Advanced Tips & Tricks for Chemists: Structure and Reaction Searching with SciFinder Web
Erja Kajosalo, Amy Christuk
Fri Jan 21, 10am-12:00pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Hands-on training: Explore new Markush patent searching; How to find similar reactions (broad, medium, narrow) and view their transformation centers; Conduct half-reaction searches; Smart tools for analyzing and refining similarity and substructure search results; Find closely related substances such as different salts; Explore tips & tricks with reaction searching; Find property data including actual spectra for specific substances; Find and export suppliers for multiple substances; Set-up preferred and non-preferred suppliers; Set-up structure-based alerts; Combine different answer sets to examine their intersection and overlap; Create structures using SMILES & InChI strings; Sort reactions by relevance ranking; View reaction experimental procedures directly from journal and patent literature without leaving SciFinder Web. Learn what’s new with SciFinder Web! Class taught by Amy Christuk from CAS. Register at http://info-libraries.mit.edu/events/
Web: http://libguides.mit.edu/scifinder
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, 14S-134, x3-9795, kajosalo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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Electron Microprobe Analysis on the JEOL JXA-8200 Superprobe
Nilanjan Chatterjee
Fri Jan 21, 03-05:00pm, 54-1221
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This session is to introduce new users to the JEOL JXA-8200 Superprobe. You will have hands-on experience (if time permits) on our electron microprobe equipped with enhanced imaging capabilities and learn about wavelength and energy dispersive spectrometry, back-scattered electron, secondary electron, cathodoluminescence, and elemental x-ray imaging. Please contact Dr. Chatterjee by submitting form at [http://web.mit.edu/e-probe/www/courses.shtml], or call: 617-253-1995/email: nchat@mit.edu.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/e-probe/www/iap.html
Contact: Nilanjan Chatterjee, 54-1216, x3-1995, nchat@mit.edu
Sponsor: Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
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Introduction to Blacksmithing
Mike Tarkanian, Samuel Allen
Tue Jan 4, 01-03:00pm, GROUP 1
Tue Jan 4, 03-05:00pm, GROUP 1
Tue Jan 4, 05-07:00pm, GROUP 1
Wed Jan 5, 01-03:00pm, GROUP 1
Wed Jan 5, 03-05:00pm, GROUP 1
Wed Jan 5, 05-07:00pm, GROUP 1
Thu Jan 6, 01-03:00pm, GROUP 1
Thu Jan 6, 03-05:00pm, GROUP 1
Thu Jan 6, 05-07:00pm, GROUP 1
Tue Jan 11, 01-03:00pm, GROUP 2
Tue Jan 11, 03-05:00pm, GROUP 2
Tue Jan 11, 05-07:00pm, GROUP 2
Wed Jan 12, 01-03:00pm, GROUP 2
Wed Jan 12, 03-05:00pm, GROUP 2
Wed Jan 12, 05-07:00pm, GROUP 2
Thu Jan 13, 01-03:00pm, GROUP 2
Thu Jan 13, 03-05:00pm, GROUP 2
Thu Jan 13, 05-07:00pm, GROUP 2
Wed Jan 19, 01-03:00pm, GROUP 3
Wed Jan 19, 03-05:00pm, GROUP 3
Wed Jan 19, 05-07:00pm, GROUP 3
Thu Jan 20, 01-03:00pm, GROUP 3
Thu Jan 20, 03-05:00pm, GROUP 3
Thu Jan 20, 05-07:00pm, GROUP 3
Fri Jan 21, 01-03:00pm, GROUP 3
Fri Jan 21, 03-05:00pm, GROUP 3
Fri Jan 21, 05-07:00pm, GROUP 3
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Dec-2010
Limited to 18 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Preference given to freshman and Course 3 students (UG or G)
Students must choose to be a part of Group 1, 2 or 3. Mandatory introductory training with demonstration will be held for all participants from 3–5 PM on the first day of each session (Group 1- Monday January 3; Group 2 - Monday January 10, Group 3 - Tuesday, January 18). At this meeting, students will be assigned to the 1-3, 3-5 or 5-7 PM sections for three consecutive afternoons.
Students will learn basic blacksmithing techniques using traditional tools to hand-forge mild steel. Drawing a taper, forming a scroll, twisting, and finishing techniques will be incorporated into simple projects.
Limited to participants with no prior blacksmithing experience. Please indicate whether you want to be a part of Group One, Two or Three in your email to tarky@mit.edu.
CLASS IS FULL
Contact: Mike Tarkanian, 8-003, x3-5946, tarky@mit.edu
Sponsor: Materials Science and Engineering
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Introduction to Inverse Methods
Carl Wunsch
Mon Jan 24 thru Fri Jan 28, 10:30am-12:00pm, 54-317
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
An introductory class: simple and heuristic, with as little mathematics as seems possible. Simple computer exercises to demonstrate the basic ideas. Included are static and time-dependent methodologies including the singular value decomposition, Gauss-Markov estimators, Kalman filters, RTS smoothers, generalized versions of least-squares, adjoints, distinctions between data assimilation and state estimimation, etc. The primary emphasis is on linear problems---which are essential to understanding non-linear ones.
Contact: Carl Wunsch, 54-1524, x3-5937, cwunsch@mit.edu
Sponsor: Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
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Introduction to Metal Casting
Mike Tarkanian, Matt Humbert
Mon Jan 10, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1
Mon Jan 10, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2
Tue Jan 11, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1
Tue Jan 11, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2
Wed Jan 12, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1
Wed Jan 12, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2
Thu Jan 13, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1
Thu Jan 13, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2
Fri Jan 14, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1
Fri Jan 14, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Dec-2010
Limited to 6 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Preference given to freshman and Course 3 students (UG or G)
Students in this class will learn the techniques necessary for investment casting metals. We’ll first make models of the items to be cast – either by sculpting wax into the desired shape, or by casting wax into a rubber mold of an existing object. We will then build ceramic shells around the models, burn out the wax, and cast molten bronze, brass or aluminum into the resulting mold. If time permits, we will also cover the basics of sand casting.
Applicants should state their group preference when signing up.
NOTE NOVEMBER 2, 2010: THE CLASS IS FULL
Contact: Mike Tarkanian, 8-003, x3-5946, tarky@mit.edu
Sponsor: Materials Science and Engineering
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Introduction to Welding
Michael Tarkanian, Matt Humbert
Mon Jan 3, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1 (Tarkanian)
Mon Jan 3, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2 (Humbert)
Tue Jan 4, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1 (Tarkanian)
Tue Jan 4, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2 (Humbert)
Wed Jan 5, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1 (Tarkanian)
Wed Jan 5, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2 (Humbert)
Thu Jan 6, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1 (Tarkanian)
Thu Jan 6, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2 (Humbert)
Fri Jan 7, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 1 (Tarkanian)
Fri Jan 7, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 2 (Humbert)
Tue Jan 18, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 3 (Tarkanian)
Tue Jan 18, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 4 (Humbert)
Wed Jan 19, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 3 (Tarkanian)
Wed Jan 19, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 4 (Humbert)
Thu Jan 20, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 3 (Tarkanian)
Thu Jan 20, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 4 (Humbert)
Fri Jan 21, 10am-12:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 3 (Tarkanian)
Fri Jan 21, 01-03:00pm, 8-014, GROUP 4 (Humbert)
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Dec-2010
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Signup via email; Preference given to freshman and Course 3;
Students will be a part of 5 days of instruction during GROUPS 1 or 2; 4 days during groups 3 and 4. Applicants should state their group preference when signing up.
This course will cover the basics of welding metals with various techniques: oxyacetylene torches, stick welding (SMAW), MIG (GMAW) and TIG (GTAW) will be explored. The first four instructional sessions will review the procedures and techniques, safety concerns and equipment, and capabilities of each welding methods. Students can then use the final session as time to practice welding or to weld a small project under the supervision of the instructor.
Enrollment limit: 12 (3 students per group)
NOTE NOVEMBER 2, 2010: THE CLASS IS FULL
Contact: Michael Tarkanian, 8-003, x3-5946, tarky@mit.edu
Sponsor: Materials Science and Engineering
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Searching for Scientific Information with SciFinder Web
Erja Kajosalo, Amy Christuk
Fri Jan 14, 10am-12:00pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
In this hands-on training session you will learn all that SciFinder Web has to offer you. SciFinder is a comprehensive tool searching for literature in chemistry and related scientific fields. It is easy to use and allows you to do literature searches in seconds.
Learn how to conduct key word searches in 10,000+ journals, patents from around the world, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations; use advanced analysis tools to brainstorm, analyze, and refine data sets; combine different answer sets to review intersection and overlap. Set-up alerts; conduct citation searches. Export answers to EndNote or RefWorks. Find property data on substances. Learn what’s new with SciFinder Web!
Class taught by Amy Christuk from CAS. Register at http://info-libraries.mit.edu/events/ (class ID 37)
Web: http://libguides.mit.edu/scifinder
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, 14S-132, x3-9795, kajosalo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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