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 getting help on how to use them. One-hour courses start at noon, 7 & 8PM, Mon-Thurs during IAP.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Advanced Word Processing: LaTeX
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 8, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 8, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 28, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 28, 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: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Customization on Athena (Dotfiles)
Gary Dryfoos
Thu 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, 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: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: First Course
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 6, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 6, Tue Jan 7, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 29, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed-Thu, Jan 29-30, 07-08:00pm, 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 Athena account, finding help, and other basics. Also includes E-mail, Zephyr, WebSIS, and Residential Computing.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: FrameMaker for Your Thesis
Gary Dryfoos
Thu Jan 9, Mon Jan 27, 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: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: HTML - Making a WWW Home Page
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 21, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 21, Wed Jan 22, 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: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Information Resources on Athena
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 21, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 22, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 22, 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 the Athena system. See URL for complete IAP Athena minicourse schedule.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Introduction to FrameMaker
Gary Dryfoos
Thu Jan 9, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 9, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 27, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 27, 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: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: LaTeX Thesis
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 8, Tue Jan 28, 08-09:00pm, 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: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Maple
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 15, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 15, Thu Jan 16, 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 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: Athena training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Math Software Overview
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 13, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 14, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 14, 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: Athena training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Matlab
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 13, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 13, Tue Jan 14, 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.
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: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Serious Emacs
Gary Dryfoos
Thu Jan 23, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 23, 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.
Emacs is a text editor has many useful features, and this class is a must for anyone who uses it more than an hour or two each week. See URL for more details about schedule.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Working on Athena
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 6, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 7, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 7, Wed Jan 29, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 30, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 30, 08-09:00pm, 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: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: XESS
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 15, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 16, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 16, 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 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 for general and financial uses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Athena Training Group, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Hands-On EMACS Mini-Course
Eugenia Trusova
Tue Jan 14, 07-10:00pm, 4-035
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
Have you ever deleted a six-page email to a friend from home and not known how to retrieve it? Want to know how to format all that code during the coming semester? Get all of your emacs questions answered here, in person, and see what emacs can do for you!
Web: http://hkn.mit.edu
Contact: Eugenia Trusova, trusova@mit.edu
Sponsor: Eta Kappa Nu
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Longjobs
Carter Snowden
Wed Jan 15, 02-03:00pm, N42 Demo Center
Longjobs is an Athena service that enables users to process long-running, unattended computing jobs. We will provide an overview of the service and an introduction to some basic commands, procedures and policies.
Contact: Carter Snowden, csnowden@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Mozilla Tips and Tricks
Ken Takusagawa
Mon Jan 13, 08-10:00pm, 4-237
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
This class will cover Mozilla, Athena's default web browser. This one-session class will discuss and demonstrate some very simple tips and tricks you can use to enhance your experience using Mozilla.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/iap/mozilla/
Contact: Ken Takusagawa, W20-557, 253-7788, sipb-iap-mozilla@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Sawfish: Configuration, Customization, and Control
Isaac "Ike" Feitler
Tue Jan 28, 05-07:00pm, 2-131
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Understanding of basic Unix and Athena concepts is desirable
Sawfish is the default window manager on all Athena 9.0 workstations. This class will address the Sawfish window manager in general, and then will discuss how to configure, customize, and write code for Sawfish.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/iap/sawfish
Contact: Isaac "Ike" Feitler, 3 Ames Street Box #74, 225-6456, sipb-iap-sawfish@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Star Office: The Nuts and Bolts
Helen Healy, Rich Garcia
Wed Jan 8, Thu Jan 16, 11am-01:00pm, 1-115
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
This class will take you through the various components of the Star Office suite of applications. We will cover mathematical formulae, graphical presentations and spreadsheets as well as a general overview of Star Office.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/soffice/www/
Contact: Helen Healy, hhealy@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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WinAthena Advanced
Tom Thornton
Thu Jan 16, 01-05:00pm, 37-312
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 10-Jan-2003
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
An in-depth view of the MIT Win2000 Domain for container admins, covering AD, GP, installation, configuration, file systems, services, software and application deployment. This activity is hands-on, using high-speed machines in the latest IS cluster. See intro session on January 14.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/winathena/iap/2003/advanced
Contact: Sarah Hickok, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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WinAthena Introduction
Tom Thornton
Tue Jan 14, 01-05:00pm, 37-312
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 08-Jan-2003
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
An overview of the MIT Win2000 Domain for end users, covering installation, configuration, file systems, services and software, from the user's perspective. A hands-on activity using high-speed machines in the latest IS cluster. See Advanced session on Jan 16.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/winathena/iap/2003/intro
Contact: Sarah Hickok, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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