Since 2008, the School of Science has provided a forum to encourage tenure-track faculty members to meet, learn, and collaborate. Meeting topics include concerns of particular interest to junior faculty and research presentations. If you would like to RSVP for an upcoming meeting, please contact Annie Lee, Faculty and Academic Affairs Administrator.

Upcoming meetings

  • Please check back for Spring 2022 meetings.

Previous meetings

Fall 2021

  • Wednesday, November 10, 2021 – Tenure-Track Faculty check-in
  • Wednesday, December 15, 2021 – Presentation skills workshop with Dean Nergis Mavalvala and Director of Communications Julia Keller

Spring 2021

  • Monday, April 12, 2021 – Faculty check-in

Fall 2020

  • September 29, 2020, 1pm-2pm – Meet the new Dean; Faculty check-in
  • November 2, 2020, noon-1p – Bin Zhang (Chemistry) presents “Multiscale Modeling of Genome Organization”

Spring 2020

  • Monday, March 9, 2020 – Josh McDermott, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, “How People Hear”
  • Monday, May 18, 2020 – event cancelled

Fall 2019

  • Thursday, October 31, 2019 – Mark Harnett, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, “Biophysics for Neural Computation”
  • Monday, November 25, 2019 – Tim Jamison, Associate Provost and former Department Head of Chemistry, discusses concerns of junior faculty with related discussion of the National Academies Press report www.nap.edu on sexual harassment of women.

Spring 2019

  • Thursday, March 21, 2019 – Matt Shoulders, Department of Chemistry, “Viruses, Proteostasis, and Evolution”
  • Wednesday, May 15, 2019 – Nikta Fakhri, Department of Physics, “Thermodynamics of biological active matter”

Fall 2018

  • October 3, 2018 – Mary Gehring, Department of Biology, “Control of epigenetic dynamics in plants”
  • December 12, 2018 – Joe Checkelsky, Department of Physics, “Quantum Electronic Materials by way of Archimedes”

Spring 2018

Fall 2017

Spring 2017

Fall 2016

  • Monday, November 14, Adam Willard willardgroup.mit.edu, Department of Chemistry, “How does nanoscale disorder affect energy and charge transport in molecular semiconductors?”
  • Friday, September 30, Aram Harrow www.mit.edu, Department of Physics, “What should we do with a small quantum computer?”

Spring 2016

Fall 2015

Spring 2015

  • Thursday, May 21, MIT Technology Licensing Office tlo.mit.edu presentation
  • Tuesday, March 31, German Prieto eapsweb.mit.edu, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, presents “The physics of earthquakes: Studies from deep inside the Earth to human-induced activity.”
  • Friday, February 20, Q&A Session with Career Management Panel: Maria Zuber, Phillip Sharp, and Wolfgang Ketterle, moderated by Dean Michael Sipser.

Fall 2014

Spring 2014