MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2015 Schedule for January 20


Activity Title Location Special Meeting Info

08:00 AM
Innovation Tournament NE45-202 Beaverworks Center

08:30 AM
Essentials of Mechanical Assembly 3-333

09:00 AM
Adventures in Scanning Electron Microscopy SEM Lab Room 4-141 1 Hour Lunch Break
How to Design Electric Vehicles (EVs) E15-341 Bring your laptop, lunch break at 12-1pm

09:30 AM
An Introduction to Biomedical Imaging 36-112
Introduction to R 1-115
Numerical simulations with COMSOL Multiphysics 66-110

10:00 AM
Hacking Radio - GnuRadio & HackRF/USRP E14-674 Bring your laptop [optional]
Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center E39-115
Making an impact by making a difference. Sustainability in the DIY world Danger!Awesome
Physical Computing in Urban Planning TBA
RACECAR - Rapid Autonomous Complex-Environment Competing Ackermann-steering Robot Room 32-141
Software Radio NE45-202 Beaverworks Center
Writing a Lab Safety Procedure 46-3310

10:30 AM
Basic Economics of E-Retail and Amazon.com E17-139
Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments 4-145

11:00 AM
ICF - Basic Science Behind Stockpile Stewardship: Research with the OMEGA Laser NW17-218
INTRO TO JEWELRY 4 - 131B Jewelry course will meet twice a week for 4weeks.
Plasma Science and Fusion Center IAP Series NW17-218

12:00 PM
2015 EAPS Lecture Series: Origins of Life 54-915
IAP 2015- The Feynman Films 4-370
Monitoring Your Portfolio W20-307

12:15 PM
Plasma Science and Fusion Center IAP Series NW17-218

01:00 PM
Introduction to GIS 14N-132
Introduction to Lasercom: Build your own Laser Audio Transmitter NE45-202 Beaverworks Center
Knitting for Programmers E15-335
lynda.com - Getting the Most Out of It E17-121
Massively Parallel Multiphysics Simulation Simplified by MOOSE 4-231 Bring your Laptop
Mechanical Testing of Engineering Materials 1-307
Network analysis in urban design 9-450B Laptop required
Pleasures of Poetry 2015 14E-304
The Next Step in Academic Science 68-181
What are the Benefits? 4-257

01:30 PM
IAP 2015 Physics Lecture Series 4-370
Introduction to Cognos 4-159 *new location
Numerical simulations with COMSOL Multiphysics 66-110

02:00 PM
"Entropy and Society." 13-2137
(CANCELED) CANCELED: Planners Read The Gorgias 9-451 books & food provided
Making the Most of Your Presentation, featuring Jean-luc Doumont 10-250
Nuclear Measurements at the National Ignition Facility: MIT's Contribution to Fusion Ignition and Basic Science NW17-218
Plasma Science and Fusion Center IAP Series NW17-218
Probabilistic Models and Tools for Socio-Technical Systems Research E51-151
The Art and Science of Bacteria 10-150

02:30 PM
Beyonce: Black Feminist Thought in Popular Culture 14E-304
High-resolution x-ray optics at the Space Nanotechnology Laboratory: From nanometers to gigaparsecs 37-252 Marlar Lounge

03:00 PM
8 Mechanics ReView 32-082
China Study/Intern/Research Abroad Info Session 4-145
Contemporary Art Seminar and Critique Media Lab/E15-207
ENAMELING COURSE 4-131B ENAMELING COURSE WILL MEET TWICE A WEEK FOR 4WEEKS
LineStorm W20-425
MIT in China- Finding Opportunities to Go Abroad to China 4-145
On the Screen - activity 3-270

03:15 PM
Inertial Confinement Fusion Tour NW17-218
Tour of the Space Nanotechnology Lab 37-252 Marlar Lounge

04:00 PM
Integration Bee 4-159
Introduction to the Art of Glass Blowing 4-003
Introduction to the Potter's Wheel Section A W20-431

05:00 PM
Building iOS, Android and OS X Applications with RubyMotion 4-231
Building iOS, Android, and OS X Applications with RubyMotion 4-231
Full Throttle: Gender Representations in Car Films 3-310
So you wanna be a scientist 46-3015
Take Charge of Your Stuff: Personal Content Management Tools 14N-132
Take Charge of Your Stuff: Personal Content Management Tools 14N-132
The World of Speech and Hearing Mass Eye & Ear

05:30 PM
Beginning Oil Painting Workshop W20-425
The Biology of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases 46-1015

06:00 PM
Learn To Play Bridge! 4-153
Marxism today: fight against another world war. 4-270

06:15 PM
Introductory Hebrew 4-265

06:30 PM
FAILURE -- AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT TO BEING SUCCESSFUL IN SCHOOL, SCIENCE, AND STARTUPS 56-114

07:00 PM
A glimpse of quantitative investment management 32-124
Are we real when we are online? W20-307 Mezzanine
Intermediate Squash Squash courts
(CANCELED) Love and Romance in Ancient India TBD
MITOC Winter School
Proof-Based Methods: A Warm-Up for 6.042 32-144
Reason, Evidence & the Christian Faith TBD
Totally Teapots W20-431

07:30 PM
Taichi Tuesdays, Kung-Fu Saturdays 5-234 Taichi

07:45 PM
Capoeira Angola- Recreation Building 57

08:00 PM
Interpreting a Still Life W20-425
Splash for Us 56, 1st floor