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8 Mechanics ReView
Dave Pritchard, Professor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none
Mechanics ReView– Prof. Dave Pritchard Start: Monday, Jan 12, 2015 End: Thursday, Jan 29, 2015. Building on Newtonian Mechanics at the 8.01 level, we will offer a unified view of how to solve real world mechanics problems that involve several concepts at once. We will emphasize several themes: modeling reality, specifying the system and interactions, making sense of the answer, approximations/estimation, how to approach problems and decompose them into simpler pieces. We will use online models that gives students a hierarchical overview of the core physical content of Mechanics. Limited enrollment – sign up by 12:00 noon Monday Jan. 12, 2015
Sponsor(s): Physics
Contact: Nancy Boyce, 4-315, 617 253-4461, NBOYCE@MIT.EDU
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Jan/12 | Mon | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/13 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/14 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/15 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/16 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/20 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/21 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/22 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/23 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/26 | Mon | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/27 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/28 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 32-082 |
Dave Pritchard - Professor
A Conversation about Digital Humanities: What's It All About?
Patsy Baudoin, Digital Humanities Librarian
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Jan/14 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 14N-313 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Wondering what the chatter is about digital humanities (DH)? Come ask questions and share what you know. Let's talk about the impact of computation on the humanities, about where it can takes us, and about what it means to use this lens on our scholarship. And who's doing what where in DH at MIT?
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Patsy Baudoin, 14S-140M, 617 253-4979, PATSY@MIT.EDU
Abstract Writing Workshop, presented by the EDO of the Koch Institute at MIT
Ann Cheung
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Jan/16 | Fri | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 76-156 |
Enrollment: Advance sign-up for personalized abstract consultation
Sign-up by 01/09
Are you preparing an abstract for a paper or poster? How do you sum up your research clearly in less than 200 words? Can you grab the readers' attention without sounding too grandiose? Have you fretted over how much detail to include?
Join us in 76-156 from noon to 2pm on Friday, January 16th. Christina Lilliehook (Senior Editor, Cell Stem Cell) and Brian Plosky (Deputy Editor, Molecular Cell) will offer advice on how to write an effective abstract. The editors will give general tips and critique a few real examples, then we'll break into groups for personalized abstract writing consultations (with snacks!).
The general presentation is open to everyone at MIT; Koch Institute members and affiliates will be given priority for consultations. Consultations will be on a first-come-first-served basis, so sign up now and submit your abstract by January 9th to secure an appointment. Limit ~14, walk-ins may be accepted based on availability. Sign up via EventBrite.
--- Brought to you by the Executive Director's Office (EDO)
Sponsor(s): David H. Koch Inst. for Integrative Cancer Researc
Contact: Ann Cheung, 617 324-3533, ACHEUNG@MIT.EDU
An Introduction to Independent Publishing
Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian
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Jan/14 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:15PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Please email khdunn@mit.edu to reserve a spot.
Sign-up by 01/14
Limited to 25 participants
Co-sponsored by Urban Studies & Planning Professor Anne Whiston Spirn and the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing, this session will offer an overview of the reasons many book authors choose independent publishing and the services that exist to support them. Professor Spirn will discuss her own independent publishing experiences and share what she has learned; Scholarly Communication Librarian Katharine Dunn will provide a brief overview of some of the major book publishing services available, such as Amazon's "Createspace," "Lulu," "Smashwords," and "Dogear," and provide a look at a Libraries’ guide to these services.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katharine Dunn, 14E-210, 617 253-9879, KHDUNN@MIT.EDU
APIs for Scholarly Resources: Research Opportunities with Text Mining and Data Mining
Mark Clemente, Scholarly Communications and Licensing Librarian
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Jan/29 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Please email clemente@mit.edu to reserve a spot
Sign-up by 01/29
Limited to 25 participants
APIs, short for application programming interface, are tools used to share content and data between software applications. Many scholarly publishers, databases, and products offer APIs to allow researchers with programming skills to more powerfully extract data to serve a variety of research purposes. With an API, users might create programmatic searches of a citation database, extract statistical data, mine full-text articles for content, or dynamically query and post blog content.
This session, offered by the MIT Libraries' Office of Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, and Licensing, will give a brief overview of some of the scholarly research APIs available to the MIT community and will feature Materials Science & Engineering PhD student Edward Kim, whose current research work utilizes APIs.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Mark Clemente, 14S-318, 617 324-4871, CLEMENTE@MIT.EDU
APPROXIMATION THEORY IN PRACTICE
Alex Townsend, Instructor in Applied Mathematics
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Jan/12 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:30PM | E17-122 |
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Jan/13 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:30PM | 4-145 |
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Jan/14 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:30PM | E17-122 |
Enrollment: email the instructor (ajt@mit.edu) to reserve you spot.
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Polynomial approximation theory is classical. Here,
we will teach a selection of these important results
from the Weierstrass' approximation theorem to the
equally-spaced impossibility theorem, from Lebesgue
constants to Gauss quadrature. Everything
will be illustrated computationally with a strong emphasis
on practical application.
Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Alex Townsend, E18-475, ajt@mit.edu
Basics of Obtaining a Patent
Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian
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Jan/26 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 80 participants
Come and hear Jack Turner, Associate Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and patent attorney Sam Pasternak, discuss the ins and outs of obtaining patents. This popular session covers a bit of patent history and a lot about current practices, processes, and issues surrounding obtaining a patent; the focus is on the process used at MIT for ideas/inventions developed by the MIT community. A portion of the session is devoted to questions and answers. If you think you will ever invent something, you need to be here.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=846292
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Bioinformatics for Beginners
Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian
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Jan/13 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:30AM | 14N-132 DIRC |
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Jan/14 | Wed | 03:30PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Entrez family of databases is the foundation of knowledge for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization and interconnectedness of NCBI databases while focusing on several specific databases. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to or curious about bioinformatics research tools. This session is offered twice covering the same material; participants welcome at either session.
Tuedsay January 13th 10-11:30AM Please register.
Wednesday January 14th 3:30-5PM Please register.
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
Business information for engineers and scientists
Howard Silver, MIT Libraries
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Jan/16 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
This session will introduce engineers and scientists 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 for this class.
If you're specifically interested in biotechnology, a companion session; Biotech business information for engineers and scientists will feature resources and examples that are geared for the life sciences business sector, offered January 15, 2015.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
(CANCELED) Conversations: By Students, for Students
Laura Maxim Kajan, Staff Associate, Student Support Services
| Jan/28 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | TBA, Location will be sent following RSVP |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Conversations: By Students, for Students is intended to continue the discussion started during orientation with current upperclass students. In the fashion of speed dating, round tables will be set up, each with topics stemming from the “By Students, For Students: Conquering MIT” orientation event. These topics include discovering community, managing expectations, finding your balance, and more! As you move from table to table, upperclass students will help to facilitate conversations amongst you and your peers. With your second semester approaching, take some time to reflect on and share your triumphs and challenges and learn new tips for success in your first year and beyond.
Lunch will be served. RSVP Required. Please use the following link to RSVP, http://doodle.com/fhyv8ang7syd8ihy. Email lmaxim@mit.edu with any dietary restrictions. Location will be emailed with RSVP confirmation.
This program is geared towards members of the Class of 2018 as a follow-up to 'By Students, For Students' program presented during Orientation.
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Meghan Kenney, 7-103, 617 253-9764, MKENNEY@MIT.EDU
Departmental Exploration (DEX)
Shauna Peterson, Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars, Meghan Kenney, Assistant Dean, New Student Programming
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
First-year students, have you picked your passion yet? Don't miss this series of departmental exploration (DEX) events sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming.
DEX will be a structured time at the end of IAP for academic discovery that will allow students to experience what it’s like to be an undergrad in various department. Events include: student panels, open houses and showcases of projects and research. Each day there will be at least one topic panel featuring students and faculty from departments listed who will speak about their in and out of class experiences studying and teaching in this department.
Events will take place January 26, 28, 29 & 30. No sign up is necessary, just come to whatever sessions you are most interested in!
January 26: Technological Engineering (Courses 1, 2, 3, 6, 16, 22)
January 28: Chemistry & Chemical Engineering; Biology & Biological Engineering (Courses 3, 5, 6, 6-7, 7, 9, 10, 10B)
January 29: Design, Infrastructure & Policy; Economics, Finance & Business Analytics (Courses 1, 2, 4, 10, 14, 15, 17, 22)
January 30: Math, Physics, Computer Science & Media Studies (Courses 6, 6-3, 8, 18, 22, CMS)
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Shauna Peterson, 7-104, 617-324-8128, scpeter@mit.edu
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Jan/26 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:30PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Featuring panelists from Courses 1, 2, 3, 6, 16, and 22
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
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Jan/26 | Mon | 02:30PM-04:00PM | 1-131 |
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Jan/26 | Mon | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 54-923 |
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Jan/28 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-231 |
Course 5
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/28 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 4-004 |
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Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/28 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 4-231 |
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Jan/28 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 46-3310 |
Course 9
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/28 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 48-316 |
Course 1 TREX (Traveling Research Experience)
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/28 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:30PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Featuring panelists from Courses 5 & 10
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/28 | Wed | 04:30PM-05:30PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Featuring panelists from Courses 3, 6-7, 7, 9, & 10B
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
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Jan/29 | Thu | 12:30PM-02:00PM | 1-131 |
Session Description TBD
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/29 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:30PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Featuring panelists from Courses 14 & 15
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/29 | Thu | 03:30PM-05:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Featuring panelists from Course 17
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
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Jan/29 | Thu | 05:00PM-06:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Featuring panelists from Courses 1, 2, 4, and 22
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
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Jan/29 | Thu | 06:30PM-07:30PM | 66-110 |
Course 10
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/30 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:30PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Featuring panelists from Courses 6-3, 8, 18, and CMS
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
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Jan/30 | Fri | 03:00PM-04:30PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Featuring Jake Mower, Andrew Dane, Alex Patterson, and David Levonian
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
Digitization@MIT
Neal Johnson, Scanning and Document Delivery Associate, Jaimie Fritz, Scanning and Document Delivery Assistant, Kimberly Kennedy, Scanning and Document Delivery Associate
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Jan/08 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 4-261 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 40 participants
Boxes of dusty photos and slides? Old records sitting in the basement? Tax forms piling up in desk drawers? Take a tour through some of the digitization options available to the MIT community on campus, learn how to safely digitize your items, and what steps you can take for long-term preservation.
Registration is suggested but not required: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=849500
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Kimberly Kennedy, 14-0551, 617 253-7287, KENNEDYK@MIT.EDU
DUSPviz: Create a Research Poster -- Intermediate Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign
Mike Foster
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Jan/23 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 9-251 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Research Posters can be valuable in showcasing your project work and providing quick summaries of vast and large research projects. This session will walk through basics of creating a poster and focus on using the various features and beginner to intermediate level skills of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign used in conjunction with one another. The concepts of poster design will be manifested through learning the tools of the software.
Signup: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lpmyLyj0zfwuQxNKEuaZKGSctX726bHCr8KyKSKl6jo/viewform
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Mike Foster, mjfoster@mit.edu
Finding Research Datasets
Katherine McNeill
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Jan/22 | Thu | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
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 Dataverse Network, 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
From Submission to Publication: What Authors Need to Know About the Journal and Book Publishing Process
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing
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Jan/29 | Thu | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 4-145 |
Enrollment: Please email efinnie@mit.edu to reserve a spot.
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 40 participants
The times they are a-challenging, especially for academic authors. With submission queues stretching toward infinity and a bewildering landscape of publishing options, writing the darned article or book begins to seem like the easy part. And first-time authors in particular might find that competition for reputable publishing options is fierce.
How can authors get noticed and succeed in such an environment?
For book publishing, we will address: What sorts of projects are university press editors seeking? What selection process do they use? Should you write a specialized book for readers in your field or aim for a larger audience? Can you publish your dissertation as a book? Can you submit to more than one publisher at a time?
For journal publishing, we will address: How do you target a journal for submission? How will your article survive the peer review process at a top-ranked journal and what are the pitfalls to avoid? How do scholarly journal editors think about impact, and how can you ensure your article will have it?
In this session, MIT Press Journals Director Nick Lindsay and Books Editorial Director Gita Manaktala will answer your questions about the publishing process at their press and offer concrete strategies to help you get from proposal to publication. They will be joined by Una-May O'Reilly, Principal Research Scientist, CSAIL, journal editor and author of over 100 articles, and author David Kaiser, Director of the Program in STS.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
Get the most from your "omics" analysis: GeneGo MetaCore Software Training
Courtney Crummett, GeneGo Trainer
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Jan/21 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 30 participants
Attend this IAP session and learn how to use GeneGo, a bioinforamtics software tool licensed by MIT Libraries. GeneGo provides a solution for using "omics" gene lists to generate and prioritize hypotheses with MetaCore. Learn how to work with different types of data (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and interaction data) beginning with how to upload gene lists and expression data. Use GeneGo software to: upload, batch upload, store, share and check data properties and signal distribution; extract functional relevance by determining the most enriched processes across several ontologies; emphasize the role of expression data in your analysis; visually predict experimental results, associated disease and possible drug targets; and compare data sets and work with experiment intersections. Please register. Need a GeneGo Account? Email ask-bioinfo@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-M48, x4-8290, crummett@mit.edu
Getting Started, Getting Funded: Obtaining Research Funding
Dr. Micah Altman, Director of Research, MIT Libraries
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Jan/08 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | E17-133 |
Enrollment: Sign up at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=849716
Increasingly, conducting innovative research requires resources that exceed those readily on-hand to the individual scholar. You can use research funding to access a wider set of research methods, to accelerate your research project, expand its scope and depth, and increase its impact. This short course provides an overview of the types and sources of funding available for research support, and introduces the fundamental elements of planning, proposal writing, and management for "sponsored" projects. The course is geared toward junior faculty, postdocs, and graduate students (in late stages or on the job market), who are new to the funding process, are considering whether to seek funding from new sources, or who would like a systematic review of the grant writing and review process. The course will be presented in a half-day format, followed by an individualized consulting session focused on each attendee’s research project.
Participants are eligible for individual consultations.
Please register for this class.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Randi Shapiro, (617) 324-4988, shapiror@mit.edu
GSD: Students being productive
Bruno Faviero, Blake Elias, Ali Finkelstein
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Jan/14 | Wed | 05:00PM-08:00PM | 1-132 |
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Jan/18 | Sun | 04:00PM-07:00PM | 1-132 |
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Jan/21 | Wed | 06:00PM-09:00PM | 1-132 |
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Jan/25 | Sun | 04:00PM-07:00PM | 1-132 |
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Jan/28 | Wed | 06:00PM-09:00PM | 1-132 |
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Feb/01 | Sun | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 1-132 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
GSD is a group of students that get together to work on side-projects, learn new skills (particularly in computer science), and interact and share ideas with other similarly-minded students. Think of it as a co-working space.
Come join us on Wednesdays 5-8 and Sundays 4-7 in 2-103! There will also be food.
Contact: Bruno Brasil Faviero, BFAVIERO@MIT.EDU
How to Speak
Patrick Henry Winston, Ford Professor of Engineering/MacVicar Fellow
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Jan/30 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 10-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Professor Winston offers heuristic rules that enable you to do better oral exams, job talks, lectures,
and conferences presentations, and make your listeners consider your performances to be inspiring.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Patrick Henry Winston, phw@mit.edu
(CANCELED) How to Write a Great Abstract
Thalia Rubio, Lecturer
| Jan/06 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 5-217 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
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: Thalia Rubio, E39-115A, 617-253-3090, trubio@mit.edu
HyperStudio Workshop: Collaborative Insights Through Digital Annotation
Kurt Fendt, Executive Director, MIT HyperStudio
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Jan/23 | Fri | 08:30AM-05:30PM | Room 66-110 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 50 participants
Prereq: None
Instructors and students in the humanities and the liberal arts increasingly work in an electronically supported and extended world of multimedia texts. Digital archives, online media repositories, and new tools for creating digital content have not only changed the way students interact with cultural content, they have also radically changed the landscape within which learning can take place. Instructors are faced with the challenge of how to respond to this shift, how to innovate and redesign their roles and curricula.
In this workshop, we investigate one possible solution to this challenge: digital annotation. Digital annotation brings the long humanistic tradition of annotation, one of John Unsworth's "scholarly primitives," into contemporary electronic media. Participants in this workshop will discuss the opportunities digital annotation tools create for new forms of social engagement with the text, for students to share ideas, interpretations, references, sources, adaptations, or other related media with peers and other readers that significantly change the way students acquire and produce knowledge.
Keynote Address: John Bryant, Hofstra University
Presentations and Sessions:
Jody Gordon & Chris Gleason, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Mary Isbell, University of New Haven
Alex Mueller, University of Massachusetts, Boston
MIT: Suzanne Lane, Wyn Kelley, Ina Lipkowitz, Roberto Rey Agudo
For more information and registration, visit HyperStudio.mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Gabriella Horvath, 617 715-4480, HYPERSTUDIO@MIT.EDU
Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
Steven Strang
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Jan/05 | Mon | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/06 | Tue | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/07 | Wed | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/08 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/09 | Fri | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/12 | Mon | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/13 | Tue | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/14 | Wed | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/15 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/16 | Fri | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/20 | Tue | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/21 | Wed | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/22 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/23 | Fri | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/26 | Mon | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/27 | Tue | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
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Jan/28 | Wed | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E39-115 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: none
The Writing & Communication Center (WCC) will continue to offer free consultations and advice on oral presentations and on any writing problem, including writing strategically, finding a topic, generating ideas, overcoming writer's block, improving grammar, crafting effective sentences and paragraphs, organizing ideas, using of evidence, analyzing audiences. We can help with technical writing; theses in all departments; job, graduate and med school application essays; research and teaching statements; resumes; conference talks; articles for publication; book proposals and chapters; and papers for any course. We also offer help on pronunciation. The WCC is open throughout IAP. You must be registered with our online scheduler. Go to https://mit.mywconline.com/index.php to register and to schedule appointments. Open to MIT undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-docs.
Sponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Steven Strang, E39-115C, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU
(CANCELED) Learn to use IPA during IAP
IPA Trainer, Courtney Crummett
| Jan/27 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 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
MATLAB for Neuroscience Research
Daniel Zysman, Computational Course Co-Instructor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
The course aims to expose and introduce students to the power of programming to generate, analyze and visualize data coming from neuroscience research. We will use MATLAB to explore basic neuroscience problems. The course focuses on a problem driven approach, where the research examples will be used to introduce programming techniques and concepts.
Although some previous programming knowledge will be helpful, the course assumes no prior knowledge of programming.
1. Students must provide their own laptop and software for this activity. Instructions for downloading and installing MATLAB are available at: http://ist.mit.edu/matlab/all/student
2. Pre-register for this course by completing the following online form: http://goo.gl/forms/AB4PDBm6V4
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Daniel Zysman, 46-2051, 617-324-7647, dzysman@mit.edu
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Jan/26 | Mon | 10:00AM-01:00PM | 46-1015, You can download MATLAB for students from IS&T |
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Jan/27 | Tue | 10:00AM-01:00PM | 46-1015, You can download MATLAB for students from IS&T |
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Jan/28 | Wed | 10:00AM-01:00PM | 46-1015, You can download MATLAB for students from IS&T |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 10:00AM-01:00PM | 46-1015, You can download MATLAB for students from IS&T |
Daniel Zysman - Computational Course Co-Instructor
Mentor the Class of 2019: Become an Orientation Leader and/or Associate Advisor!
Elizabeth Young, Associate Dean, Leslie Bottari, Staff Associate, Meghan Kenney, Assistant Dean
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Jan/22 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-149 |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-149 |
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Feb/04 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: freshmen, sophomores and juniors welcome
The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming offers two fantastic leadership opportunities for undergraduates—orientation leader (OL) and associate advisor (AA). Both positions play a key role in helping first year students make a successful transition to MIT. Hear from students in these positions speak about their roles and responsibilities, the opportunities to work with faculty and staff, and the leadership skills they gained that will help them in the future. UAAP representatives will be available to give an overview of the application process and important dates. Light refreshments will be served. Bring any and all questions!
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Meghan Kenney, 7-103, 617 253-9764, MKENNEY@MIT.EDU
Mining the Institute Archives and Special Collections: Something for Everyone
Nora Murphy, Archivist for Reference, Outreach and Instruction
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Jan/30 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-118, Sign up: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=857405 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
Limited to 20 participants
The Institute Archives and Special Collections stewards a wealth of material to be mined for innumerable topics of interest – there are original materials, in tangible and electronic formats, about every aspect of MIT. Though it might seem a daunting task to find specific information, it’s not as difficult as you think. In this session you will learn some tips about how to find relevant original material, tools that archivists use to manage the collections, and a chance to examine some boxes to better understand why things are arranged the way they are (or aren’t!).
Please register for this session.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Nora Murphy, 14N-118, 617 253-8066, NMURPHY@MIT.EDU
(CANCELED) Overview of Citation Analysis
Dr. Micah Altman, Director of Research, MIT Libraries
| Jan/28 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E17-128 |
Enrollment: Sign up: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=849722
Whose articles cite a body of work? Is this a high-impact journal? How might others assess my scholarly impact? Citation analysis is one of the primary methods used to answer these questions.
Academics, publishers, and funders often study the patterns of citations in the academic literature in order to explore the relationships among researchers, topics, and publications, and to measure the impact of articles, journals, and individuals.
In this two-hour workshop, we will provide an overview of citation analysis, including: sources of data for citation analysis, common impact measures, and freely available software.
Attendees of the class will be eligible for an individual consultation session to explore individual projects and questions.
Please register for this class.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Randi Randi Shapiro, 617-234-4988, shapiror@mit.edu
Patent Searching Fundamentals
Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian
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Jan/22 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
| Jan/27 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | (CANCELED) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
This session will enable you to successfully find patent references from all over the world, and obtain patent text and diagrams. This hands-on session will help de-mystify the patent literature and show key resources for finding patents.
Thursday, January 22, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, please register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=846309
Tuesday, January 27, 4:00pm - 5:00pm, please register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=846306
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Patent Searching Fundamentals
Anne Graham, Librarian
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Jan/22 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
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Jan/27 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
This session will enable you to successfully find patent references from all over the world, and obtain patent text and diagrams. This hands-on session will help de-mystify the patent literature and show key resources for finding patents.
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Protocols and Methods: Recipes for research
Howard Silver
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Jan/15 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
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
(CANCELED) Public Opinion Data Resources
Katherine McNeill
| Jan/27 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=849506
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 20 participants
Interested in studying public opinion in the U.S. and other countries? 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
Refining and Visualizing Information - Breaking Free of the Basics
Helen Bailey, Digital Curation Analyst, Sean Thomas, Program Manager for Scholarly Repository Services
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This two-part course provides an introduction to information visualization that takes you beyond the basics of traditional spreadsheet and presentation graphics. Participants will learn how to use free, open-source tools for data refinement that combine the reporting and manipulation power of databases with the ease of use of spreadsheet applications.
Session One: Introduction & Overview
Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, 10:30am-12:00pm
14N-132 (DIRC)
This introductory session will provide an overview of concepts and tools for data refinement and visualization. Attendees will be introduced to web-based, open-source tools that provide beginner and intermediate users with richer functionality than traditional desktop spreadsheet and graphics software. Topics will include use cases and tool selection, data processing workflows, and principles for creating effective visualizations.
Register for session one: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=849726
Session Two: Hands-on Workshop
Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, 10:30am-12:30pm
14N-132 (DIRC)
This hands-on workshop will walk participants through a step-by-step process of refining and visualizing a sample data set. Students will learn tricks for using Open Refine, preparing data for use in web-based visualization tools, and modifying JavaScript code to customize D3.JS visualizations. Previous experience with HTML, JavaScript, or scripting languages is not necessary but will be helpful.
Register for session two: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=849728
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Helen Bailey, E25-131, 617 324-4493, HBAILEY@MIT.EDU
Research Data Management: 101
Katherine McNeill
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Jan/12 | Mon | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Register at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=849490
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 35 participants
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. For more in-depth coverage of some of these topics, see our other workshops in the Research Data Management Series.
Please register for this session.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katherine McNeill, E53-168C, 617 253-0787, MCNEILLH@MIT.EDU
Research Data Management: File Organization
Katherine McNeill
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Jan/22 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Register at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=849491
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 35 participants
Do you struggle with organizing your research data? Wonder if there’s a better way to arrange and name your data files to optimize your work? This workshop will teach you practical techniques for organizing your data files. Topics will include: file and folder organizational structures and file naming. Will include hands-on exercises to apply the concepts to your particular data project.
Please register for this session.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katherine McNeill, E53-168C, 617 253-0787, MCNEILLH@MIT.EDU
Speak Up!
Karen Boiko, Lecturer II, Marilyn Levine, Leturer II
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none
Do you lack confidence as a speaker? Have you struggled through presentations in your classes? This workshop is for you.
We will meet for 3 two-hour sessions to explore the features of a great oral presentation, as well as the physiology and kinetics of confidence. Throughout the workshop, we'll examine ways to make public speaking, on any topic, easier and more natural. The workshop will include instruction, group exercises, homework (just a little!) practice, and individual coaching, culminating in one or more brief presentations. The emphasis will be on crafting a talk, developing strategies for both remembering what to say and making the ideas memorable for the audience, and delivering the talk with confidence. Note: This workshop will not include designing or using slides.
We will meet in E39-335, 10:00 a.m.-noon each day
Tuesday Jan 20
Wednesday Jan 21
Thursday Jan 22
Sponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Marilyn Levine, E39-115B, 617-253-3090, maynew@mit.edu
Take Charge of Your Stuff: Personal Content Management Tools
Peter Cohn
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Jan/20 | Tue | 05:00PM-06:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Limited to 30 participants
Personal content management tools help you get organized so you can work more efficiently and save yourself time. Some tools help you organize all sorts of information (notes, pdfs, documents, 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.
Please register.
Contact: Peter Cohn, 7-238, 617 258-5596, PCOHN@MIT.EDU
Take Charge of Your Stuff: Personal Content Management Tools
Peter Cohn
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Jan/20 | Tue | 05:00PM-06:00PM | 14N-132 |
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Jan/21 | Wed | 05:00PM-06:00PM | Online |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Personal content management tools help you get organized so you can work more efficiently and save yourself time. Some tools help you organize all sorts of information (notes, pdfs, documents, 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.
Please register for this event:
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Peter Cohn, pcohn@mit.edu
Theses@MIT: specifications and copyright issues
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright,& Licensing, Mikki Simon MacDonald, Metadata archivist
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Jan/26 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Please email efinnie@mit.edu to reserve a spot.
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: none
This session will cover the required specifications for submitting your thesis, and review some common copyright questions related to theses, including whether you need permission to use certain figures in your thesis, and what is involved when you want to publish parts of your thesis before or after the thesis is submitted.
Offered by Mikki Simon MacDonald from the Institute Archives, who oversees thesis processing, and Ellen Finnie Duranceau, from the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, & Licensing, who handles copyright and publishing questions for the MIT community.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
Using Images in your work: A look at copyright, fair use, and open licensing
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing
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Jan/21 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Please email efinnie@mit.edu to reserve a spot.
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: none
This session will help you assess whether use of a particular image requires permission or can be used under “fair use,” will provide suggesions about how to find images already flagged for reuse, and will touch briefly upon good practices for citing images. Directed at authors of theses, journal articles, blogs, and other scholarly writing.
Presented by Ellen Finnie Duranceau, copyright contact and Program Manager for Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, & Licensing in the MIT Libraries.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
Using self-awareness profiles in professional development and career planning
Dr. Pejman Azarmina, Founder, Thinkocrats, Dr. Samira Kiani
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Jan/29 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | NE 47-189 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: Please complete Pyramid of Self-Awareness Scale available
Self-awareness is the starting point for an insightful journey toward self-actualization. In order to gain a better understanding of our key strengths and areas for improvement, we will look at 5 dimensions of our lives: personal values as a source of motivation and intention for our key decisions; thinking content and thinking process as the fuel and engine for our behaviors; modus operandi which in itself is divided into intellectual, moral, operational and social excellence and counter-excellence behaviors; and finally connection channels which show how we typically connect with other people and make impressions.
In this workshop, participants will learn to interpret their profiles and identify areas for personal growth and professional improvement. In addition, participants will evaluate their long term career plans in the
context of their personal values, thoughts, behavioral patterns and connection styles. The workshop is organized in a 4 hour interactive session consisting of presentations, case studies, small group discussions
and reflective time to create an outline for a personalized professional development plan and career strategy.
Prereq: Please complete the Pyramid of Self-Awareness Scale available on
http://thinkocrats.net/tools/psas/psas-for-individuals/. As an "optional"
activity, you may order a personalized summary report with your 5
profiles that will be emailed to you prior to the workshop.
Contact: Samira Kiani, NE47-285, 347 210-1753, SAMKIANI@MIT.EDU
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