IAP 2019 Activities by Category - Academic Skills and Resources

Kirsty Bennett, Lourdes Aleman, Dipa Shah

Jan/10

Thu

10:00AM-11:30AM

E19-607

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/09
Limited to 10 participants

Storytelling is a chance to reflect on your life, take stock of the events you've lived through, and think about how they have shaped you as a person. At MIT, we all have stories of resilience and growth in the face of academic setback and challenges. When you are struggling, it’s helpful to hear that others struggle, how they cope, and hear that aspects of our own narratives are shared by others.

Facilitated by Kirsty Bennett, a former director and producer for The Moth, this workshop will encourage you to identify what stories you might want to tell, introduce basic narrative storytelling structure and help you begin to craft your own story.

Please register for the workshop here. Please note that this opportunity is open to undergraduate and graduate students only.

This event is being hosted by Flipping Failure, a new MIT initiative to help undergraduate and graduate students develop resilience in the face of academic challenge.

Sponsor(s): Teaching and Learning Lab
Contact: Dipa Shah, E19-611, (617) 324-4503, DNSHAH@MIT.EDU

Jennifer Novotney

Jan/30

Wed

02:00PM-04:00PM

MIT Museum Classroom

Enrollment: Advance sign-up requested
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.

Analogies

Do you struggle with finding the right words to explain what you do? Do you feel like people act like you are speaking a different language when you talk about your research? Join us for an exploration in crafting effectives analogies to help you communicate with anyone.

Register for this workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iap-workshops-2019-tickets-54299858338

* Participants of this session are encouraged to take part in the “MIT Can Talk” oratory competition on Thursday, January 31st and Saturday, February 2 at the MIT Museum (see IAP listing for more details). 

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
Contact: Jennifer Novotney, N52-217, 617 324-7313, NOVOTNEY@MIT.EDU

Katharine Dunn, Katie Zimmerman

Jan/28

Mon

10:00AM-11:30AM

E25-111

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

When you publish in scholarly journals, you’re usually required to give up some rights in your work. In this workshop, MIT librarians will show you what to look for in author contracts and go over ways to hold onto rights to share and reuse your work, including via MIT's open access policies. This session is part of the "Intellectual Property Speaker Series" co-sponsored with the Technology Licensing Office. Lunch will be provided to attendees of the Intellectual Property Speaker Series events. Please email kshaner@mit.edu if you'd like to attend lunch and also register below.

FREE SWAG!

We will also be giving away some branded MIT Libraries and Technology Licensing Office swag to participants who attend any 6 sessions from this series, so please check out our other sessions! http://mit_tlo.eventbrite.com

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-rights-workshop-iap-2019-intellectual-property-speaker-series-tickets-53268777347?aff=1281901

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Katharine Dunn, khdunn@mit.edu

Howard Silver

Jan/23

Wed

01:00PM-02:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

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.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4849562

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, hsilver@mit.edu

Jennie Murack, Nick Albaugh

Jan/28

Mon

11:00AM-12:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants

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 to create a list of businesses and then learn how to find detailed information for specific companies.

Bring your laptop or use a computer in the lab.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4848510

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU

Georgiana McReynolds

Jan/24

Thu

12:00PM-01:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

This session will introduce you to the major components of business research. Join this interactive time of learning and fun where you will engage with the world of industries, markets, and companies. Realistic examples and hands-on exercises will demonstrate how to match your ideas and discoveries with the opportunities and realities of the marketplace.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4826236

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Georgiana McReynolds, gmac@mit.edu

Ian Sullivan

Jan/16

Wed

01:00PM-04:00PM

4-145, Bring your laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

This workshop demonstrates how to manage multiple projects and complex collaborations using the Open Science Framework as a tool. As part of working through these more advanced features we introduce concepts of data and material durability and issues that affect their reusability over time. NB: Despite its name, OSF is for more than science.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4861040

 

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Amy Nurnberger, nurnberg@mit.edu

Ece Turnator

Jan/31

Thu

04:30PM-06:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Are you creating or managing research data? This hands-on workshop will provide an overview of data management topics, including file organization and naming, data security and backups, tools for collaborating with others in the lab, and data publishing, storage and sharing. We'll also cover journal publisher requirements and writing the data management plans that are required by most funders, as well as data management issues related to closing out projects and moving between institutions. Geared towards those in postdoc or research scientist roles, but all are welcome.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4842960

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ece Turnator, turnator@mit.edu

Christine Malinowski

Jan/31

Thu

02:00PM-04:00PM

4-370

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: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4827528

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Christine Malinowski, cmalin@mit.edu

Alan Edelman, Deniz Yuret

	Jan/07	Mon	11:00AM-12:30PM	2-135
	Jan/08	Tue	11:00AM-12:30PM	2-135
	Jan/09	Wed	11:00AM-12:30PM	2-135
	Jan/10	Thu	11:00AM-12:30PM	2-135
	Jan/11	Fri	11:00AM-12:30PM	2-135

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: programming, probability, calculus, linear algebra

The course will consist of five hands-on tutorials giving the students practical experience in programming, training, evaluating and benchmarking deep learning models in Julia. While other machine learning libraries can meet many needs, for innovators who want to go innovate beyond the ordinary models, the expressivity of Julia has no equal. After a brief introduction to the Julia programming language we will cover linear models, multi-layer perceptrons, convolutional and recurrent neural networks. Through these examples the students will be exposed to the concepts of optimization with stochastic gradient descent (backpropagation); data normalization and minibatching; overfitting and regularization; model architectures and sample efficiency.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with programming, probability, calculus and linear algebra. 

 

 

Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Alan Edelman, 2-349, 3-7770, edelman@math.mit.edu

Chelsea Truesdell, Assistant Dean, Office of the First Year

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 the First Year.

DEX will be a structured time at the end of IAP for academic discovery that will allow students to experience what it’s like to be an undergrad in various department. Events include: student panels, open houses and showcases of projects and research. Each day there will be at least one topic panel featuring students and faculty from departments listed who will speak about their in and out of class experiences studying and teaching in this department.  

Events will take place from January 28 - February 1. RSVP is only necessary for some events, most you can just drop in!

Full list of events is listed on the Office of the First Year website: http://uaap.mit.edu/node/2553?

Sponsor(s): Office of the First Year
Contact: Chelsea Truesdell, 7-103, 617-253-9764, ctruesde@mit.edu

Slava Gerovitch, Ju-Lee Kim

Date TBD

Time TBD

Location TBD

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 11/12
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 2019 IAP is: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2018.

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

Courtney Crummett

Jan/23

Wed

04:00PM-05:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

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.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4838795

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummett, crummett@mit.edu

Jennifer Novotney

Jan/28

Mon

02:00PM-04:00PM

MIT Museum Classroom

Enrollment: Advance sign-up requested
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.

Gesturing

No one says you have to use your hands when you speak, but they can certainly help you get your message across better. What to do with your hands? Here are a few ideas that we’ll cover: minimize movement with fixed points, establish place holders, and consider viewer frame of reference. Get started on your "hand-waving" journey!

This session will be led by Tony Eng, creator of the MIT Can Talk competition and EECS Senior Lecturer.

Register for the workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iap-workshops-2019-tickets-54299858338

* Participants of this session are encouraged to take part in the “MIT Can Talk” oratory competition on Thursday, January 31st and Saturday, February 2 at the MIT Museum (see IAP listing for more details).

 

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
Contact: Jennifer Novotney, N52-217, 617 324-7313, NOVOTNEY@MIT.EDU

Karen Pepper, Neil Calabro

Jan/23

Wed

02:00PM-04:00PM

56-162

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 24 participants

We will provide an introduction to strategies for developing, writing, and submitting grant proposals. We will give a broad overview of grants and discuss common elements of proposal writing for government agencies and foundations. The session is geared to the needs of first-time grant proposal writers, but all levels of experience are welcome. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share their concerns, and are welcome to send us ahead of time questions they would like us to address.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication
Contact: Karen Pepper, kpepper@mit.edu

Ece Turnator, Carl Jones, Mark Szarko, Stacey Snyder, Georgiana McReynolds

Jan/29

Tue

02:00PM-04:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Omeka is a popular open source publishing platform for students and academics to build digital content such as media-rich exhibits, research outputs, and class projects. Our discussion will start with an overview of Omeka and the workshop will focus on a set of different use cases. Participants will learn and share multiple uses of Omeka from exhibit building, timelines, maps, and establishing semantic relationships between digital objects. We will leave time for a discussion on what aspects of Omeka may meet the participants’ research/teaching needs.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4779781

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ece Turnator, turnator@mit.edu

Howard Silver

Jan/24

Thu

01:00PM-05:00PM

7-238, Rotch Library, Will be held in the GIS & Data lab inside Rotch

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

The new GIS & Data Lab is now open on the 1st floor of Rotch Library! The new lab has been expanded to include Data Management Services in addition to Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Come and meet the staff who support the lab and community members who use the space. There will be refreshments and demonstrations of software and equipment. Resources include virtual reality equipment, drones, GIS, statistical and visualization software packages.

Stop by anytime between 1pm and 5pm.

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, hsilver@mit.edu

Heather Konar

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/18
Limited to 50 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

A 3-day blogging workshop to help current MIT graduate students develop content for the Grad Admissions Blog.

This hands-on workshop will train graduate students to write an enticing blog post, with individualized feedback from communication staff from across the Institute. Grad Bloggers provide a service to prospective students by communicating diverse perspectives on what it's like to be a graduate student at MIT, in the lab and beyond.

Participants write two blog pieces and earn $200 upon completion of posts. Participants may continue writing for the blog and earn $100 per piece.

If you are a current MIT graduate student and would like to participate, fill out this application by December 18th. You must be available for all three sessions.

 

Sponsor(s): Office of Graduate Education (OGE)
Contact: Heather Konar, 35-332, 617-253-1940, heatherf@mit.edu

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Grad Blog Workshop - Session 1

	Jan/15	Tue	09:00AM-11:00AM	Room 3-133
	Jan/17	Thu	09:00AM-11:00AM	Room 3-133
	Jan/22	Tue	09:00AM-11:00AM	Room 3-133

Michael Noga

Feb/01

Fri

10:00AM-12:00PM

Hayden Library, meet in the basement of Hayden

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Spatial information is hidden in the map cases and file cabinets of the Hayden Map Collection. Come on the last day of IAP. You can view and borrow a lot of physical maps from around the world. Use them to identify where and when spatial research was done.. Have some pastries to celebrate Chinese New Year. There might be some surplus maps to take away as well.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Michael Noga, mnoga@mit.edu

Patrick Henry Winston, Ford Professor of Engineering/MacVicar Fellow

Feb/01

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

Lourdes Aleman, Associate Director for Teaching & Learning

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
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, neuroplasticity, 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 and advance registration is required. Preference will be provided to MIT students. Please complete this REGISTRATION FORM. Your registration will be confirmed via a separate email from the Teaching + Learning Lab. Registration will remain open until January 13th or until all seats are filled. 

Sponsor(s): Teaching and Learning Lab
Contact: Lourdes Aleman, 617-324-1776, LALEMAN@MIT.EDU

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Session 1

Jan/15

Tue

10:00AM-12:00PM

E19-607

The relationship between mindsets, learning, and achievement

In this session, we will explore how beliefs about abilities and human traits relate and predict how people confront and deal with challenging academic scenarios.

Lourdes Aleman - Associate Director for Teaching & Learning

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Session 2

Jan/17

Thu

10:00AM-12:00PM

E19-607

Cultivating a growth mindset

In this session, we will explore strategies that you can use to cultivate a growth mindset, which can help individuals learn and address academic challenges more productively.

Lourdes Aleman - Associate Director for Teaching & Learning

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Session 3

Jan/22

Tue

10:00AM-12:00PM

E19-607

Using deliberate practice & evidence-based strategies to improve learning

In this session, we will explore the nature of how expertise develops and discuss learning and behavioral strategies that synergize with a growth mindset to help individuals optimize learning experiences.

Lourdes Aleman - Associate Director for Teaching & Learning

Thalia Rubio, WCC lecturer

Jan/08

Tue

10:00AM-11:15AM

1-371

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 25 participants
Prereq: none

For your paper to be successful, people have to actually read it. A compelling abstract is essential for capturing their attention and making them want to read more. But writing an effective abstract is challenging because you need to summarize what motivated you, what you did, and what you found, in a small number of words. In this workshop, we'll analyze sample abstracts from different fields, learn editing strategies, and practice revising abstracts. You'll leave with a better understanding of how to write a strong abstract that clearly presents your research.

Sponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Steven Strang, E18-233 B, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU

Frederico Azevedo, Research Affiliate

Jan/29

Tue

10:00AM-04:00PM

46-6011

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Boris Konrad, one of the world's top memory competitors and a PhD in
Neuroscience, will offer a unique workshop that will transform your memory
in one day.  During this five hour workshop, Boris will take you through
classic "Method of Loci" memory training step by step until you have built
up enough mental infrastructure to memorize by yourself fifty random
items.  The workshop is free and only requires the attention of the
participants.  As you will be asked during various portions of the
workshop to break up into smaller groups for more individualized
instruction.

About the Workshop Leader:  Dr. Boris Konrad is a renowned memory expert,
author, trainer, and competitor.  He has held several world records for
feats of memorization, including the "name and face" category where he
learned the names associated with 201 faces in 15 minutes.  Most recently,
he finished 6th at the World Memory Cahmpionship in Vienna.  He obtained
his PhD at Donders University in the Netherlands and is a co-author of a
2017 Neuron paper entitled: "Mnemonic Training Reshapes Brain Networks to
Support Superior Memory".

Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Frederico Azevedo, fazevedo@MIT.EDU

Nicholas Albaugh, Jonathan Hromi

Jan/25

Fri

12:30PM-02:00PM

E25-111

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Are you conducting research related to intellectual property? The MIT Libraries and the Technology Licensing Office will review the best tools for this type of research, especially in the areas of patents and market research. 

Nick Albaugh, Management and Social Sciences Librarian for Innovation & Entrepreneurship from MIT Libraries, and Jonathan Hromi, Intellectual Property Officer from MIT TLO, will discuss the following topics:

• The difference between prior art and market searching
• How patent searching can inform market analysis
• Tools to use to create a comprehensive commercialization plan

You'll also see a sample market analysis based on AI technology.

This session is part of the "Intellectual Property Speaker Series" co-sponsored by the Technology Licensing Office and MIT Libraries. Lunch will be provided to attendees of the Intellectual Property Speaker Series events. Please register for the seminar and lunch here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intellectual-property-research-tools-iap-2019-ip-speaker-series-tickets-53266832530

FREE SWAG!

We will also be giving away some branded MIT Libraries and Technology Licensing Office swag to participants who attend any 6 sessions from this series, so please check out our other sessions! http://mit_tlo.eventbrite.com

 

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Nicholas Albaugh, nalbaugh@mit.edu

Christine Malinowski, Kimberly Barzola

Jan/30

Wed

10:00AM-12:00PM

7-238, Rotch Library, Will be held in the GIS & Data lab inside Rotch

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 16 participants

OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a free, open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data. In this workshop, we’ll go through how to use OpenRefine to explore your data, clean it, transform it, and prep it for further analysis or visualization work.

This is an introductory session; no prior experience with OpenRefine is required. A basic understanding of tabular data (spreadsheets) and familiarity with Microsoft Excel is helpful.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4839389

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Christine Malinowski, cmalin@mit.edu

Christine Malinowski

Jan/09

Wed

03:00PM-04:00PM

2-105, Bring your laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: a basic working knowledge of LaTeX

Are you using LaTeX to create your documents? This workshop will introduce Overleaf Pro+, an online LaTeX and Rich Text collaborative writing and publishing tool that can help take some of the guesswork and clunkiness out of your LaTeX experience. Topics will include finding and using LaTeX templates, sharing and versioning documents, and managing citations by integrating your favorite citation management tools like Zotero, Mendeley, or JabRef into your Overleaf/LaTeX workflow.

Note, this is not an introduction to LaTeX – a basic working knowledge of LaTeX is assumed.

Sign up for a MIT Overleaf Pro+ account at https://www.overleaf.com/edu/mit Bring your laptop to follow along.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4828304

 

 

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Christine Malinowski, cmalin@mit.edu

Roger LeGrand

Jan/17

Thu

03:00PM-05:00PM

14N-132, Bring your laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Calling all qualitative researchers! This workshop is a hands-on exploration of how to use NVivo to analyze a range of data types, including video files, journal articles, and external documents. The workshop will cover the mechanics of using NVivo to build nodes, auto coding text and video files, as well as coding files for literature reviews. Attendees will become familiar with NVivo’s structure and able to use NVivo to develop nodes and node matrices.

To participate in this workshop, you will need to download the free trial version of NVivo to your laptop (https://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo/trial). The trial expires in 14 days so download this the week of the workshop. NVivo is available in the GIS & Data Lab (7-238) for use outside the workshop.

You should also save to your desktop *at least three* research articles that are relevant to your area of research interest.

Note: The instructor will use a Mac OS machine. Attendees using Windows operating systems will also be able to follow this workshop.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4828937

 

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ece Turnator, turnator@mit.edu

Svetlana Makarova, Yu Zhao

	Jan/08	Tue	01:00PM-02:30PM	2-135, Trees, operads, examples of operads
	Jan/10	Thu	01:00PM-02:30PM	2-135, Algebras over an operad, modules over an algebra
	Jan/15	Tue	01:00PM-02:30PM	2-135, Quadratic operads
	Jan/17	Thu	01:00PM-02:30PM	2-135, Duality for DG operads
	Jan/22	Tue	01:00PM-02:30PM	2-135, Koszul operads

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: not required to attend each, but recommended to attend in order
Prereq: linear algebra, abstract algebra and category theory

The aim of this course is to give an introduction to operads and Koszul duality for operads. Operads can be thought of as a collection of operations which formalizes the notion of “algebra structure”. For example, associative, Lie and commutative algebras can be described as algebras over certain operads. 

We plan to follow the exposition of Ginzburg, Kapranov in their paper “Koszul duality for operads”.

Students are not required to pre-register, but sending an email murmuno@mit.edu to express interest would be helpful.

The course should be accessible to undergrads.

Contact: Svetlana Makarova, 2-231A, murmuno@mit.edu

Katie Zimmerman, Katharine Dunn, Mikki Macdonald

Jan/30

Wed

10:00AM-11:30AM

E25-111

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Explore the public domain in this hands-on workshop. When does copyright expire, and how do you know when something is free to use? We will discuss the public domain and put then our skills to use on historical materials from the MIT Libraries.

This session is presented in conjunction with MIT Libraries Public Domain Day celebration. It is part of the "Intellectual Property Speaker Series" co-sponsored with the Technology Licensing Office. Lunch will be provided to attendees of the Intellectual Property Speaker Series events. Please email kshaner@mit.edu if you'd like to attend lunch and also register below.

FREE SWAG!

We will also be giving away some branded MIT Libraries and Technology Licensing Office swag to participants who attend any 6 sessions from this series, so please check out our other sessions! http://mit_tlo.eventbrite.com

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-it-in-the-public-domain-iap-2019-intellectual-property-speaker-series-tickets-53269145448?aff=1301901

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Katie Zimmerman, kbzimmer@mit.edu

Angelina Jay, Project Manus, Technical Instructor

Jan/22

Tue

05:00PM-08:00PM

35-307

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

Do you enjoy making things and sharing that knowledge with others? Join Project Manus’ MakerLodge for our IAP open house to learn how you can become a MakerLodge mentor. Our mentors train MIT’s first year students on a variety of tools from 3D printers and laser cutters to band-saws and drill presses. Grab a bite to eat and chat with current mentors and project staff to see if becoming a mentor is right for you!

Registration is required. To sign up, email Angelina Jay at angiejay@mit.edu.

Hosted by: MIT Project Manus

Sponsor(s): MIT Innovation Initiative
Contact: Angelina Jay, 617-258-089, angiejay@mit.edu

Stephanie Kohler, Chris Tanguay

Jan/18

Fri

02:00PM-03:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 30 participants

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 PDFs and citations.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4805051

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Stephanie Kohler, skohler@mit.edu

Stacey Snyder, Jennie Murack

Jan/30

Wed

11:00AM-12:00PM

online

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 PDFs and citations.

Register here: https://mit.webex.com/mit/k2/j.php?MTID=t44d1b45a7fe507ea6de824a1cbf2f859

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Stacey Snyder, 10-500, 617 324-6024, SSNYDER@MIT.EDU

Phoebe Ayers

Jan/28

Mon

02:00PM-03:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Do you write software? Have you been required by funders or publishers to share your code, or do you want to make it accessible to others to use? Documenting, sharing and archiving your research software can make your research more transparent and reproducible, and can help you get credit for your work. This workshop reviews reasons to share your software, best practices and considerations for documenting your software and making it citable, and options for archiving and publishing research software, including software papers and managing software with associated data sets, and some best practices for citing and documenting all of the software that you use.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4842989

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Phoebe Ayers, psayers@mit.edu

Jeremy Kepner, Fellow & Head MIT Supercomputing Center

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/15
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.  Machine Learning has emerged as a powerful tool for transforming this data into usable information.  Many technologies (e.g., spreadsheets, databases, graphs, linear algebra, deep neural networks, ...) 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 and Machine Learning.  Understanding these mathematical foundations allows the student to see past the differences that lie on the surface of Big Data and Machine Learning applications and technologies and leverage their core mathematical similarities to solve the hardest Big Data and Machine Learning challenges.

Copies of the MIT  Press book "Mathematics of Big Data" will be provided.

E-mail the instructor to sign up.

 

Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Jeremy Kepner, MIT Beaver Works (300 Tech Sq), 781 981-3108, KEPNER@LL.MIT.EDU

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A Short History of Machine Learning

Jan/11

Fri

10:30AM-12:30PM

300 Tech Sq 2nd Flr

Chapters 1 and 2 of

Jeremy Kepner - Fellow & Head MIT Supercomputing Center

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D4M: A New Tool for Big Data

Jan/18

Fri

10:30AM-12:30PM

300 Tech Sq 2nd Flr

Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 of

Jeremy Kepner - Fellow & Head MIT Supercomputing Center

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Four Perspectives on Data

Jan/25

Fri

10:30AM-12:30PM

300 Tech Sq 2nd Flr

Chapters 7 and 8 of

Jeremy Kepner - Fellow & Head MIT Supercomputing Center

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Mathematical Foundations of Data

Feb/01

Fri

10:30AM-12:30PM

300 Tech Sq 2nd Flor

Chapter 5 and 6 of

Jeremy Kepner - Fellow & Head MIT Supercomputing Center

Chelsea Truesdell, Assistant Dean, Office of the First Year, Leslie Bottari, Staff Associate, Office of the First Year

Jan/28

Mon

05:00PM-06:00PM

4-163

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: current first years, sophomores, and juniors welcome

The Office of the First Year offers two fantastic leadership opportunities for undergraduate students — 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 currently in these positions speak about their roles and position responsibilities, the opportunities to work with faculty and staff, and the leadership skills they gained that will help them in the future. Office of the First Year 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 the First Year
Contact: Chelsea Truesdell, 7-103, 617 253-9764, CTRUESDE@MIT.EDU

Robert Ajemian, Research Scientist

Jan/30

Wed

10:30AM-12:30PM

46-3002

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Speakers: Martin Dresler, Boris Konrad, and Jim Karol

Three speakers will discuss the impact of memory training on brain function from a variety of different perspectives.  Martin Dresler is an assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Donders Institute in the Netherlands, and further affiliated to the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich.  He will speak about changes in functional connectivity that take place in the brains of memory experts and naive individuals who are in the process of learning to employ the techniques. Boris Konrad is the only individual to have been both a world memory record holder and a PhD in neuroscience.  He will discuss experiments he has performed on the degree to which enhanced memory function transfers to other cognitive capacities.  Finally, the man who arguably possesses the greatest long-term memory in the world, Jim Karol, will speak on some of his personal experiences in transforming his memory from the rudimentary to the phenomenal in the last 15 years of his life.  Specific attention will be focused on his emphasis at long-term memory and how memory can be transformed into knowledge.

Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Robert Ajemian, 46-6193, (617) 253-8174, ajemian@mit.edu

Jennifer Novotney

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Must take one of the MIT Museum's IAP Workshops

Do you have a silver tongue or the gift of the gab? Are you the one always picked out to share out the small group’s discussion? Do you never back down from a dinner discussion? Then show your stuff at the MIT Can Talk oratory competition!

Participants will give a 5-minute speech on the topic “Back to Square One”. Material must be original but can include excerpts from elsewhere, including poems, stories, songs, etc. as long as sources are properly attributed. A panel of judges will determine who wins the top prizes!

First place: $500

Second place: $300

Third place: $200

Audience favorite: $200

The contest is open to everyone in the MIT community; competitors must attend at least one of the MIT Museum's IAP 2019 science communication workshops in order to participate in the preliminaries on Thursday, January 31st from 5-8pm. The final competition will be from 1-3pm on Saturday, February 2 in the MIT Museum.

**Competition registration and details will be sent by email to interested participants who attended at least one of the MIT Museum's IAP 2019 public speaking workshops. Please contact Jennifer Novotney (novotney@mit.edu) with questions.

 

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
Contact: Jennifer Novotney, N52-217, 617 324-7313, NOVOTNEY@MIT.EDU

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Jan/31

Thu

05:00PM-08:00PM

MIT Museum

Preliminary round

Jennifer Novotney

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Feb/02

Sat

01:00PM-03:00PM

MIT Museum

Finals presented for a live audience

Jennifer Novotney

Haley Tidd, VMS Operations Manager, Kent Summers, MIT VMS Mentor

Feb/01

Fri

08:45AM-04:00PM

TBA, Break from 12-1 PM

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/31
Limited to 110 participants
Prereq: None

In its 8th year, this popular IAP workshop on “B2B sales” is consistently received by attendees with enthusiasm. Highlighting practical knowledge of "how to sell," the session provides entrepreneurs starting a new venture and business school graduates entering a new profession with basic tools for sales success: how to target enterprise sales opportunities, manage a sales process, acquire customers and generate revenue. Attendees gain basic knowledge and confidence to support better sales decisions.

The workshop includes two 3-hour sessions, combining lecture, interactive exercises, and anecdotal evidence from real sales situations. The morning focuses on basic concepts, tools and mechanics for sales focus and efficiency. The afternoon covers more “qualitative” aspects of selling, with emphasis on how to navigate an organization, overcome bias, build buyer team consensus, and negotiate to close deals. Attendees will troubleshoot “failed sales” and recommend corrective action or behavior.

Kent Summers has been offering the Sales Boot Camp in collaboration with VMS since 2008. He regularly presents sales workshops at the MIT Sloan School, the Harvard MBA program and the Wharton School of Business. Summers founded and sold three software companies in the Boston area, and since 2002, has helped many new MIT companies navigate critical sales challenges. His success with early-stage ventures and enterprise sales is uniquely suited to the needs of start-ups and scale-up ventures.

Sponsor(s): MIT Venture Mentoring Service
Contact: Haley Tidd, W31-310, 617 258-0720, HTIDD@MIT.EDU

Courtney Crummett, Nicholas Albaugh

Jan/16

Wed

11:00AM-12:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Demystify the patent literature and learn resources for finding patents. Learn about and search for patents from all over the world. This hands-on session will help demystify the patent literature and show key resources for finding patents.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4829286

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummett, crummett@mit.edu

Maryam Khodadoust, PSYD, Staff Psychologist -MIT Mental Health and Counseling

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/07
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

When you make a mistake, do you have a really hard time forgiving yourself?

Are you rarely (if ever) satisfied with the quality of your work?  

Do you take even constructive criticism personally, seeing it as proof of your ineptness?

Do you spend more time daydreaming about your accomplishments than on working towards them?

DO you find that reality rarely (if ever) matches your expectations?

Do you find yourself in a constant loop of making promises to do things differently, only to find yourself repeating the same mistake?

If you answered yes to 3 or more of the above questions, you maybe suffering from debilitating perfectionism. Don't suffer in silence. Come learn about Perfectionism and strategies to keep it from hijacking your academic experience.

Contact: Maryam Khodadoust, E23-368, 617 253-2916, KHOD@MED.MIT.EDU

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Perfectionism workshop Series-Intensive

	Jan/08	Tue	04:00PM-06:00PM	Medical: RM376
	Jan/10	Thu	04:00PM-06:00PM	Medical: RM376
	Jan/15	Tue	04:00PM-06:00PM	Medical: RM376
	Jan/17	Thu	04:00PM-06:00PM	Medical: RM376
	Jan/22	Tue	04:00PM-06:00PM	Medical: RM376
	Jan/24	Thu	04:00PM-06:00PM	Medical: RM376
	Jan/29	Tue	04:00PM-06:00PM	Medical: RM376
	Jan/31	Thu	04:00PM-06:00PM	Medical: RM376

Alex Hoyt

	Jan/09	Wed	03:30PM-04:30PM	5-134
	Jan/23	Wed	03:30PM-04:30PM	5-134

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

The Peter J. Eloranta Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships are awarded each spring to MIT undergraduates who have submitted proposals to conduct novel research or further develop innovative ideas, devices, prototypes, etc. The Eloranta Summer Fellowship Committee makes the award based on its review of submitted proposals. In making awards, the selection committee looks for proposals with a WOW quality: Well-written, Original, and Workable. Each individual fellowship is $7,000 and may be used to cover project materials and services costs, travel, and/or living expenses.

Sponsor(s): Office of the First Year
Contact: J Alex Hoyt, 7-104, 617 324-6700, JAHOYT@MIT.EDU

Ian Sullivan

Jan/16

Wed

09:00AM-12:00PM

4-145, Bring your laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Interested in increasing the reproducibility of your research and making collaborartive research easier to manage? This workshop introduces the Open Science Framework (OSF) as a tool to address common issues in research reproducibility and data management. NB: Despite its name, OSF is for more than science.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4861035

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Amy Nurnberger, nurnberg@mit.edu

Juergen Schoenstein, Lecturer: Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication, Anna Kohler, Senior Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts at MIT

	Jan/29	Tue	09:30AM-12:30PM	66-144
	Jan/30	Wed	09:30AM-12:30PM	66-144, 66-154
	Jan/30	Wed	02:00PM-04:00PM	W16-RRA

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 18 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

As engineers and academics, we love to talk about our work – unless it is in front of an audience. For many, public speaking is one of the biggest fears they have to face; even experienced presenters often agonize over the prospect of facing an audience. This workshop will address not only the tasks of crafting a talk and designing the slides, but also how to become confident and comfortable as a speaker. This workshop is intended for graduate students and faculty members who want to improve their oral presentation skills, but undergraduates are welcome, too.

The first part will be a half-day workshop in crafting an audience-specific narrative, and designing professional slides; the next morning, we will do a “clinic” where participants get an opportunity to give a 5 to 10-minute presentation (about their thesis, current research, or any other topic they choose) to a friendly audience of peers, get feedback and practice how to handle the Q and A. In the afternoon, things will become more physical: Anna Kohler, Senior Lecturer for Theater at MIT, will lead a workshop on “Speaking with confidence”. In this workshop, you will do exercises that will enable you to find and fill both the space within you and the space immediately around you, so that you can confidently be yourself in front of a large audience. This workshop is not about oral performance and theatrical speech, but about physical presence and comfort on stage - wear loose clothing conducive for physical movement.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication
Contact: Juergen Schoenstein, juergen@mit.edu

Michael Golay, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Nathan Siu, Senior Technical Advisor, NRC

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None.

Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), a structured analysis approach for characterizing system risk, is being increasingly used by the nuclear industry to support risk-informed decision making (RIDM).  This 5-day intensive course, which is composed of lectures, classroom workshops, and open discussion sessions, will cover basic PRA and RIDM concepts and the use environment, simple PRA mechanics, recent developments and controversies, and future challenges.

The course is aimed at future nuclear engineering professionals who may not necessarily be considering careers in PRA but nevertheless are likely to be involved in some aspects of RIDM. There are no formal prerequisites. However, students with knowledge of basic probability and statistics, multivariate calculus, and reactor systems and safety will find some of the material easier to follow.

Sponsor(s): Nuclear Science and Engineering
Contact: Brandy Baker, 24-104, 617 253-3814, BRANDYB@MIT.EDU

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	Jan/16	Wed	09:00AM-06:00PM	34-302
	Jan/17	Thu	09:00AM-06:00PM	34-302
	Jan/18	Fri	09:00AM-06:00PM	34-302
	Jan/22	Tue	09:00AM-06:00PM	34-302
	Jan/23	Wed	09:00AM-06:00PM	34-302

Michael Golay - Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Nathan Siu - Senior Technical Advisor, NRC

Phoebe Ayers

Jan/15

Tue

03:00PM-06:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Join the MIT Libraries during IAP for a Public Domain-themed Wikipedia edit-a-thon! January 1st is Public Domain Day – the day when works published in 1923 go out of copyright in the United States and enter the public domain, making them available for anyone to reuse and remix. This is the first time in twenty years that new published works have entered the public domain! To celebrate, the MIT Libraries are digitizing 100 works from 1923 selected from our collections. Because they are now out of copyright, we can freely use images and text from these works on Wikipedia and other open licensed projects.

Join us to explore these digitized works and learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. What did engineering education look like in the 1920s at MIT? We’ll introduce the works and give you an introduction to editing Wikipedia and ideas for topics to work on, or bring our own topics. We will also celebrate Wikipedia's 18th Birthday! Wikipedia was founded on January 15, 2001. We'll have pizza and cake into the evening to celebrate. We will have support from experienced Wikipedia editors and librarians, as well as snacks and pizza. Join us for an afternoon devoted to exploring engineering in the Jazz Age and contributing to the world’s largest reference work.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4841683

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Phoebe Ayers, psayers@mit.edu

Christine Malinowski

Jan/10

Thu

03:00PM-04:00PM

3-333, Bring your laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

Do you have data? (Who doesn't?!?) Learn about the five basic things you can do now to manage your data for future happiness. These tools and techniques support practical data management and you can start using them immediately. Work with your personal data or research data, but start working now to ensure a future you who is secure in the existence, understandability, and reusability of your data!

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4828233

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Christine Malinowski, cmalin@mit.edu

Ista Zahn

Jan/15

Tue

10:00AM-12:30PM

4-163, Bring your laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: basic familiarity with R

This hands-on, intermediate course will guide you through a variety of programming functions in the open-source statistical software program, R. This workshop will to prepare you for dealing with messy data by walking you through real-life example. It is intended for those already comfortable with using R for data analysis who wish to move on to writing their own functions.

Prerequisite: basic familiarity with R, such as acquired from an introductory R workshop.

Bring your own laptop. Install R (https://www.r-project.org/) and RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/) before the workshop.

Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4835229

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jennie Murack, 7-238, 617 258-6680, MURACK@MIT.EDU

Jennifer Novotney

Jan/31

Thu

02:00PM-04:00PM

MIT Museum Classroom

Enrollment: Advance sign-up requested
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.

Reaching Out

A key component of research is communication. Whether it is with other researchers, the general public, or students, it is important that you are able to share your research in a clear and engaging way. In this class, you will learn how to tailor your presentations to different groups, assess your audience, and move past the powerpoint to meet your goals. Please bring a presentation that you would like to work on or a possible topic to try.

Register for this workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iap-workshops-2019-tickets-54299858338

* Participants of this session are encouraged to take part in the “MIT Can Talk” oratory competition on Thursday, January 31st and Saturday, February 2 at the MIT Museum (see IAP listing for more details). 

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
Contact: Jennifer Novotney, N52-217, 617 324-7313, NOVOTNEY@MIT.EDU

Louise Harrison-Lepera, Lecturer, Susan Carlisle, Lecturer

Jan/28

Mon

01:00PM-03:00PM

56-167

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 20 participants

You don't have to be famous or have lived a long, illustrious life to start writing your autobiography. Telling stories about your life can not only help you remember experiences, but also help you understand them better. This two hour workshop is a bite-sized sample of one of our most popular introductory writing classes, Reading and Writing Autobiography. In this workshop we will discuss a few short excerpts from contemporary autobiographies. We will then use some thought-provoking writing exercises to help us open up our memories and choose significant moments to write about. Workshop participants will have the chance to write about one of these moments and get feedback on how to shape it into a longer piece.

Sponsor(s): Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Louise Harrison-Lepera, E18-240C, 617-253-0650, lhl3@mit.edu

Jennifer Novotney

Jan/29

Tue

02:00PM-03:30PM

MIT Museum Classroom

Enrollment: Advance sign-up requested
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.

Storytelling 101

Storytelling is a chance to reflect on your life, take stock of the events you've lived through, and think about how they have shaped you as a person. Taught by Kirsty Bennett, a former director and producer for The Moth, this class will encourage you to identify what stories you might want to tell, introduce basic narrative storytelling structure and help you begin to craft your own story.

Register for this workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iap-workshops-2019-tickets-54299858338

* Participants of this session are encouraged to take part in the “MIT Can Talk” oratory competition on Thursday, January 31st and Saturday, February 2 at the MIT Museum (see IAP listing for more details). 

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
Contact: Jennifer Novotney, N52-217, 617 324-7313, NOVOTNEY@MIT.EDU

Jennifer Novotney

Jan/29

Tue

02:00PM-03:30PM

MIT Museum Classroom

Enrollment: Advance sign-up requested
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.

Storytelling 101

Storytelling is a chance to reflect on your life, take stock of the events you've lived through, and think about how they have shaped you as a person. Taught by Kirsty Bennett, a former director and producer for The Moth, this class will encourage you to identify what stories you might want to tell, introduce basic narrative storytelling structure and help you begin to craft your own story.

Register for the workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iap-workshops-2019-tickets-54299858338

* Participants of this session are encouraged to take part in the “MIT Can Talk” oratory competition on Thursday, January 31st and Saturday, February 2 at the MIT Museum (see IAP listing for more details).

 

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
Contact: Jennifer Novotney, N52-217, 617 324-7313, NOVOTNEY@MIT.EDU

Roman Lubynsky, Executive Director, Venture Mentoring Service

Jan/23

Wed

02:30PM-04:00PM

E25-111

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 150 participants

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovation Corps or I-Corps is a program that prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and to accelerate the transfer of cutting-edge research into commercial success. This session will provide an introduction to the I-Corps educational programs. 

For MIT Researchers Considering a Startup:

• Explore taking your new technology to the marketplace
• Get entrepreneurial training, support, and learn how to apply for $50K
• Increase your chances of receiving an SBIR/STTR award

 

Whether you are just curious about entrepreneurship or certain you want to create a startup, I-Corps provides researchers with the ideal entry point. Faculty, staff, and students working on any STEM-related technology anywhere at MIT can enroll. 

Learn more about the NSF I-Corps Program at MIT.

This session is part of the "Intellectual Property Speaker Series" co-sponsored by the Technology Licensing Office and MIT Libraries. Lunch will be provided to attendees of the Intellectual Property Speaker Series events. 

Please register  for the seminar and lunch here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-nsf-i-corps-program-the-scientific-method-applied-to-entrepreneurship-tickets-53588600948?aff=1231903

FREE SWAG!

We will also be giving away some branded MIT Libraries and Technology Licensing Office swag to participants who attend any 6 sessions from this series, so please check out our other sessions! http://mit_tlo.eventbrite.com

Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office, Libraries
Contact: Karen Baird, NE18-501, 617 324-2386, KSHANER@MIT.EDU

Katie Zimmerman, Mikki Macdonald

Jan/30

Wed

12:30PM-02:00PM

E25-111

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

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.

This session is part of the "Intellectual Property Speaker Series" co-sponsored with the Technology Licensing Office. Lunch will be provided to attendees of the Intellectual Property Speaker Series events. Please email kshaner@mit.edu if you'd like to attend lunch and also register below.

FREE SWAG!

We will also be giving away some branded MIT Libraries and Technology Licensing Office swag to participants who attend any 6 sessions from this series, so please check out our other sessions! http://mit_tlo.eventbrite.com

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thesesmit-specifications-and-copyright-issues-iap-2019-ip-series-tickets-53268950866?aff=1301902

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Mikki Maccdonald, mssimon@mit.edu

Jan/29

Tue

02:30PM-04:00PM

Lobby 13

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Come learn about UROPing at MIT.  We will have faculty, postdocs, graduate students, current UROPs, and administrators from academic departmetns and research labs/centers available to speak with you about UROPing in their area.  This is a great way to start looking for a Spring or Summer 2019 UROP position.

Sponsor(s): Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program -UROP, Office of the First Year
Contact: J Alex Hoyt, 7-104, 617 324-6700, JAHOYT@MIT.EDU

Courtney Crummett, Howard Silver

Jan/25

Fri

01:00PM-02:00PM

14N-132

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

MIT is full of research and collaboration opportunities. Learn how to discover those opportunities beyond your personal network using tools and resources that will give you a better picture of MIT and other complex organizations.

Registere here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4834146

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummett, crummett@mit.edu

Jan/24

Thu

03:00PM-05:00PM

E25-111

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/24

Back by popular demand, MIT is thrilled to welcome Dr. Jean-luc Doumont  for his annual IAP lectures.

Unless you know how to squeeze more than 24 hours in a day, you are probably receptive to advice on how to achieve more in the time you have. Rather than add to the long lists of tips available in books or websites, this lecture proposes a simple but solid framework to help you decide what is worth doing (and what is not). It then discusses how to manage your time and your physical or virtual space to actually get things done.

 Dr. Doumont holds an engineering degree from the Louvain School of Engineering and a PhD in applied physics from Stanford. He specializes in professional speaking, writing, and graphing, and incorporates a unique engineering perspective. He is an international speaker and the author of “Trees, Maps, and Theorems: effective communication for rational minds”. RSVP requested via CareerBridge.

All CAPD workshops are open to MIT undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and alumni unless otherwise specified. 

Sponsored by Career Advising & Professional Development, the Office of Graduate Education, the Office of Vice President for Research, and the Graduate Student Council

Sponsor(s): Career, Advising and Professional Development CAPD
Contact: CAPD Information, capd@mit.edu

Alison Hynd, Andrea Walsh

Jan/29

Tue

01:00PM-02:30PM

56-162

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 25 participants

Individuals and organizations often struggle with the issue of how best to raise funds for social action and community service projects on campus and in the community. The ability to craft different appeals – such as grant proposals, crowdsourcing appeals and donation letters – is key to successful fundraising. Each fundraising genre employs different rhetorical strategies. Writing effective grant proposals means understanding how to read a “Request for Proposals” (RFP), use local data to advocate for your program, construct a budget and follow a common format so that reviewers can easily read your proposal. Crowdsourcing appeals and donation letters vary in form, and may appeal more to emotion than grant proposals. Understanding the distinctions between these genres is key to achieving success as a fundraising writer.

This workshop reviews different types of fundraising writing, such as grant proposals, crowdsourcing approaches and donation appeal letters. We will distribute a list of relevant local and MIT grant opportunities and examples of effective proposals and review common crowdsourcing approaches. We will discuss things to consider before putting pen to paper to ensure your plans are a good match for community needs.  In addition, we will provide time for participants to work on fundraising plans for their own projects. Bring a laptop and ideas for projects to fund!

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Contact: Andrea Walsh, aswalsh@mit.edu

Phoebe Ayers

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Are you writing a literature review for a thesis or an article? Need to find background information and go deep into the literature to find out what has been done before? Join us for this hands-on session covering techniques for identifying places to look for articles, conference proceedings, patents, and more; some tips on keeping track of what you've found; and some ways to search for related works, overviews, highly cited works, and other tricks. We'll save some time for hands-on work to identify sources related to your work, so bring your laptop. Don't be surprised late in your writing process by a relevant paper that you didn't find - work on your literature review today! Any discipline is welcome, with a focus on science and engineering.

Two sessions will be offered: Friday Jan 11 from 11am-12pm, and Friday Jan 25 from 2-3pm. Please join us for either one.

Register here for Jan 11: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4843093

Register here for Jan 25: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4843172

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Phoebe Ayers, psayers@mit.edu

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Writing your literature review

	Jan/11	Fri	11:00AM-12:00PM	14N-132
	Jan/25	Fri	02:00PM-03:00PM	14N-132

Are you writing a literature review? Need to find background info and go deep into the literature to find out what has been done before? Join us for this hands-on session covering techniques for identifying places to look for articles, conference proceedings, patents, and more; some tips on keeping track of what you've found; and some ways to search for related works, overviews, highly cited works, and other tricks.

Phoebe Ayers

Jennifer Novotney

Feb/01

Fri

02:00PM-04:00PM

MIT Museum Classroom

Enrollment: Advance sign-up requested
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.

Your Place on Stage

Are you tired of reading tiny font and listening to a presenter in the background? Then come to this workshop to learn how to make yourself stand out from your slides! Work with a professional actor to practice effective body language, and explore how to use your body to emphasize and enhance your presentation. Please wear loose clothing conducive for physical movement. This session will be led by Debra Wise, Artistic Director of the Underground Railway Theater.

Register for this workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iap-workshops-2019-tickets-54299858338

* Participants of this session are encouraged to take part in the “MIT Can Talk” oratory competition on Thursday, January 31st and Saturday, February 2 at the MIT Museum (see IAP listing for more details). 

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum
Contact: Jennifer Novotney, N52-217, 617 324-7313, NOVOTNEY@MIT.EDU