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When: Saturday, May 11, 2013 — 6 to 9 p.m. Where: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 838 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA [map] Celebrating Giuseppe Verdi’s 200th Birthday, the MIT Women’s Chorale will also be celebrating its 80th Anniversary Concert on May 11, at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the concert. The concert will include a celebration of Giuseppe Verdi’s 200th birthday, selections from Randall Thompson’s “Frostiana,” a sampling of Russian music for women’s voices, and Porpora’s “Lauda Jerusalem.” Kevin Galiè, Director Susanne Swalley, Accompanist For more information, ...

When: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 — 5 to 7 p.m. Where: MIT Faculty Club – E52 6th Floor — 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA [map] MIT Sloan is pleased to host an event honoring the life and career of Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani as part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States and Pioneer Investments’ US Colloquia Series. Franco Modigliani was known for his work on corporate finance, capital markets, macroeconomics and econometrics. In 1985, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on household savings and the dynamics of financial markets. He held ...

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Article originally published in MITnews. MIT professors Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali have won the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for their pioneering work in the fields of cryptography and complexity theory. The two developed new mechanisms for how information is encrypted and secured, work that is widely applicable today in communications protocols, Internet transactions and cloud computing. They also made fundamental advances in the theory of computational complexity, an area that focuses on classifying computational problems according to their inherent difficulty. Goldwasser and Micali were credited for “revolutionizing the science of cryptography” and developing the gold ...

All Italian citizens registered as living abroad will soon receive a ballot by mail to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Citizens living in North America will get to choose two deputies and one senator. One candidate for the Chamber of Deputies is a local post-doc working at MIT. Born on May 26, 1977, in Alba-Piemonte, Eugenio Daviso is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemistry at MIT (Cambridge, MA) working on structure determination of functional amyloids and dynamic nuclear polarization, a method that boosts nuclear sensitivity in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. “I strongly believe — he ...

When: Saturday, December 1, 2012, 6 pm Where: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church – 838 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge The MIT Women’s Chorale presents their Holiday Concert. Featuring: Kevin Galiè, Director Susanne Swalley, Accompanist Johann Adolph Hasse: Litaniae Lauretanae : The Litany of Loreto Music of Bach and Rossini Songs of the Season Free and open to the public.

When: December 18, 2012 at Noon. Where: MIT Chapel (W15), Cambridge. The Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts presents the Meridian Singers, under the direction of Todd Beckham. The concert will include early 
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When: November 19, 3:30 p.m. (refreshments start 3:15 p.m.) Where: 34-101, MIT, Cambridge. Recollections by distinguished Chicago students of Enrico Fermi with presentations by James W. Cronin (Nobel in Physics 1980, University of Chicago) and Jerome I. Friedman (Nobel in Physics 1990, MIT). Addenda by: Irwin A. Pless (MIT), Lawrence Rosenson (MIT) Every ten years, on the anniversary of the Chicago Pile Experiment at MIT, MIT has celebrated the wide ranging accomplishments and contributions to science by Enrico Fermi. This year (the 70th anniversary) the Fermi Day event replaces the regular colloquium of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science and will ...

MIT’s Italian student association, MITaly, hosted an event centered on Italian sweets and desserts on Thursday, October 18. Held at MIT’s Strata Center, the event featured several tables focused on regional specialties like sfogliatelle (Campania), ciambelline al vino (Lazio), panettone (Lombardia) and many more. Students and faculty looking for a treat were handed little maps of Italy at the entrance and were invited to vote for their favorite dolce. We visited the Strata Center and took some pictures:

The European student clubs at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management will be presenting the 13th annual NOVA conference in Boston on November 9-11, 2012.

When Salvatore Cimmino looks across the Boston Bay, he doesn’t see a vast stretch of water. What he sees is the dream of an international network to help amputees like himself and physically disabled people all around the world lead a better life. “We are on the eve of a very important and very difficult stage for me,” says Salvatore, who is in Boston for a series of meetings before the 17-mile swim on September 22, when he will hold the seventh stage of his four-year “Swimming in the Seas of the Globe” initiative. The swimming tour’s goal is to ...