"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 |
Adventures in Scanning Electron Microscopy
Donald Galler, Research Engineer
Enrollment: 8 people per session. First come, first serve basis.
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
This class is an introduction to the basic operation of a scanning electron microscope. The basic operating principles will be covered. Attendees will be trained on the use of the microscope.
The microscope is a new JEOL 6610 LV scanning electron microscope (SEM) with several advanced features:
This is a training class but anyone interested in these modern research tools is welcome to attend.
Attendees are encouraged to bring samples for exploration and will operate the microscope as part of the class.
Enrollment limited: Advance sign up required (contact leader by email). 8 people per session. First come, first serve basis.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Donald Galler, 4-131BA, 617-253-4554, dgaller@mit.edu
| Jan/20 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hour lunch break |
Session Description TBD
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hour lunch break |
NA
| Jan/22 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hour lunch break |
Session Description TBD
All About Spatial Data: Find it, Manage it, Use it
Jennie Murack, Alex Oberg
| Jan/14 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 14N-132, use a lab computer or bring a laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Before you can start a research project, you need data! Learn about the different types of spatial data, resources for accessing it, and how to understand and organize it. At the end of this workshop you will be ready to work with spatial data. This workshop is appropriate for GIS users of all levels as well as those who intend to work with spatial data outside of GIS software.
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Geographic Information Systems Lab
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@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
Are You In or Out? An Overview of the Material Transfer Process at MIT
Danielle Byrdsong, MTA Associate Officer
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:30PM-03:00PM | 66-156 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
The transfer of materials into and out of MIT is steadily increasing each year. Moreover, the providers and recipients for these materials are diversifying.
Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) are legal contracts that ensure all parties are permitted to send and receive biological materials, chemical compounds, and other materials. MTAs protect MIT’s intellectual property and freedom to publish, and MTAs record the terms and conditions for the use of the materials.
Come and join Danielle Byrdsongi to learn about MIT's Material Transfer process. Gain a better understanding of MTAs, MIT’s procedures and policies for MTAs, and how to get your materials expeditiously.
Please register by emailing kmkhalil@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Katrina Khalil-Iannetti, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, kmkhalil@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
Biotech Business Information for Engineers
Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian
| Jan/20 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
It's not brain surgery...it's market research. This session will introduce scientists and engineers to business information resources that cover biotechnology industries and markets. 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 event.
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
| 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
CMSE Introduction to Surface Analysis Part 1: Auger Electron Spectroscopy and XPS
Libby Shaw, Research Specialist
| Jan/19 | Tue | 02:00PM-05:00PM | Room 13-2137 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Prereq: none
CMSE's Shared Experimental Facilities include several useful tools for looking at the structure and chemical composition of solid surfaces, with a sampling depth of a few atomic layers. This afternoon seminar is a general introduction to two of these techniques: Auger Electron Spectroscopy and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS). We will summarize how each technique works, its strengths and limitations, and some of the research questions these methods help to answer. See also Introduction to Surface Analysis: Part 2 (Tuesday, January 26).
Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Libby Shaw, 13-4149, 617 253-5045, elshaw@mit.edu
CMSE Introduction to Surface Analysis Part II: Scanned Probe Microscopies
Libby Shaw, Research Specialist
| Jan/26 | Tue | 02:00PM-05:00PM | Room 13-2137 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Prereq: none
CMSE's Shared Experimental Facilities include several useful tools for looking at the structure and chemical composition of solid surfaces, with a sampling depth of a few atomic layers. This afternoon seminar introduces a class of techniques which use a tiny mechanical probe to characterize the topography and material properties of surfaces. With a primary focus on Atomic Force Microscopy, we will summarize the basic mechanism of operation, strengths and limitations of this class of techniques, and some of the research questions SPMs help to answer. See also Introduction to Surface Analysis: Part 1 (Tuesday, January 19).
Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Libby Shaw, 13-4149, 617-253-5045, elshaw@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
Data Management: 101
Mark Clemente, Scholarly Communications and Licensing Librarian, Katherine McNeill, Program Head, Data Management Services; Economics Librarian
| Jan/12 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC |
Enrollment: Register for this session at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2258680
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 25 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.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Mark Clemente, 14S-318, 617 324-4871, CLEMENTE@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: File Organization
Christine Malinowski, Library Fellow for Research Data Management
| Jan/21 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 25 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.
Register at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2233413
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
EHS Representative Orientation
Pam Greenley
| Jan/14 | Thu | 09:30AM-12:30PM | EHS: N52-496 A/B |
Enrollment: Register via MIT Learning Center
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: Registration required
This is a training course for new and existing EHS reps on their role in the EHS Management System, their responsibilities under the EHS-MS, and a brief overview of EHS issues they may be asked about by their lab mates.
Topics include:
Web: http://ehs.mit.edu
Register at http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=EHS00760c
Sponsor(s): Environment, Health and Safety Office
Contact: Jessica Van, N52-496, 617 452-3233, JVAN@MIT.EDU
Energy UROP Information Session, MIT Energy Initiative
Ann Greaney-Williams, Academic Coordinator, Energy Studies @MIT Energy Initiative
| Jan/27 | Wed | 11:30AM-01:30PM | E19-319 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: none
Join us to learn about the Energy UROP Summer program, and meet faculty offering energy-focused UROPs.
Please RSVP to askmitei_ed@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative
Contact: Ann Greaney-Williams, E19-370D, 617 324-7236, AGREANEY@MIT.EDU
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
Going beyond Google Scholar: Exploring the Web of Science and Scopus
Michael Noga, Collections Strategist, MIT Libraries
| Jan/21 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-123, DIRC |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: none
Google Scholar has got it. You can easily search, get ranked results, and go to the full text of articles and other writings. But, if you are doing a literature review for your dissertation, starting a new research project, or need to find older or hard-to-find references, you will benefit by using the Web of Science and its related databases, and Scopus. Come to this session to learn how to do a deeper search for scholarly literature, take advantage of citation searching, and use journal ranking tools. We will have some time to work with your specific topics.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2257137
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Michael Noga, 14S-222, 617 253-1290, MNOGA@MIT.EDU
Green Lab Makeover Contest
Pamela Greenley, Associate Director, EHS, Randa Pierre Ghattas, Project Manager, Office of Sustainability, Niamh Kelly, EMP Officer, EHS, Jennifer Lynn, Senior EHS Coordinator, Koch Institute, Brian Smith, EHS Coordinator, Chemical Engineering
| Jan/14 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 66-319 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 76-659 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 76-659 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
MIT would like to start a green labs certification process but we need your help to get started. We will be holding a contest to see who can green their lab the most and in innovative ways. Come to the IAP to learn about green lab certification and the contest.
Don't have a lab but want to participate anyway? Come anyway, we might be able to find you a partner.
Sponsor(s): Environment, Health and Safety Office, Office of Sustainability
Contact: Pamela Greenley, N52-496, 617-253-9390, GREENLEY@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
Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Spectrometer (ICP-AES)
Tim McClure, Project Technician
| Jan/28 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | 4-159 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering's Analysis Shared Experimental Facility has just purchased a new ICP-AES. The ICP-AES is used for quantitative elemental analysis. Come find out what it does and how it can help your research.
Refreshments will be served. Preregister via e-mail to Tim McClure (mtim@mit.edu).
Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Tim MCClure, Room 13-4149, 617-258-6470, mtim@mit.edu
Info Session: 2016 MIT Amgen-UROP Scholars Program
Alex Hoyt, Sara Nelson
| Jan/07 | Thu | 03:30PM-04:30PM | 5-233 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The Amgen-UROP Scholars Program invites undergraduates to participate in faculty-mentored summer research at MIT in the science and biotechnology areas.
Students admitted to this program (known as Amgen Scholars) will have opportunities to conduct research, analyze data, present research results, network with other undergraduates with similar research interests, and develop working relationships with MIT faculty mentors and other research staff.
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: J Alex Hoyt, 7-104, 617 324-6700, JAHOYT@MIT.EDU
Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy
Patrick Boisvert, Technical Associate
| Jan/21 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 13-2137 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The lecture will provide an introduction to the basic principles of Scanning Electron Microscopy with an approach to EDX, EBSD, and BSE.
Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Patrick Boisvert, 13-1018, x3-3317, pboisver@mit.edu
Introduction to SEM/FIB Dual-Beam Workstation
Shiahn Chen, Research Specialist
| Jan/21 | Thu | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 13-2137 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This lecture will cover the basic principles of ion source, optics and ion-material interaction in a focused ion beam machine with an emphasis on the differences from, and similarities to, the electron-beam instrument. In addition, the lecture will describe the configuration of the FEI Helios 600 Nanolab Dual Beam workstation in the CMSE Electron Microscopy Facility, and conclude with application examples of the material characterization and nanofabrication uses of the dual-beam workstation.
Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Shiahn Chen, 13-1027, 253-4622, schen3j@mit.edu
Introduction to small angle X-ray scattering
Charles Settens, Ph.D., Research Specialist - X-ray Diffraction and Scatteirng
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is a well-established characterization method for investigations of materials by probing inhomogeneities in electron density at the nanometer scale. This set of courses is intended to help users acquire (or brush up on) basic knowledge of SAXS and its applications in anticipation for the CMSE SAXS upgrade in Spring 2016.
After a brief review of basic X-ray properties, SAXS instrumentation is examined in detail focusing on the major system components and pointing out differences between lab-based and synchrotron instruments. Implications of the instrument collimation, scattering geometry, sample transmission, sample-detector distance, angular resolution as well as alignment to reduce systematic error in SAXS patterns are discussed. Theoretical elements like scattering lengths and cross sections, coherent/incoherent scattering contributions with example calculations are introduced.
Since most SAXS profiles don't exhibit 'well defined peaks" like crystalline diffraction but instead characteristic "slopes", it is a heavily model-dependent method. After proper data reduction of SAXS patterns, the data interpretation methods include extracting structural information from standardized plots such as Guinier, Porod, Kratky and Zimm plots. Elements of SAXS data modeling include calculations of the radius of gyration, of the single-particle form factor, inter-particle structure factors and the modeling effects of polydispersity.
Contact: Charles Settens, 13-4041, 845-430-2584, settens@mit.edu
| Jan/12 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 13-4041 |
This lecture and data analysis training is intended to help users acquire (or brush up on) basic knowledge of SAXS and its applications in anticipation for the CMSE SAXS upgrade in Spring 2016. No laptop required - we will be using SASview 3.1.2. for analysis (open access here: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/releases/ )
Charles Settens, Ph.D. - Research Specialist - X-ray Diffraction and Scatteirng
| Jan/19 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 13-4041 |
This lecture and data analysis training is intended to help users acquire (or brush up on) basic knowledge of SAXS and its applications in anticipation for the CMSE SAXS upgrade in Spring 2016. No laptop required - we will be using SASview 3.1.2. for analysis (open access here: https://github.com/SasView/sasview/releases/ )
Charles Settens, Ph.D. - Research Specialist - X-ray Diffraction and Scatteirng
Introduction to TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy)
Yong Zhang
| Jan/25 | Mon | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 13-2137 von Hippel |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The lecture provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of transmission electron microscopy. Topics covered include the illumination system, electron lenses and their aberrations, image formation and resolution. A variety of imaging and analysis techniques and their roles specific to inorganic materials, such as crystallography, diffraction patterns and high resolution imaging are to be present with practical demonstration. This presentation will also introduce TEM sample preparation techniques for a wide range of materials, including metals, semiconductors, powders and thin films.
Contact: Yong Zhang, 13-1034, 617 253-5092, YZHANG05@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
Machine Learning in Critical Care
Mohammad Ghassemi, PhD Candidate, Alistair Johnson, Postdoctoral Associate, Roger Mark, Distinguished Professor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/24
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Based on 2012 estimates, 15% of us will die in an intensive care unit (ICU). When admitted to an ICU, patients are connected to countless devices all dedicated to monitoring their physiology. Doctors are faced with the immense task of incorporating all this information in an extremely short amount of time to choose a treatment. At the moment, most of this is done in a doctor's brain, but with recent advances in machine learning, there is an unprecedented opportunity to help doctors make decisions about how to best care for their patients.
Over the course of four sessions, you will engage in hands on activities and learn how to:
(Session 1) Formulate a research question
(Session 2) Preprocess clinical data
(Session 3) Apply machine learning algorithms*
(Session 4) Compete with other attendees to build the best predictive model, with prizes for the winners
* Topics covered include discriminative and generative modelling, natural language processing, deep learning, among others.
Sponsor(s): Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Contact: Alistair Johnson, E25-505, (617) 324-2092, AEWJ@MIT.EDU
| Jan/05 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E25-101, Bring your laptop with pgadmin3 installed |
Hour 1: Introduction to clinical data
Hour 2 - hands on activity: Extraction of data related to severity of illness
Tom Pollard - Postdoctoral Associate, Mohammad Ghassemi - PhD Candidate, Alistair Johnson - Postdoctoral Associate, Roger Mark - Distinguished Professor
| Jan/12 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E25-101, Bring your laptop with MATLAB installed |
Hour 1: Erroneous, missing, and imprecise data
Hour 2 - hands on activity: Preprocessing of data extracted in session 1
Mohammad Ghassemi - PhD Candidate, Alistair Johnson - Postdoctoral Associate
| Jan/19 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E25-101, Bring your laptop with MATLAB installed |
Hour 1: Machine learning techniques
Hour 2, hands on activity: Build a mortality prediction model using preprocessed data from session 2
Mohammad Ghassemi - PhD Candidate, Li-wei Lehman - Research staff, Alistair Johnson - Postdoctoral Associate
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-05:00PM | E25-101, Bring your laptop with MATLAB installed |
Bring together all that you have learned in the past sessions to build a high performance mortality prediction model. Your algorithm will be judged using a hidden set of data, and prizes will be given out to top scorers.
Mohammad Ghassemi - PhD Candidate, Alistair Johnson - Postdoctoral Associate
Maximizing Your UROP Experience
| Jan/20 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 5-233 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Come learn from UROP Staff how to maximize your research experience and communicate with different research stakeholders.
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: J Alex Hoyt, 7-104, 617 324-6700, JAHOYT@MIT.EDU
Online workshop: Manage your PDFs & citations: Zotero & Mendeley
Peter Cohn
| Jan/13 | Wed | 04:30PM-05:30PM | Online |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
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.
This is an online workshop.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@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
Research Funder Open Access Requirements from NASA, NSF, DOE and Other Federal Agencies
Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Pub., Copyright, & Licensing, Michelle Christy, Director, Office of Sponsored Programs, Katherine McNeill, Program Head, Data Management Services
| Jan/13 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 30 participants
Do you or your colleagues get or seek federal funding for your research? Want to stay up-to-date on rules to get your next grant, or help others with managing their grant requirements? Come to this session and learn about new requirements from the federal government for open access: in 2013, the White House directed all large federal agencies to develop requirements for open access to publications and data created through research they fund. These requirements are now being implemented.
In the session, staff from the Office of Sponsored Programs and the Libraries will:
• provide an overview of the new requirements that have been issued from major agencies including NASA, NSF, and the Department of Energy.
• describe services at MIT that can help you comply with these requirements
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Finnie Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@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
Software Tools for Operations Research
Joseph Huchette, Jack Dunn
| Jan/05 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E51-315 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
The "big data revolution" has placed added emphasis on computational techniques in Operations Research (OR). Large-scale optimization, data analysis and visualization are now commonplace among researchers and practitioners alike. More than ever, there is a need not only to develop new techniques, but also to implement and use them. This course is a multi-session workshop focusing on software tools specific to the practice of OR. We concentrate on the mechanics of using common software to apply specific methodologies. The goal of the course is to provide a baseline technical knowledge for modern research in OR, including the computational aspects of: data manipulation/analysis, visualization, graphs, and optimization. Class participation and individual hands-on coding are stressed in each session.
Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
Contact: Joseph Huchette, HUCHETTE@MIT.EDU
Strategies on How to Find a UROP
UROP Staff
| Jan/04 | Mon | 03:30PM-04:30PM | 5-233 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 03:30PM-04:30PM | 5-233 |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 03:30PM-04:30PM | 5-233 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Join us to learn key strategies for finding a UROP and participate in small-group discussions including one-on-one advice from UROP staff. All MIT undergraduates are welcome and encouraged to join.
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program -UROP
Contact: J Alex Hoyt, 7-104, 617 324-6700, JAHOYT@MIT.EDU
The Doctor Is In: Medical Information at MIT Libraries
Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian
| Jan/22 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
We may not have a medical school, but the Libraries is full of medical information to support your research. Need to find an efficacy study on a drug or treatment protocol? Need to understand the physiology of the nervous systems? Need to better understand the screening and prevention of a particular disease or disorder? This hands-on workshop will demonstrate how our collections can help you find these answers. Registration required.
Sponsor(s): Biology, Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
The Time Capsule to Mars Project
Prof. Paulo Lozano, Iulia Jivanescu, Cassidy Chan, (Modeling & Simulation Engineer, Draper Lab)
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Time Capsule to Mars is a student led CubeSat project with professional industry support that will send a spacecraft from Earth to Mars in order to land a time capsule in 2017. This mission is being led out of multiple universities with faculty support and MIT is working on the Guidance, Navigation, and Control subsystems and the Propulsion subsystem. This IAP is to do a trade study on the benefits of Laser communications in interplanetary and cislunar space and how it affects the propulsion budget. The study is to develop a link budget for the TC2M mission that will be applicable in cislunar and interplanetary travel. The study will then evaluate laser communications and RF communications into how it could be used for the mission.
This work is supported by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Cassidy Chan, cchan@draper.com
Tutorial Series in Computational Topics related to Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Emily Mackevicius
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Geared towards BCS grad students & postdocs, others welcome
Each tutorial will consist of a short lecture, and then 'office hours' time to work through practice problems and discuss problems people want help with in their own research. The goal is to get people past the initial learning curve in particular computational topics relevant to BCS, and get people from across the department talking about common computational methods. Food will be provided.
Please sign up for tutorials here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11yK-Xqc_1UU29qWAuQLqZjtMXyidLohxGVUIO9MjUjQ/viewform
Materials will be posted here (Currently this site has material for previous BCS computational tutorials. If you sign up, I'll email you when current materials are posted.): https://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/bcs-comp-tut/index.html
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Emily Mackevicius, ELM@MIT.EDU
| Jan/12 | Tue | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 46-3310 |
Taught by: Satrajit Ghosh and Evan Remington
| Jan/19 | Tue | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 46-3310 |
Taught by: Emily Mackevicius and Greg Ciccarelli
| Jan/21 | Thu | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 46-3310 |
Taught by: Sam Norman-Haignere
| Jan/22 | Fri | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 46-3310 |
Taught by: Seth Egger
Using Digital Forensics to Understand Your Digital Material: BitCurator
Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivisit
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 2-105, Bring your laptop to load software |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 20 participants
Prereq: Knowledge to install software on your computer.
Join the Libraries' Digital Archivist in learning about how digital forensics tools and techniques can help you learn about your files. For the hands-on workshop, you will bring your laptop and we will install the BitCurator environment. We will use tools such as a disk imager, BulkExtractor, ExifViewer, and other tools to understand if there is PII in your files. We will explore what's in your files and how to use digital forensics tools to view, extract, and report on files.
This workshop will require your personal laptop using VMware or VirtualBox. We will be loading software onto your computer, so you need permissions to do this. You may bring a small capacity external USB drive (1GB or smaller) that we can image for the class. We will also provide a USB drive with files from the Personal Digital Archiving course.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2264788
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Kari Smith, 14N-118, 617 258-5568, SMITHKR@MIT.EDU
Visualizing and Accessing Genomic Data Using Publically Available Genome Browsers and Databases
Charlie Whittaker, KI Bioinformatics and Computing Core Facility Researcher, Duan Ma, KI Bioinformatics and Computing Core Facility Researcher, Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian
| Jan/29 | Fri | 09:00AM-11:00AM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
There are extensive genomic data available in public databases and these data are readily accessible using resources such as the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics tools, cBioPortal and the Broad Institute’s Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). This hands-on session will demonstrate some common workflows that are possible with these applications including bulk sequence extraction, powerful queries and the sharing and visualization of large datasets. This session will be taught by Charlie Whittaker and Duan Ma of the KI Bioinformatics and Computing Core Facility
Eligibility: MIT researchers affiliated with the Koch Institute, the Biology Department, the Center for Environmental Health Sciences or the Department of Biological Engineering. Registration required.
Sponsor(s): David H. Koch Inst. for Integrative Cancer Researc, Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
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