MIT Alumni Forum

During this MIT Alumni Forum, you’ll gain new insights into the science of fusion and the search for fusion power—and discover how MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center is leading the charge toward a new era of energy. 

Professor Priya Donti presents a framework for understanding machine learning’s overall climate impact. She’ll also share insights from her research on integrating renewable energy into power grids using robust machine learning.  

Live from the MIT Alumni Leadership Conference, senior Lecturer Jason J. Jay PhD ’10 leads an interactive workshop using the En-ROADS global climate simulator to explore innovative pathways to a sustainable climate future. 

During this discussion, Kent Larson, director of the City Science Group at the MIT Media Lab, explores how modern tools developed at MIT can help urban planners and city governments make informed and improved decisions about where and how we live and work—and how we can create a future we all want to live in. 

Faculty speakers discuss the rise of generative artificial intelligence. Combining perspectives in computing and economics, we will look ahead and consider the impact of AI on business and ethics—for better and for worse

In this panel discussion with leaders of the D-Lab, learn how the first two decades of D-Lab will inform what’s in store for the next 20 years and discover how the program is helping students solve problems in partnership with local communities in Latin America, Africa, the United States, Asia, and beyond.

Learn how quantum computers process complex information more efficiently than classical computers, how quantum sensors and communications work, and what further possibilities lie ahead in this exciting field.  

In this MIT Alumni Forum, President Kornbluth and colleagues share their own paths to leadership and the changing landscape for women in STEM. They offer insights into how they are working together to lead MIT.

In this February 2023 MIT Alumni Forum, CMIT codirector and MIT professor Eric Alm and CMIT founder Neil Rasmussen ’76, SM ’79 discuss the microbiome’s relationship to human health, explore new discoveries, and share updates on microbiome-based therapies and treatments for diseases, disorders, and diagnoses.

In this MIT Alumni Forum, Kanwisher will explore why the brain is organized the way it is and share recent breakthroughs that have appeared from brain imaging labs around the world.

The Perspectives on Leadership forum held in March, 2022, during Women’s History Month, had a special focus on MIT alumnae, who explored and reflected on present-day leadership

Solving for a Healthier Planet programming focused on how MIT alumni are using their Institute-honed commitment to research and innovation to tackle clean energy and sustainability at leading organizations.

Explore videos from the January 2022 MIT Alumni Forum, a new online series that addresses global challenges, and the many ways MIT alumni are helping to create a better world.

Explore videos from the November 2021 MIT Alumni Forum, a new online series that addresses global challenges, and the many ways MIT alumni are helping to create a better world.