Athena Minicourse Series
Gary Dryfoos
Schedule: TBD
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Minicourses are free, do not require pre-registration, and are designed to show you how to get the most value out of Athena and MITnet services and facilities. At the minicourses you will receive free handouts that give more information about Athena and MITnet, especially how to get help with using them. 1-hour courses start at noon, 7 & 8pm, Mon-Thurs during IAP.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Advanced Word Processing: LaTeX
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 10, Thu Jan 11, Tue Jan 30, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 31, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 31, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course, Working.
An introduction to LaTeX, a widely-used text formatter, used for converting a text file into an attractive professional-looking document. It is a powerful and flexible program, with the capability to typeset many foreign characters and very complex mathematical text. See the URL for a complete list of all IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Athena: First Course
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 8, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 8, Tue Jan 9, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 10, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: none
Our new introduction to the Athena academic environment: what you can do on Athena, your account, finding help, and other basics. Also includes E-mail, Zephyr, WebSIS, and Residential Computing.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Customization on Athena (Dotfiles)
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 24, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 25, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 25, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course, Athena/X-Win experience.
Intended for the intermediate-level Athena user, this course will discuss the Athena login sequence and the user-configuration files (dotfiles) that affect it, as well as changes the user can make to those and other files to customize their working environment. See URL for complete list of IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: FrameMaker for your Thesis
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 29, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 30, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Feb 1, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourse: Frame and some Frame experience.
FrameMaker, with a special template, can be used to produce an MIT Thesis that meets all Institute formatting requirements. See URL for a complete list of all IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: HTML - Making a WWW Home Page
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 22, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 22, Tue Jan 23, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses- First Course, Working on Athena.
Covers the basic features of HTML ("Hyper-Text Mark-up Language"), the language of the World Wide Web, as well as the steps needed to post your own Web page on Athena. See URL for the complete schedule of IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Information Resources on Athena
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 22, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 23, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 23, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena.
A survey of the communications, help, and other resources available on Athena. See URL for complete IAP Athena minicourse schedule.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Introduction to FrameMaker
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 10, Thu Jan 11, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 29, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 29, Thu Feb 1, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena.
FrameMaker is a powerful word-processing and document preparation package available on Athena.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: LaTeX Thesis
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 30, Wed Jan 31, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Feb 1, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourse: Latex and some Latex experience.
Using the LaTeX text formatter to produce a fully-featured thesis that meets all MIT formal requirements. See the URL for the complete list of IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Maple
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 16, Wed Jan 17, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 18, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena.
A mathematics program that can perform numerical and symbolic calculations, including formal and numerical integration, solving algebraic or transcendental systems and differential equations, and series expansion and matrix manipulation. It also has extensive graphics capabilities.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Math Software Overview
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 16, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 18, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena.
A survey of major mathematical and graphing packages available on Athena. See the URL for the complete list of IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mindev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Matlab
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 16, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 17, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 17, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena.
An interactive program for scientific and engineering calculation. Applications include: matrix manipulation, digital signal processing, and 3-dimensional graphics. See the URL for the complete list of IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Serious Emacs
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 24, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 24, Thu Jan 25, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: First, Working, Emacs tutorial (on-line), some Emacs exper.
The text editor introduced in Word Processing Options (WPO) has many useful features not covered in that course. This class is a must for anyone who uses Emacs more than an hour or two each week. See URL for more details about schedule.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Working on Athena
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 8, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 9, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 9, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 11, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourse: First Course
Files, directories, setting permissions, job control, and more. What every new user should know about Unix, Athena's operating system.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: XESS
Gary Dryfoos
Thu Jan 18, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena
A powerful and easy-to-use spreadsheet, with a full range of mathematical, statistical, matrix, and string functions. It will be useful for scientific and engineering computations, as well as to general and financial users.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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GIS Software at MIT
Daniel Sheehan, Spatial Data Specialist
Thu Jan 11, 02-04:00pm, 1-190
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Come learn what GIS Software products are available at MIT and learn where you can find spatial data, both at MIT and around the Web.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/gis/www/
Contact: Daniel Sheehan, Spatial Data Specialist, N42-250, dsheehan@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Hands-on Arcview GIS Workshop
Daniel Sheehan, Spatial Data Specialist
Mon Jan 22, Tue Jan 23, 01-04:00pm, 1-115
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 23 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: familiarity with the Athena environment
Learn the basics of Arcview, a desktop geographic information system (GIS) that is available on Athena and on Windows. This is a two day (3 hours each day) workshop.
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Installing Linux-Athena
Camilla Fox , Garry Zacheiss
Wed Jan 17, 04-07:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: No experience necessary.
Been thinking of installing Linux-Athena? We'll do an overview of SIPB's installer, demonstrate it on one of our machines, and discuss problems that you might encounter and configurations you might be interested in. If you've got a laptop onto which you're interested in installing, feel free to bring it.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/iap/linux-athena
Contact: Camilla Fox, W20-557, x3-7788, sipb-iap-linux@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Using DEMs in ESRI GIS products
Daniel Sheehan
Wed Jan 24, Thu Jan 25, 02-04:00pm, 1-115
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 22 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: familiarity with the Athena environment, knowledge of Arcvie
This is a hands-on workshop that will help new Arcinfo and Arcview GIS users import and work with Digital Elevation Models. We will be downloading Digital Elevation Models in SDTS format and importing them into Arc/Info. We will look at basic GRID and Arcview Spatial Analyst hydrologic functions.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/gis/www/
Contact: Sarah Hickok, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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