"The Codex and Its Variations": Artists' Books @ MIT
Anna Boutin, Art & Architecture Librarian
| Jan/25 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-112 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Curious about what an artists’ book is exactly? Wondering what makes it different than the other books that the Libraries has? Whether you’ve heard about them before or not, this session will go over current discussions on what exactly makes and artists’ book, and will include an interactive experience with some of the dynamic books in MIT Libraries own collections!
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anna Boutin, 7-238, 617-324-6600, boutin@mit.edu
Basics of Obtaining a Patent 2017
Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian
| Jan/23 | Mon | 10:30AM-12:00PM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
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, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Business data: Finding & mapping company information
Jennie Murack, Nick Albaugh
| Jan/20 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Did you ever wonder where grocery stores are located in a city? Or perhaps biotech firms? We will learn how to query several business directories and then take that information one step further by creating customized maps and finding detailed information for specific companies.
Bring your laptop or use a computer in the lab.
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Geographic Information Systems Lab
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU
Business information for engineers and scientists
Howard Silver, MIT Libraries
| Jan/19 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
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 your interests are focused on bioscience, consider our related session on Biotech business information, offered January 11, 2017, 11 am - 12 pm.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Census & demographic data: Find and use statistics from around the world
Jennie Murack, Nick Albaugh
| Feb/01 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
There are many websites and databases that include census and demographic data. How do you find them? Which is the best for your project? We’ll explore sources of US and international data and provide tips for finding additional datasets. For those interested in mapping, we’ll teach you the steps necessary for creating customized maps.
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Geographic Information Systems Lab
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU
Computing Essentials for Scientists and Engineers
Chen Xie
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
These classes aim to teach concepts and habits that make programming a more simplified and comfortable process for those who did not study computer science.
The presenter will use slideshows and read/write/manipulate files and programs during the sessions. Class participation is encouraged.
Signup has reached maximum capacity. Waitlist here: https://goo.gl/forms/yebq7R1cQriYYMAG3
Before the first session, please ensure that you have done the following on your laptop:
- Download and install git: https://git-scm.com/downloads
- Download and install the C Python interpreter (Python 3.6): https://www.python.org/downloads/
- Download `get-pip.py` and install pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
- Create an account on github: https://github.com/
- Ensure you have a user account on your operating system with no spaces. If your current one has spaces, make a new one.
Sponsor(s): Health Sciences
Contact: Chen Xie, CX1111@MIT.EDU
| Jan/24 | Tue | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 56-154, Bring your laptop |
| Jan/25 | Wed | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 56-154, Bring your laptop |
| Jan/26 | Thu | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 56-154, Bring your laptop |
Data Management: Data Management Planning & the DMPTool
Phoebe Ayers, EECS & IDSS Librarian
| Jan/12 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 30 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 here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2988818
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Phoebe Ayers, 10-500, 617 253-4442, PSAYERS@MIT.EDU
Data Management: Strategies for Data Sharing & Storage
Phoebe Ayers, EECS & IDSS Librarian, Howard Silver, Biological Engineering Librarian
| Jan/25 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 30 participants
Not sure how to publish and share your data? Unclear on the best formats and descriptive information for optimal data reuse? This workshop will review 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/2988814
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Phoebe Ayers, 10-500, 617 253-4442, PSAYERS@MIT.EDU
Data Visualization: Introduction to Tools and Principles
Helen Bailey, Application Developer/Analyst
| Feb/02 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:30PM | 3-270 |
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/3000664
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Helen Bailey, E25-131, 617 324-4493, HBAILEY@MIT.EDU
Demo of PubPub and discussion on collaborative publishing
Stacey Snyder, E-Learning Librarian
| Feb/02 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 02/02
PubPub creator and MIT Media Lab PhD student, Travis Rich, will demonstrate this open-access platform for writing digitally native publications that are rich and highly collaborative. We will also discuss wider trends and opportunities in publishing today. This event is sponsored by the MIT Libraries' Personal Content Management team.
Please register ahead of time.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Stacey Snyder, 10-500, 617 324-6024, SSNYDER@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.
http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/2020/choiceofmajor/events.html
Events will take place from January 30 - February 3. No sign up is necessary, just come to whatever sessions you are most interested in!
Monday, January 30: Technological Engineering, featuring Courses 1, 3, 6-1, 16 and 22
Tuesday, January 31: Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Biology & Biological Engineering, featuring Courses 3, 5, 7, 9, and 10
Wednesday, February 1: Economics & Management, Design & Infrastructure, Politics & Policy, featuring Courses 11, 14, 15, and 17
Thursday, February 2: Math, Physics, & Computer Science, featuring Courses 6, 8, and 18
Friday, February 3: Choice of Major Open House
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Shauna Peterson, 7-104, 617-324-8128, scpeter@mit.edu
| Jan/30 | Mon | 11:45AM-12:45PM | 1-131 |
Civil & Environmental Engineering identifies natural & manmade problems & finds creative solutions with a global impact. Our students travel the globe to find sustainable solutions to some of society's biggest challenges, including: climate change, air quality and infrastructure stability. Join us for lunch to learn more about our hands-on undergraduate research opportunities and the exciting places that CEE can take you.
| Jan/30 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 10-105 |
Featuring courses 1, 3, 6-1, 16, and 22
| Jan/31 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 32-124 |
Featuring courses 3 and 5
| Jan/31 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 32-124 |
Featuring courses 3, 7, and 9
| Jan/31 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Stata Lobby |
Come learn about exciting new research coming out of the Chemical Engineering labs at MIT and learn a bit more about what it's like to be in the department! Refreshments including delicious bubble tea will be provided.
| Jan/31 | Tue | 01:30PM-02:00PM | 2-135 |
Featuring course 5
| Jan/31 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 4-131b |
Lab tour for the Department of Materials Science & Engineering
| Jan/31 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 32-124 |
Panel of Course 10 students and faculty
| Jan/31 | Tue | 05:00PM-06:00PM | 32-124 |
Interested in Biology and hoping to make the most of Course 7? Come learn more about Biology classes and opportunities from current students and faculty. Refreshments will be served.
| Feb/01 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 32-155 |
Featuring course 14
| Feb/01 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 32-155 |
Featuring course 15
| Feb/01 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 32-155 |
Politics, Public Policy, Law, and Social Science Statistics Panel featuring course 17
| Feb/01 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 4-131b |
Lab tour for the Department of Materials Science & Engineering
| Feb/01 | Wed | 03:30PM-05:00PM | 9-255 |
Meet students and faculty in course 11, learn about cutting edge research and practice in urban planning, and discover how you can get involved. Refreshments provided.
| Feb/02 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 32-144 |
Featuring courses 6 and 18
| Feb/02 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | In front of 33-202 |
A tour of the Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel (http://aeroastro.mit.edu/wbwt) and Student Projects Lab, Thursday February 2, 2017, 1-2 pm, starting in front of Room 33-202. If you are interested in the tour but can't make it on Thursday, please contact Joe Figura '17 at figura@mit.edu or 224(772-4281).
| Feb/02 | Thu | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 4-237 |
Come learn about all aspects of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) at MIT, including how to participate, what type of research is available, and more. Panel will be current MIT undergraduates participating in UROPs across campus.
| Feb/03 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 1-390 |
Over IAP, freshmen students have had the opportunity to learn more about the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering by working hands-on in our labs with graduate students or postdocs. Get a taste of the current research that¿s happening in CEE, meet some of our faculty and students and see what our freshmen mini-UROPers have been working on. Lunch will be served.
| Feb/03 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 7-103 |
Still not sure what you want to major in? Trying to decide between 2 (or 3 or 4) departments? Stop by 7-103 to chat with current Associate Advisors and UAAP staff to talk it out! Snacks provided.
Directed Reading Program in Mathematics
Slava Gerovitch
| Date TBD | Time TBD | Location TBD | ||
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 11/04
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 2017 IAP is: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2016.
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. The math department pays for copies of the book (a good deal, since advanced math textbooks can be pretty expensive).
During IAP, you and your mentor will meet on campus at least 3 times per week to discuss the material. This is *directed reading* - don't expect to be taught! Instead, you have the opportunity to ask in-depth questions, discuss your impressions, and receive feedback. There's no credit for taking it, and you won't get paid.
Instructions for applying, and more information, can be found here:
http://math.mit.edu/research/undergraduate/drp
Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Slava Gerovitch, 2-231C, 4-1459, slava@mit.edu
Finding gene info & more: a tour of the NCBI "omics" network
Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian, MIT Libraries
| Jan/18 | Wed | 10:30AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC, bring your laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/17
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) family of databases are filled with information for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization and interconnectedness of NCBI databases while focusing on several NCBI 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.
Sponsor(s): Biology, Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
Get the most from your "omics" analysis: GeneGo MetaCore Software Training
GeneGo Trainer, Courtney Crummett
| Jan/12 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC, bring your laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
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 demonstrated.
Please register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3004139
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
Hack your potential: using a growth mindset to succeed at MIT and beyond
Lourdes Aleman, Research Scientist
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Limited to 20 participants
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 on 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 open until 1/8.
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: Lourdes Aleman, 617 715-5348, LALEMAN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/10 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E51-085 |
How people learn, neurosplasticity, struggling and how it relates to learning.
| Jan/13 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E51-085 |
The relationship between different types of mindset, learning and achievement.
| Jan/17 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E51-085 |
Learning to embrace challenges and learning from them: cultivating a growth mindset.
| Jan/20 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E51-085 |
Using deliberate practice & evidence-based studying strategies to improve learning and achievement. This optional session builds upon Sessions 1-3, but can also be attended as a stand-alone session.
How to Speak
Patrick Henry Winston, Ford Professor of Engineering/MacVicar Fellow
| Feb/03 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 10-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Professor Winston offers heuristic rules that enable you to do winning job talks
and inspiring conferences presentations, and make your listeners consider your performance impressive.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Patrick Henry Winston, phw@mit.edu
Individual Consultations at the WCC (Writing and Communication Center)
Steven Strang
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
The professional communication experts at the WCC@MIT (the Writing and Communication Center) will continue to offer free consultations and advice about oral presentations, slide design, poster presentations, English as Second Language, and about any writing issue, including but not limited to writing strategically, finding a topic, generating ideas, turning data into a story, understanding a particular genre, overcoming writer's block, improving grammar, crafting effective sentences and paragraphs, organizing ideas, using evidence, and analyzing audiences. We can help with all of the following: all types of technical writing; grant proposals; theses in all departments; job, graduate and med school application essays and personal statments; research and teaching statements; resumes and CVs; conference talks; articles for publication; book proposals and chapters; papers for any course; and creative writing. We also offer help on pronunciation and oral communication. 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, post-docs, faculty, staff, spouses and partners, visiting scientists and scholars.The WCC@MIT is now located in building E18-233 at 50 Ames Street.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Steven Strang, E18-233 B, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU
| Jan/09 | Mon | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/10 | Tue | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/11 | Wed | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/12 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/13 | Fri | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/17 | Tue | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/19 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/23 | Mon | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/24 | Tue | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/24 | Tue | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/25 | Wed | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/26 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
| Jan/27 | Fri | 10:00AM-04:00PM | E18-233 |
Sign up online for individual consultations with professional communication experts at mit.mywconline.com
Steven Strang
LaTeX/BibTeX & citation management tools
Christine Malinowski, Research Data Librarian
| Jan/26 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
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/2980742
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Christine Malinowski, E53-100, 617 324-6394, CMALIN@MIT.EDU
Law & Technology: Know Your Rights -- A Legal Teach-in from the BU/MIT Technology and CyberLaw Clinic
Andrew Sellars, Director, BU/MIT Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic
| Jan/26 | Thu | 02:00PM-06:00PM | E15-341 |
| Jan/27 | Fri | 02:00PM-06:00PM | E15-341 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
Help us estimate our head count by signing up at
http://sites.bu.edu/tclc/iap2017
The Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic represents MIT and BU students who run
into legal issues with their academic and innovative work. Since the
clinic launched in September we’ve worked with dozens of students at MIT
with their legal issues, and in this class we’ll go over some common
legal issues that we see, and how you can navigate them to effectively
research, experiment, publish, and share your work.
Some of the issues we’ll go over include:
* intellectual property
* hacking laws
* data privacy
* FOIA and public records
* academic freedom and the law
We’ll also solicit other topics from the group. Discussions and
presentations will be lead by the student attorneys in the Technology &
Cyberlaw Clinic, as well as the clinic’s director, Andy Sellars, who
previously co-taught IAP classes on reverse engineering and coders' rights.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Andrew Sellars, sellars@bu.edu
Manage your PDFs and Citations: Zotero & Mendeley
Jennie Murack
| Jan/25 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
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.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU
Manage your PDFs and Citations: Zotero & Mendeley (online class)
Stacey Snyder, E-Learning Librarian
| Jan/30 | Mon | 02:00PM-03:00PM | Online, Sign up to get the WebEx link |
Enrollment: Unlimited: 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.
Register here for this online session
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Stacey Snyder, 10-500, 617 324-6024, SSNYDER@MIT.EDU
Mathematics of Big Data
Jeremy Kepner, Fellow & Head MIT Supercomputing Center
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 30 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.
Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Jeremy Kepner, 2nd Floor, 300 Tech Sq, 781 981-3108, KEPNER@LL.MIT.EDU
| Jan/10 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:00PM | 2nd Flr 300 Tech Sq, Bring lunch if you like |
Preface and Chapter 1 of "Mathematics of Big Data" text
| Jan/17 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:00PM | 2nd Flr 300 Tech Sq, Bring lunch if you like |
Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of "Mathematics of Big Data" text. Introduction to D4M (http://d4m.mit.edu).
| Jan/24 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:00PM | 2nd Flr 300 Tech Sq, Bring lunch if you like |
Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7 of "Mathematics of Big Data" text.
| Jan/31 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:00PM | 2nd Flr 300 Tech Sq, Bring lunch if you like |
Student presentations
Chapters 8, 9 of "Mathematics of Big Data"
Mentor the Class of 2021: Become an Orientation Leader and/or Associate Advisor!
Meghan Kenney, Assistant Dean, Leslie Bottari, Staff Associate
| Jan/31 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-153 |
| Feb/02 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-153 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants 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 Searching Fundamentals 2017
Anne Graham, Civil & Environmental Engineering Librarian
| Jan/18 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18
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.
Wednesday, January 18, 1:00pm - 2:00pm, please register here
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Anne Graham, 10-500, 617 253-7744, GRAHAMA@MIT.EDU
Positional Games
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Positional games is a branch of Combinatorics, studying deterministic two player zero sum games with perfect information, played usually on discrete or even finite boards. Among other, positional games include the popular games Tic-Tac-Toe and Hex as opposed to abstract games played on graphs and hypergraphs. This subject is strongly related to other branches of Combinatorics such as Ramsey Theory, Extremal Graph Theory and the Probabilistic Method. In this mini course we introduce the subject and its basic notions; learn some classical results in the field; discuss few general known tools as long as possible extensions; sketch some recent research results and talk about some interesting open problems in the field.
Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Asaf Ferber, 2-246A, ferbera@mit.edu
| Jan/17 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-153 |
A brief introduction to the subject. The game of HEX, Tic-Tac-Toe, Shannon's switching game, strategy stealing, Ramsey-Type games and more.
| Jan/19 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-153 |
Weak games, the conditional expectation method (the Erdos-Selfridge Theorem), biased games and strong games.
Protocols and Methods: Recipes for research
Howard Silver
| Jan/19 | Thu | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: none
A couple hours with the Libraries' protocols and methods resources 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
Research funder open access requirements from NASA, DOE, and other federal agencies
Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian, MIT Libraries, Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian, MIT Libraries
| Jan/24 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 2-146 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
If you receive federal funding for your research, you may need to learn about public access requirements for your publications and data. This session presented by MIT Libraries will include:
Please register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3000390
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
Science Communication: Loosening Up
Brindha Muniappan, Director of Programs, MIT Museum, Jennifery Novotney, Public Programs Coordinator, MIT Museum
| Jan/30 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | MIT Museum (N51) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
Limited to 30 participants
Take part in a series of 5 independent IAP workshop sessions on public speaking during the last week of IAP. The sessions are meant to be practical and interactive, and are open to all members of the MIT community. Each session is limited to 30 participants. Pre-registration is encouraged but drop-ins are welcome if space is available.
In this first workshop on January 30, participants will explore how to loosen their minds and bodies though a series of improv games and activities. Please wear clothing you feel comfortable moving in. This session will be led by Dr. Jennifer Novotney, the American Chemical Society's 2014 Chemistry Champion.
Pre-register here to attend this session: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-can-talk-loosening-up-tickets-29868545624
* Participants of this session are encouraged to take part in the “MIT Can Talk” oratory competition on Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4 at the MIT Museum (see IAP listing for more details).
Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
Contact: Jennifer Novotney, x4-7313, novotney@MIT.EDU
Social networking sites & article sharing
Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian
| Jan/19 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2984875
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 30 participants
Many researchers promote and share their publications on sites like Twitter, Facebook, ResearchGate, or Academia.edu. Come to this IAP session to learn about how sharing on these sites relates to copyright and open access, as well as how the sites compare to institutional and subject repositories like DSpace@MIT or arXiv.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2984875
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katharine Dunn, 14E-210, 617 253-9879, KHDUNN@MIT.EDU
Theses@MIT: Thesis Specifications and Copyright Issues
Katie Zimmerman, Scholarly Communications and Licensing Librarian, Mikki Simon Macdonald, Collections Strategist for Institute Publications
| Jan/23 | Mon | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
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.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3000113
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Mikki Simon Macdonald, 617 253-7146, mssimon@mit.edu
Thesis Boot Camp: Exercises and Strategies for Writing a Major Technical Report
Amy Carleton, Lecturer: Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication, Jane Kokernak, Lecturer: Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication
| Feb/02 | Thu | 10:00AM-01:00PM | 1-190 |
| Feb/03 | Fri | 10:00AM-01:00PM | 3-370 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 60 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Embarking on any research-based writing project, like the undergraduate thesis or a technical report, can often seem daunting. How does one choose a suitable topic or focus? What is an approach for conducting and cataloguing a literature search? What are strategies for outlining and drafting your final document? What are the qualities of effective technical prose?
This IAP workshop will offer students a strategic and intense opportunity to prepare for their upcoming thesis or other large writing project by
- conducting genre analysis of sample theses and reports,
- formulating a viable research question,
- generating a preliminary research bibliography,
- examining the features of effective prose, and
- designing a realistic timeline keyed to the chief writing tasks.
Day one will focus on the components of thesis and report writing, the research question, and background research with help from an MIT research Librarian. On day two, we will isolate features of technical prose and their application to your writing, design a project timeline and get quick feedback, and address questions specific to your project. Participants are asked to bring laptops and any project guidelines to the meetings. Note: while the emphasis is on undergraduate research in MechE, anyone is welcome to attend.
Attendance capped at 60.
To register, fill out the Google form here: http://bit.ly/2ijWgXK
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Mechanical Engineering, Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication
Contact: Amy Carleton, amymarie@mit.edu
Using images in your work: A look at copyright, open licensing, and fair use
Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Katie Zimmerman, Scholarly Communications & Licensing Librarian
| Jan/31 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2986581
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 25 participants
Directed at authors of journal articles, blogs, theses, and other scholarly writing, this session will help you assess whether using a particular image requires permission or can be used under "fair use," provide suggestions about how to find images already flagged for reuse, and touch upon good practices for citing images.
Presented by Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian, and Katie Zimmerman, Scholarly Communications & Licensing Librarian, from the Scholarly Communications & Collections Strategy department of the MIT Libraries.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2986581
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Katharine Dunn, 14E-210, 617 253-9879, KHDUNN@MIT.EDU
Wikipedia 101: How to be a media literate citizen
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Lecturer, Writing and Communication Center & CMS/W, Amy Carleton, Lecturer, CMS/W
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/17
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Recent events have caused us to question, more than ever before, the validity of information gathered from the web. But Wikipedia, now in its 15th year, remains an online space where accuracy, neutrality, and fair representation matters. Growing the network of volunteer editors to contribute to Wikipedia (the largest collaborative writing project in history!) is one way to ensure that high quality information is freely available to all.
Students:
- Would you like to build solid research skills?
- Get practice communicating complex ideas to a broad audience?
- Improve access to quality information and knowledge?
Faculty & Instructors:
- Would you like to support knowledge transfer in your courses?
- Build students’ confidence in reading and analyzing complex texts?
- Increase students’ proficiency in communicating technical content?
This three-day workshop will train participants to become competent Wikipedia editors, and along the way they will cultivate a greater understanding of how to evaluate a range of sources, from the popular news media, to institutional archives, to peer reviewed journals.
Please bring your laptop!
To reserve your spot, please contact Amy Carleton (amymarie@mit.edu) and Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze (rtb@mit.edu).
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Writing and Communication Center, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, E18-233, 617-253-3090, RTB@MIT.EDU
| Jan/17 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-251, Bring your laptop |
Introduction to Wikipedia community philosophy and guidelines. Participants will learn about ways to contribute, including how to enhance diversity of content. Also, create user account, make your first edit, and begin brainstorming your first article.
Amy Carleton - Lecturer, CMS/W, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze - Lecturer, Writing and Communication Center & CMS/W
| Jan/18 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-251, Bring your laptop |
What makes a good Wikipedia article? Learn about best practices and common pitfalls. Get started on research and initial drafting of your first article.
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze - Lecturer, Writing and Communication Center & CMS/W, Amy Carleton - Lecturer, CMS/W
| Jan/19 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 4-251, Bring your laptop |
Editing Salon with MIT Libraries and Archives -- an in-person editing session focused on training new editors and improving Wikipedia articles. Continue working on your article or start a new one, and work with others to improve Wikipedia. Stop by anytime throughout the session.
Amy Carleton - Lecturer, CMS/W, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze - Lecturer, Writing and Communication Center & CMS/W, Phoebe Ayers - Librarian, Greta Suiter - Collections Archivist
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