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Adventures in Scanning Electron Microscopy
Donald Galler, Research Engineer
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Jan/29 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hr lunch break |
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Jan/30 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hr lunch break |
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Jan/31 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hr lunch break |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
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 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
An Example-Driven Introduction to Rust
Srinivas Kaza, Matthew Pfeiffer
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
Safety, performance, and ergonomics -- you can have it all!
Rust is a memory-managed language that is safer and more convenient than C or C++. The compiler prevents many classes of bugs from ever compiling into code -- buffer overruns, memory leaks, double frees, and data races to make a few. Beyond the technical aspects of the language, the Rust community is rapidly growing, energetic, and welcoming to newcomers.
In this crash course, we'll cover the semantics of Rust -- ownership/borrowing, lifetimes, traits, generics, and concurrency. We'll also go over some common anti-patterns from other languages, and try to refactor them into cleaner Rust code. Regardless of whether you opt to use Rust in the future, we hope that you'll be able to apply some of the design principles of Rust to code written in other languages.
Contact: Srinivas Kaza, kaza@mit.edu
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Jan/14 | Mon | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/16 | Wed | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/21 | Mon | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/23 | Wed | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/28 | Mon | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/30 | Wed | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 32-124 |
Srinivas Kaza, Matthew Pfeiffer
Are Your Journal & Presentation Figures the Best They Can Be?
Felice Frankel, Research Scientist
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Jan/15 | Tue | 11:00AM-02:00PM | tbd, bring your laptop. lunch will be served |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 12 participants
Prereq: none
Join Felice Frankel (www.felicefrankel.com) in a masterclass to bring your images/figures/TOC's/slides up a notch. We will meet in a small group and collaboratively discuss ways to clarify the information in your visuals, making them more communicative. You will be required to submit one draft figure/illustration, etc. for discussion. Nothing already published, please. Limited enrollment. Contact Felice Frankel: felfra@mit.edu.
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering, Communicating Science @ MIT
Contact: Felice Frankel, felfra@mit.edu
Aviation Accident Investigation or Agatha Christie for Engineers
Brian Nield (Boeing Commercial Airplane)
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Spreadsheet Skills (Excel); Some Familiarity with Aviation
Commercial aviation is extremely safe, in part due to knowledge gained from studying accidents. The investigation process and some of the most significant accidents are discussed. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to work with their peers in a small, self-directed, investigative team to solve a realistic (but fictional) aircraft accident mystery. New information on the crash will be given out at each session as you piece together the facts to determine what caused the accident and build recommendations for improving flying safety.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Liz Zotos, 37-219, x3-7805, zotos@mit.edu
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Jan/08 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 33-319 |
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Jan/09 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 33-319 |
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Jan/10 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:30PM | 33-319 |
See main description.
Bird Flight and Migration
Prof. Lorna Gibson
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prof. Lorna Gibson will give two talks on How Birds Fly (January 30, 1-2pm) and Bird Migration (January 31, 1-2pm). How Birds Fly describes how birds generate lift and thrust to overcome gravity and drag. We'll go over the soaring and gliding of raptors, flapping flight, hummingbird hovering as well as the murmurations of starlings. The talk on bird migration covers the why, when, where, how high, how fast, and how far birds migrate as well as the ways that scientists track migrating birds and how they study how birds find their way.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Lorna Gibson, 8-135, 3-7107, ljgibson@mit.edu
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Jan/30 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 4-153 |
How Birds Fly describes how birds generate lift and thrust to overcome gravity and drag. We'll go over the soaring and gliding of raptors, flapping flight, hummingbird hovering as well as the murmurations of starlings.
Prof. Lorna Gibson
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Jan/31 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 4-153 |
The talk on bird migration covers the why, when, where, how high, how fast, and how far birds migrate as well as the ways that scientists track migrating birds and how they study how birds find their way.
Prof. Lorna Gibson
CLD Preparation Series
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Install LabVIEW on personal computer https://ist.mit.edu/lab
Overview:
National Instruments will offer a Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD) Preparation series at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
NOTE: This is a 3 session series held on Jan. 14, 15, 16. Attendance at all sessions is required to be allowed to attempt the CLD test on Jan 17th or 18th (depending on class readiness).
There is no prerequisite for this course, but, taking a LabVIEW Bootcamp or having had 1-semester or 40 hours of experience with LabVIEW is highly recommended. Other experience that would make a student ready for this course could be having worked with LabVIEW at a job or having done a significant project.
The below link explains the LabVIEW Certification process and the benefits of becoming a Certified LabVIEW Developer: http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/10647
At the completion of the course, eligible students will have 1 attempt to take the CLD Exam on the date noted in the schedule below (or one agreed to by the entire class if that date needs to change)
The cost of the CLD Exam will be covered by National Instruments.
Participating students must:
Install LabVIEW on personal computer https://ist.mit.edu/labview
Attend all sessions
Be able to devote out-of-class time to practice the method (suggested 6-10 hours per week if the class is happening during a full semester)
Suggested Material:
'Effective LabVIEW Programming’ by Thomas J. Bress
(ISBN-13:978-1-934891-08-7).
http://www.ntspress.com/publications/effective-labview-programming/
Sponsor(s): Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Andrew Watchorn, 10-140, 617-258-6504, andrew.watchorn@ni.com
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Jan/14 | Mon | 11:00AM-01:00PM | 3-442, CLD intro, State Machines, Style and Documentation |
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Jan/14 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 3-133, Action Engines, Error Handling, File I/O and Ini F |
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Jan/15 | Tue | 11:00AM-01:00PM | 3-442, Queued Message Handler, De-coupling & Cohesion, Ev |
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Jan/15 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 3-133, Practice Exam C |
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Jan/16 | Wed | 11:00AM-01:00PM | 3-442, Object Oriented Programing and Producer Consumer P |
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Jan/16 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 3-133, Practice Exam E |
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Jan/17 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 3-133, 1/17 OR 1/18 CLD Exam |
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Jan/18 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 3-133, 1/17 OR 1/18 CLD Exam |
CoffeeScript for Python programmers
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Jan/08 | Tue | 03:00PM-06:00PM | 32-144 |
Enrollment: TBD
CoffeeScript is a programming language whose syntax is designed to match much of Python, but which compiles to JavaScript. This means that CoffeeScript code can run in any web browser, making it really easy to build fun GUIs via web interfaces, and really easy to distribute code. As an added bonus, CoffeeScript code runs 2-5x faster than the equivalent Python code.
This class is a first attempt to teach CoffeeScript to someone fluent in just Python (not JavaScript), showing the slight tweaks needed to convert Python code into CoffeeScript code. We'll also be aiming to flesh out a guide for future people to learn CoffeeScript from a Python background, so experienced JavaScript/CoffeeScript programmers are also welcome.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Erik Demaine, edemaine@mit.edu
Come Build Something -revised
Joseph Okor, MIT alum
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
If you ever wanted to build something especially electronics related, this IAP is your chance. We have a large collection of electronic projects ready to be put together.You get the chance to solder things and program them to do fun stuff. You also get the chance to design and build new stuff and help launch a Kickstarter.
http://iap2019.xfunbotix.com/
Contact: Joseph Okor, (561) 431-8294, joe.okor@xfunbotix.com
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Jan/28 | Mon | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 2-136 |
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Jan/29 | Tue | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 2-136 |
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Jan/30 | Wed | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 2-136 |
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Jan/31 | Thu | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 2-136 |
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Feb/01 | Fri | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 2-136 |
Joseph Okor - MIT alum
Computational Thinking for Modeling and Simulation
Dr. Ali Talebinejad, Lecturer of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department, Prof. Daniel Frey, Professor of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: College Mathematics
Computational thinking is becoming widely recognized as a skill necessary for every educated person in a technologically advanced society and that is why MIT is trying to make it a General Institute Requirement course. You can get a leg up in courses such as 2.086, no to mention getting 3 credits by registering under 2.S989.
Our fully-online material and software will help students to develop the thought processes involved in formulating a problem in such a way that a computer can effectively carry out that solution. This course focuses on a subset of computational thinking for modeling of the physical world and predicting their behavior – something that engineers and scientists frequently need to do. We cover many topics normally viewed as within the domain of mathematics such as algebra and calculus, but the solution procedures are algorithmic rather than symbolic.
The major themes are:
Representation. How to encode information about the world in a computer? Decomposition. How to break a large and diverse problem into many simpler parts? Discretization. How to break up space and time into a large number of relatively small pieces? Verification. How to build confidence in the results of a model?
By completing this course, you will be able to select and implement numerical methods for interpolation, integration, differentiation, solving linear and nonlinear system of equations, and finally using random variables for solving Engineering and Science problems.
Contact: Dr. Ali Talebinejad, TAALEBI@MIT.EDU
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Jan/07 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-310, Bring your laptop! |
Dr. Ali Talebinejad - Lecturer of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department, Prof. Daniel Frey - Professor of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
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Jan/11 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-310, Bring your laptop! |
Prof. Daniel Frey - Professor of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department, Dr. Ali Talebinejad - Lecturer of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
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Jan/14 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-310, Bring your laptop! |
Dr. Ali Talebinejad - Lecturer of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department, Prof. Daniel Frey - Professor of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
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Jan/18 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-310, Bring your laptop! |
Prof. Daniel Frey - Professor of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department, Dr. Ali Talebinejad - Lecturer of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
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Jan/25 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-310, Bring your laptop! |
Dr. Ali Talebinejad - Lecturer of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department, Prof. Daniel Frey - Professor of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
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Jan/28 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-310, Bring your laptop! |
Dr. Ali Talebinejad - Lecturer of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department, Prof. Daniel Frey - Professor of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
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Feb/01 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | N51-310, Bring your laptop! |
Dr. Ali Talebinejad - Lecturer of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department, Prof. Daniel Frey - Professor of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
COMSOL Multiphysics Boot Camp
Akhilesh Sasankan
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Jan/23 | Wed | 09:00AM-04:00PM | 66-110 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: none
COMSOL Multiphysics® is a general-purpose simulation software for modeling designs, devices, and processes in all fields of engineering, manufacturing, and scientific research. In addition to using multiphysics modeling for your own projects, you can also turn your models into simulation applications and digital twins for use by other design teams, manufacturing departments, test labs, customers, and more.
The platform product can be used on its own or expanded with functionality from any combination of add-on modules for simulating electromagnetics, structural mechanics, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical engineering. The add-on modules and LiveLink™ products connect seamlessly for a modeling workflow that remains the same regardless of what you are modeling. More information on products here: https://www.comsol.com/products
For this event, we will talk about the CFD, Heat Transfer, AC/DC, RF Modules. Please find the schedule below
09:00-10:15 AM: CFD & Heat Transfer
10:15-10:30 AM: Break
10:30-11:45 AM: Chemical Reactions and Reacting Flows
11:45-01:00 PM: Lunch
01:00-02:15 PM: Resistive and Capacitive Devices (Static and Low-Frequency Electromagnetics)
02:15-02:30 PM: Break
02:30-03:45 PM: RF and Microwave (High-Frequency Electromagnetics)
Feel free to attend only the session that is of interest to you. It would be great if you make a note of the session which is of interest to you while registering: https://www.comsol.com/events/workshop/62712
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Akhilesh Sasankan, 781-273-3322, akhilesh.sasankan@comsol.com
Course 3 Laboratory Tours
Elsa Olivetti, Professor
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Are you curious about Course 3: Materials Science and Engineering research or just want to learn more about Course 3? Learn about materials science at MIT from several laboratories within the department, covering topics ranging from extraction processes, electrochemistry, photonic materials, physical metallurgy, polymer composites among others. Hosted by current faculty, graduate and undergraduate students.
Priority will be given to first year undergradauate students if interest is high.
Two dates are listed, and the labs visited for each tour will be different.
Please RSVP through the link below. We will reach out to you with further information after you RSVP.
https://goo.gl/forms/h69TSKFkGuDfr75p1
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Prof. Elsa Olivetti, elsao@mit.edu
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Jan/23 | Wed | 10:00AM-11:30AM | Location TBD |
Please RSVP for more information
https://goo.gl/forms/h69TSKFkGuDfr75p1
Elsa Olivetti - Professor
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Jan/29 | Tue | 02:30PM-04:00PM | TBD |
Please RSVP for more information
https://goo.gl/forms/h69TSKFkGuDfr75p1
Elsa Olivetti - Professor
CRISPR-Cas9: Hacking the Genome
Pranam Chatterjee
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Designer babies? Superhumans? Cyborgs? While these futuristic visions may not be currently realizable (nor ethical), genome editing holds the keys to transforming humanity as we know it. CRISPR-Cas9 has enabled the rapid development and refinement of genome-editing tools to further basic research, develop potential therapies for human diseases, and promise numerous breakthroughs in agriculture, bioenergy, food security, nanotechnology, and a host of other applications. Come to this class to learn more about how CRISPR works and what improvements we are making to the system to enable its broad applicability, all from a CRISPR researcher
Please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oouk9Jqf9idJzHNV-JAPR3K8g-3q_h6RouByt-1RJio/edit?usp=sharing
Contact: Pranam Chatterjee, E15-401, 706-442-2715, PRANAM@MIT.EDU
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Jan/09 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:30PM | E14-633 |
In this class, you will get a broad introduction to CRISPR-Cas9, how it works, the challenging problems in the field, as well as innovative CRISPR-based technologies to solve these problems.
Pranam Chatterjee
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Jan/16 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:30PM | E14-633 |
Once everybody has a good basis on how CRISPR-Cas9 works, we will dive into the seminal achievements made in the field and take a sneak preview on where the next advancements will be made.
Pranam Chatterjee
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Jan/23 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:30PM | E15-015 |
It's time to get our hands wet! We will examine the details of CRISPR-Cas9 experiments and tool development in an actual wet lab.
Pranam Chatterjee
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Jan/30 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:30PM | E14-633, Bring your laptop! |
Finally, we will debrief on everything taught in the class. Students will brainstorm potential CRISPR-based solutions and technologies, and find methods to incorporate their knowledge into future research goals.
Pranam Chatterjee
Decision Support Models for Low-Carbon Electric Power Systems
Karen Tapia-Ahumada, Research Scientist
Enrollment: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This 8-session intensive activity presents power system analysis techniques that will help in modeling and understanding the role of electric power systems in a carbon-constrained economy. The massive deployment of intermittent renewables, the anticipated surge of active demand response or the development of smart grids are among the challenges that have to be faced by the mathematical models for optimization, analysis and simulation of the complex decision making processes in power systems. Apart from a theoretical description of the models, the instructors will provide the students with a collection of prototypes that will allow them to run study cases and to understand the effect of the different mathematical formulations on the outcomes. The use of these models in some real-world applications will also be presented.
Sponsor(s): MIT Energy Initiative, Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS)
Contact: Karen Tapia-Ahumada, 617 715-5367, KATAPIA@MIT.EDU
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Jan/15 | Tue | 09:00AM-01:00PM | E51-372, Bring your laptop |
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Jan/16 | Wed | 09:00AM-01:00PM | E51-372, Bring your laptop |
Andres Ramos - Professor, Karen Tapia-Ahumada - Research Scientist, Javier Garcia Gonzalez - Professor
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Jan/17 | Thu | 09:00AM-01:00PM | E51-372, Bring your laptop |
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Jan/18 | Fri | 09:00AM-01:00PM | E51-372, Bring your laptop |
Andres Ramos - Professor, Karen Tapia-Ahumada - Research Scientist, Javier Garcia Gonzalez - Professor
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Jan/22 | Tue | 09:00AM-01:00PM | E51-372, Bring your laptop |
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Jan/23 | Wed | 09:00AM-01:00PM | E51-372, Bring your laptop |
Andres Ramos - Professor, Karen Tapia-Ahumada - Research Scientist, Javier Garcia Gonzalez - Professor
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Jan/24 | Thu | 09:00AM-01:00PM | E51-372, Bring your laptop |
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Jan/25 | Fri | 09:00AM-01:00PM | 66-168, Bring your laptop |
Karen Tapia-Ahumada - Research Scientist, Andres Ramos - Professor, Javier Garcia Gonzalez - Professor
Fischer-Tropsch Chemistry and Technology
Andrew Himmelblau, Senior Consultant, Energy & Infrastructure Consulting
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Jan/16 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 66-156 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none
The Fischer-Tropsch process, nearly a century old, provides a means of producing liquid hydrocarbon fuels from a variety of starting materials, via the intermediate steps of assembling the fuel from hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This IAP session will review the catalytic chemistry and processing steps, describe reactor technologies, survey significant present-day applications of the technology, and conclude with an overview of the economics of fuel production. The audience should gain an appreciation for the challenges and prospects of this technology.
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Barry Johnston, 66-368, 617-258-7141, bsjohnst@mit.edu
Hacker Tools
Anish Athalye, Jon Gjengset, Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
Learn to make the most of the tools that hackers have been using for decades.
As hackers, we spend a lot of time on our computers, so it makes sense to make that experience as fluid and frictionless as possible. In this class, we'll help you learn how to make the most of tools that productive programmers use.
We'll show you how to navigate the command line, use a powerful text editor, use version control efficiently, automate mundane tasks, manage packages and software, configure your desktop environment, and more.
More details available here
Please RSVP here
Contact: Hacker Tools, hacker-tools@mit.edu
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Jan/15 | Tue | 03:30PM-05:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/17 | Thu | 03:30PM-05:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/22 | Tue | 03:30PM-05:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/24 | Thu | 03:30PM-05:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/29 | Tue | 03:30PM-05:30PM | 32-124 |
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Jan/31 | Thu | 03:30PM-05:30PM | 32-124 |
Hacker Tools
Anish Athalye, Jon Gjengset, Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz
IAP Intro to CAD/CAM
Jonathan Hunt, Associate Director, MIT Project Manus
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Jan/09 | Wed | 09:00AM-04:00PM | 35-308, Bring your laptop with external mouse |
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Jan/10 | Thu | 09:00AM-04:00PM | 35-308, Bring your laptop with external mouse |
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Jan/11 | Fri | 09:00AM-04:00PM | 35-308, Bring your laptop with external mouse |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Hosted by: Project Manus and Autodesk, Inc.
This three-day workshop is an introduction to CAD and CAM using Fusion 360. Students will learn the basics of design for additive and subtractive manufacturing and simple workflows in Fusion. Students will leave the workshop with a small assembly they will have designed and prototyped on a 3D printer and a desktop CNC.
Fusion is the first 3D CAD/CAM/CAE tool that spans the entire product development cycle on a cloud-based platform. This class is a good introduction for students interested in classes such as 2.00b, 2.007, 2.008, 2.009, 2.75, D-Lab, and activities such as FSAE, SEVT, D4A, Hobby Shop, and all kinds of UROP projects. This class is geared towards those with little/no previous CAD or CAM experience and those transitioning from other CAD software.
*Adapted from The Intro to CAD Design taught by Mike Alcazaren in 2017
Learning goals:
*CAD Fundamentals
*CAD/CAM Workflow in Fusion 360
*DFM for additive and subtractive
*Use a 3D printer and a machine on a desktop CNC
Instructors:
*Gaby Waldman-Fried, Technical Program Manager, Autodesk Education Experiences
*Jonathan Hunt, Associate Director, MIT Project Manus
Note: We will break for lunch each day. Lunch will not be provided
Registration link: https://project-manus.libcal.com/event/4966450
Sponsor(s): MIT Innovation Initiative
Contact: Jonathan Hunt, (617) 253-0172, jmhunt@mit.edu
Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy
Patrick Boisvert, Technical Associate
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Jan/29 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 13-2137 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
The lecture will provide an introduction to the basic principles of Scanning Electron Microscopy with an approach to EDX, EBSD, and BSE.
Sponsor(s): Materials Research Laboratory
Contact: Patrick Boisvert, 13-1018, 617-253-3317, pboisver@mit.edu
Introduction to python and machine learning
Omar Costilla-Reyes, Postdoctoral Researcher
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Machine learning is the process of extracting knowledge from data automatically, usually with the goal of making predictions on new, unseen data. In this tutorial, the Python programming and its computing libraries will be introduced in the context of machine learning.
The tutorial will be divided in 3 hands-on classes of 2 hours each. The tutorial will cover introduction to machine learning including supervised and unsupervised learning. No prior knowledge of the subject required.
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Omar Costilla-Reyes, 46-6241, (857) 928-0641, costilla@mit.edu
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Jan/14 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 46-3015, Bring your laptop |
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Jan/15 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 46-3015, Bring your laptop |
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Jan/16 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 46-3015, Bring your laptop |
Introduction to TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy)
Yong Zhang
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Jan/25 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 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
Laser Radar: Basic Principle and Hands-on Operation
Jeffrey Shapiro, Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, Kevin Holman, LL - Technical Staff
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Jan/24 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 36-144 |
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Jan/25 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 36-144 |
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Jan/25 | Fri | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 38-633 |
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Jan/28 | Mon | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 36-144 |
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Jan/29 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 36-112 |
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Jan/29 | Tue | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 38-633 |
Enrollment: Contact jshaps@mit.edu
Sign-up by 01/03
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Signal analysis (Fourier transforms, etc.) useful
Laser radars, like their microwave counterparts, send out electromagnetic signals and sense
properties of their environment by collecting reflections therefrom. However, because the
infrared wavelengths used by laser radars are orders of magnitude shorter than
wavelengths employed in microwave radars, the laser systems provide much finer spatial
resolution in comparison with microwave systems. Similarly, the much higher carrier
frequency of laser radars, as opposed to microwave radars, provides the former with much
greater Doppler shifts upon reflection from a moving object. Likewise, the much higher
bandwidths available to laser radars gives them superior range resolution in comparison
with lower bandwidth microwave radars. All these advantages come with some major
differences. Laser radars employ technologies that are very different from those of
microwave radars. Furthermore, atmospheric propagation effects are far more deleterious
at infrared wavelengths than they are at microwave wavelengths. Thus both microwave
and laser radars have different application domains in which one is superior to the other.
Lectures cover the essentials of laser radar technology, the fundamental behaviors of optical
propagation and detection relevant to determining laser radar performance, and examples
of state-of-the-art laser radar applications, including the emerging application of
autonomous vehicle navigation. Physics and EE students preferred. Student must attend
all classes.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Jeffrey Shapiro, (617) 253-4179, jhs@mit.edu
Plasma Science and Fusion Center IAP Series
Martin Greenwald, Deputy Director, PSFC, Paul Rivenberg, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, Dennis Whyte, Director, PSFC; Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Anne White, Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This series introduces plasma physics research and areas of related interest at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. See URL below. http://www.psfc.mit.edu/
Sponsor(s): Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Contact: Paul Rivenberg, NW16-284, 617 253-8101, RIVENBERG@PSFC.MIT.EDU
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Jan/15 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
This introduction to the science and technology underlying magnetic fusion energy will review the current state of research and provide an overview of MIT's SPARC project, designed to demonstrate net fusion energy. The talk will highlight the contributions of MIT students to plasma physics research and fusion engineering.
Libby Tolman - Graduate Student
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Jan/15 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | NW17-218 |
Visit the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, a major fusion energy experiment that completed its final run with breakthrough results. Alcator C- Mod is the third in a series of tokamak devices at MIT that use very high magnetic fields to confine plasmas operating near 100,000,000 degrees.
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/16 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
Assigned to a team, you will be provided with rules and parameters for designing your own fusion power plant. After an allotted time, each team will submit their figures, to be entered into an Excel spread sheet that will show how successful the design is. The best result will win a prize.
Dennis Whyte - Director, PSFC; Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Jan/18 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
Learn how the largest laser facilities - the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the OMEGA laser, and the Z Pulsed Power Facility - are used to conduct Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) and laboratory astrophysics experiments. This presentation will be followed by a tour of the High-Energy-Density Physics (HEDP) Laboratory at MIT.
Graeme Sutcliffe - Graduate Student, Neel Kabadi - Graduate Student
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Jan/18 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | NW17-218, Meet in NW17-218, then go to NW21 |
Following the HEDP talk, join members of the PSFC's High-Energy Density Physics Lab to see how MIT supports research into inertial confinement fusion, collaborating with LLNL's National Ignition Facility and the University of Rochester's OMEGA laser.
Session Leaders TBD
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Jan/22 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 34-101 |
In a series of lightning talks seven experts will discuss the current MIT Fusion Landscape. Topics will range from engineering and scientific underpinnings to finance, entrepreneurship and social impact. Join us to learn about MITs smarter, faster path to fusion energy.
For more information:http://www.psfc.mit.edu/events/2019/the-mit-fusion-landscape
Dennis Whyte - Director, PSFC; Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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Jan/23 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
The Divertor Tokamak Test Facility (DTT) is a new high-field tokamak whose construction has recently been approved by the Italian government.
This talk will briefly discuss the path which lead to the DTT approval, give an overview of the DTT interim design and illustrate the present main physics and technical choices, the overall status of the project and the plan for the short and medium-term future.
Piero Martin - Professor
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Jan/26 | Sat | 10:00AM-10:00PM | NW17-218, Hours listed are available, not mandatory |
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Jan/27 | Sun | 10:00AM-10:00PM | NW17-218, Hours listed are available, not mandatory |
Teams of up to four will seek machine learning solutions to a set of control, optimization, and data mining problems relevant to modern fusion research. Submissions will be judged and prizes awarded. Advance sign-up encouraged. Contact: rivenberg@psfc.mit.edu
Learn more & register at event website.http://www.psfc.mit.edu/events/2019/hack-for-fusion-a-machine-learning-hackathon-at-mits-plasma-science-and-fusion-center
Cristina Rea - Research Scientist, DIII-D, Ted Golfinopoulos - Research Scientist
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Jan/29 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | NW17-218 |
Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments and their corresponding computer simulations produce an immense amount of rich data. However, quantitatively interpreting that data remains a grand challenge. Learn more: http://www.psfc.mit.edu/events/2019/machine-learning-guided-discovery-and-design-for-inertial-confinement-fusion
Kelli Humbird - PhD Candidate
Practical Computer Science for Computational Scientists
Ravikishore Kommajosyula, Research Assistant, Baglietto CFDlab, Corbin Foucart, Research Assistant, MSEAS lab, Ricardo Baptista, Research Assistant, ACDL
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Open to all interested students
The interdisciplinary nature of computational research brings in members from a variety of backgrounds in math, science, & engineering. Practical knowledge of computer science is a major enabler in our everyday research. In this course, we present some tools, techniques, & unwritten guidelines in computational science. The following topics will be covered, with customized content to fit a computational research audience, combined with some hands-on examples.
1) Writing good code: Whether prototyping an algorithm or implementing production quality code, there are certain numerical & computer science considerations to produce fault tolerant code & save time in the process.
2) Debugging & maintaining: A survey of the best tools & practices that can be used with little effort to debug & maintain code, & ensure high reliability using the power of modern IDEs.
3) Collaborating & sharing: Version control systems such as GIT allow for tracking changes to code & integrate easily into most IDEs, thus providing powerful collaboration capabilities.
4) Data Science & (UQ): Statistical tools can reduce the computational cost, verify & validate models, and also help analyze & extract insights from data arising from computer simulations. (New in IAP 2019!)
5) Improving code efficiency: Performance on modern processors can be achieved by leveraging different levels of parallelism and this is discussed in a computer architecture perspective.
Please register at: http://signup.mit.edu/1184433085
Sponsor(s): Center for Computational Engineering
Contact: Nikhilesh Ghanta, nikhil17@mit.edu
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Jan/22 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 3-133 |
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Jan/24 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 3-133 |
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Jan/29 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 3-133 |
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Jan/31 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 3-133 |
Private Pilot Ground School (16.687 Special Topics in Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Philip Greenspun, Tina Prabha Srivastava, David Buser
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Jan/22 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 3-270, 56-114 as overflow room |
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Jan/23 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 32-141, 56-114 as overflow room |
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Jan/24 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 32-141, 56-114 as overflow room |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Register for 16.687 (3 units; graded PDF)
Would you like to fly a plane, helicopter, or commercial drone? Or understand the engineering behind today's human-occupied aircraft and air traffic control system? Come spend 3 days with us and learn everything that an FAA-certificated Private Pilot or Remote Pilot needs to know for the official knowledge test. The course includes qualitative aerodynamics, airplane and helicopter systems, practical meteorology, navigation and cross-country flight planning, and human factors. We present the FAA-required theory, pose some thought-experiments, and offer practical advice based on instructors' real-world experience.
Course Staff: Tina Prabha Srivastava, pilot and MIT alum (Course 16 SB; SDM SM; ESD PhD, supervised in Course 16, ESD, Sloan); Philip Greenspun, FAA Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor for both airplanes and helicopters, MIT alum (Course 18 SB; Course 6 PhD); David Buser, FAA CFII.
Prereqs: About 2 evenings of reading. Download 3 free PDFs from the FAA web site: Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (read Chapters 1, 3-8, 12, 14-16), Airplane Flying Handbook, (read Chapters 1-3, 7-8, 10), and Helicopter Flying Handbook (read Chapters 1-4, 9). Download ForeFlight (iOS only) or Garmin Pilot (Android or iOS) and set yourself up with a 30-day free trial. Bring a device to class, if convenient.
Register in WebSIS and at http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/ground-school/.
Also visit: https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/16/ia19/16.687/.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Philip Greenspun, philg@mit.edu
Radio Technology, History, and Applications
Daniel Sheen, Jordyn Mann
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none; freshmen encouraged to attend
Radio plays a vital role in modern technology and scientific research. Radio communications in the form of WiFi and LTE allow us to transfer data across computers and mobile devices, radars provide a tool for remote sensing and imaging, and signals emitted billions of years ago across the universe have allowed us to begin to understand the origins of the world around us.
Please join EECS and the MIT Radio Society this IAP for a series of lectures on the technology applications and History of radio. Speakers will hail from throughout the MIT community and industry to discuss topics ranging from the design of modern wireless communications systems and 5G, to software defined radio and satellite communications, to shortwave radio propagation, space weather, Radio Astronomy and more.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Radio Society
Contact: Daniel Sheen, dsheen@mit.edu
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Jan/08 | Tue | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 3-270 |
Dr. Philip J. Erickson, W1PJE, is an assistant director and head of the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences group at Haystack Observatory, operated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Dr. Erickson is the lead principal investigator of a National Science Foundation sponsored UHF megawatt class ionospheric radar at MIT Haystack.
Phil Erickson
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Jan/09 | Wed | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 3-270 |
A Laboratory Experince in Phasor Analysis
Daniel Sheen
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Jan/10 | Thu | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 3-270 |
Software Defined Radios
Frank Lind
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Jan/11 | Fri | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 3-270 |
The Ionosphere, Shortwave Radio, and Propagation
Phil Erickson
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Jan/15 | Tue | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 3-270 |
Experimental Radio Astronomy
Alan Rogers
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Jan/16 | Wed | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 3-270 |
The Final Frontier: Unveiling the Low Frequency Universe through Space Based Radio Astronomy
Mary Knapp
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Jan/17 | Thu | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 3-270 |
Dr. Frank D. Lind is a Research Engineer at MIT Haystack Observatory where he works to develop and use radio science instrumentation. At the Observatory he leads many technical efforts involving software radio
instrumentation cutting across Geospace, Astronomy, and Space science.
Frank Lind
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Jan/21 | Mon | 05:30PM-07:00PM | 3-270 |
Dr. Anthea J. Coster is an Assistant Director and principal research scientist at the MIT Haystack Observatory. Her research interests include space weather, ionospheric and atmospheric coupling, and GPS positioning and measurement accuracy. She received her Ph.D. in Space Physics and Astronomy from Rice University in 1983, under the guidance of William E. Gordon, the founder of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Anthea Coster
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Jan/23 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:00PM | 3-270 |
LTE and Cellular Communications
Joel Dawson
Reverse Engineering in Mobile Applications
Chris Varenhorst
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Jan/28 | Mon | 06:00PM-07:00PM | 3-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
Come see how easy it is to reverse engineer the "private" APIs used by your favorite mobile apps to talk to their backend, and learn about how to mitigate common flaws. The main approach discussed will be man in the middling running applications to observe their traffic and the various tricks needed bypass things like certificate pinning. Some older real world examples will be shared. While no actual secrets will be revealed, you will learn why there's really no such thing as a private API and why that's okay.
Contact: Chris Varenhorst, varenc@mit.edu
Reverse Engineering of Software
James Koppel, Michael Specter, Joe Leong
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Jan/14 | Mon | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 1-115 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: Basic knowledge of systems programming or Assembly helps
Is something on your computer hiding something from you? Is it refusing to run unless you do something? Do you want to know exactly what someone else's software is doing? Or perhaps you even want to "open" up some closed-source software and make it do something else. This course will cover the basics of reverse-engineering binaries, as well as some of the ideas of binary modification.
Contact: James Koppel, jkoppel@mit.edu
RMG (Reaction Mechanism Generator) Workshop
William H. Green, Professor of Chemical Engineering
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Jan/14 | Mon | 10:00AM-05:30PM | E17-517, Bring your laptop |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
This workshop is to introduce an automatic reaction mechanism generator software to people who might be interested in kinetics research area. RMG is developed by Green research group at MIT. It can generate detailed reaction mechanism network just with initial input conditions ( feed composition, reacting conditions such as temperature and pressure). The topics which will be covered in the IAP session are : 1) Overall RMG introduction 2) Molecular representation 3) How to install RMG on your computer 4) How RMG estimates the rate constant and thermo parameters 5) How to run a RMG job & use libraries and seed reactions. If you want to learn more about RMG, the workshop will be continued on Jan 15th - Jan 17 th.
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Yen-Ting Wang, E18-509, (413) 362-6636, YENTINGW@MIT.EDU
Spacecraft Charging Induced by Negatively Charged Ionic Liquid Beam Emission in Ionosphere
Dr. Shu T. Lai
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Jan/16 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 33-422 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: N/A
Ionic liquid beam emission is becoming an efficient propulsion method for small spacecraft. Negatively charged ionic liquid emission from spacecraft in the ionosphere is interesting because the ambient electrons are returning to the charged spacecraft. At proper energies, electron impact ionization occurs in the vicinity of the spacecraft. The ionization electrons are attracted to the spacecraft while the positive ions are repelled. Depending on various parameters such as beam energy, beam current, ambient electron density, altitude, and ionization cross-sections, a non-monotonic current-voltage behavior occurs.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Dr. Shu T. Lai, Space Propulsion Laboratory, shlaii11@mit.edu
State of the Art in Neural Interfacing
Shriya Srinivasan, MEMP PhD Candidate
Enrollment: Email: shriyas@mit.edu
Sign-up by 01/20
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Mind and bodily control of devices has long been a dream of mankind. Developing devices for neuromodulation, neural control, prosthetics, therapy, and stimulation are bringing us closer to this reality. This course will cover the latest technologies and research in peripheral and central nervous systems. We will have students conceptualize solutions to outstanding challenges based on literature and present them at the last class. This primer will be apt for students interested in pursuing research in neural interfacing, neuromodulation, brain-machine interfacing, prosthetics, and stimulation. (4, 2 hour sessions)
Sponsor(s): Health Sciences , Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Contact: Shriya Srinivasan, shriyas@mit.edu
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Jan/28 | Mon | 06:00PM-08:00PM | E25-119 |
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Jan/29 | Tue | 06:00PM-08:00PM | E25-119 |
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Jan/30 | Wed | 06:00PM-08:00PM | E25-119 |
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Jan/31 | Thu | 06:00PM-08:00PM | E25-119 |
Khalil Ramadi - MEMP PhD Candidate, Shriya Srinivasan - MEMP PhD Candidate
The UN Sustainable Development Goals and challenges
Xiaoyu Wu, Postdoctoral Associate
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
This workshop is to introduce the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and bring together students in different disciplines to develop a path for fostering the successful implementation of these goals.
The workshop has the following learning outcomes:
1. Summarize the UN SDGs
2. Use SDGs to evaluate existing and proposed engineering projects
Sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/PFShzenLhpmK8yDF2
Contact: Xiaoyu Wu, 3-339N, 617 324-9014, XYWU@MIT.EDU
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Jan/10 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 5-217 |
We will discuss the 1-9 UN SDGs.
1: No poverty
2: Zero hunger
3: Good health and well-being
4: Quality education
5: Gender equality
6: Clean water and sanitation
7: Affordable and clean energy
8. Decent work and economic growth
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Xiaoyu Wu - Postdoctoral Associate
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Jan/11 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 5-217 |
We will discuss the 10-17 UN SDGs.
10. Reduced inequalities
11. Sustainable cities and communities
12. Responsible production and consumption
13. Climate action
14: Life below water
15: Life on Land
16. Peace, justice and strong institutions
17. Partnerships for the goals
Xiaoyu Wu - Postdoctoral Associate
Unconventional photovoltaic effects
Bruno Lorenzi, PhD
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Basic semiconductors physics
Most of the university courses on photovoltaics, only discuss the standard photovoltaic effect based on p-n junctions. This is understandable considering that the major part of nowadays technologies, converting light into electricity, are based on this systems.
However, there are several other effects that can generate a current/voltage in semiconductors under illumination. Examples are the Dember effect, the bulk photovoltaic effect, the thermal photoelectric effect, and the photoelectromagnetic effect. These phenomena, and many other solutions was proposed, and are still proposed, as viable options to overcome some limitations of p-n junctions.
In this activity the most relevant unconventional photovoltaic effects will be presented and analyzed.
The aim of this mini-class is to provide a wider understanding of the photovoltaic effect, in all its multiple aspects and limitations, with an overview of the most recent advancements of non p-n photovoltaics and its most likely future perspectives.
Pre-requisite for the understanding of the class contents is the knowledge of basic semiconductors physics (band model, statistic distributions, light-matter interaction, etc.).
Contact: Bruno Lorenzi, 7-034, 328 543-8976, BLORENZI@MIT.EDU
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Jan/17 | Thu | 10:00AM-11:30PM | 2-146 |
Introduction to photovoltaics and the limits of p-n junctions.
Bruno Lorenzi - PhD
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Jan/22 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:30AM | 2-146 |
Introduction to unconventional photovoltaic, and analysis of Dember effect, thermal photoelectric effect, and photoelectromagnetic effect.
Bruno Lorenzi - PhD
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Jan/24 | Thu | 10:00AM-11:30AM | 2-146 |
Description and analysis of bulk photovoltaic effects.
Bruno Lorenzi - PhD
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Jan/29 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:30AM | 2-146 |
Discussion on the recent advancements and the future perspectives of non p-n photovoltaic systems.
Bruno Lorenzi - PhD
Vertex Site Visit
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Jan/17 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Vertex |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/16
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that aims to discover, develop and commercialize innovative medicines so people with serious diseases can lead better lives. The visit will include a tour, presentations and a panel of scientists/staff from across Vertex. Open to undergrads and grads from all Courses. RSVP Requested in Careerbridge (Under Events> Fairs & Events> Vertex Site Visit).
Sponsor(s): Career, Advising and Professional Development CAPD
Contact: IAP Site Visits, capd@mit.edu
Writing Your Dissertation? Writing Your Proposal? Planning Ahead? Jump-Start Your Writing Process
Elizabeth Fox, WCC lecturer
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Jan/28 | Mon | 03:00PM-05:00PM | E17-136, bring laptop or paper |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: none
Are you writing a dissertation? Planning to write one? Finishing and need one more burst of energy?
Do you wonder, “How can I manage my time better?” Maybe you think, “I need people to talk with!” Does an inner voice say, “I need energy and sleep!” or “I need support!”? These thoughts are common.
LEARN to MANAGE TIME PRODUCTIVELY, MEET OTHER WRITERS, and COMPLETE your DISSERTATION.
Spend two hours during IAP to meet others, describe your work, try an exercise, and plot your journey. You may find a writing buddy or form a dissertation group.
Bring a laptop or paper.
Workshop for resources, strategies, and tips to streamline your writing process.
Sponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Elizabeth Fox, E18-233, emfox@mit.edu
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