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ATS Cooking Workshop
Ginger Yang
Sat Jan 22, 07-10:00pm, McCormick Dining

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Learn how to make a variety of delicious homemade food from the Association of Taiwanese Students!
Contact: Ginger Yang, yginger@mit.edu
Sponsor: Association of Taiwanese Students

Anime Screening: Tengen Toppa GURREN LAGANN
Jennifer Fu
Fri Jan 7, 14, 21, 28, 07-11:00pm, 2-105

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session

MIT Anime presents Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the popular GAINAX anime, in its entirety over IAP. Each Friday night, we will screen 7-8 episodes of the anime, starting at 7PM and ending at 11PM.

Pizza is sold at 7:35PM, and arrives for intermission at 8:40PM. Pocky and soda will also be for sale. Some additional snacks will be provided free.

TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN:
In a bleak future where humanity is oppressed by an army of mutants and forced to live underground, a young orphan unearths a powerful robot. Together with a boisterous man named Kamina, a beautiful sharpshooter named Yoko and many other friends, they use the robots power to fight against their oppressors and take back the surface.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/anime/www/index.shtml
Contact: Jennifer Fu, W2-736, (214) 392-0317, jtfu@mit.edu
Sponsor: Anime Club

Charm School 2011
Alicia Erwin
Fri Jan 28, 12-04:00pm, W20- all over

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

How do I ask for a date? Which bread plate is mine? At what point in a job interview can I ask about salary? Should I use a cell phone while on the T or the elevator? How can I network to find the perfect position?

Join us for MIT's 18th Annual Charm School to find out these answers and more. Participate in mini-classes on a wide variety of "charming" subjects. You may even earn your "Ch.D." (Doctoral degree in Charm). Classes are rolling, so stop by at any time during the four-hour period and stay afterwards for a networking reception to begin at 4:00pm.
Web: http://studentlife.mit.edu/sao/charm
Contact: Alicia Erwin, W20-549, x3-5369, aeerwin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Activities Office

Class of 2015 Early Action Telethon
Katie A Kelley
Wed Jan 26, 05:30-11:00pm, Bush Room 10-105

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: MIT Undergraduates Only

Be the first to talk with the Early Action admitted students of the MIT Class of 2015. Help the Admissions Office congratulate them and answer their questions. Encourage them to attend CPW this spring!!

It's lot of fun!
FREE FOOD will be provided!!
Bring your friends!

We look forward to seeing you there!
Contact: Katie A Kelley, 10-100, 324-5160, kakelley@mit.edu
Sponsor: Admissions

Human Rights on the Web: dinner discussion with Ethan Zuckerman
Karen Li
Tue Jan 18, 06-07:30pm, 4-145

No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 16-Jan-2011
Single session event

Can the internet be used to promote human rights and to take down oppressive regimes around the world? Or do these technologies actually empower the authoritarian states activists seek to challenge? Journalistic accounts of the recent turmoil in Iran suggest that new media played a key role in organizing and inspiring activists, but other evidence shows that the regime used the same tools to to harass, identify, and imprison protesters. Finally, what implications does this have for the development of new web technologies for social change?

Join Amnesty International and Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of the global citizen media network, Global Voices, and senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, for a theoretical and empirical discussion on the interface between the web and human rights. A recent paper, co-authored by Zuckerman, on the topic can be found here (http://www.usip.org/publications/blogs-and-bullets-new-media-in-contentious-politics).

Please RSVP to karenli@mit.edu by Sunday January 16 so I know how much food to order.
Contact: Karen Li, karenli@mit.edu
Sponsor: Amnesty International

Institute Diversity Summit 2011
Edmund Bertschinger, Robbin Chapman
Mon Jan 24, 09am-04:00pm, E14-6th floor

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: None

The Institute Diversity Summit 2011 is a rare opportunity to increase communication and collaboration across MIT departments and groups. We invite the entire MIT community to join us in celebrating the varied contributions of underrepresented students, postdocs, staff and faculty!

Learn about and practice ways to interact within a diverse environment, help cultivate an inclusive environment, and reach out to bring in all kinds of talent to MIT

The program will include presentations, breakout sessions, networking opportunities, exhibits, and more!

Monday, January 24th from 9am to 4pm in E14-6th floor.

Refreshments will be provided
Contact: Edmund Bertschinger, 4-304, 253-4801, edbert@mit.edu
Sponsor: Physics
Cosponsor: Architecture

Intro to EE and CS Mini-Lecture Series
Sarina Canelake
Mon Jan 3, Wed Jan 5, Mon Jan 10, Wed Jan 12, 19, 03-04:00pm, 34-101

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Mini lecture series for anyone interested in learning more about all sides of Course 6 - EE, CS, math, physics, and everything in between! Geared to those who know NOTHING about Course 6 - freshmen in particular, but upperclassmen are very welcome. Demonstrations, discussions, and Q&A sessions, as well as cookies!

For an updated list of lectures and to learn more, please visit: http://web.mit.edu/sarina/www/eecslectures/

Meet and mingle with Course 6 (6-1, 6-2, 6-3, and 18-C) upperclassmen and grad students. Bring questions that don't pertain to our discussions as well!

Mon Jan 3: lrn2linux - want to know how to make Athena computers bend to your will? Learn some very basic tips and tricks to get you off the ground running, as well as why MIT uses Linux, and why it's so awesome. Sarina Canelake will deliver this lecture and stick around afterwards to answer any questions that you may have.

Wed Jan 5: Circuits! You probably know what the CS stands for, but what about the EE in the acronym "EECS"? Learn about the fundamentals of electrical engineering (minus the math) - what is a circuit? A mosfet? Combinatorial logic? Find out more about why being an EE rocks! Guest lecturer Kat Kononov loves mosfets more than she can explain, and is a junior in 6-1 (electrical engineering).
Web: http://web.mit.edu/sarina/www/eecslectures/
Contact: Sarina Canelake, sarina@mit.edu
Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT History Uncovered
Silvia Mejia
Fri Jan 28, 10:30am-12:00pm, 14N-118

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event

The Institute Archives invites you to a presentation of untold stories of women and blacks at MIT at the turn of the 20th century. Come and learn about their fascinating lives after they left the Institute. The information was “uncovered” while researching materials for the MIT150.
Contact: Silvia Mejia, 14N-118, x8-5568, smejia@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries

ORC IAP Seminar: Crisis Mitigation and Response in Logistics and Transportation Systems
Nick Howard, Pallav Chhaochhria
Thu Jan 20, 10am-03:30pm, 32-155

No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Prereq: None

We will have several speakers talking on how we can design systems to deal with and respond to disease epidemics, natural disasters, and other crisis that often overwhelm traditional logistics and transportation systems.

Schedule:
  • 10:00-10:30 Bagels and Coffee
  • 10:30-11:30 Prof Yossi Sheffi will talk about robust systems design
  • 11:30-12:30 Diana Michalek will discuss air traffic control in response to storms and weather patterns
  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch
  • 1:30-2:30 Kathy King will discuss disease pandemic logistics systems
  • 2:30-3:30 Prof Arnie Barnett will discuss robust logistics/transportation systems


  • Please RSVP to Nickhow@mit.edu
    Contact: Nick Howard, E40, nickhow@mit.edu
    Sponsor: Operations Research Center

    Photography
    Ramamchandra Dasari, Robert Field
    Wed Jan 19, 08:30am-04:00pm, 34-401, Buffet Lunch at 12:00

    No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
    Single session event

    Steven Sasson (Kodak, on the first digital camera), Margaret Geller (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, "Click! The Universe."), and you. After the lectures, we break for a two hour poster session/buffet lunch in which most of the graduate students doing Spectroscopy Lab related research participate. Following this are four 20 minute talks given by graduate students
    Contact: Zina Queen, 6-205, x2-3422, zqueen@mit.edu
    Sponsor: Spectroscopy Lab

    The Distaff Arts: Medieval Clothing Technology
    Anne McCants, Margo Collett, Miranda Knutson
    Tue Jan 18 thru Fri Jan 21, 10am-04:00pm, E51-095

    Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
    Signup by: 03-Jan-2011
    Limited to 15 participants.
    Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)

    This course explores a wide range of medieval textile and clothing production technologies, offering students hands on experience in their use. We will work with a raw fleece; card and spin the wool; use simple looms to weave a belt; dye a variety of fabrics; and design/construct a single garment - either a cloak or tunic. All materials provided - students must commit to all 4 days of class.

    This course will question typical characterization of medieval textile work as unskilled, as well as consider distinctions usually made between activities labeled as crafts versus those labeled as art.
    Contact: Anne E. C. McCants, E51-255, 258-6669, amccants@mit.edu
    Sponsor: History

    Tour of Wallace Astrophysical Observatory
    Michael J Person
    Wed Jan 26, 07-11:00pm, Wallace Observatory

    Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
    Signup by: 17-Jan-2011
    Limited to 40 participants.
    Single session event

    Come tour the heavens at MIT's George R. Wallace Jr. Astrophysical Observatory located 45 minutes northwest of Boston in Westford, MA. Use various telescopes from 14" to 24" for both visual observing and electronic imaging of Jupiter, and other celestial bodies. Signup via listed website.
    Web: http://web.mit.edu/wallace/iaptour/
    Contact: Michael J. Person, iaptour@occult.mit.edu
    Sponsor: Wallace Astrophysical Observatory


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