IAP 2017 Activities by Sponsor - Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP

Cathy Olkin '88

Jan/31

Tue

05:45PM-07:00PM

4-270

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/31

Cathy Olkin ’88, is a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, CO. Her main topic of research is the outer solar system, specifically planetary atmospheres and surfaces. She was Deputy Project Scientist for NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and will relate her direct experience with New Horizons. 

After traveling for more than 9 years, NASA’s New Horizons mission accomplished its prime objective – the initial reconnaissance of the Pluto system. On July 14, New Horizons passed about 12,500 km from Pluto’s surface, flying between Pluto and the orbit of Pluto’s large moon Charon. The seven instruments on board the spacecraft include a high-resolution imager, a color imager and short-wave IR imaging spectrometer, a UV spectrometer, two in-situ plasma instruments, a dust detector and a radio science experiment. Data from these instruments have provided a wealth of new information on the Pluto system and have transformed our understanding of this world. Highlights of scientific results include the large glacial region on Pluto and its implication for convection and a possible sub-surface ocean, and also why Charon’s north pole is red.

To register: http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=905

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU

Herbert (Dick) Schulze '67

Jan/10

Tue

05:45PM-06:45PM

4-145

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 40 participants

UPOP Mentor, Herbert R. ("Dick") Schulze ’67 will present one of his informative and engaging explorations into the realm of patents.

Unreasonable Men, Unreasonable Patents

It’s been said that the reasonable man accommodates himself to the world whereas the unreasonable man demands that the world accommodate itself to him; all progress therefore depends on the unreasonable man. This talk will consider unreasonable men and women, past and present, and how they and their unreasonable patents progressed the world to where it is today.

Dick is a graduate of MIT in electrical engineering and the University of Chicago law school. He is licensed to practice law in California, Colorado, Nevada, and South Dakota, and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Following service as an Air Force JAG and as a law clerk, he engaged in a general law practice in San Diego before specializing in intellectual property matters. He was with Hewlett-Packard Co. then Agilent Technologies as Managing Counsel in Intellectual Property for 19 years. He later became Of Counsel to Holland & Hart in Reno and Special Counsel to Evergreen Valley Law Group of Bangalore, India.  Dick has two grown children and five grandchildren. When not practicing law, he can be found passionately pursuing his second profession as a snowboard instructor at Northstar California ski resort or cruising the twistiest roads of America on his Triumph Rocket 3.

To register: http://upop-portal.mit.edu/events/view/?id=902

 

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program -UPOP
Contact: Kate Moynihan, 1-123-B, 617 253-0041, KATEJM@MIT.EDU