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Manufacturing Principles: Theory, Research and Practice—Sept. 9

MIT.nano Associate Director Brian Anthony will join Prof. David Hardt, Industry Co-Director Jose Pacheco, and Arjun Chandar, Founder and CTO of IndustrialML for a discussion on the "Principles of Manufacturing," a set of elements common to all manufacturing industries that revolve around the concepts of flow and variation.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST

NanoBio seminar: Excitonic devices based on 2D semiconductor heterostructures—Sept. 2

Andras Kis, Associate Professor, EPFL
Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures

In this talk, Kis will demonstrate how, by using MoS2/WSe2 van der Waals heterostructures, we can realize excitonic transistors with switching action, confinement and control over diffusion length at room temperature in a reconfigurable potential landscape.

September 2, 2020
1:00 p.m. EST

Part of the NanoBio Seminar Series.

OQE seminar: Broadband optical quantum memories: From atomic vapors to solid-state systems—Sept. 2

In this seminar, Dr. Jonas Nils Becker, Imperial College London, will discuss quantum memory protocols based on off-resonant two-photon interactions in lambda- and ladder-type atomic systems.

11 a.m. EST
Via Zoom

Part of the Optics & Quantum Electronics Seminar Series.

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.

See the agenda and register.

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.