Jessika Trancik wins 2018 Campus Sustainability Incubator Fund grant
The MIT Office of Sustainability awarded professor Trancik's team the grant for their project looking to optimize renewable energy storage systems.
Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers
System designed by MIT researchers, including Jonathan How of LIDS, allows drones to cooperatively explore terrain under thick forest canopies where GPS signals are unreliable.
Study: Impact of mercury-controlling policies shrinks with every five-year delay
A new study by TPP director Noelle Selin and Hélène Angot, a former IDSS postdoc, finds that the longer countries wait to reduce mercury emissions, the less effective any emissions-reducing policies will be when they are eventually implemented.
Fri
16
Stochastics and Statistics Seminar Series
Model-X knockoffs for controlled variable selection in high dimensional nonlinear regression
Lucas Janson (Harvard University )
E18-304
November 16, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mon
19
LIDS Seminar Series
Benjamin Hobbs
Benjamin Hobbs (Johns Hopkins University)
32-155
November 19, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Mon
26
Tue
27
Online events
SES PhD Admissions Webinar
Ali Jadbabaie (MIT)
online
November 27, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Tue
27
IDSS Special Seminars
Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall
Margaret Roberts (UC San Diego)
32-141
November 27, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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