IAP 2014 Activities by Sponsor - Nuclear Science and Engineering

Alexandre Guion and Giancarlo Lenci, Graduate Students

Jan/21	Tue	10:30AM-12:00PM	1-273
Jan/22	Wed	10:30AM-12:00PM	1-273
Jan/23	Thu	10:30AM-12:00PM	1-273
Jan/24	Fri	10:30AM-12:00PM	1-273

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: General programming skills

Are you interested in learning more about meshless approaches for simulating flows? Do you want to build your own code and participate in fun challenges?  Are you interested in discovering hands-on how smoothed-particle hydrodynamics models work, and which applications they are used for?  

Please join us in this new short course, which starts with an introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and meshless approaches, including key governing equations and methodologies.  Afterwards, an implementation of smoothed-particle hydrodynamics to solve flow fields is performed through hands-on coding sessions, with an emphasis on unsteady free-surface flows.  The course  ends with an application to a real-life case, and a final competition for fun between students. 

Sponsor(s): Nuclear Science and Engineering
Contact: Alexandre Guion; Giancarlo Lenci, NW12-306; NW12-238, 617-417-5693;, aguion@mit.edu

Nick Horelik and Bryan Herman, Graduate students

Jan/27	Mon	09:00AM-12:00PM	26-142
Jan/28	Tue	09:00AM-12:00PM	26-142
Jan/29	Wed	09:00AM-12:00PM	26-142

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

LaTex is the #1 way to produce superior-quality professional documents.  Modern tools make it easy to get started in minutes! Everyone should use it for everything from writing psets and lab reports to conference papers, presentations, posters and theses. In this short course, students will be brought up to speed with the basics of LaTex with a simple and easy tool called ShareLaTeX.  This online software makes collaboration and preparation of documents easy without needing to install anything on your machine. After reviewing the basics, we will walk through the specifics of creating common documents including how to use conference/journal/MIT thesis templates.  Next, we will give a thorough introduction to the Beamer LaTex class and provide practical examples for how to produce high-quality presentation slides and research posters.  Finally, we will spend a significant portion of time detailing how to produce good plots, tables, animations and movies in LaTex documents, including an extensive tutorial on how to use TikiZ to produce beautiful schemes and flow charts in LaTeX.  Stop print screening your Microsoft paint/powerpoint and switch to a nice vectorized package!

Sponsor(s): Nuclear Science and Engineering
Contact: Nick Horelik, 774-208-2168, nhorelik@mit.edu