All the Presidents - Men and Woman
Nora Murphy
Fri Jan 20, 11am-12:00pm, 56-114
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Reference Archivist Nora Murphy of the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections will share facts and anecdotes about MIT's sixteen presidents - from the first (Rogers) to the current (Hockfield). All were leaders in their respective fields, and brought with them to MIT different skills and ideas. Come and hear about the impact each had on the Institute as well as on the world beyond.
Contact: Nora Murphy, 14N-118, x3-8066, nmurphy@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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Class of 2010 Telethon
Alia Burton and Mike Yang, Admissions Counselors
Thu Jan 26, 06:30-10:00pm, Bush Room, 10-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Be the first to talk with the prospective members of the Class of 2010. Help the admissions office contact the early action admitted students, answer their questions and write congratulatory postcards! It's lots of fun! Bring your friends!
Just show up, or email with any questions. Please bring your MIT ID.
Contact: Alia Burton and Mike Yang, Admissions Counselors, 3-108, x8-5515, counselors@mit.edu
Sponsor: Admissions
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Consolidating Student Loans
Eleanor Wolcott, Jocelyn Heywood
Wed Jan 11, 18, 11am-12:30pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Consolidating your student loans can reduce your monthly payments and lock in a single interest rate. At this session, which features a guest speaker from LoanMerge Group, Eleanor Wolcott and Jocelyn Heywood of Student Financial Services will explain how loan consolidation works and how to apply for loan consolidation.
Contact: Eleanor Wolcott, 11-120, 253-4007, ewolcott@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Financial Services
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Creativity: It's All In Your Head
Ruth Levitsky, Toastmasters@MIT, Cherylle Garnes, Ray Valvano, Kevin Carlson, David Marshall
Sat Jan 14, 10am-12:30pm, E51-372
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Signup by: 13-Jan-2006
Limited to 40 participants.
Single session event
Most people stopped being creative by the third grade. In this interactive team presentation you will learn tips, techniques and games to sharpen, enhance and spark your creativity in all areas of your life.
Contact: Ruth Levitsky, Toastmasters@MIT, E52-252, x3-3399, levitsky@mit.edu
Sponsor: Toastmasters@MIT
Cosponsor: Economics
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Financial Aid 101
Daniel T. Barkowitz
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Did you know that over $142 billion was given out in all sources of Financial Aid in 2004-2005? Want to learn more about the Financial Aid process? Student Financial Services will be offering a series of three 1 hour sessions. Best suited for parents and students in grades 11 and up. Current MIT students are welcome. Participants are welcome at individual sessions but some content in the later sessions will assume familiarity with the material presented in earlier sessions.
Contact: Daniel T. Barkowitz, 11-320, x8-5612, barkowit@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Financial Services
Introduction to Financial Aid
Daniel T. Barkowitz
We will discuss what Financial Aid is. The sources for Financial Aid. The formulas used in determining your eligibility. And also when and how to apply.
Mon Jan 9, 12-01:00pm, 1-135
How Does the Federal Methodology Work?
Daniel T. Barkowitz
We will explain how to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and assist you with the financial aid calculation formula. Please bring a basic function calculator and a copy of your 2003 tax return.
Thu Jan 19, 12-01:00pm, 1-135
How is My Institutional Contribution Determined?
Daniel T. Barkowitz
We will explain how to fill out the CSS/Financial Aid Profile and will help you understand how your information is used in determining your financial aid award by examining the actual calculations. Please bring a basic function calculator and a copy of your 2003 tax return.
Mon Jan 23, 12-01:00pm, 1-375
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History and Mystery of the Tarot
Daniel Barkowitz, Members of Tarot@MIT Study Group
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 24-Dec-2005
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
This IAP activity will explore the history, origin, use and art of the Tarot. Students should purchase the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck or similar learning deck for use in class. Students welcome at any session but encouraged to attend all.
Contact: Daniel Barkowitz, 11-320, x8-5612, barkowit@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Financial Services
The History of the Tarot
Daniel Barkowitz, Members of Tarot@MIT Study Group
In this session we will examine the development of the Tarot from its earliest known history to speculation on its origins. We will also examine the structure of the Tarot and will learn the basic format of the Major and Minor Arcana.
Tue Jan 10, 12-01:30pm, 2-131
The Art of the Tarot
Daniel Barkowitz, Members of Tarot@MIT Study Group
In this session, we will look at various artists' interpretations of Tarot by comparing over 30 Tarot decks. We will discuss how different decks contain different expressive images relating to the same central core. We will participate in an activity designed to explore our own connection to the cards in the Tarot.
Tue Jan 17, 12-01:30pm, 2-131
The Mystery of the Tarot
Daniel Barkowitz, Members of Tarot@MIT Study Group
In this session we will begin to explore the use of the Tarot as a Fortune Telling device. Examining the classic "Celtic Cross" spread, we will observe a sample reading and then partner to practice reading cards for each other.
Tue Jan 24, 12-01:30pm, 2-131
The Spreading of the Tarot
Daniel Barkowitz, Members of Tarot@MIT Study Group
We will continue our exploration of Tarot as a fortune telling device by exploring the various spreads in current use. We will continue praticing reading for each other and will try new spreads in our reading.
Tue Jan 31, 12-01:30pm, 2-131
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Issues in Technology and Policy Seminar Series
Renee Robins
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Many policy issues involve the application, commercialization, and control of technologies. This annual seminar series explores selected issues in technology and policy, including examples from areas such as energy, telecommunications, and space exploration. This year the series includes a two-part workshop on "Complexity." Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/tpp
Contact: Renee Robins, E40-381, x3-7662, rrobins@mit.edu
Sponsor: Technology and Policy Program
An Introduction to Complexity
Bill Nuttall Cambridge University
This 2-part workshop provides a wide-ranging and fast-moving introduction to the science of complexity and its application to problems found in physics, ecology, geology and organizations. The goals are to help participants recognize signs of complexity in seemingly unstructured phenomena and to introduce concepts of complexity that can be used in designing physical or social processes.
Tue Jan 10, Wed Jan 11, 12-02:00pm, E51-149, Note: two-part workshop
Electric Power Networks: Challenges and Opportunities
Marija Ilic Visiting Professor from Carnegie-Mellon
Public needs in the electric power sector are evolving. This seminar will examine evolution to new technologies and more flexible organizational structures from a systems engineering perspective, including the technical and regulatory issues surrounding the maintenance of reliable, affordable and high quality electricity service as existing infrastructure is gradually replaced with distributed small scale technologies.
Wed Jan 18, 12-01:30pm, E51-149
International Space Cooperation? Visions of the Future
Dava Newman Director, Technology and Policy Program
Space exploration offers great opportunity for international cooperation. Will we realize the ideal? After decades of nation-based competition resulting in a 'space race' during the Cold War, we are now in a globalized world. This seminar will address opportunities and challenges for international space cooperation, including differing perspectives between the US, Europe, Russia, Japan & China, and visions for the future.
Wed Jan 25, 12-01:30pm, E51-149
MyAmazon.Com? Personalization and Privacy in the Marketplace
Frank Field Senior Research Scientist, CTPID
New online retailing technologies have equipped firms with tools that move us toward a "mass market of one," where marketing and advertising are migrating to individually-targeted sales strategies applied across the mass market. As these techniques spread, some nagging public policy issues remain not only unaddressed, but increasingly hard to frame. This talk will address why this is so, and what might be done about it.
Tue Jan 31, 12-01:30pm, E51-149, Note: Tues. seminar this week
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MIT Financial Aid: Deadlines, Materials, and Applying on Time
Jason Shumaker
Thu Feb 2, 04-05:00pm, 54-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Interested in financial aid for the 2006-2007 academic year? MIT's Student Financial Aid staff will confirm deadlines, provide an overview of the financial aid application materials, review new procedures in the process, and answer questions to make applying for financial aid successful and easy. All participants will be entered to win a $500 scholarship! This session is intended for 2006-07 returning students.
Contact: Jason Shumaker, 11-320, 253-8467, jasons@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Financial Services
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Palmistry
Mary A. Mullowney
Sun Jan 29, 12-04:00pm, 1-246
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 27-Jan-2006
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: None.
An introduction to the ancient art of palmistry, a path to understanding yourself and others by studying the lines and markings on the hand. A mini-reading of each student's palm is included in the course. Please sign up via e-mail only.
Contact: Mary A. Mullowney, 5-317, 324-2237, mamullow@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mechanical Engineering
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Recruitment Boot Camp
David Rogers
Wed Jan 18, 03:30-09:30pm, At or around MIT, Max three from each chapter
Thu Jan 19, 09:30am-04:30pm, At or around MIT, Max three from each chapter
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 13-Jan-2006
Limited to 100 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
Recruitment Boot Camp is the only intensive workshop focused on recruitment success for fraternities, sororities and governing councils.
By the end of two days participants will:
-Understand the impact the chapter image has on recruitment.
-Have in your hands a 10-step recruitment model that has been proven successful, as well as an individualized action plan, specific to your chapter.
-Be well-versed in the appropriate role for governing councils in supporting chapter-level recruitment and able to move forward on needed changes to the rush process on campus.
-Share a whole new way to view recruitment and be able to use common language in spreading the information to other members of the Greek community to foster positive change.
Contact: David Rogers, W20-549, x3-7546, rbc@mit.edu
Sponsor: Division of Student Life
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System Design and Operations Under Uncertainty
Olivier de Weck
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
The traditional paradigm in the design of large scale systems such as the electrical power grid and transportation systems has been that changes occur slowly or that trends can be predicted reliably. Recent events such as Sept. 11, 2001, a suite of natural disasters and increasingly dynamic and fragmented marketplace challenge this assumption. Increasingly, architects, designers and operators have to include consideration of uncertainty in their decision making. This seminar series illuminates this subject from a variety of viewpoints.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/~margret/orcesd
Contact: Margret Bjarnadottir, margret@mit.edu
Sponsor: Operations Research Center
Cosponsor: Engineering Systems Division
Adaptive Experimentation, Expected Value of Improvement, and Robust Design
Professor Dan Frey
We will present research into adaptive experimentation as a means for making improvements in design of engineering systems. A simple method for experimentation is described entitled adaptive one-factor-at-a-time. A mathematical model is proposed and theorems are presented concerning the expected value of the improvement provided. Full abstract can be found at www.mit.edu/~margret/orcesd
Tue Jan 10, 12-01:00pm, E40-498
An OR Approach to Financial Planning
Dr. Gina Mourtzinou, Portfolio Manager, RiverSource
Financial planning is best described as the process used to establish an individual’s short and long-term goals and make the appropriate financial and personal decisions to achieve those goals. In today’s world with the market conditions as uncertain as ever, financial planning becomes increasingly more important. It is also a dream OR problem. Full abstract can be found at www.mit.edu/~margret/orcesd.
Tue Jan 17, 12-01:00pm, E40-298
Strategic Engineering: Designing Systems for an Uncertain Future
Olivier de Weck
In this talk I will first introduce the notion of Strategic Engineering as an interesting and increasingly important field of study in the context of system design. I will argue that there are two primary dimensions that drive strategic thinking in systems engineering. The first is the temporal dimension which requires that future uncertainties be reflected. Detailed abstract can be found at www.mit.edu/~margret/orcesd.
Tue Jan 24, 12-01:00pm, E40-298
The Weakest Link
Aharon Ben-Tal, Visiting Professor
The proverb says the steel chain is no stronger than its weakest link. How then one finds the weakest link? Suppose we can perform tests on the strength of individual links;
How to design an algorithm that will find the weakest link in the smallest possible number of such tests? We shall present in the talk such an optimal algorithm.
Tue Jan 31, 12-01:00pm, E40-298
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The Art and Science of Dogfighting 1915-1983: A "How-To" Course
Marshall Michel USAF Retired, former Air Attaché to Israel
Mon Jan 30 thru Fri Feb 3, 11am-12:30pm, Simmons Hall, Multi-Purpose Room
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Tired of being a strafe panel when using an online flight simulator game? Having trouble keeping your barrel roll attacks from turning into vertical rolling scissors? Wonder why, since air combat began, 20% of the pilots have gotten 80% of the kills? Do you just want to watch the good parts (i.e. dogfights) of classic flying films like "Wings", "Battle of Britain", and "Top Gun" and hear an explanation of what these guys are doing and why?
Instructor is a CIS Security Studies Program Fellow and a former USAF F-4 & F-15 pilot with 321 combat missions.
Contact: Marshall Michel, michelm@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for International Studies
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The Connections are Infinite – MIT’s Alumni Network
Anna Arnedt
Tue Jan 17, 02:30-04:30pm, Bush Room (10-105)
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Did you know that the MIT Alumni Association provides services for students, not only alumni? Discover the many services available to students and start building the foundation of your network today. Let us demonstrate ways to contact alumni for career advice, search the Online Alumni Directory for alumni with similar interests to yours, learn about MIT Club social activities, and gain insight on ways to engage alumni in your events. MIT’s exclusive network - more than 115,000 alumni strong - is here for your benefit.
Come explore our services with alumni and students that have benefited from our programs. Join us in the Bush Room for refreshments, free gifts, and valuable info on our student programs!
Web: http://alum.mit.edu/students/index.html
Contact: Anna Arnedt, W59-200, aa-student-services@mit.edu
Sponsor: Alumni Association
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