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Nuclear Science & Engineering Research Festival—Aug. 28

The 2020 Nuclear Science & Engineering UROP Summer Research Festival showcases undergraduate research in the department. The moderated lightning talks by eleven undergraduates will be held in three parallel Zoom sessions.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
See the full line-up.

COVID-19 & cities: COVID-19's impact on our urban well-being

Join MIT Center for Real Estate and the Sustainable Urbanization Lab for this virtual seminar on July 31 from 9 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. EST. Sessions include modeling epidemic spreading through public transit, the geography of COVID-19 growth in the U.S., housing, and more.

See the agenda and register.

Sustainability in the built environment: Paths toward health growth in our urban environments

Join MIT Center for Real Estate and the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab for this virtual seminar on August 27 from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. EST. Session topics include predicting city growth with machine learning, healthy buildings, the financial impact of street level greenery, and more.

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Confining water environment in liquids for electrochemical energy storage

Dr. Alexis Grimaud
Solid-State Chemistry and Energy Laboratory, Collège de France

Dr. Grimaud's group is developing chemical strategies to constrain the solvation structure of water such that its reactivity can better be studied at electrochemical interfaces. Learn more at this MIT seminar, hosted by the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE).

Friday, July 24, 3-4pm EDT, via Zoom

Role of nanoscale antigen organization on B-cell activation probed using DNA origami

The Marble Center Distinguished Seminar will feature a talk by Dr. Mark Bathe, Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT, Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Co-Chair of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation, and Chair of the MIT Committee on Student Life.

Monday, July 20, 2020
2 p.m. — 3 p.m. EST
Register here.

Nano Explorations Webinars, Week of July 20

Tuesday, July 21—2D-Material enabled colloidal electronics by Albert Liu, PhD candidate, Chemical Engineering

Thursday, July 23—Fast and energy-efficient monocular depth estimation on embedded systems by Diana Wofk, MEng '20, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS)

Join virtually via Zoom.

Build.nano: How nanotechnology fundamentally changes real estate

MIT.nano Director Vladimir Bulović will host this session on Thursday, July 16 with MIT alumni Dr. Elise Strobach, CEO & Co-Founder of Aeroshield, and Dr. Miles Barr, CTO & Co-Founder of Ubiquitous Energy.

Part of the MIT Center for Real Estate World Real Estate Forum. Register here.

Nano Explorations Webinars, Week of July 13

Tuesday, July 14—New frontiers in THz quantum cascade lasers by Ali Khalatpour, PhD, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS)

Thursday, July 16—Building neuromorphic computing units with battery materials by Juan Carlos Gonzalez Rosillo, Postdoctoral Associate, Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE)

Join virtually via Zoom.

Nano Explorations Webinars, Week of July 6

Tuesday, July 7—Solid-state spin-integrated circuits for quantum sensing and control by Christopher Foy, PhD, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Thursday, July 9—Liquid-crystal-based integrated optical phased arrays for augmented reality by Milica Notaros, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Join virtually via Zoom.

OQE Seminar: Quantum error correction for sensing and simulation

Professor Liang Jiang, University of Chicago
Hosted by Dr. Stefan Krastanov

Wednesday July 1 at 11 a.m. EST

Join via Zoom.

Part of the Optics and Quantum Electronics Seminar Series