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IAP 2013 Activities by Category - Research Skills

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2013 IAP UROP Expo

UROP & OME Staff

Jan/24 Thu 02:00PM-04:00PM W16 Kresge Lobby

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Never participated in UROP? Want to get involved, but don't know where to start? Come to the 2013 IAP UROP Expo and meet faculty, staff, and students representing UROP departments, labs, and centers across campus. The Expo provides an excellent opportunity to find out about UROP in the areas that interest you most! Knowledgeable representatives from participating departments will be on hand to answer your UROP-related questions, such as: - When is the best time to start looking for a UROP? - What is the best way to approach faculty within the department? - What kind of experience might I need? - I'm interested in a specific type of research; who in the department should I contact? UROP students will display posters on their research and share their UROP experiences. UROP staff will be on hand to answer your questions about the UROP proposal process, research credit, funding, and other aspects of the program.

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Office of Minority Education
Contact: UROP Staff, 7-104, x3-7306, urop@mit.edu


5S for Chemical Laboratory Safety, Productivity, and Positive Morale

John F. Carrier, Sloan School of Management

Jan/24 Thu 10:00AM-11:30AM 66-110

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none

Overview

5S is a technique to improve the performance, morale, and safety of its "human systems". It is based on 5 “S” words:

It is the best way to stabilize and optimize systems where people share common resources and equipment. Despite its apparent simplicity, it is rooted in the principles of control system dynamics and the psychology of human interaction.

If you feel –

Then 5S is for you!

During the session, we will discuss –

To bring:

Nothing is required. Bring members of your workspace!

Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: John Carrier, (617) 939-4396, JFCARRIE@MIT.EDU


Adventures in Scanning Electron Microscopy

Donald Galler, Research Engineer

Enrollment: Advance sign up. First come, first serve basis.
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Flexible. Training requirements will be half day
Prereq: High School Physics

This class is an introduction to the basic operation of a scanning electron microscope. The basic operating principles will be covered and the attendees will be trained on the use of the microscope.

 The microscope is a new JEOL 6610 LV scanning electron microscope (SEM) with several advanced features:

 This is a training class but anyone interested in these modern research tools is welcome to attend.

 Attendees are encouraged to bring samples for exploration and will operate the microscope as part of the class.

Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Donald Galler, 4-133, 617-253-4554, dgaller@mit.edu


Jan/22 Tue 09:00AM-05:00PM SEM lab room 4-141, 1 hour lunch break
Jan/23 Wed 09:00AM-05:00PM SEM lab room 4-141, 1 hour lunch break

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Donald Galler - Research Engineer


All about UROP Panel

Katherine Julian, Staff Associate, UAAP

Jan/23 Wed 12:30PM-01:30PM 4-149, Lunch is provided

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

Want to find a UROP? Not sure where to start? Don't know if you'll have time? Come to a UROP panel sponsored by the Baker Foundation and the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming. Get the inside scoop from undergraduates who have done UROPs in several different departments. This is a great way to gear up for the IAP UROP expo which takes place the next day. Lunch will be provided!

Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Katherine Julian, 7-103, 617 253-9764, KJULIAN@MIT.EDU


An Introduction to Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES)

Dr. Shaoyan Chu

Jan/16 Wed 02:00PM-03:00PM 13-2137

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15

Topics of this training course include the concept of ICP-AES and processes of basic sample preparation, calibration and background correction.

Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Shaoyan Chu, 13-3134, x3-0054, sc79@mit.edu


Annotation Studio Workshop

Kurt Fendt

Jan/31 Thu 03:00PM-06:00PM 56-180

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 20 participants

Have you ever wondered how to annotate online texts with your thoughts, comments, or associations? Does an image better express what you are imagining while reading a literary text? How about sharing your comments with friends, fellow students, or colleagues? How can you integrate digital text annotation in your teaching? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, please join us during IAP for HyperStudio's workshop on digital annotation tools designed for humanities students, scholars, and educators.

In this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to create, tag, link, and share annotations in web-based environments. The workshop will include:

Introduction to digital text annotation - evaluate various online text annotation tools
Hands-on sessions - work with your own text using Annotation Studio
Text annotation for teaching and scholarship - Discuss how to best apply these tools in your research and scholarship.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies
Contact: Gabriella Horvath, ghorvath@mit.edu


Are You In or Out? An Overview of the Material Transfer Process @ MIT

Vibhu Sachdev, Associate Licensing Officer

Jan/24 Thu 12:00PM-01:30PM Room 3-133, Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

The transfer of materials into and out of MIT is steadily increasing each year. Moreover, the providers and recipients for these materials are diversifying. Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) are legal contracts that ensure all parties are permitted to send and receive biological materials, chemical compounds, and other materials. MTAs protect MIT’s intellectual property and freedom to publish, and MTAs record the terms and conditions for the use of the materials. Come and hear members of the Technology Licensing Office discuss MIT's material transfer process. Gain a better understanding of MTAs, MIT’s procedures and policies for MTAs, and how to get your materials expeditiously. Refreshments will be served. Please register at: http://tlo.mit.edu/iapevents

Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Kikuyu Daniels, NE18-501, 3-6966, kdaniels@mit.edu


BIOBASE Knowledge Library

Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian

Jan/18 Fri 01:00PM-02:30PM DIRC 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Interested in finding out what's known in the scientific literature about a particular gene, disease or drug? Want to apply that information to high-throughput data analysis? Interested in finding out about transcription factors related to your research? Learn to search the BIOBASE Knowledge Library (Proteome/TRANSFAC) by topic or multi-gene data sets. Please register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190104

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


BIOBASE's Explain Analysis Tool

Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian

Jan/18 Fri 02:30PM-04:00PM DIRC 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Interested in microarray, ChIP-chip or ChIP-seq analysis? Biobase's ExPlain™ is a unique upstream data analysis system that combines promoter and pathway analysis tools and enables you to identify transcription factors affecting gene expression in your microarray and RNA-Seq experiments, as well as predict how they, in combination, can induce observed gene expression patterns. Come learn how to take your analysis further and gain insight into the key upstream signaling regulators influencing the activity of these transcription factors. Please register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190105

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


BIOBASE's Human Gene Mutation Database

Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian

Jan/18 Fri 04:00PM-05:00PM DIRC 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Interested in human inherited diseases and their associated mutations? Learn to use the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD), a comprehensive database on human germ-line mutations associated with disease, to determine whether an identified gene lesion is novel, search for known mutations within a given gene, or search for a type of gene mutation within a chromosomal location. Please register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=190106

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


Biotech Business Information for Engineers and Scientists

Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian

Jan/30 Wed 11:00AM-12:00PM DIRC 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required


It's not brain surgery...it's market research. This session will introduce scientists and engineers to information resources that cover biotechnology industries and markets. We will use realistic examples and hands-on exercises with key resources to demonstrate how to match your ideas and discoveries with the opportunities and realities of the marketplace. Please register for this event. 

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


BrainNavigator: Hands-On Introduction and Demo

Courtney Crummett, BCS Librarian

Jan/17 Thu 10:00AM-11:30AM 14N-132 (DIRC)

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

BrainNavigator integrates accurate content and innovative tools to improve the productivity, efficiency and quality of research. It helps locate specific areas of the brain, making visualizing and experimental planning in the brain easier. Class attendees will learn how to access high resolution images, identify coordinates and calibrate those coordinates to their own animals, link their own images to BrainNavigator atlases, count cells using the cell marker tool, overlay schematic drawing onto atlas stained sections or their own images, and use the injection planner. Please Register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=191481

Sponsor(s): Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU


Commercialize your science or engineering research

Howard Silver, MIT Libraries

Jan/17 Thu 12:00PM-01:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/17
Limited to 30 participants

This session will introduce scientists and engineers to business information resources that will help you understand the commercial potential for your ideas, how to find partners, and sources for financial support.  We will use realistic examples and hands-on exercises with key resources to demonstrate how to match your ideas and discoveries with the opportunities and realities of the marketplace.

 

Please Register

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU


Coolnetworking 3.0: Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarm Creativity

Peter Gloor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

This course consists of three parts, part I is the foundation for parts II and III, parts can be taken separately.

Day 1: I. How to Be an Efficient (Online) Networker

Part I is for everybody who would like to learn how they can be more efficient in their online and face-to-face networking.

Day 2: II. Coolhunting

Part II is for the power user who would like to learn how to apply Social Network Analysis to discover and predict emergent trends on the Web by mining Twitter, Blogs, Facebook, Wikipedia and the Web at large. Coolhunting means finding new trends by finding the trendsetters before anybody else, by tapping into the collective intelligence on the Web, and interpreting it through dynamic semantic social network analysis.

Day 3: III. Coolfarming

Part III builds on the basics from part II, it shows you how you can develop new trends through self-organizing teams (Coolfarming) by nurturing COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks), and how you can better advertise your products on the Web through viral marketing using Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia.

This is a revised and condensed version of a distributed course, which has been taught for the last 8 years at MIT, Helsinki, Cologne, and Savannah. (http://sites.google.com/site/coincourse2012/)

http://www.ickn.org/iap.html

Sponsor(s): Sloan School of Management
Contact: Peter Gloor, NE25-749, x3-7018, pgloor@mit.edu


Jan/09 Wed 03:00PM-06:00PM NE25-746, Bring your laptop

How to Be an Efficient (Online) Networker

twenty rules for networking :

You will create a "virtual mirror" of your own communication behavior, telling you how much of a "star" or a "galaxy" you are, analyzing your own Facebook and e-mail networks. 

 

Peter Gloor


Jan/10 Thu 03:00PM-06:00PM NE25-746, bring your laptop

Coolhunting

As part of the course you will get Condor-2.6.6, which allows you to analyze Web sites, Blogs, Twitter, Wikipedia, Facebook and E-Mail.

Peter Gloor


Jan/11 Fri 03:00PM-06:00PM NE25-746, bring your laptop

Coolfarming

In this part we will use Condor-2.6.6 to analyze organizational e-mail networks, and study interpersonal networks on the Web, Twitter, and Facebook.

Peter Gloor


Data Diggers: Groundhog Day Hack-a-Thon

Ezra Glenn

Feb/01 Fri 12:00PM-03:00PM 9-450A, bring a laptop!

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

To celebrate Groundhog Day (OK, OK -- it's one day early) and prepare for the inaugural Spring Semester of MIT Data Diggers, we'll meet over IAP to start to dig up (or perhaps hunt down) some data sets to use in the class.  Come prepared to use all your hacking tools (and some good old-fashioned resourcefulness and traditional research skills as well) to seek out rich veins of MIT-related and publicly-available data for use in Spring semester.  Races, prizes, food; data-oriented costumes optional.

Open for all MIT students, whether you plan to enroll in 11.S195 in the Spring or prefer not to take the funnest class at MIT.

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, 617 253-2024, EGLENN@MIT.EDU


Digital Forensics for Archives 101

Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist, MIT Institute Archives & Special Coll.

Jan/18 Fri 02:00PM-03:30PM 14N-118

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: none

Have you heard the term "digital forensics"?  Are you interested in learning what the MIT Institute Archives is doing using digital forensics to prepare files for long-term access and preservation?  Come to this IAP session to hear about digital forensics, see software and tools demonstrated, and ask your questions!

Please register for this event.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Kari Smith, 14N-118, 617 258-5568, SMITHKR@MIT.EDU


EHS Representative Orientation

Pam Greenley

Jan/17 Thu 09:30AM-12:30PM N52-496

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: Registration required (see below)

This is a training course for new and existing EHS reps on their role in the EHS Management System, their responsibilites under the EHS-MS, and a brief overview of EHS issues they may be asked about by their lab mates.

Topics include:

 

Web: http://ehs.mit.edu

Register at http://web.mit.edu/sapwebss/PS1/training_home.shtml

Sponsor(s): Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: Jessica Van, N52-496, x2-3233, jvan@mit.edu


Elevation and Hydrography Data

Jennie Murack

Jan/28 Mon 01:00PM-03:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: A basic knowledge of ArcMap

Learn to read a topographic map and learn how to use a digital elevation model to create contour lines and do hydrographic analysis. 

Prerequisite: Parcipants should take the Introducation to GIS workshop or have previous experience using ArcGIS.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176649

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Endnote Basics

Anita Perkins

Jan/24 Thu 12:00PM-01:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Limited to 30 participants

EndNote is a "personal bibliographic software" package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references. Attendees will create a personal database of cited literature by importing references from resources such as Barton, Web of Science, PubMed, & other sources of published literature. Your database can be used to automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies in your manuscripts. It can also help you organize and manage your PDF files.

Please register for this session.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anita Perkins, perkins@mit.edu


Energy Information: Industries and Statistics

Katherine McNeill

Jan/14 Mon 04:00PM-05:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

Interested in researching or working in the field of energy? Want to find out how your energy project fits into the landscape of various industries? This session will give you the skills to research the business and statistical information on energy to find industry overviews, market research, news and data.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katherine McNeill, E53-168C, 617 253-0787, MCNEILLH@MIT.EDU


Energy Sci/Tech Information: Where to Go, What to Do

Chris Sherratt

Jan/14 Mon 03:00PM-04:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 30 participants

Information on energy is everywhere! How do you find what you need and keep on the cutting edge of what is published? Attend this hands-on session to find out.

Please register for this event.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Chris Sherratt, 14S-134, 617-253-5648, gcsherra@mit.edu


Exploring the Institute Archives and Special Collections: Open to All

Nora Murphy, Archivist for Reference, Outreach and Instruction

Feb/01 Fri 01:00PM-02:00PM 14N-118

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

The Institute Archives and Special Collections curates material about the Institute that tells the story of MIT's founding and its endeavors ever since. Questions about MIT's history and culture can be answered through endless stories about people, programs, and policies. Over 20 million items can be discovered and explored by any researcher. Learn how to find what you're looking for and how to use our intriguing collections.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Nora Murphy, 14N-118, 617 253-8066, NMURPHY@MIT.EDU


Finding Research Datasets: ICPSR and the Harvard-MIT Data Center

Katherine McNeill

Jan/23 Wed 10:00AM-11:30AM 14N-132

Enrollment: Register at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=196874
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 20 participants

Need data to answer a research question? Interested in analyzing raw datasets with micro-level records about individual respondents? This hands-on workshop will familiarize you with the resources of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Harvard-MIT Data Center, which provide access to datasets in the social sciences and related fields. Topics will include the structure of data files, finding and downloading datasets, and understanding data documentation.

Please register for this session.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katherine McNeill, E53-168c, x3-0787, mcneillh@mit.edu


Finding the Energy in E-Books!

Chris Sherratt

Jan/24 Thu 11:00AM-12:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants

Lots of energy information is available right on your desktop or mobile device. This session will highlight some of the hidden energy gems among the Libraries online books.

Please register for this event.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Chris Sherratt, 14S-134, 617-253-5648, gcsherra@mit.edu


FT-IR Sampling Capabilities in CMSE

Tim McClure

Jan/28 Mon 10:00AM-01:00PM 13-2137

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25

The Center for Materials Science and Engineering's Analysis Shared Experimental Facility has an extended range FT-IR Microscope with a variety of sampling accessories that are available for the use of researchers. Come find out about the many sampling options now available for FT-IR.  Pre-register via e-mail.

Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Tim McClure, 13-4149, x8-6470, mtim@mit.edu


Fundamentals of Modeling and Simulation

Paul Grogan, PhD Candidate, Engineering Systems Division, Tom Coles, PhD Candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This course is intended to introduce students to modeling and simulation techniques in an intensive one-week session. Advance registration is required and attendance is mandatory for all five days.

Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of modeling and simulation through progressive tutorial-based exercises culminating with development of a distributed simulation application. Course topics include Java programming techniques, object-oriented modeling, time-based simulation techniques, graphical and user interfaces, and distributed simulation using the IEEE Std. 1516-2010 High Level Architecture (HLA). Open source software will be used with an exception for the HLA runtime infrastructure for which a temporary license will be provided for the duration of the course.

By the end of the course, students should be comfortable with a Java development environment, able to create object-oriented models of physical systems, familiar with basic time-simulation and 2-D visualizations, and aware of the core components of the HLA standard. After conclusion of the course, students are encouraged to continue developing simulation models for participation in the SISO Simulation Smackdown, an international federated simulation event held at the Spring Interoperability Workshop from April 8-12, 2012 in San Diego, California. The SISO Simulation Smackdown seeks simulation federates to participate in a simulated lunar exploration near the Aitken Basin.

Sponsor(s): Engineering Systems Division, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Paul Grogan, 33-409, 617-388-2427, ptgrogan@mit.edu


Jan/21 Mon 10:00AM-03:00PM 32-144, Bring your laptop
Jan/22 Tue 10:00AM-03:00PM 32-144, Bring your laptop
Jan/23 Wed 10:00AM-03:00PM 32-144, Bring your laptop
Jan/24 Thu 10:00AM-03:00PM 32-144, Bring your laptop
Jan/25 Fri 10:00AM-03:00PM 32-144, Bring your laptop

Paul Grogan - PhD Candidate, Engineering Systems Division, Tom Coles - PhD Candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics


GIS Level 2

Jennie Murack

Jan/25 Fri 01:00PM-04:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: A basic knowledge of ArcMap

Expand your experience with GIS software and learn how to create and edit GIS files, geocode addresses onto a map, re-project data, and use tools like Clip, Buffer, and Spatial Join.

Prerequisite: Participants should have taken the Introduction to GIS workshop or have previous experience using ArcGIS.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176648

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Going beyond Google Scholar: Using the Web of Science and Other Citation Searching Resources to Discover Articles

Michael M Noga

Jan/30 Wed 12:00PM-01:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Do you usually look for articles by searching keywords and authors? Try tracking ideas back and forth through time by searching citations to and from articles, reports and other scholarly literature. Citation searching started with the Science Citation Index (Web of Science) and now is part of several other information sources such as Scopus, e-journal collections, and Google Scholar. We will look at several places where you can find scholarly literature through citations. We will investigate the different results you get depending on where you search for citations.

Please register for this class.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Michael M Noga, 14S-222, x3-1290, mnoga@mit.edu


How to Write a Great Abstract

Thalia Rubio

Jan/15 Tue 10:00AM-11:30AM 4-261

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 20 participants
Prereq: none

For your paper to be successful, people have to actually read it. A compelling abstract is essential for capturing their attention and making them want to read more. But writing an effective abstract is challenging because you need to summarize what motivated you, what you did, and what you found, in a small number of words. In this workshop, we'll analyze sample abstracts from different fields, learn editing strategies, and practice revising abstracts. You'll leave with a better understanding of how to write a strong abstract that clearly presents your research.

Sponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Steven Strang, 12-120, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU


Integrating Communication Instruction in CI Subjects: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop

Louise Harrison Lepera and Dr. Jessie Stickgold-Sarah, Lecturers, Writing Across the Curriculum

Jan/28 Mon 10:00AM-11:30AM 12-134

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

Instructors of CI subjects often ask how they can more effectively connect writing and speaking instruction with the course content, so that communication assignments are not just additional requirements, but instead help students more deeply engage with the concepts of the course.  How can we design instructional and assignment sequences that are organic to each subject, and that help students approach writing and speaking as the space for developing conceptual thinking?  Working with some examples from CI-M and CI-H classes, we'll explore how instructors can break down assignments to demystify research, writing, and presentation in their fields.  Improved sequencing will help students experience a more productive writing experience.

Bring examples of assignments from your classes to share.

All WAC workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects.

Sponsor(s): Teaching and Learning Lab, Comparative Media Studies
Contact: Ashley Caval, 12-117, 617 253-0650, ACAVAL@MIT.EDU


Interactive Census Data Tools

Alexandra Barker

Jan/14 Mon 02:00PM-05:00PM 9-450A

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 25 participants

DUSP, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the Mel King Institute for Community Building, and the U.S. Census Bureau are partnering to offer this hands-on workshop to learn how to use interactive web tools to access 2010 Census and American Community Survey data.

The workshops will focus on accessing 2010 Census and American Community Survey data using the following systems:

 

Attendees will learn what demographic and socioeconomic data are available for their communities and how to retrieve it online. The workshop is divided in 3 parts:

 

Representatives from the U.S. Census Bureau and the BRA will conduct the workshop. Participants must have access to a computer with internet access.

Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, 617 253-2024, EGLENN@MIT.EDU


Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy

Patrick Boisvert, Technical Associate

Jan/29 Tue 02:00PM-03:00PM 13-2137

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

The lecture will provide an introduction to the basic principles of Scanning Electron Microscopy with an approach to EDX, EBSD, and BSE.

Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Patrick Boisvert, 13-1018, x3-3317, pboisver@mit.edu


Introduction to GIS

Jennie Murack

Jan/15 Tue 01:00PM-04:00PM 14N-132
Jan/23 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

Learn the basics of visualizing and analyzing geographic information and creating your own maps in a Geographic Information System (GIS). We will introduce open source and proprietary GIS software options and let attendees choose to work through exercises using ESRI ArcGIS (proprietary) and/or Quantum GIS (QGIS) (open source). Learn to work with data from the MIT Geodata Repository, analyze the data, and create maps that can be used in reports and presentations.

For January 15th, Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176637

For January 23rd, Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176639

Note, this is the same workshop offered twice. Only register for one workshop.

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy/Focused Ion Beam Dual Beam Workstation

Shiahn Chen, Research Specialist

Jan/29 Tue 03:00PM-04:30PM 13-2137

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

This lecture will cover the basic principles of ion source, optics and ion-material interaction in a focused ion beam machine with an emphasis on the differences from, and similarities to, the electron-beam instrument. In addition, the lecture will describe the configuration of the FEI Helios 600 Nanolab Dual Beam workstation in the CMSE Electron Microscopy Facility, and conclude with application examples as well as open discussion of the material characterization and nanofabrication uses of the dual beam workstation.

Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Shiahn Chen, 13-1027, 2534622, schen3j@mit.edu


Introduction to TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy)

Yong Zhang

Jan/25 Fri 02:00PM-03:30PM 13-2137

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

The lecture provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of transmission electron microscopy. Topics covered include the illumination system, electron lenses and their aberrations, image formation and resolution. A variety of imaging and analysis techniques and their roles specific to inorganic materials, such as crystallography, diffraction patterns and high resolution imaging are to be present with practical demonstration.  This presentation will also introduce TEM sample preparation techniques for a wide range of materials, including metals, semiconductors, powders and thin films. 

 

Contact: Yong Zhang, 13-1034, 617 253-5092, YZHANG05@MIT.EDU


Learn to use IPA during IAP

Courtney Crummett, IPA Trainer

Jan/31 Thu 02:00PM-04:00PM DIRC 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 20 participants

Attend this introductory and hands-on training session and learn how to use Ingenuity Pathways Analysis (IPA), newly licensed by MIT Libraries and friends, for the analysis of your ‘omics data.  Build complete regulatory pictures and gain a better understanding of the biology underlying a gene expression.  Discover signaling cascades from predicted upstream regulators in your dataset.  Predict the effect of your gene expression changes on downstream biological processes and diseases. Interrogate networks and canonical pathways and generate hypotheses in the network or pathway. Please register for this event. Need an IPA account? Email ask-bioinfo@mit.edu.

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-M48, x4-8290, crummett@mit.edu


Managing your Information

Katherine McNeill

Enrollment: Signup required for some sessions; see: http://libcal.mit.edu/.
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Join us and let the MIT Libraries help you manage your research and personal information.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katherine McNeill, E53-168C, 617 253-0787, MCNEILLH@MIT.EDU


Research Data Management: Panel

Jan/07 Mon 11:00AM-01:00PM 4-149

Join 5 researchers, information scientists and more in a lively discussion on the importance of sharing, managing and preserving research data.

Audience participation highly encouraged!

Amy Stout


Storing and Protecting Your Digital Docs

Jan/15 Tue 10:00AM-11:00AM 14N-132

Worried about how to store your digital documents? Unsure what kind of storage media to use or how to keep it secure over time? This session will cover guidelines and things to consider for storing all kinds of digital materials, including tips for selecting storage media and how to protect your content from theft, data loss, and other hazards of the digital world.  Register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=196944.

Kari Smith, Helen Bailey


Personal content management tools

Jan/16 Wed 12:00PM-01:00PM 14N-132

Personal content management tools help you get organized so you can work more efficiently and save time. Some tools help you organize all sorts of information (notes, pdfs, documents, images etc. etc.) and work more efficiently.  Others let you annotate, cite, and/or share your content. In this session we'll show you tools for doing this while working solo or in a group. Register: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=191479

Peter Cohn, Remlee Green


Research Data Management: 101

Jan/22 Tue 10:00AM-11:00AM LIB: 14N-132

Do you manage research data here at MIT?  This workshop will provide you with basic strategies for: best practices for retention and archiving; effective directory structures and naming conventions; good file formats for long-term access; data security and backup options; and metadata, tagging, and citation options.  Register at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=199536.

Katherine McNeill, Anne Graham


Research Data Management: Versioning

Jan/29 Tue 11:00AM-12:00PM 14N-132

Is your research group having trouble tracking versions of your datasets?  Are you an individual having difficulty tracking the versions of your own work?  This workshop will cover techniques and software to help you manage your versions.  Will include hands-on time for experimentation.  Register at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=199540.

Anne Graham


Methods for analyzing neural data

Ethan Meyers, Postdoctoral Associate, BCS, MIBR, Wasim Malik, Instructor in Anesthesia Harvard Medical School, MGH

Jan/28 Mon 03:00PM-04:30PM 46-5056
Jan/30 Wed 03:00PM-04:30PM 46-5056
Feb/01 Fri 03:00PM-04:30PM 46-5056

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

You have just run an exciting neuroscience experience and sitting in front of you is a pile of data. The only thing stopping you from publishing your results in Nature concerns turning that pile of data into clear insights about how the brain works. Well rest assured, after taking this course you well on your way having that exciting new publication on your CV.

In this course we will cover several useful methods for analyzing neural data including conventional statistics, mutual information, point process models and decoding analyses. The emphasis will be on discussing how to apply methods that work best, and explaining the basic mathematical intuitions behind these methods. The examples used will focus on neural spiking activity but we will also discuss other types of signals including MEG signals, and local field potentials. Some familiarity with neuroscience and basic statistics will be useful, but we will try to keep the background knowledge to a minimum.

 

 

Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Ethan Meyers, 46-5155, 617 447-7814, EMEYERS@MIT.EDU


MITEI UROP Presentation and Discussion

Ethan Feuer, Student Activities Coordinator

Jan/24 Thu 02:00PM-04:00PM W16, Kresge Lobby

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

The MITEI Education Office will be participating in the IAP UROP Expo. The MITEI UROP is an opportunity to be part of a community of students engaged in energy research projects during a summer session. Swing by our table during the session to learn more.

Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
Contact: Ethan Feuer, E19-370, 617 452-3199, EFEUER@MIT.EDU


Oral Presentations and the Academic Conversation: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop

Atissa Banuazizi and Nora Jackson, Lecturers, Writing Across the Curriculum

Jan/31 Thu 10:00AM-11:30AM 12-134

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

This interactive workshop is geared to instructors across the disciplines who are interested in integrating oral presentation into their classes.  We will discuss effective strategies to teach the oral component in CI classes as an act of critical thinking.  Together, we will define goals for a variety of speaking genres in science and humanities classes.  Participants will collaborate in sharing good practices from their own experience.  Finally, we will explore some practical templates to teach oral presentation that encourage students to practice the following skills: (1) communicating complex ideas in accessible language; (2) creating presentations that clearly define goals and argument or hypothesis; (3) organizing presentations in the service of developing ideas in the broader context of the field.

All WAC workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies, Teaching and Learning Lab
Contact: Ashley Caval, 12-117, 617 253-0650, ACAVAL@MIT.EDU


Patent Searching Fundamentals

Howard Silver

Jan/16 Wed 01:00PM-02:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 40 participants

You won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, but you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams. The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding patents.

Please register for this session.

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU


Powerful Feedback: Strategies for Responding to Student Writing: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop

Dr. Karen Boiko and Susan Carlisle, Lecturers, Writing Across the Curriculum

Jan/29 Tue 10:00AM-11:30AM 12-134

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)

What kind of feedback will help students understand how to revise their essays, reports or articles, or to write their next assignment more effectively?  This workshop will help faculty and TA's to articulate their criteria for student writing and to develop powerful feedback practices, from written comments to ribrucs to peer review to individual conferences.  By considering feedback in relation to other forms of instruction, participants will learn to provide the kinds of comments and strategies that will help students understand how to improve their skills as writers.

All WAC workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies, Teaching and Learning Lab
Contact: Ashley Caval, 12-117, 617 253-0650, ACAVAL@MIT.EDU


Preventing Contamination and Maintaining Return-Sample Integrity from Near Planet Missions

Dr. Claudia Mickelson, EHS Deputy Dir. & Special Advisor to the VP for Rsrch, Dr. Catharine Conley, Planetary Protection Officer, NASA

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/02
Limited to 35 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

The UN Space Treaty of 1967 states "that all parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies,  and conduct exploration of them, so as to avoid harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter, and where necessary, shall adopt appropriate measures for this purpose".  The need to ensure that scientific integrity of samples and data obtained during investigations of other planets is not compromised has led NASA to develop five categories of target body/mission categories with a range of contamination controls.  Over the two days this course will give an introduction to these NASA categories and various methods used for detection and control of microbial contaminants with some short hands-on experiments following the morning presentations and discussion to illustrate the difficulties surrounding achieving the appropriate level of spacecraft sterilization.

Register at: http://ehs.mit.edu/site/content/iap-course-registration

Sponsor(s): Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: Claudia Mickelson, N52-496, 617-252-1810, claudiam@mit.edu


Day 1: NASA Planetary Protection

Jan/30 Wed 09:00AM-01:00PM N52-496

The first day will include presentation and discussion of NASA planetary and solar system exploration missions, prioritization of missions, issues associated with design of on-board analytical technologies, and development of the NASA Planetary Protection Guidelines.  The associated laboratory will cover an introduction to basic microbiology and sampling methods for different types of materials.

Dr. Claudia Mickelson - EHS Deputy Dir. & Special Advisor to the VP for Rsrch, Dr. Catharine Conley - Planetary Protection Officer, NASA


Day 2: NASA Planetary Protection

Jan/31 Thu 09:00AM-01:00PM N52-496

The second day will focus on discussion of issues surrounding the international nature of space exploration, prevention of target planet or solar body contamination by exploratory mission equipment, maintaining sample integrity, return to earth and prevention of sample and earth contamination, and prioritizing sample testing.  The laboratory will discuss results of the previous day's testing and sampling exercises.

Dr. Claudia Mickelson - EHS Deputy Dir. & Special Advisor to the VP for Rsrch, Dr. Catharine Conley - Planetary Protection Officer, NASA


Protocols and Methods: Recipes for research

Howard Silver

Jan/23 Wed 12:00PM-01:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: none

A couple hours in the Library can save you a couple of weeks in the lab. Don't waste your time reinventing the gelatin sponge-choriallantoic membrane assay. Improve your efficiency by learning strategies for finding published research protocols and methods. This session is a hands-on practicum that introduces attendees to resources that support bioscience bench research.

Please register for this session.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU


Public Opinion Data Resources

Katherine McNeill

Jan/30 Wed 10:00AM-11:00AM 14N-132

Enrollment: Register at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=196878
Sign-up by 01/23
Limited to 20 participants

Interested in studying public opinion in the U.S. and other countries? Want to gauge how the electorate stands on issues in in the wake of the 2012 election? This workshop will teach you how to find data from public opinion polls, both summary statistics and individual response-level data files that you can analyze yourself. Covers the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and other resources on topics such as government, the economy, and much more.

Please register for this session.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katherine McNeill, E53-168c, x3-0787, mcneillh@mit.edu


SciFinder: Advanced Tips & Tricks for Finding Chemical Information

Amy Christuk, Senior Instructor, Erja Kajosalo, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Librarian

Jan/18 Fri 10:00AM-11:30AM 14N-132 (DIRC)

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: None

Improve you SciFinder searching skills tips and tricks of searching SciFinder as you enjoy your breakfast on us!   You’ll learn about synthetic planning tool called SciPlanner; how set up alerts called Keep Me Posted; how to find quickly experimental reaction procedures and property data, and more:

 

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=185410

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, 14S-134, 617 253-9795, KAJOSALO@MIT.EDU


SolidWorks Workshop

Fernando L. Nunez, MIT ASME Co-President

Enrollment: ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 32 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Want to be more prepared for Course 2 classes? What to learn CAD, and how to design awesome parts using Solidworks. Come to ASME IAP SolidWorks Workshop given by experienced members of the MIT Community. 

Here is a link to the form to sign up:

IAP 2013 Form

There are 2 Sections:

Section 1: Jan. 14-Jan. 18
Section 2: Jan. 21-Jan. 25

Time: 

Contact: Fernando Nunez, 787-245-2061, FLNUNEZ@MIT.EDU


Section 2

Jan/14 Mon 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptops
Jan/22 Tue 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptops
Jan/23 Wed 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptops
Jan/24 Thu 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptops
Jan/25 Fri 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptops

If you could attend the Monday Jan.14 date of the first section, it would be ideal, but not necessary.

TIME AND LOCATION ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE!

Sign Up here

Fernando L. Nunez - MIT ASME Co-President


Section 1

Jan/14 Mon 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptop
Jan/15 Tue 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptop
Jan/16 Wed 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptop
Jan/17 Thu 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptop
Jan/18 Fri 05:30PM-07:00PM 3-370, Bring your laptop

TIME AND LOCATION ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE!

Sign Up here

Fernando L. Nunez - MIT ASME Co-President


Spatial Statistics: Looking for spatial patterns in your data

Jennie Murack, Geospatial Data Librarian

Jan/17 Thu 01:00PM-03:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: a basic knowledge of ArcMap

How do you begin to examine your data? This workshop will teach you how to use the ArcMap Geostatistical Analyst tools, ArcMap spatial statistics tools, and Geoda to examine data frequencies, normality, outliers, and trends. We will also conduct basic descriptive statistics, such as the mean, median, and standard deviation. At the end of this workshop, you’ll have a better idea about what tools you should use for further analysis.

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of ArcMap, including how to load data and a familiarity with the interface. Registration required.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176638

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Spatial Statistics: Regression

Jennie Murack

Jan/29 Tue 01:00PM-03:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: A basic knowledge of ArcMap

In this workshop you’ll learn how to apply the principles of regression analysis to spatial data. Find out how to discover the relationship of predictors to your variable of interest. We’ll use both ArcMap and Geoda.

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of ArcMap, including how to load data and a familiarity with the interface.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176651

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Spatial Statistics: Spatial Autocorrelation

Jennie Murack

Jan/24 Thu 01:00PM-03:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 22 participants
Prereq: A basic knowledge of ArcMap

Are there clusters in your data? Are similar values grouped together? What about outliers? This workshop will introduce you to spatial autocorrelation, a statistical technique that helps you identify patterns of similar and different values in your data. We will use both ArcMap and Geoda.

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of ArcMap, including how to load data and a familiarity with the interface.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=176642

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU


Tagging and Finding Your Files

Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist, Institute Archivist & Spec. Collections

Jan/28 Mon 10:00AM-11:00AM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 20 participants
Prereq: none

Did you know that you can add information into your digital files so that information travels with them when you copy, send, or save them?  This information (metadata) can be used to assit with finding, sorting, and describing your files when they are on your computer or within a server / cloud storage folder. Embedding information directly into your files means that you can note data such as creator, subjects, copyright, and other tags without needing to alter your file content. If you have large collections of image files or documents that you re-use often and could use some help finding or organizing them, this session may be for you.  Come to learn about why this works and how you can do this for your own files. 

 Presenters:  Mikki Macdonald, Metadata Archivist; Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Kari Smith, 14N-118, 617 258-5568, SMITHKR@MIT.EDU


The MathWorks Seminars: Six Technical MATLAB Talks

Todd Atkins, Member Technical Staff

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Experience needed varies by seminar

Six Seminars by technical staff at MathWorks. 

First day is introductory, second day is intermediate, and third day is advanced.

View the complete session descriptions and register at

http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/MITIAP2013

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Todd Atkinson, Todd.Atkins@mathworks.com


Beginner: Math Modeling in MATLAB

Jan/28 Mon 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-163

For the MATLAB Beginner -- learn how to do  mathematical modeling in MATLAB.

Abishek Gupta and Mehernaz Savai

 


MATLAB: Problemsolving & Programming

Jan/28 Mon 01:00PM-05:00PM 4-163

Introduction to MATLAB: Problem Solving and Programming.

Laura Proctor


MATLAB Parallel & GPU Computing

Jan/29 Tue 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-163

Intermediate-level seminar on Parallel an dGPU Computing with MATLAB.

Adam Filion


Lego Mindstorms, MATLAB & Simulink

Jan/29 Tue 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-163

LEGO MINDSTORMS with MATLAB and Simulink for Teaching Controls, Robotics and Mechatronics.

Rohit Shenoy and Sumit Tandon

 


Advanced Programming with MATLAB

Jan/30 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-163

Advanced Programming with MATLAB.

Loren Shure

 


Advanced MATLAB Techniiques

Jan/30 Wed 01:00PM-03:00PM 4-163

Advanced Programming Techniiques in MATLAB

Sean de Wolski and Loren Shure


Unlocking the Secrets of the Company Databases

Ellen Stahl, Career Development Specialist, Angie Locknar, MSE, ME, ESD Libn/Coord Sci Eng Comm of Prac

Jan/10 Thu 12:00PM-01:30PM 14N-132, Bring your laptop or tablet

Enrollment: Sign up on CareerBridge
Limited to 25 participants

Do you know what you want to do when you leave MIT (or for the summer), but not sure what companies do that type of work?   Do you want to work in a specific part of the world?  Don’t you wish there was just a list of companies you might be interested in, including vital statistics about that company?  Come learn how to use article databases and other resources to reveal the secrets that you might be missing from your job or internship search.  Participants are asked to bring their own laptop or tablet as Career Services, in collaboration with the MIT Libraries, will go step by step and teach how these effective tools can provide information that may be the key to finding the right company or organization for you.

This workshop will take place in 14N-132, the Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC): http://libraries.mit.edu/ask-us/instruction/where-dirc.html.

Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development, Libraries
Contact: Ellen Stahl, 12-170, (617) 253-4733, eestahl@MIT.EDU


Zotero Basics

Mathew Willmott, Physics Librarian

Jan/31 Thu 12:00PM-01:00PM 14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Zotero is a free, open-source program that helps you collect, manage, cite, and share your citations and files.  With one click, you can save PDFs and citations for most articles, then cite them in Word or OpenOffice.  Make a searchable PDF library and find out how to publish dynamic bibliographies and collaborate by using group collections.  In this hands-on session, learn tips and tricks on how to use Zotero more efficiently to save you time and energy.  Bring a laptop or use one of our computers.

Please register for this session.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Mathew Willmott, 617-324-5855, willmott@mit.edu