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- Feb 115:30 PMCelebrate Valentine’s Day with Annual Ice SkatingJoin MIT Spouses & Partners Connect for a fun-filled evening on the ice! Enjoy free admission and skate rentals, plus light refreshments. Bring your own skates if you have them. A valid MIT ID is required for free skate rental. Children are welcome. The registration is here.This event is exclusively for MIT Spouses & Partners Connect members and their families.
- Feb 115:30 PMMind-Body-Breath Yoga - Virtual ClassThis yoga practice provides the opportunity to relax and de-stress as well as to stretch, strengthen, and balance your body. The practice begins with a meditative centering followed by warm-ups, a posture flow, and a restful final relaxation. We conclude with a closing and some time for connecting with your fellow yogis.The yoga postures are led at a moderate intensity. Lower intensity modifications are always offered and there is absolutely no obligation to do any posture. The goal is to make the class accessible to beginners as well as experienced practitioners. Listening to your body is the key to safety, especially in this online format.Registration is required on our wellness class website. If you do not already have an account on this website, you'll need to create one. This is fee-based class and open to the entire MIT community.
- Feb 115:30 PMWrestling PracticeThe MIT wrestling club holds practices in the du Pont Wrestling Room on weeknights 5:30-7pm. All levels of experience welcome! Whether you're looking to learn how to grapple or just want to get in a good workout, wrestling practice is a good time to learn technique, get in some live goes, and have fun with a great group of people.Current schedule is: structured practice MTRF, open mats W, and technique sessions 9-10:30am on Saturday. For more information, contact wrestling-officers@mit.edu.
- Feb 116:00 PMClimate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World -- and the FutureJoin us for a conversation with Harvard University Professor Cass Sunstein and Knight Science Journalism Fellow Emily Foxhall on the social cost of carbon.If you're injuring someone, you should stop -- and pay for the damages you've caused. Why does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what's at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when or where they live -- which means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obligated to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.Copies of Climate Justice will be available for purchase onsite from the MIT Press Bookstore.
- Feb 116:00 PMDiscover Your Self"Do you ever feel that life holds a deeper meaning beyond what you currently understand? The truth is profound—there are countless mysteries of existence, divinity, and the self that lie beyond our awareness. There is so much we don’t know, and even more that we don’t realize we don’t know."Join us on this exciting journey of Discover Your Self to explore the unknown territories of life and delve into the science of spirituality. This course, based on the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, will equip you with proven methods to achieve true inner joy and answer your deepest questions about life's higher principles. This Course explains Proven methods to attain the true inner joy of heart and gives answers to all the Inquiries about Higher Principles in life like the pathway for unlimited and everlasting happiness from the eyes of scriptures like Bhagavad Gita in a scientific perspective.Salient Features:Discover the Game of LifeDiscover Inner SelfDiscover The Ultimate GeniusDiscover Manual of LifeDiscover Lasting SolutionDiscover Sublime Joy Through SoundDiscover The Real Eternal LoveDiscover The Happy PlanetYou are invited to join us every Tuesday 6:00-7:00 pm. To your pleasure we have free delicious sattvik vegetarian dinner is available after every session.Event details:6:00 pm-6:10 pm: Mantra Meditation and kirtan6:10 pm-6:50 pm: : Session7:00pm : Dinner along with Q&A.Venue: MIT Room 56-180, 32 Vasaar Steeet, Cambridge MA Kindly RSVP here https://forms.gle/DEXUz6ig6dJZoU1k7Regards, MIT Vedic Vision Forum
- Feb 124:15 AMRichard P. Stanley Seminar in CombinatoricsSpeaker: Daniel Soskin (IAS)Title: Multiplicative inequalities for totally matricesAbstract: Totally positive matrices are matrices in which each minor is positive. Lusztig extended the notion to reductive Lie groups. He also proved that specialization of elements of the dual canonical basis in representation theory of quantum groups at q=1 are totally non-negative polynomials. Thus, it is important to investigate classes of functions on matrices that are positive on totally positive matrices. I will discuss multiplicative determinantal inequalities as a source of such functions. In the joint work with M. Gekhtman, we have shown that the set of multiplicative inequalities is finitely generated for matrices of any order. In the joint project with M. Gekhtman and Z. Greenberg we provide a list of all generators of multiplicative determinantal inequalities for the case of square matrices of order 4. We also extend the problem of description of multiplicative inequalities in minors to inequalities in all cluster variables of finite type cluster algebras. We show that the generators of these sets of inequalities are in bijection with cluster variables, and are associated to sinks in fully sources/sinks orientation of the associated Dynkin diagram in the exchange graph of the finite type cluster algebras.