When -Aug 3rd 10:45am-12pm

Where- Harvard University

Northwest Building, B103

52 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138

Rainer Weiss

Professor OF Physics

2017 Nobel Laureate

MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

2018 Jul 31

Crop Diseases That Threaten Global Food Security (and Your Breakfast)

7:00pm to 8:15pm

Location: 

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St

plate that looks like Earth

Jacques Avelino, Plant Pathologist, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) 

Meghan Dewdney, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida

Gary Foster, Professor of Molecular Plant Pathology, University of...

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2018 Jul 25

Special Kavli Seminar - Davide Bigoni

12:00pm

Location: 

Pierce 306

This week (Wednesday 07/25) we're excited to have a special Kavli seminar led by Davide Bigoni from the University of Trento, who'll talk about "Extreme deformation of solids and structures: folding and energy release". Abstract is attached.

 

We'll meet at noon in Pierce 306 and food will be served.

2018 Jul 24

MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs Speed Interviewing Day

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

MIT Building E17 - Room 139 (Mudd Building), 40 Ames St Cambridge, MA

MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs Speed Interviewing Day

Date: 

Tuesday, July 24, 2018, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

MIT Building E17 - Room 139 (Mudd Building), 40 Ames St Cambridge, MA

MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs (OEOP) Speed Interviewing Day

"Are you looking for a...

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2018 Jul 24

Kostas Kostarelos: Learning to Transform 2D Nanomaterials for Medicine Using Imaging and Pharmacology

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Wyss Institute, Rm. 330 60 Oxford Street | Cambridge, MA

Learning to Transform 2D Nanomaterials for Medicine Using Imaging and Pharmacology

Date: 

Tuesday, July 24, 2018, 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Wyss Institute, Rm. 330 60 Oxford Street | Cambridge, MA

Kostas Kostarelos, PhD, FRSM, FRSA, FRSC

Chair, Nanomedicine Lab
...
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2018 Jul 26

Materials Science Seminar - Juanjuan Zheng

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Turnbull (McKay 402)
Hi all,

Juanjuan Zheng from the Vlassak lab will be giving this week's material science summer lunch seminar on combinatorial temperature resistance sensors for the analysis of phase transformations. Her talk will be in McKay 402 this Thursday (7/26) from 12:00-1:00.

Best,

Will

PS Zach Gault (cc'ed here) will be standing in for me this week and next while I'm out of town.

2018 Jul 12

Materials Science Seminar - Nadir Kaplan

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Turnbull (McKay 402)
Hi all,

Nadir Kaplan from Prof. Aizenberg's lab will be giving this week's material science summer lunch seminar presentation. Nadir will be presenting on biomimetics theory.

Please join us in Turnbull (McKay 402) this Thursday from 12:00-1:00.

2018 Jul 11

Squishy Physics - Rees F. Garmann (Manoharan group)

5:30pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Room 209, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St, on the Harvard Campus.

Rees F. Garmann

Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 

Harvard University

Abstract TBD

 

 

Squishy Physics & Pizza Seminar Series

When: Wednesday Evenings - Pizza served at 5:20 PM, talks start at 5:30pm till...

Where: Room 209, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St, on the Harvard Campus. ...

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2018 Jul 05

Materials Science Seminar - Zach Gault

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Turnbull (McKay 402)

Zach Gault from Prof Weitz's group will be giving this week's talk on his work with the visualization and mechanical study of transparent filled rubbers

 

The talk will be in Turnbull (McKay 402) on Thursday from 12:00-1:00

Hope to see you all there,

 

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