2004 EAPS Lecture Series: Mars
Jim Hansen
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
The month of January will be an exciting time in the exploration of Mars. EAPS is sponsoring a series of noontime lectures that will highlight different aspects of its geology and environment. The Spirit and Opportunity rovers will land on the planet Jan. 4 and Jan 25, and we are hoping to bookend the series with live commentary on the missions as broadcast on NASA tv. Please see the EAPS home page for the most current information.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/eaps
Contact: Vicki McKenna, 54-910, x3-3380, vsm@mit.edu
Latest On Mars
Maria Zuber
Fri Jan 9, 12-01:00pm, 66-144
The History of Robot Exploration of Mars
Jonathan McDowell Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Talk will summarize the missions from the early 1960s to today. The focus will be on the missions themselves rahter than the science of our understanding of Mars. The latest photos from Spirit will be included.
Thu Jan 22, 12-01:00pm, 54-915
Icecaps of Mars and Earth
Felix Ng
Tue Jan 27, 12-01:00pm, 54-915
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A Cram Course In Reflection Seismology, Or How to Bluff Your Way Around Subsurface Imaging
Mark Willis, Joongmoo Byun
Tue, Thu, Jan 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, 29, 01:30-03:00pm, E53-220
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Dec-2003
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
An introduction to the oil exploration method of reflection seismology. The exploration cycle will be described, followed by a closer look at the acquisition and processing of seismic data. An emphasis will be placed on concepts and ideas rather than detailed mathematics.
Contact: EAPS Education Office, 54-912, x3-3381, carols@mit.edu or vsm@mit.edu
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Electron Microprobe Analysis on the JEOL JXA-733 Superprobe
Nilanjan Chatterjee
Fri Jan 9, 01-05:00pm, TBD
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
In this session you will have hands-on experience on our JEOL-733 electron microprobe with enhanced imaging capabilities and learn about wavelength and energy dispersive spectrometry, backscattered electron, secondary electron, cathodoluminescence, and elemental x-ray imaging.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/e-probe/www/iap.html
Contact: Nilanjan Chatterjee, 54-1216, x3-1995, nchat@mit.edu
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Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis for Trace Element Analysis of Geological, Biological and Environmental Materials
Ila Pillalamarri
Mon Jan 5, 11am-02:00pm, NW13-263
Instrumental neutron activation analysis is a non-destructive analytical technique for the determination of elemental abundances at very low levels in a wide variety of samples, geological to biological. Get to know this technique which was used to analyze the lunar rock samples and is now widely used in environmental pollution studies. Everybody is welcome.This course is arranged in four sessions.
Session 1: Introduction and principles.
Session 2: Description of gamma spectrometer.
Session 3: Hands on experience w/ instrumentation.
Session 4: A case study.
Contact: Ila Pillalamarri, NW13-263, x3-3387, pila@MIT.EDU
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