Picower Institute Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition featuring Christopher Harvey, PhD, of Harvard University, held in Singleton Auditorium (46-3002) at MIT Building 46, 43 Vassar Street.

Isaac Newton Institute seminar in the 'Mathematics of many-body entanglement' (MMB) programme: Ignacio Cirac of the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik speaks on the preparation of tensor network states.

Industry recruiters and hiring managers share practical advice on preparing for non-academic interviews, followed by a live question-and-answer session for researchers exploring careers beyond academia.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology seminar by David Jones, MD, PhD (Chair, Department of the History of Science, Harvard; Professor of Epidemiology) on the sixty-year history of 'mortality displacement' — the contested idea that pollution crises kill people already close to death — and its implications for policy.

Yuko Munakata presents evidence challenging capacity-only accounts of self-control and explains how experience, effort, and expected payoff shape executive-function engagement and later outcomes.

Robert E. Gompf (University of Texas, Austin) lectures on 'On classifying smoothings of R^4 - from the beginning to the present', tracing how 4-manifold topology emerged from the breakthroughs of Freedman and Donaldson and how Euclidean 4-space admits exotic smoothings that resist classification by countable numerical invariants.

Kirk Public Lecture at the Isaac Newton Institute by Yoshiko Ogata (Kyoto University) on how macroscopic properties of matter emerge from quantum particle interactions and the classification of topological order from an operator-algebraic perspective in mathematical physics.

Two-lecture series by Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford): 'Framed bordism and nearby Lagrangians' (September 16) and 'Complex bordism and Hamiltonian fibrations' (September 17), on bordism-theoretic approaches to Lagrangian embeddings in symplectic manifolds and Arnold's nearby Lagrangian conjecture.

Stanford Neurosciences Seminar Series talk by Emery Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Neuroscience Statistics Research Lab) on deciphering the dynamics of the unconscious brain under general anesthesia, hosted by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.

Cary Institute lecture with environmental historian Stephen Pyne (professor emeritus, Arizona State University) in conversation with Cary forest ecologist Winslow Hansen, on humanity's evolving relationship with fire, why destructive megafires have increased, the role of climate and land-use decisions, and pathways toward restoring ecological fire balance.

ISTA Lecture by Klaus Robert Müller (TU Berlin & Korea University, Seoul) on how machine learning and AI enable scientific research, particularly in medicine and chemistry, and on explainability techniques for extracting understanding from machine learning models.

MIT Biology Colloquium Series talk by David Bilder (University of California, Berkeley), hosted by Yukiko Yamashita, on invertebrate oncology and the ancient evolutionary origins of tumor-host interactions.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology seminar by Jeremy Labrecque, PhD, MSc (Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Causal Inference, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) on 'dark causal inference' — implied but unstated causal reasoning that pervades epidemiology — the misuse of 'association' language, and gaps in teaching causal reasoning.

Chemistry seminar by Prof. Yves Geerts (Université Libre de Bruxelles) on historical attempts by Pasteur and Curie to direct chiral symmetry breaking with external fields, why they failed, and how chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) under non-equilibrium conditions now enables enantiomer separation and control of molecular handedness.

MIT Biology Colloquium Series talk by Peter Koo (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), hosted by Yunha Hwang, on using AI to learn the gene regulatory code.

UCL Department of Neuroinflammation Seminar by Professor Emad Moeendarbary (Professor of Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology, UCL Mechanical Engineering) on how biophysical factors such as substrate stiffness and axon geometry regulate oligodendrocyte behavior and myelin formation, presenting the AxoMetic in vitro myelination platform for discovery of remyelinating therapies.

Public lecture by Prof. Didier Queloz, FRS (Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge; Professor of Physics, ETH Zurich), organized by the Swiss Physical Society at EPFL, on how exoplanet discoveries transformed understanding of planet formation and the search for life signatures in planetary atmospheres. Free admission for the general public.

Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology Seminar by Christine Brown, PhD (Deputy Director, T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratories) on developing and refining redirected CAR T cells for malignant brain tumors, including glioblastoma, tumor heterogeneity, immunosuppressive microenvironments, delivery routes, and manufacturing.

UC Berkeley Molecular & Cell Biology seminar (Divisions of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology; Cell Biology, Development & Physiology; and Genetics, Genomics, Evolution & Development) by Luke Gilbert of UCSF on repurposing CRISPR systems to activate and silence genes.

Stanford's summer research symposium features a keynote by Jamie Zeitzer, undergraduate lightning talks, and a poster and demonstration session on human performance research.