MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2017 Schedule for January 9


Activity Title Location Special Meeting Info

08:00 AM
Intermediate Squash Zesiger Squash Court

08:30 AM
Boxing Technique Alumni Wang Studio

09:00 AM
Developing Brain-Computer Interfaces for Art and Well-Being E15-341 (TBC) bring laptop w/Bluetooth.
How to Design Electric Vehicles - Lab IDC, N52-3rd Floor
Idle Idols: Small Ceramic Figures W20-431 Dress in comfortable clothes that can get dirty
MIT Bio-Maker Workshop 1-190
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Washington, D.C.

10:00 AM
Hacking the Holodeck: An Introduction to Touch and Virtual Reality IDC N52 3rd floor Bring laptop with Unity and Arduino IDE installed
Individual Consultations at the WCC (Writing and Communication Center) E18-233

10:30 AM
Enameling: Fused Glass on Metal 4-006
Energy Policy in the context of Climate Change: the case of Mexico E40-496 Pye Conf Rm

12:00 PM
Green Laboratories - North American Freezer Challenge Kickoff 76-259 Bring your own lunch!
Homebuying 101 32-124 Stata Center
IAP 2017- The Feynman Films 6-120
MIT Writers' Group 66-148

01:00 PM
Bicycle Mechanics N52-3rd floor (IDC)
Collaborative Design and Creative Expression with Arduino MIcrocontrollers 13-4101 bring laptop
Collaborative Sculpture: The Politics of Collective and Social Artistic Practice W20-425 bring laptop and/or sketchbook
Design Lab: You 4-402
From Fish Food to Microfluidics: The Amazing World of Microorganisms 5-007 bring notebook and pen to class
Hands-On Holography Beaverworks NE45-202 Bring laptop with MATLAB installed
Introduction to Welding 4-006
Learn to Build Your Own Videogame with the Unity Game Engine and Microsoft Kinect 13-3101 bring laptop
Making Impressions with Light: From Stonehenge to Vermeer to Fiber-Optic Art 10-150
Pleasures of Poetry 2017 14E-304
RACECAR: Rapid Autonomous Complex-Environment Competing Ackermann-Steering Robot 32-081
Reverse Engineering for Exploitation 32-141 Bring your laptop
The Power of Science in Overcoming Challenges for Oil & Gas Industry 2-147

01:30 PM
IAP 2017 Physics Lecture Series 6-120

02:00 PM
Build your own Skateboard or Longboard W31-031
EHS-MS: Building a toolbox for the EHS Coordinator N52-496 Conf Rm A
Glass + Light 10-150
IAP 2017 MIT Flute Ensemble 4-162
PRIVACY AND DATA SCIENCE LAW, POLICY AND ETHICS IN A DATA-DRIVEN AGE 15-359
Transformative Appetite E15-341

03:00 PM
Creating and Measuring the Collective Mind E94-1531 bring your laptop
Introduction to Blacksmithing 4-006 All participants must attend
Introduction to Metal Casting 4-006
Media for Movement Building: Making Podcasts about Urban Planning in East Boston 9-217 Students will need to bring their own laptops
MIT Language Conversation Exchange presents: Intro to Languages 8-219

03:30 PM
American Sign Language Beginner Class on-campus TBD

04:00 PM
Mathematica and Wolfram Language for Computational Science and Communication 13-4101
Understanding Islam 5-234

04:30 PM
Learning Science Through Cooking (FULL with FULL WAITLIST) Coffeehouse W20-308
Mighty Mugs A W20-431

05:30 PM
Adult Beginning Swim Zesiger Pool
MIT Heavy Metal 101 4-149

06:30 PM
Intermediate Swim Zesiger Pool
New Year, Fresh Start Zesiger Media Room

07:00 PM
Learning Squash: The Fundamentals Zesiger Squash Court
Phenomenology of Superconductivity 4-163

07:30 PM
Aikido W32 squash court 2
Mighty Mugs B W20-431