Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarm Creativity
Peter Gloor, Daniel Olguin Olguin
Tue Jan 13, Wed Jan 14, Thu Jan 15, 03-06:00pm, E51-145
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2009
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Discover what’s going to be cool—before everyone else.
In this course you will find out how to:
- discover cool trends for your field through Social Network Analysis by tapping into the collective intelligence of your potential customers (coolhunting)
- find the trendsetters who convert an innovation into a trend
- take the new trends you find and develop their business value (coolfarming)
You will also learn how to use our Condor, Condorview, CoolPeople and CoolTrend software for coolhunting and dynamic social network analysis. Among other examples we will apply our approach to optimizing communication flow, throughput and efficiency in hospitals.
This is a condensed version of a distributed course which has been taught for the last four years in Helsinki, Cologne, and Savannah College of Art and Design.
Web: http://www.ickn.org/html/IAP.htm
Contact: Peter Gloor, NE25-749, x3-7018, pgloor@mit.edu
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Financial and Econometric Modeling with MATLAB
Michael Weidman The MathWorks, Inc., Jamie Winter, James Cain
Fri Jan 23, 10am-12:00pm, E51-057
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 46 participants.
Single session event
The language of finance has changed in the last 20 years. We increasingly hear methods like “GARCH” and “stochastic differential equations” discussed alongside more traditional approaches. Proper use of these econometric techniques requires a strong foundation in quantitative finance (which is provided by the Sloan School) and a powerful numerical tool (which is provided by The MathWorks). This 2 hour session will show how to use MATLAB and its financial toolboxes for a variety of modeling tasks. Including:
• Introduction to MATLAB’s financial toolboxes
• Working with large sets of financial panel data
• Brief review of GARCH theory
• GARCH case study
• Monte Carlo simulation of stochastic differential equations
Some familiarity with the above methods will be assumed (knowledge of MATLAB is not required.)
Web: http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/MIT2009
Contact: James Cain, jrcain@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
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Global Health Networking Event
Erika Wagner, Anjali Sastry
Tue Jan 27, 05-07:00pm, Stata R&D Commons
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Are you interested in global health?
Did you know that MIT is strategically positioned to contribute to this field in a unique way?
Would you like to meet like-minded individuals and learn about a new student program that will train you to be a leader in issues relating to global health?
PLEASE JOIN US AT THE KICK-OFF RECEPTION FOR MIT'S EMERGING GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE
Refreshments will be served.
Contact: Michael Goldberg, E17-528, (617) 253-6457, mgoldbrg@MIT.EDU
Cosponsor: Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
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Probability, Gaming, and Trading Week
Mike Epstein
Mon Jan 26 thru Thu Jan 29, 01:30-04:30pm, W20-307
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
The MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering (LFE) will hold a seminar on the application of probability theory to financial markets and gaming. Lecturers will include quantitative money managers, derivatives traders, professors, and authors. A particular focus will be given to decision-making in the face of incomplete information and psychological inputs, both of which are common to gaming and trading. This activity will be hosted and keynoted by Mr. Mike Epstein, Research Affiliate of the LFE. No enrollment limit. Walk-ins welcome, but please RSVP.
Contact: Ellis Kim, elliskim@mit.edu
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Tax Issues for Employees and Entrepreneurs
Howard Mandelcorn, Joseph Weber
Tue Jan 20, Wed Jan 21, 01-04:00pm, E51-149
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This course intends to expose students to a broad range of tax issues students will encounter shortly after graduation as an entrepreneur or an employee. For a new employee, taxes are an important consideration in decisions regarding deductions and retirement savings (through employee and employer contributions such as 401k's IRAs, etc). Taxes also feature prominently in decisions with respect to stock option-based compensation. Also, tax related issues for U.S. taxpayers working overseas will be addressed. For the entrepreneur, taxes also influence a new business venture's choice of entity: Corporation, LLC, Partnership, Sole Proprietorship. Instructor: Howard Mandelcorn is a partner at the Hutchings Baramian LLP law firm in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Contact: Patrick X. Brown, (617) 253-6130, pxbrown@mit.edu
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