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Alumni Talk with Jee Chung '89
Jee Chung '89, Head of Research and Investment Systems for GMO
| Jan/28 | Mon | 07:00PM-08:00PM | E51-315 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
From Physics to Finance: Information Technology in the Financial World
The presenter, Jee Chung '89, is the head of Research and Investment Systems for GMO, a global investment firm that manages over $100 billion in assets for clients that include pension funds, cultural institutions and foundations. Jee will discuss how he went from Course 8 to managing IT for one of the world's most respected investment firms, and explain what an IT career is like in a financial company.
Dessert and coffee will be served.
This free talk is sponsored by the Class Connections program and the MIT Alumni Association.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Nuclear Weapons: Physics, History and Abolition?
Aron Bernstein, Professor of Physics, Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard; former Dep Dir IAEA
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
This course will give an overview of the physics of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects. The history of their development will be covered as well as the initial discussions of their implications, including the debates of the atomic scientists who developed them and then tried vainly to control their use and spread. The cold war history of the weapons deployment will be covered as well as the treaties which limited their use, such as the nuclear test ban and the anti-ballistic missile treaty. The threat of nuclear proliferation, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the International Agency for Atomic Energy (IAEA) inspections will be covered with emphasis on Iran. The current discussion about abolition of nuclear weapons will also be discussed. The linking of these issues to the original scientists' debate will be covered. Students are welcome to participate in any or all of these sessions. There will be time for questions and discussion.
1)Tues. Jan 22, 2013: Overview: history, physics history, history of weapons numbers in the cold war, outlook for reduction and elimination. A.M. Bernstein
2) Thurs . Jan. 24, 2013: Nuclear proliferation, non-proliferation treaty, IAEA inspections, Iran: O. Heinonen
3) Tues. Jan. 29, 2013: The Cold War Era: weapons, strategies, and treaties; A.M. Bernstein
4) Thurs. Jan 31, 2013: Outlook for nuclear weapons policy, Obama Administration, abolition?; A.M. Bernstein
Sponsor(s): Lab for Nuclear Science, Science, Technology, and Society, Physics
Contact: Aron Bernstein, 26-419, 617-253-2386, bernstein@mit.edu
| Jan/22 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 26-414 |
Overview: history, physics history, history of weapons numbers in the cold war, outlook for reduction and elimination.
Aron Bernstein - Professor of Physics
| Jan/24 | Thu | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 26-414 |
Nuclear proliferation, non-proliferation treaty, IAEA inspections, Iran.
Olli Heinonen - Senior Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard; former Dep Dir IAEA
| Jan/29 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 26-414 |
The Cold War Era: weapons, strategies and treaties.
Aron Bernstein - Professor of Physics
| Jan/31 | Thu | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 26-414 |
Outlook for nuclear weapons policy, Obama Administration, abolition?
Aron Bernstein - Professor of Physics
Physics Lecture Series
John Belcher, Professor & Class of 1960 Faculty Fellow, Department of Phys
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
IAP 2013 Physics lecture Series
Sponsor(s): Physics
Contact: Denise Wahkor, 4-315, 617 253-4855, DENISEW@MIT.EDU
| Jan/07 | Mon | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "Voyager 1 Is In Interstellar Space!"
Voyager 1 and 2 have already crossed the heliopause, the outer limit of the Sun's magnetic field.RECENTLY VOYAGER I HAS CROSSED INTO THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM, the medium from which the Sun condensed. We will discuss those observations.
John Belcher - Professor & Class of 1960 Faculty Fellow, Department of Phys
| Jan/09 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
The interview is a key component for most job searches. This includes summer internships, postdoctoral fellowships, and faculty searches. This talk will help show you the steps you can take to prepare for the process, and how to handle tough questions during the interview itself. This talk is open for undergraduates, graduates, post-docs, staff and anyone else who wants to improve their interviewing skills.
Matt Cubstead - Administrative Officer
| Jan/11 | Fri | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "Shining Some Light on the Search for Dark Matter".
Astrophysical evidence for the existence of Dark Matter abounds, while a confirmed laboratory 'direct' detection still eludes experimentalists. An overview of the current state of the dark matter field will be given, focusing upon the contradictory experimental results of allowed signal regions and excluding upper limits.
Dr. Kimberly Palladino - Postdoctoral Fellow
| Jan/14 | Mon | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
The search for new phases of matter has been a driving force behind condensed matter research. Among the myriad of electronic phases in solids, topological states of matter exhibit universal and quantized properties that arise from the symmetry and topology of quantum many-body wavefunctions.
Liang Fu - Professor, Department of Physics
| Jan/16 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "Energy Critical Elements: More precious than gold".
I will then turn to our recent report on ¿Energy Critical Elements: Securing Materials for Emerging Technologies¿, describing rare elements¿ roles in emerging technologies, constraints on availability, and government actions to avoid disruptive shortages.
Robert Jaffe - Morningstar Professor of Science, Department of Physics
| Jan/18 | Fri | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "Seeing Electron Energy Levels by Quantum Tunneling"
This talk describes results from a technique that averages responses to millions of short pulses to measure electron energy levels or "spectra". The spectra revealing striking and previously hidden features of the behavior of electrons that are restricted to move in two-dimensions.
Raymond Ashoori - Professor, Department of Physics
| Jan/22 | Tue | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "Quantum Fields that went Bump in the Night: Cosmic Inflation and the Latest Observations".
Our universe likely underwent an enormous expansion, or ¿inflation,¿ fractions of a second after the big bang. Inflation would have stretched tiny quantum fluctuations to cosmic scales, imprinting subtle patterns in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
David Kaiser - Director and Professor, STS & Sr Lecturer, Physics, Program
| Jan/23 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "Phase Transition: From Science to Quantitative Trading."
What do quants do in finance? What does it take to be successful on Wall Street? How did quantitative field evolve over the last twenty or so years and what might the future bring? I will use my own path from Physics to finance to illustrate which of the skills scientists possess might be applicable.
Vlad Portnoy - MIT Alumni
| Jan/25 | Fri | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "What Do Students Do, Learn From, and Want to Learn"?
What knowledge are students learning? What instructional activities are they learning it from? What student habits are helpful or detrimental to learning? What learning do they remember at graduation? We must be able to answer these questions to have an informed discussion about our educational process.
David Pritchard - Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Department of Phys
| Jan/28 | Mon | 11:00AM-01:00PM | Whitehead Auditorium |
Title: "Anticipating sudden transitions in biological populations: Cooperation, cheating, and collapse".
Natural populations can suffer catastrophic collapse in response to small changes in environmental conditions. We confirm this possibility experimentally and explore how such social parasitism can lead to population extinction.
Jeff Gore - Professor, Department of Physics
| Jan/30 | Wed | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "To flex or to focus, that is the question"
We'll explore the Physics Focussed and Flexible major options. Come learn everything you ever wanted to know about the Physics Flexible major and options for designing a Physics degree that best fits the interests and aspirations of each student.
John Belcher - Professor & Class of 1960 Faculty Fellow, Department of Phys, Nergis Mavalvala - Curtis (1963) and Kathleen Marble Professor
| Feb/01 | Fri | 01:30PM-02:30PM | 6-120 |
Title: "Photon-photon interactions".
Photons are ideal carriers of quantum states but the stored information is difficult to process because photons in vacuum do not interact with one another. I present some recent experimental results on inducing interactions between individual photons, including an all-optical transistor that operates with a single control photon.
Vladan Vuletic - Professor, Department of Physics
The Feynman Films
Andy Neely
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
Sponsor(s): Physics
Contact: Denise Wahkor, 4-315, 2534855, denisew@mit.edu
| Jan/07 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 6-120 |
Andy Neely
| Jan/09 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 6-120 |
Andy Neely
| Jan/11 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 6-120 |
Andy Neely
| Jan/14 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 6-120 |
Andy Neely
| Jan/16 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 6-120 |
Andy Neely
| Jan/18 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 6-120 |
Andy Neely
| Jan/22 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 6-120 |
Andy Neely
| Jan/23 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 6-120 |
Andy Neely
| Jan/25 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 6-120 |
Andy Neely
The Physics of Energy Exploration
Johathan Kane, Shell-MIT Liaison and Visiting Scientist
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Currently, the most economically viable sources of energy are found beneath the Earth’s surface. Exploring for these resources, therefore, requires physical methods that can probe the interior of opaque objects. Given the size of the earth, along with its physical properties, the three most effective methods can be categorized as follows:
We will survey each of these three categories, examining the physical properties each is sensitive to, the scale and quality of information each provides, and the economic/physical constraints that limit their applicability. Each topic will be covered in a half-day of lectures. Students will be given a small exercise during each lecture in order to gain physical intuition into the advantages and drawbacks of each method.
Following the final lecture a “Shell IAP Challenge” will be presented to the class, where the students will be offered the opportunity to compete in a contest. Given the knowledge obtained in the couse, the goal of the contest will be for students to “think out-of-the-box”, and come with a radical new idea for probing the Earth’s crust. The idea can be a new/un-tested physical principle that could potentially be tried, or else an novel application of one of the methods listed above. Students will have the remainder of IAP to put together a proposal and report, which will then be reviewed by Shell scientists. The best idea(s) will be awarded a cash prize.
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Physics
Contact: Jonathan Kane, 617-715-5198, jonathan.kane@shell.com
| Jan/14 | Mon | 09:00AM-02:00PM | 4-159 | |
| Jan/15 | Tue | 09:00AM-02:00PM | 4-159 | |
| Jan/16 | Wed | 09:00AM-02:00PM | 4-159 | |
| Jan/17 | Thu | 09:00AM-02:00PM | 4-159 |
Johathan Kane - Shell-MIT Liaison and Visiting Scientist, Mark Rosenquist, Ed Biegert, Paul Sava
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