Pictured: A full auditorium during one of the David & Edith Harris Physics Colloquia with Nobel Laureate Moungi Bawendi
You can find more events in the weekly department student newsletter, the physics non-academic careers newsletter, and the Graduate Student Council Anno (calendar version here).
Below, please find a selection of regularly occurring department or physics-related seminars and socials during normal in-person times, to give you a taste for all the physics events going on around campus!
And we do not use the word “taste” inadvertently – you can often nab a free lunch, quality coffee (as opposed to the sometimes questionable substance your peers make in the grad lounge), or at least some cookies or fruit at many of these events.
Monday
- 12:00 – Chez Pierre condensed matter physics seminar
- 1:00 – MKI arXiv tea
- 2:30 – Nuclear/particle theory seminar
- 3:00 – MKI Monday Afternoon Talks (MATs)
- 3:00 – String Journal Club
- 3:30 – Nuclear/particle social (half) hour
- 4:00 – Nuclear/particle physics colloquium
Tuesday
- 12:00 – Condensed matter theory seminar
- 12:00 – CTP graduate student lunch club
- 12:00 – Laboratory for Nuclear Science lunchtime seminars
- 1:00 – IAIFI Journal Club
- 2:30 – Tufts/MIT cosmology seminar (every other week)
- 4:00 – Astrophysics colloquium
- 4:00 – String Club
- 4:00 – MIT/Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms seminar series
Wednesday
- 10:45 – Biophysics seminar series (every other week)
- 11:00 – Optics and quantum electronics seminar series
- 12:00 – Pappalardo luncheon speaker series
- 3:00 – String/gravity theory seminar
- 5:15 – PSFC student seminars
Thursday
- 10:00 – Virtual lattice field theory colloquium (every 4 weeks)
- 3:30 – Snacks and coffee in the Pappalardo room
- 4:00 – David & Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Friday
- 9:30 – CTP cosmology coffee
- 11:00 – QI group meeting
- 12:00 – MKI Journal Club
- 12:30 – CTP grad student seminar
- 2:00 – IAIFI public colloquia
- 2:00 – PSFC Seminars
- 3:00 – CMX journal club
- 4:00 – EFT group meeting
- 4:00 – CTP social
- 4:00 – Physics of Living Systems short talks/happy hour
- 4:15 – LHC/QCD/BSM/DM/ML theory wine and cheese journal club
Other regular events, time currently unknown to PGSC:
- PSFC Turbulence and Transport (T^2) journal club
- NUPAX Dark Matter (NuDM) journal club
- MIT General Relativity Informal Tea Time Seminar (GRITTS)
Events regularly scheduled at irregular times:
- GWIP dinners
- PhysREFS office hours
Other seminars that may be of interest:
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab (CSAIL) seminar series
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (EAPS/Course 12) lectures
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS/Course 6) calendar
- Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE/Course 3) Events
- Pure and applied math (Course 18) seminars
- Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC/IDSS) events
- Boston area physics calendar
Acronyms:
- MKI – MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
- CTP – Center for Theoretical Physics
- IAIFI – Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions
- PSFC – Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- NUPAT/X – Nuclear and Particle Theory/Experiment
- CMT/X – Condensed Matter Theory/Experiment
- QI – Quantum Information