"The Neuroscience Business" (Reading/discussion group)
Carmen Varela, Research Scientist
Enrollment: To sign up, please email: carmenv@mit.edu
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Priority will be given to participants that can attend all sessions
Prereq: None. Particularly suitable for postdocs and Jr. faculty
The business and academic worlds are often seen as involving fairly different cultures and work styles. Yet the way successful companies like Google, Apple, or Pixar approach management, creativity, or the organization and motivation of their workforce may be applicable and beneficial to academic scientific practice. Through readings and discussions, we will explore and reflect on the approaches that business schools and companies take to address issues (management, team dynamics, creativity) that are essential components of research practice. The overall goal of these reading/discussion sessions is to work together on a series of business-related readings in order to learn about and discuss strategies used in the business world to address issues that, while important in neuroscience, are often ignored in academic labs and training schools.
Readings will be distributed on Monday each week for group discussion on Thursday. The topics for each Thursday will be as follows:
Week 1. Management and Leadership: Academia vs Business
Week 2. Recruitment, Motivation, and Team Dynamics
Week 3. Creativity and Innovation
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Carmen Varela, 46-5233, 617-501-6261, carmenv@mit.edu
| Jan/11 | Mon | 05:30PM-06:00PM | 46-4062 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 46-4062 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 46-4062 |
| Jan/29 | Fri | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 46-4062 |
5 Minute Math Madness
Asra Ali
| Jan/20 | Wed | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 4-159 |
Enrollment: If you'd like to sign up, please contact asra@mit.edu
Come join us for 5-minute Math Madness: a 1-2 hour activity where we get together and each give a 5 minute math-related talk. The talk can really be about anything -- a theorem, proof idea, construction, conjecture, etc -- any small bit of information you find really cool. It should be accessible and importantly, engaging! (This maybe shouldn't be so hard, you'll be talking about your favorite theorem!) This event is geared towards math undergrads.
If you'd like to sign up, or are interested in attending, please contact: Asra Ali at asra@mit.edu.
Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Asra Ali, asra@MIT.EDU
APIs for Scholarly Resources: Research Opportunities with Text- and Data-Mining
Mark Clemente, Scholarly Communications and Licensing Librarian
| Jan/26 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC |
Enrollment: Please email clemente@mit.edu to reserve a spot.
Limited to 35 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, or mine full-text articles for 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 MIT faculty and students whose current research work utilizes APIs and similar tools.
Speakers include:
Christian Catalini, Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Edward Kim, PhD student, MIT Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
Jorge Arturo Guzman, PhD student, MIT Sloan School of Management
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Mark Clemente, 14S-318, 617 324-4871, CLEMENTE@MIT.EDU
ATIC (Assistive Technology) Open House
ATIC staff
| Jan/28 | Thu | 12:00PM-02:00PM | 7-143 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The Assistive Technology Information Center opens its doors to show visitors the latest in commercially available assistive technologies for people with disabilities. We will demonstrate
and various other technologies such as Braille labelers, tactile graphics and ergonomic keyboards and pointing devices
Contact: Kathleen Cahill, 7-143, 617 253-5111, KCAHILL@MIT.EDU
Basics of Obtaining a Patent 2016
Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian
| Jan/25 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 4/162 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 100 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.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Bioinformatics for Beginners 2016
Howard Silver, Biological Engineering Librarian
| Jan/12 | Tue | 03:30PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:30AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 30 participants
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.
Register: Tuesday, January 12, 3:30 - 5 pm
Register: Friday, January 15, 10:30 - 12 pm
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Business information for engineers and scientists
Howard Silver, MIT Libraries
| Jan/27 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 30 participants
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 20, 2016.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Confidential Research Information Management: Security and Privacy Key Concepts
Micah Altman, Director of Research & Head/Scientist, Prog on Info Science
| Jan/11 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E25-401 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 50 participants
Prereq: none
This tutorial provides a framework for identifying and managing confidential information in research. It is most appropriate for mid-late career graduate students, faculty, and professional research staff who actively engage in the design/planning of research. The course will provide an overview of the major legal requirements governing confidential research data; and the core technological measures used to safeguard data. And it will provide an introduction to the statistical methods and software tools used to analyze and limit disclosure risks.
Failures of confidentiality threaten research integrity, reputation, legality, and funding. Every researcher in the social, behavioral and health sciences must understand how to manage confidential information in research. Successful management of confidential information is particularly challenging because it requires satisfying a combination of complex legal, statistical and technological constants. And the management of this information has grown increasingly challenging because of recent changes in the law, new forms of data collection, and advances in statistical methods for linking data.
The course will be presented in a half-day format. Individual consultations may be scheduled with Dr. Altman by contacting Kelly Hopkins at khopkins@mit.edu.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Kelly Hopkins, E25-131, 617 253-3044, KHOPKINS@MIT.EDU
Crushing Your Coding Interview
Karen Sittig
| Jan/06 | Wed | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 4-237 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This class will walk you through all the tips and tricks to best prepare you for your next coding interview. We'll discuss what to expect in your coding interview, what your interviewer is looking for, and advice for putting your best foot forward. We will also walk through several example interview questions and discuss common mistakes (coding and otherwise).
The presentation will last between 1-1.5 hours with the remaining time for 1:1 resume review.
Karen and Laney are both software engineers at Facebook Boston and have jointly interviewed hundreds of student and industry candidates.
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Karen Sittig, Laney Kuenzel, sipb-iap16-interview@mit.edu
Data Management: Data Management Plans & the DMPTool
Christine Malinowski, Library Fellow for Research Data Management
| Jan/26 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 25 participants
Are you required to submit a data management plan (DMP) to a funder? Are you looking to create a data management plan and aren’t sure where to start or what to include? This session will run through the components of a good data management plan and introduce the DMPTool, an online (and MIT-customized) tool for crafting funder-specific data management plans.
Register for this session at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2256607
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Christine Malinowski, E53-100, 617 324-6394, CMALIN@MIT.EDU
Data Management: Strategies for Data Sharing and Storage
Helen Bailey, Digital Curation Analyst, Phoebe Ayers, Librarian for EECS & Engineering Systems
| Jan/14 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132, DIRC |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 25 participants
Not sure how to publish and share your data? Unclear on the best formats and information to include for optimal data reuse? This workshop will review existing options for long-term storage and strategies for sharing data with other researchers. Topics will include: data publication and citation, persistent identifiers, versioning, data formats and metadata for reuse, repositories, cost models and management strategies.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2231360
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Helen Bailey, E25-131, 617 324-4493, HBAILEY@MIT.EDU
Data Visualization: Introduction to Tools and Principles
Helen Bailey, Digital Curation Analyst
| Jan/12 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:30AM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
This introductory session will provide an overview of concepts and tools for visualizing data. 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 here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2255951
*Please note there is a new location for this workshop. It will now be held in 4-163.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Helen Bailey, E25-131, 617 324-4493, HBAILEY@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 25, 26, 27 & 28. No sign up is necessary, just come to whatever sessions you are most interested in!
January 25: Technological Engineering (Courses 1, 2, 3, 6, 16, 22)
January 26: Chemistry & Chemical Engineering; Biology & Biological Engineering (Courses 3, 5, 6, 6-7, 7, 9, 10, 10B)
January 27: Economics & Management, Design & Infrastructure, Politics & Policy (Courses 1, 2, 4, 10, 14, 15, 17, 22)
January 28: 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
| Jan/25 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Courses 1, 2, 3, 16, 22
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/25 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 1-143 |
Sponsored by Course 1
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/25 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 54-1827 |
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/25 | Mon | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 54-1311 |
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/25 | Mon | 05:30PM-06:30PM | 7-429 |
Session Description TBD
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 1-131 |
Traveling Research Environment Experience Presentation
Sponsored by Course 1
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 5-233 |
Courses 3, 5, EAPS
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/26 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 66-201 |
Sponsored by Course 10
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | E25-630 |
Lab Tour: How Stalagmites and Lake Deposits Document Climate Change
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Course 7, EAPS, BCS
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/26 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | E25-650B |
Lab Tour: Using Geobiology to Study Life on Early Earth
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/26 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:00PM | Entrance to Bld. 46 |
Sponsored by Course 9
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/27 | Wed | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 54-915 |
From MIT to Pluto: EAPS explores the outer reaches of our solar system
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/27 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Course 4, 22
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/27 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Course 14
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/27 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Course 15
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/27 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
US and International Politics, Public Policy, Law and Social Science Statistics Panel
Course 17
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/27 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 1-131 |
Sponsored by Course 1
Session Leaders TBD
| Jan/28 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | Bush Room (10-105) |
Courses 6, EAPS
Shauna Peterson - Staff Associate, Amgen Scholars
| Jan/28 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 54-915 |
Sponsored by Course 12
Session Leaders TBD
Directed Reading Program in Mathematics
Slava Gerovitch
| Date TBD | Time TBD | Location TBD | ||
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 11/13
Prereq: at least two math courses at 18.100 level or higher.
For undergraduates wanting to learn mathematical topics through guided self-study. Application deadline for Jan 2016 IAP is: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2015.
After you get admitted, we'll pair you up with a graduate student mentor with similar interests. You two will agree on a topic to explore, and find a suitable textbook.
During IAP, you and your mentor will meet regularly to discuss the material. This is directed reading - You have the opportunity to ask in-depth questions, discuss your impressions, and receive feedback.
For more information and application instructions, see http://math.mit.edu/research/undergraduate/drp
Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Slava Gerovitch, E18-420, 4-1459, slava@mit.edu
DUSPviz: Create a Research Poster -- Intermediate Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign
Mike Foster
| Jan/12 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 9-251 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 25 participants
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.
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lpmyLyj0zfwuQxNKEuaZKGSctX726bHCr8KyKSKl6jo/viewform
Sponsor(s): Urban Studies and Planning
Contact: Mike Foster, mjfoster@mit.edu
Effective Technical Interviews
Gregory Marton
| Jan/26 | Tue | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-237 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: Some programming experience helpful
After 200+ interviews at Google, teaching a class there for candidates about to interview, and after an extensive job search in this area, I will share lessons learned, and leave plenty of time to answer your questions and concerns. Primarily for interviewees:
* What to expect,
* How to prepare,
* How to get un-stuck,
* Non-technical questions,
* Time permitting: a practice problem. Bring paper, pen, and courage.
Another version's slides: https://bitbucket.org/gregory_marton/coding-interview/src
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Gregory Marton, sipb-iap16-effective-interview@mit.edu
Emacs for Beginners
Mike Rolish
| Jan/18 | Mon | 05:00PM-06:00PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Are you using IDLE, nano, pico, Notepad++, Word, or (shudder) Notepad to edit documents and programs? Cast away your clumsy editor and begin your quest to master Emacs, the ultimate text editor. Since 1976.
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Mike Rolish, sipb-iap16-emacs@mit.edu
Excelling at MIT and beyond: Developing a "Growth Mindset"
Lourdes Aleman, Research Scientist
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Many students arrive at MIT riding on years of academic success and praise from teachers, parents, and colleagues. But what happens when you encounter uncertainty and failure? Have you been in a challenging class where you worry about how others will perceive you if don't sound "smart" enough? When you fail to achieve a specific goal, how do you manage and overcome discouragement and self-doubt? In this course, we will examine how our own notions of potential and ability can have a fundamental impact how we approach our work, how much we learn, and how successful we can be in achieving our goals. The course will focus on recent, evidence-based insights regarding human performance, neuroplastictiy, motivation and on how deliberately cultivating a "growth-mindset" can improve our willingness and ability to face challenges and to innovate, despite the risk of failure.
This course is limited to 20 students. Please send a brief description of who you are and why you would like to take this course to Lourdes Alemán at laleman@mit.edu. You will be notified via e-mail to confirm registration. Registration is opened until 1/8.
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, Biology
Contact: Lourdes Aleman, 617 715-5348, LALEMAN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/12 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
How people learn, neurosplasticity, struggling and how it relates to learning.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
The relationship between different types of mindset, learning and achievement.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
| Jan/19 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
Learning to embrace challenges and learning from them: cultivating a growth mindset.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
| Jan/22 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 8-205 |
Using deliberate practice to improve learning and achievement.
Lourdes Aleman - Research Scientist
Finding Research Datasets in the Social Sciences
Katherine McNeill
| Jan/26 | Tue | 09:30AM-11:00AM | LIB: 14N-132 DIRC |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 40 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, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 60 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 David Kaiser, author of many books, and Dpt Head of MIT's Prg in Sci., Tech., and Soc., and Sean Lynn-Jones, editor of the journal International Security.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Finnie Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
Get the most from your "omics" analysis: GeneGo MetaCore Software Training
Courtney Crummett, GeneGo Trainer
| Jan/26 | Tue | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 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 MetaCore, a bioinformatics software tool licensed by MIT Libraries. MetaCore provides a solution for using "omics" gene lists to generate and prioritize hypotheses for novel biomarkers, targets, and mechanisms of action. Learn how to work with different types of data such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and interaction data. Use this tool 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. A new feature, Key Pathway Advisor (KPA) which can be used to predict upstream regulators from differentially expressed genes and help identify key pathways that they participate in with be demoed. 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
How to Speak
Patrick Henry Winston, Ford Professor of Engineering/MacVicar Fellow
| Jan/29 | 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
Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
Steven Strang
| Jan/04 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/05 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/11 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/25 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/29 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: none
The professional communication experts at the Writing & Communication Center (WCC) will continue to offer free consultations and advice about oral presentations, slide design, poster presentations, and about any writing issue, including writing strategically, finding a topic, generating ideas, turning data into a story, overcoming writer's block, improving grammar, crafting effective sentences and paragraphs, organizing ideas, using 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 to register and to schedule appointments. Open to MIT undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-docs.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Steven Strang, E39-115C, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU
Introduction to LaTeX
Lizhou Sha
| Jan/18 | Mon | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 1-115 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 1-115 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Tired of aligning with the space bar in Word? LaTeX is the golden standard of typesetting in academia and beyond. In this single-session event, we will see how easy it is to create professional-looking documents in LaTeX. We'll start with the basics of LaTeX typography, learn how to typeset math like a pro, dive into macros, and finish with a glimpse of powerful LaTeX packages like Biblatex (for bibliography and references), opencv (for flawlessly typeset CV and resumes), and Beamer (PowerPoint-killer).
The room comes with Athena machines for real-time practice. Bring your own document that you want typeset in LaTeX! It can be a paper, a resume, a presentation, or more.
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Lizhou Sha, sipb-iap16-latex@mit.edu
Introduction to Version Control using Git & GitHub
Tristan Naumann
| Jan/28 | Thu | 07:30PM-09:00PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Version control systems are essential for the organization of multi-developer projects. Likewise, familiarity with such tools can greatly simplify even small projects. This short course will discuss version control as a problem and focus on how it can be managed with Git. Further, we will discuss how to share code using GitHub and some common workflows.
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects. GitHub is a web-based hosting service for projects using Git which has quickly become one of the most popular code repository sites for open source projects.
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Tristan Naumann, sipb-iap16-git@mit.edu
Introduction to Vim
Ray Hua Wu, Ming Yang Ong
| Jan/14 | Thu | 05:00PM-06:30PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Learn the basics about using the mysterious and slightly ancient text editor you have probably heard quite a bit about, Vim.
Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Ray Hua Wu & Ming Yang Ong, sipb-iap16-vim@mit.edu
LaTeX/BibTeX & citation management tools
Christine Malinowski, Library Fellow for Research Data Management
| Jan/28 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC, Bring your laptop with LaTeX installed |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/28
Limited to 25 participants
Are you using LaTeX to create your documents? Are you looking for more guidance on integrating Zotero or Mendeley into your workflow? Do you keep running into issues with your citations or your .bib files? If you have a working knowledge of LaTeX and are looking to optimize how you manage citations and integrate your favorite citation management tools like Zotero, Mendeley or JabRef, this is the workshop for you!
Note, this is not an introduction to LaTeX or BibTeX – a working knowledge of LaTeX is assumed. Bring your laptop with your LaTeX setup to follow along.
Register for this session at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2256749
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Christine Malinowski, E53-100, 617 324-6394, CMALIN@MIT.EDU
Manage your PDFs and Citations: Zotero & Mendeley
Peter Cohn
| Jan/25 | Mon | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 50 participants
Using citation management software to create and maintain a collection of references or PDFs is common and important in today’s academic world. These tools will help you to save citations from your favorite databases and websites, store related PDFs or attachments, and quickly build a bibliography for your papers and publications. We’ll review Zotero and Mendeley and show how to use them together to help your manage your PDF’s and citations.
Pre-register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2256018
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Darcy Duke, 617.953.5977, darcy@mit.edu
Mathematics of Big Data: Spreadsheets, Databases, Matrices, and Graphs
Jeremy Kepner, Fellow
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/23
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Linear Algebra
"Big Data" describes a new era in the digital age where the volume, velocity, and variety of data created across a wide range of fields (e.g., internet search, healthcare, finance, social media, defense, ...) is increasing at a rate well beyond our ability to analyze the data. Many technologies (e.g., spreadsheets, databases, graphs, linear algebra, ...) have been developed to address these challenges. The common theme amongst these technologies is the need to store and operate on data as whole collections instead of as individual data elements. This class describes the common mathematical foundation of these data collections (associative arrays) that apply across a wide range of applications and technologies. Associative arrays unify and simplify Big Data leading to rapid solutions to Big Data volume, velocity, and variety problems. Understanding these mathematical foundations allows the student to see past the differences that lie on the surface of Big Data applications and technologies and leverage their core mathematical similarities to solve the hardest Big Data challenges.
NOTE: This class is currently full.
Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Jeremy Kepner, 2nd Floor, 300 Tech Sq, 781 981-3108, KEPNER@LL.MIT.EDU
| Jan/05 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:30PM | 2nd Flr 300 Tech Sq, Pizza will be provided |
Preface and Chapter 1 of "Mathematics of Big Data" text
Jeremy Kepner - Fellow
| Jan/12 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:30PM | 2nd Flr 300 Tech Sq, Pizza will be provided |
Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of "Mathematics of Big Data" text. Introduction to D4M (http://d4m.mit.edu).
Jeremy Kepner - Fellow
| Jan/19 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:30PM | 2nd Flr 300 Tech Sq, Pizza will be provided |
Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7 of "Mathematics of Big Data" text.
Jeremy Kepner - Fellow
| Jan/26 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:30PM | 2nd Flr, 300 Tech Sq, Pizza will be provided |
Student presentations
Chapters 8, 9 of "Mathematics of Big Data"
Jeremy Kepner - Fellow
Mentor the Class of 2020: Become an Orientation Leader and/or Associate Advisor!
Elizabeth Young, Associate Dean, Leslie Bottari, Staff Associate, Meghan Kenney, Assistant Dean
| Jan/26 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-159 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-159 |
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
Patent analysis with PatSnap
Anne Graham, Civil and Environmental Engineering Librarian
| Jan/20 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Danielle Eades with PatSnap will lead a webinar to illustrate the use of the PatSnap analysis platform to gain global market insights through patents.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Patent Searching Fundamentals 2016
Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian
| Jan/22 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
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.
Friday, January 22, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, please register here
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Protocols and Methods: Recipes for research
Howard Silver
| Jan/19 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 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. Need to know how to do Optogenetic manipulation of neural activity in freely moving Caenorhabditis elegans? 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
Public Opinion Data Resources
Katherine McNeill
| Jan/27 | Wed | 10:00AM-11:00AM | LIB: 14N-132 DIRC |
Enrollment: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2252551
Sign-up by 01/27
Limited to 40 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
Scholarly Reputation Management for Early Career Researchers
Michal Altman, Ph.D., Director of Research and Head/Scientist, Program on Info Sci
| Jan/25 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E25-111 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 125 participants
Prereq: none
In the rapidly changing world of research and scholarly communications researchers are faced with a rapidly growing range of options to publicly disseminate, review, and discuss research—options which will affect their long-term reputation. Early career scholars must be especially thoughtful in choosing how much effort to invest in dissemination and communication, and what strategies to use.
In this talk, Dr. Altman briefly reviews a number of bibliometric and scientometric studies of quantitative research impact, a sampling of influential qualitative writings advising this area, and an environmental scan of emerging researcher profile systems. Based on this review, and on professional experience on dozens of review panels, Dr. Altman suggests some steps junior researchers may consider when disseminating their research and participating in public reviews and discussion.
Location: E25-111
Click here to register for this IAP class.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Kelly Hopkins, E25-131, 617 253-3044, KHOPKINS@MIT.EDU
StartIAP 2016
Trish Cotter, Entrepreneur In Residence
Enrollment: By Application
Sign-up by 12/09
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
StartIAP is a 4-week accelerator designed for student teams who want to try the experience of working on a startup full time, building out all aspects of a new business to the extent possible in the space of one month.
During these four weeks, students will be introduced to key concepts and skills that will help them succeed as entrepreneurs in a series of workshops and assignments. They will practice these skills on their own projects, and will report their progress to their cohort in peer check-in sessions. They can sign up for coaching sessions with highly experienced entrepreneurs and mentors to get feedback and suggestions on their venture.
Teams will also have dedicated space in the Trust Center, access to an unlimited supply of ramen noodles and coffee, and will be given access to labs around campus to further develop their products and companies.
At the end of the four-week period, teams will have built a startup from concept to business in four weeks. We will wrap up the program with a TechStars style Demo Day.
See our website for more details. http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/startIAP
Sponsor(s): Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Contact: Trish Cotter, E40-160, 617-253-3453, pcotter@mit.edu
Takeoff Space introduction and discussion
Jonathan Richmond, Takeoff Space Founder
| Jan/26 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:00PM | W31-305 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Kids from lower-income backgrounds have a huge disadvantage in getting to good colleges -- and it can seem almost impossible to get to MIT, however brilliant they may be.
Brilliant students often come from uneducated and unfortunately disrupted familes where there is little or no culture of learning. Instead, they must often work long hours after school to help support their family financially.
Takeoff Space will be a highly selective program available only to academically top-performing high-school juniors from deprived backgrounds. They will visit MIT weekly to be mentored by an MIT student who will not so much advise them as do what professional parents do: lead them through the college and financial aid selection and application process to make sure it is completed correctly and optimally.
The program is planned to launch this spring with approximately a dozen students from Lowell High School. With success, it will spread throughout the Boston region and become a national model. We invite your interest.
This IAP activity will present Takeoff Space and will give MIT students a chance to get involved.
Contact: Jonathan Richmond, richmond@alum.mit.edu
Theses@MIT: specifications and copyright issues
Ellen Finnie, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright,& Licensing, Mikki Simon MacDonald, Metadata archivist
| Jan/20 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
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, 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
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