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
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| 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