October 2020
Digitization of Retail and the Urban Experience
David Simchi-Levi, Sandy Pentland (IDSS)
Online
The retail industry has been in rapid change caused by advances and adoption of digital technology. Going around the theme of digitalization of retail supply chains and next-generation digital systems for commerce, Professor David Simchi-Levi will focus on the evolution of digitization, analytics, and automation for end-to-end supply chain transformation in the retail sector, which has witnessed some of the fastest digital growth. Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland will discuss the next generation of software architecture for logistics, payments, and more.
Find out more »Mobility Forum: The Inefficiency of Dynamic Pricing in Ridehailing Systems
Daniel Freund
online
To build a dynamic community among the mobility and transportation researchers, the MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is organizing the “Mobility Forum: Frontier of Mobility Research,” a weekly seminar series showcasing the MIT scholarship. Register for Zoom info
Find out more »MIT Policy Hackathon 2020
online
Interested in the future of healthcare in light of COVID-19? Internet policy? Environmental justice? Work remotely with an interdisciplinary team to develop creative policy solutions to problems posed by governmental and industry partners. https://www.mitpolicyhackathon.org/
Find out more »Rebuilding After Covid-19
Sandy Pentland (IDSS)
Online
The pandemic has destroyed much of the world economy, and laid bare many failures in our health, finance, law, and government systems. Digital technologies can help us rebuild by enabling more resilient, effective, secure, and inclusive systems. In this talk, Prof. Pentland will discuss what world leaders, multilateral organizations (World Bank, OECD, UN, etc) and industry are discussing, and how IEEE and ACM members can contribute to these digital initiatives and help them to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Find out more »Mobility Forum: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation: Technical Options and Societal Choices
Bill Green
online
To build a dynamic community among the mobility and transportation researchers, the MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is organizing the “Mobility Forum: Frontier of Mobility Research,” a weekly seminar series showcasing the MIT scholarship. Register for Zoom info.
Find out more »Mobility Forum: The Edge of Optimization: Large Scale Transportation Systems
Dimitris Bertsimas
online
To build a dynamic community among the mobility and transportation researchers, the MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is organizing the “Mobility Forum: Frontier of Mobility Research,” a weekly seminar series showcasing the MIT scholarship. Register for Zoom info.
Find out more »MITx MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science Pathway Schools Webinar
online
Learn how you can leverage your online learning for academic credit at MIT, and our pathway schools. MITx is teaming up with several institutions to ensure you get the most out of your MITx MicroMasters® program credential in Statistics and Data Science (SDS). Find out which pathway works best for you in this webinar presented by: Ada Sonia Peter, Director, International Office and Linkages, Covenant University (Nigeria) Humphrey Adebayo, Professor, Dean of Post Graduate School, Covenant University (Nigeria) Oni Aderonke, Senior Lecture, Department of…
Find out more »Mobility Forum: Microlocation in Transit: The New York City Subway System
David Mindell
online
To build a dynamic community among the mobility and transportation researchers, the MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is organizing the “Mobility Forum: Frontier of Mobility Research,” a weekly seminar series showcasing the MIT scholarship. Register for Zoom info.
Find out more »MITx MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science Pathway Schools Webinar
online
Learn how you can leverage your online learning for academic credit at MIT, and our pathway schools. MITx is teaming up with several institutions to ensure you get the most out of your MITx MicroMasters® program credential in Statistics and Data Science (SDS). Find out which pathway works best for you in this webinar presented by: Valerie Maxville, Senior Lecturer (Discipline of Computing) & Course Co-ordinator (Master of Predictive Analytics), Curtin University (Australia) Lefan Qiu, International Pathways Manager, RMIT University (Australia) Anna Munro, Regional…
Find out more »September 2020
MITx MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science Pathway Schools Webinar
online
Learn how you can leverage your online learning for academic credit at MIT, and our pathway schools. MITx is teaming up with several institutions to ensure you get the most out of your MITx MicroMasters® program credential in Statistics and Data Science (SDS). Find out which pathway works best for you in this webinar presented by: Jeanine Parolini, MBA Program Director, Bethel University (USA) Alena Seleznyova, EMAS Admission Expert, Eurasian Management and Administration School (Russia) Sarah Anang, Senior Administrative Assistant, Laweh Open University College (Ghana) In…
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