The Sciences

It's through sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, and math that we understand the universe and how it works. Tour our X-ray observatory and many other labs. Peruse the astronomy open house and see the moon like you never have before. Participate in physics experiments. Watch molecules in action. Discover the connection between origami and math as you craft your own origami figure.

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• Scheduled Activities
• All Day Activities

10:00am - 11:00am	High tech show and tell presentations
11:00am - 3:00pm	Physics demonstration exhibit
11:00am - 1:00pm	Digital mapping tools introduced by MIT GIS services
11:00am - 12:00pm	A walk through time – 4.6 billion years of earth history
11:00am - 12:00pm	From disorder to order: how a mathematician sees life and work
11:00am - 12:00pm	Talk on the history of the Department of Chemistry by Dietmar Seyferth
11:00am - 1:30pm	Startup showcase
11:00am - 3:00pm	The great rock roadshow
11:00am - 12:00pm	Fusion research: Alcator C-Mod tour
11:30am - 12:30pm	Plasma and pickles
11:30am - 12:00pm	The gravity-defying lapping of a house cat: demonstration and Q & A session
12:00pm - 1:00pm	It's knot (all) theory!
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Sanjoy Mahajan, author of "Street-Fighting Mathematics"
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Marvelous molecules in play
12:00pm - 2:00pm	Solar Viewing With Telescope
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Living sunlight: how plants bring earth to life
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Cryptography
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Lottery mathematics
1:00pm - 1:45pm	Three "flavors" of magnetism
1:00pm - 2:00pm	A walk through time – 4.6 billion years of earth history
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with David Mindell, author of "Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight"
1:30pm - 2:25pm	Why I became a chemist. Prof. Richard Schrock, 2005 Nobel Prize winner
1:30pm - 2:00pm	A taste of electricity
1:30pm - 4:00pm	Distinguished faculty lectures with chemist Richard Schrock and economists Peter Diamond and Esther Duflo
1:30pm - 2:30pm	Fusion research: Alcator C-Mod tour
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Chemistry of sports
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Earth science in the 21st century
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Marvelous Molecules in Play
2:00pm - 2:30pm	The gravity-defying lapping of a house cat: demonstration and Q & A session
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Origami and math
2:45pm - 4:00pm	Gender, race, and the complexities of science and technology
3:00pm - 4:00pm	High tech show and tell presentations
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Plasma and pickles
3:00pm - 4:00pm	A first course in quantum mechanics: Educational Studies Program
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Beyond computation: the P vs NP question
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Fusion research: Alcator C-Mod tour

11:00am - 4:00pm	A walk through time – 4.6 billion years of earth history
11:00am - 4:00pm	Astronomy open house at MIT
11:00am - 4:00pm	Bits, electrons, and robots
11:00am - 4:00pm	BLOSSOMS: building science, technology, engineering, and math STEM education worldwide
11:00am - 4:00pm	Celebrating discovery at MIT: an undergraduate research poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	Center for Bits and Atoms Digital Fabrication Facility and Fab Lab network
11:00am - 4:00pm	Chemistry research displays by graduate students
11:00am - 4:00pm	Compare, don't score
11:00am - 4:00pm	Confronting the climate change challenge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Cracking up! How rock cracks under stress
11:00am - 4:00pm	Department of Chemistry poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	Energy secrets of biofuels and the body
11:00am - 4:00pm	Exploring with the lunar reconnaissance orbiter
11:00am - 4:00pm	Eye in the sky
11:00am - 4:00pm	Get it from the source! Talks with astronomers
11:00am - 4:00pm	Hands-on tour of "Junior Lab" in the Department of Physics
11:00am - 4:00pm	Inside the sky: planetarium shows
11:00am - 4:00pm	Lab tours of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory at MIT
11:00am - 4:00pm	Microsystems in action
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Electronics Research Society (MITERS) Open House
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Haystack Observatory: seeing the universe through radio eyes
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Museum inside out
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT OpenCourseWare: unlocking knowledge and empowering minds
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT150 welcome lounge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Nuclear science and engineering open house
11:00am - 4:00pm	Particle and nuclear physics research — physics at the smallest scale
11:00am - 4:00pm	Plasma Science and Fusion Center
11:00am - 4:00pm	Protect that pill
11:00am - 4:00pm	Searching for signs of life on Mars
11:00am - 4:00pm	See the seas
11:00am - 4:00pm	Terrascope 2013: reducing atmospheric CO2
11:00am - 4:00pm	The complex world of hydrophobia
11:00am - 4:00pm	The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) – MIT lead mission to the moon
11:00am - 4:00pm	The gravity-defying lapping of a house cat
11:00am - 4:00pm	The moon, like you have never seen it before
11:00am - 4:00pm	Tours of Chandra X-ray Observatory operations control center
11:00am - 4:00pm	Walking on water
11:00am - 4:00pm	What could a quantum computer do, and how would it work?
11:00am - 4:00pm	William Barton Rogers, geologist and founder