Identify and Invite Speakers

Collect input from faculty colleagues and GMC. Select a balance of disciplines. Consider representing MRSECs and DMSE alums in schedule. Try to balance potential travel costs by inviting local speakers (Harvard, BU, NortheastCheck MIT, DMSE, and local calendars before offering dates.

Avoid MRS (week after Thanksgiving), Head of the Charles (October), Hosting (end of February or beginning of March), and Spring Break (March). Fridays before a three-day weekend may have lower turnout for seminars and less availability for meetings.

Invitation Text

I am writing to invite you to give a seminar in MIT's Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series this fall. This Series, jointly sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Center for Materials Science and Engineering, and the Materials Processing Center, draws a large and lively audience of graduate students, faculty, and researchers.
 
The Seminars are held on Fridays at lunch time throughout the term. During your visit, we will arrange meetings with MIT faculty who share research interests with you and lunch and dinner with small groups of faculty, graduate students, and researchers.
 
MIT will cover round-trip coach class airfare (either reimbursed to you or booked by MIT), 1 or 2 nights lodging at an MIT-affiliated hotel, meals, and ground transportation costs. We will follow up with travel details once a workable date is identified.

Your research would be of great interest to a broad spectrum of faculty and students in our department and across the MIT materials community, and we would be happy to host you. Specific suggested dates are listed below---please contact me if you have any questions. I hope you can fit a visit to Cambridge in your busy schedule!

We currently have the following dates open in our schedule for this fall:
*list dates
 
If you are interested in giving a seminar but none of these dates work for you, please let us know as we have some flexibility in our scheduling...or of  course, we could push this off to [future date].