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
Ballroom Dance Club 2016 IAP Workshops and Social
Yivan Jiang
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
MIT Ballroom Dance Club will hold two workshops and one dance party in 2016 IAP. The schedule is as follows:
Sunday, January 10, 2016, 2:30pm to 4:30pm, at Lobby 13 (map: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=13), International Cha Cha
Sunday, January 24, 2016, 2:30pm to 4:30pm, at Lobdell (map: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=W20), Samba
Both workshops will be taught by Alan Stamper and Taylor Chau, dance instructors from the Champions Dance Studio.
Entrance fees for the workshops: MIT student, Free; Other student, $6; MIT affiliate, $6; General Public, $10
Saturday, January 16, 2016, 8pm to 12 midnight, Dance Party at La Sala (map: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=W20), there will be a Cha-Cha lesson at beginning.
Entrance fees for the Dance Party: MIT student, free; Other student, $6; MIT affiliate, $8; General Public, $10
Sponsor(s): Ballroom Dance Club
Contact: Ballroom Dance Club Officers, bdc-officers@mit.edu
CITY OF THORNS: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Ben Rawlence, author
| Jan/09 | Sat | 11:00AM-12:00PM | MIT Coop Bookstore, 325 Main St., Cambridge |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Book talk and signing
Sponsor(s): Center for International Studies
Contact: Laura Kerwin, 253-8306, lkerwin@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
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
Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of US Policy in the Middle East
Irene L. Gendzier, author
| Jan/21 | Thu | 04:30PM-06:00PM | E40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
BOOK TALK AND SIGNING: Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of US Policy in the Middle East
with author Irene L. Gendzier.
Contact: Laura Kerwin, E40-444D, 253-8306, lkerwin@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
Math mini-talk
Eva Belmont
| Jan/14 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-145 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Give a five-minute talk about your favorite theorem, and hear about other people's favorite theorems. The primary audience is graduate students in math, but others are welcome too. Feel free to come without giving a mini-talk, but if you want to speak, please contact ebelmont@mit.edu.
Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Eva Belmont, ebelmont@mit.edu
Neuropsychiatry in Translation: The Next Generation
Maria Dauvermann, Postdoctoral Associate
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
It has been estimated that 18.5% of adults in the U.S. had a psychiatric disorder in 2013. The treatment success rates with traditional pharmacology among every psychiatric disorder are very low. This goes hand-in-hand with the limitations of currently available diagnostic and prognostic tools.
We know that the brain plays a major role in the development of these disorders. Therefore, technologies for potential diagnosis and treatment options have been developed that aim to change the function of the brain. These new technologies for diagnosis and invention approaches are in development but require thorough translational research before they can be safely used in patients.
The aim of the course is to teach about technologies and intervention approaches that move beyond pharmacology as the sole treatment option. Over the course of four sessions, you will learn how brain scientists from different disciplines (biologists, chemists, physicists, psychologists, informaticians, engineers) invent and develop techniques in multiple translational steps as diagnosis and treatment options for patients. You will design and present your own translational study at the end of the course.
Session 1: Currently available techniques and treatment options
Session 2: Promising technologies for diagnosis and treatment options in humans, monkeys and rodents
Session 3: Practical translational research steps across species
Session 4: Design, presentation and discussion of translational studies
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Maria Dauvermann, 46-2171, 617-324-3599, mariad@mit.edu
| Jan/07 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 46-4062 |
| Jan/08 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 46-4062 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 46-4062 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 46-4062 |
Maria Dauvermann - Postdoctoral Associate
Old-Time String Band Jam at MIT
Peggy Conant, Jam Leader, Selene Victor, Jam Leader
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This session has been reinstated! To get meeting and session updates, please contact the pconant@mit.edu.
Before radio and before bluegrass, fiddles, banjos and guitars were being played throughout Appalaichia and in the southeastern states by people gathered on front porches and in dance halls to make their own fun. These people passed on an enduring repertoire of tunes and a musical style which is still alive and well. Today players from all over the US gather regularly to "jam," playing old and newly composed tunes in the style now referred to as old-time southern string-band music.
If you play or if you just like to listen to traditional music played on fiddle, banjo and guitar, come to the Old-Time Music Jam at MIT!
Contact: Peggy Conant, W92-203, 617 715-5142, PCONANT@MIT.EDU
| Jan/05 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:00PM | (CANCELED) | |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:00PM | 20-407, Contact leader to get session updates | |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:00PM | (CANCELED) | |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 06:30PM-08:00PM | Lobdell Dining Hall, Contact leader to get session updates |
Peggy Conant - Jam Leader, Selene Victor - Jam Leader
Overview of MIT Retirement Plans
Ken Davies, Retirement Program Manager
| Jan/13 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | W20-307 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Learn about the features of MIT's Retirement Plans in this workshop presented by a member of the MIT Benefits Office.
Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Phyllis Toegel, E19-206, 617-253-6110, ptoegel@mit.edu
Preparing your Savings for Retirement
Paul Gunning, Fidelity Workplace Planning & Guidance Consultant
| Jan/21 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | W20-307 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Key topics to be discussed:
Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Phyllis Toegel, E19-206, 617-253-6110, ptoegel@mit.edu
Responding to Terrorism with Courage and Compassion: Examining One Family's Transformative Journey
David Brancazio '89, SM '91
| Jan/21 | Thu | 06:30PM-08:00PM | 4-237 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
In Our Son's Name is an intimate portrait of Phyllis and Orlando Rodríguez, whose son, Greg, dies with thousands of others in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The bereaved parents choose reconciliation and nonviolence over vengeance and begin a transformative journey that both confirms and challenges their convictions.
They speak out against war in Iraq and Afghanistan, publicly oppose the death penalty of avowed 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and befriend his mother. As their search for meaning evolves they speak out against anti-Muslim actions and find peace in working with prison inmates.
Their marriage strengthens, and they reach a deeper understanding of their rebellious son, who had just begun to find his way when his life was cut short. The film mixes in-depth interviews with on-location footage and striking archival photographs and video to create a deeply personal story that invites us to re-consider conventional concepts of justice and healing.
A discussion will follow the screening of this one-hour documentary film.
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Shifting from Saving to Spending
Paul Gunning, Fidelity Workplace Planning & Guidance Consultant
| Jan/27 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | W20-307 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Key topics to be discussed:
Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Phyllis Toegel, E19-206, 617-253-6110, ptoegel@mit.edu
The Distaff Arts: Medieval Clothing Technology
Margo Collett, Anne McCants
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
This course explores a wide range of medieval textile and clothing production technologies, offering students hands on experience in their use. We will work with a raw fleece; card and spin the wool; use simple looms to weave a belt; dye a variety of fabrics; and design/construct a single garment - either a cloak or tunic. All materials provided.
This course will question typical characterization of medieval textile work as unskilled, as well as consider distinctions usually made between activities labeled as crafts versus those labeled as art.
Sponsor(s): History
Contact: Anne E. C. McCants, E51-291, 2586669, amccants@mit.edu
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-04:00PM | E51-095 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 09:00AM-04:00PM | E51-095 |
Tour of Wallace Astrophysical Observatory
Michael J Person
| Jan/22 | Fri | 06:30PM-11:15PM | Wallace Observatory |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Come tour the heavens at MIT's George R. Wallace Jr. Astrophysical Observatory located 45 minutes northwest of Boston in Westford, MA. Use various telescopes from 14" to 24" for both visual observing and electronic imaging of the moon, Jupiter, and other celestial bodies. Required signup via website: http://web.mit.edu/wallace/iaptour/
Sponsor(s): Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Michael J Person, wao-iap-tour@mit.edu
Voices from the Archives
Liz Andrews, Myles Crowley, Nora Murphy, Institute Archives & Special Collections
| Jan/08 | Fri | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 14N-118 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 30 participants
One of the interesting things about archival records is that it’s not just about “famous” people. Materials in the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections are original and unique and can give voice to many stories or pieces of stories. This session is informal and hands on– we’ll have a variety of examples for you to look at, examine, and listen to so you can “meet” people who were at MIT before you. Your story could be here in the future. Come and see what we have.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Liz Andrews, 14N-118, 617-253-5690, landrews@mit.edu
What's Old is New: Recent Additions to our Special Collections
Stephen Skuce, Rare Books Program Manager
| Jan/22 | Fri | 10:00AM-11:00AM | 14N-118 Archives |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This year the Institute Archives and the Lewis Music Library have added some very cool things to their special collections. Lewis Music has acquired a 15th century chant book that's got to be the biggest volume you've ever seen. For balance, they've acquired a teeny tiny miniature book to go with it. The Archives has some "new" acquisitions too: want to see a 4,000 year old cuneiform tablet? How about a second-folio copy of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar from 1632? If you prefer something more recent, we'll have a mid-20th century lab notebook from a founding member of the Center for Cancer Research. Come get an up-close look at these treasures and several others. Drop in between 10 and 11 am.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Stephen Skuce, 14N-118, 617 253-0654, SKUCE@MIT.EDU
Women and Investing
Paul Gunning, Fidelity Workplace Planning & Guidance Consultant
| Jan/20 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | W20-307 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Review some of the facts about women in today’s economy and some of the challenges women face when it comes to saving for retirement.
Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Phyllis Toegel, E19-206, 617-253-6110, ptoegel@mit.edu
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