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Adventures in Scanning Electron Microscopy
Donald Galler, Research Engineer
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Jan/29 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hour break for lunch |
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Jan/30 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hour break for lunch |
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Jan/31 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 4-141, 1 hour break for lunch |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
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 (purchased in 2012) 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
Are your Journal and Presentation Figures the Best They Can Be?
Felice Frankel, research scientist
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Jan/17 | Wed | 11:00AM-01:00PM | 13-2137 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 15 participants
Prereq: none
Designed after our successful masterclasses on-campus, we will engage in group discussions around YOUR draft figures and suggest various changes to elevate the communicative nature of your figures. You will be required to submit to Felice ONE draft figure by Jan 10 after you first contact her.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Felice Frankel, 13-2038, 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 01/05
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/09 | Tue | 02:00PM-03:00PM | Room 33-319 |
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Jan/10 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | Room 33-319 |
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Jan/11 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:30PM | Room 33-319, Time moved from 2-4 to 11-12:30 |
See main description.
Build a Small Radar System IAP 2018
Kenneth Kolodziej
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a course focusing on the design, fabrication and test of a laptop-based radar capable of forming Doppler, range, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Teams of three will receive materials to build a radar and will be given instructions to watch prerecorded lectures spanning topics from fundamentals of radar to SAR imaging. Instructors will be on-hand to answer questions and debug issues.
Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Kenneth Kolodziej, radar.course@ll.mit.edu
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Jan/24 | Wed | 01:00PM-05:00PM | Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop |
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Jan/29 | Mon | 01:00PM-05:00PM | Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop |
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Feb/02 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop |
Kenneth Kolodziej
Communicating with Graphics
Thalia Rubio, Lecturer, Writing and Communication Center
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Jan/09 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:15AM | E17-136 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Prereq: none
You need graphs, diagrams, and other illustrations for your journal article, slide presentation, job-talk, or poster presentation. Visual communication is powerful, and you want your images to persuasively convey your key ideas. In this workshop, we’ll explore guidelines to develop visual representations of your important concepts. Bring your visualization challenges to the workshop and we’ll give you feedback you can apply to current and future projects.
Sponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Steven Strang, E18-233 B, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU
COMSOL Multiphysics Boot Camp
Mian Qin
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Jan/24 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 66-110, sign up at comsol.com/events/workshop/40912 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
A 2 week trial of COMSOL Multiphysics® is available upon request.
During this boot camp you will:
• Introduction to the COMSOL Multiphysics® software
• Guided hands-on exercises and interactive demonstrations
Sessions on:
• CFD & heat transfer modeling
• Chemical reactions and reacting flows
• Electromagnetic analysis
• Q&A session with COMSOL support engineers
DETAILS & REGISTRATION
comsol.com/events/workshop/40912
SPEAKERS
Akhilesh Sasankan, COMSOL, Inc.
Angela Straccia, COMSOL, Inc.
Kiran Uppalapati, COMSOL, Inc.
Sponsor(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Adrienne Bruno, 66-350, 617 253-4562, BRUNOA@MIT.EDU
Course 3 movie night: Swords with Prof. Yet-ming Chiang
Elsa Olivetti, Professor
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Jan/23 | Tue | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 6-104, Please note the room location |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Come learn all about swords, metal processing, and bladesmithing! Hear about the material science behind sword making from Prof. Yet-ming Chiang, see the ‘real’ thing, and then watch a sword making documentary: Forged in Fire
Forged in Fire is an original competition series featuring world-class bladesmiths competing to create history’s most iconic edged weapons. In each episode, four of the nation’s finest bladesmiths come together to put their skill and reputations on the line, trying to avoid elimination and win the $10,000 prize.
Food will be served - please RSVP to Professor Elsa Olivetti
Priority will be given to first year undergradauate students if interest is high.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Prof. Elsa Olivetti, elsao@mit.edu
Dance And Design Making Lab
Karole Armitage, Director's Fellow Member
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Director's Fellows, Karole Armitage, inspired by the ferocious ability of the MIT participants from the 2017 workshop to create athletic and expressive movement, has decided to form the MIT Dancing Engineers Company. The plan is for the company to create at least one production to premiere in 2019. The theme for the performance will come from this workshop. Mornings will be devoted to dance and sound/music; afternoons will be devoted to design.
DANCE AND MUSIC
No dance experience is necessary. Over the course of five sessions, Karole is interested in continuing to investigate calligraphic choreography derived from mapping Chinese ideograms. The session will begin with a short warm-up followed by analyzing an ideogram for its musicality and geometry.
DESIGN
Karole would like to meet with designers interested in creating moving/transforming components for the stage including costumes, morphing wigs, make-up, perfumes, body enhancing design, jewelry, objects, inflatables, lighting, bioluminescence, synthetic biology, etc. as a design or environmental element to be used as a part of the MIT Dancing Engineers Company performance. The workshop will be capped at 10 participants. All ideas are welcome!
Dates: January 22-26 , 2018 (detailed schedule tbd)
Location: Media Lab, E14-244
The workshop will culminate in a demonstration of selected material from the workshop at 12:00pm on Friday Jan.26 in the ACT Cube.
Please fill out this form if you're interested!
Sponsor(s): Media Lab
Contact: Shanice Thompson, E-14 245, SHANICET@MIT.EDU
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Jan/22 | Mon | 02:00PM-02:00PM | E-14 244, Bring your own laptop |
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Jan/25 | Thu | 05:00PM-05:00PM | E-14 244, Bring your own laptop |
Karole will meet one on one with designers at a Media Lab (location of their choice) for a 60-90-minute individual brainstorming session between 2pm-5pm on Monday Jan. 22 and Tuesday, Jan 23 (first come first serve basis). On Jan 24- 25 will be devoted to following up with further questions and ideas related to design and practical issues (first come first serve basis) from 2pm-5pm.
Karole Armitage - Director's Fellow Member
Engineering Wikipedia edit-a-thon
Phoebe Ayers
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Jan/26 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Participate in the Independent Activities Period at MIT by editing Wikipedia! Experienced and beginning editors alike are welcome: experienced editors from the Libraries and Writing Program will provide an introduction to editing Wikipedia as well as assistance throughout the event.
The theme is "Engineering Wikipedia": help improve coverage of all things engineering on Wikipedia, with the help of MIT Libraries resources. This includes writing about underrepresented engineers, engineered structures and objects, and engineering concepts. Everyone is welcome and you don't have to be an engineer (either by discipline or MIT affiliation) to participate - engineering is everywhere! Editing in multiple languages is welcome.
Bring your laptop or use the computers in the room. Snacks will be provided. Help us engineer Wikipedia to be more inclusive, comprehensive and accurate!
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3775283
More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Engineering_Wikipedia_2018
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Phoebe Ayers, psayers@mit.edu
Fantastic Feathers: Form and Function
Lorna Gibson
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Feb/01 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-261 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
When we think of birds, we think of feathers. Feathers give birds their color, from the bright red of a male Cardinal to the iridescent reds and greens of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Feathers keep birds warm and dry: down provides excellent insulation against heat loss and water really does roll off a duck's back. Feathers form the aerodynamic shape of the wing, enabling flight. A Barn Owl's flight feathers suppress sound, allowing it to fly nearly silently, while its ruff feathers reflect and focus sound into its ears, enabling the owl to hunt in total darkness by sound alone. This talk describes how the materials science of feathers: how their microscopic structure gives rise to their remarkable properties.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Lorna Gibson, 8-135, 617-253-7107, ljgibson@mit.edu
Fundamentals of Exploitation
Devin Neal, Rahul Sridhar
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/01
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Familiarity with Linux
A week long course that will cover the inner workings of Linux binaries for the purpose of both understanding and exploitation. The course will cover the ELF binary format, reading assembly, debugging, shellcoding, and return-oritented programming. Each class will have both a lecture component to go over new material and a hands-on component to put the new information to use. The only prerequisite is previous experience with Linux and Python. Previous experience with C, while not necessary, will be very helpful.
You can sign up by submitting the form linked here.
Contact: Devin Neal, DEVNEAL@MIT.EDU
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Jan/08 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | NE 45 2nd Floor |
This session will cover ELF binaries, the programs we'll be working with for the rest of the course. We'll learn how C programs are converted into ELFs and learn the basics of assembly, the language that ELFs are written in. Then we'll go over the way the stack is used in function calls, and how to use GDB to inspect ELF binaries as they execute.
Devin Neal, Rahul Sridhar
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Jan/09 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | NE 45 2nd Floor |
Once we've got some familiarity with ELF binaries, we can get started on basic exploits. We'll find out how to exploit unsafe functions to corrupt memory, call other functions, and eventually get shell access via shellcoding. We'll also go over ret2libc, a technique to get shell access without writing shellcode.
Devin Neal, Rahul Sridhar
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Jan/10 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | NE 45 2nd Floor |
This session will introduce data execution prevention (DEP) and return-oriented programming (ROP), which is used to defeat it. We will also cover ASLR and and the way it is typically defeated via memory leaks.
Devin Neal, Rahul Sridhar
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Jan/11 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | NE 45 2nd Floor |
During this session we'll learn about stack canaries, another mitigation technique against stack smashing. Then we'll go over the global offset table (GOT) and procedure linkage table (PLT), and how they can be used to take control of a program. We will also learn about RELRO, a mitigation technique to prevent this type of exploit.
Devin Neal, Rahul Sridhar
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Jan/12 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | NE 45 2nd Floor |
This session will cover less widely-used exploit techniques and allow you to gain more experience with the ones you already learned.
Devin Neal, Rahul Sridhar
How I Became a Professor at MIT
Lorna Gibson, Professor
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Jan/30 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
Starting with my family background, I describe my path to MIT and my life at MIT outside of the classroom.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Lorna Gibson, 8-135, 617-253-7107, ljgibson@mit.edu
Human Factors Engineering -- Designing for the Human
Dr. Ben D Sawyer, Research Scientist, AgeLab, Department of Engineering
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 24 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
In this class, you will learn the fundamentals of Human Factors, and put them to use in your own Human-Centered Design. Each team will choose a common tool or device to reimagine for a specific population. The winning team will receive publicity and write-ups at both MIT and in the popular press.
We have all seen beautiful, well-engineered products that were a pain to actually use. Successful design and engineering is far more likely when the human is considered as part of the process. Join Build an understanding of Human Performance, Physiology, and Psychology -- a body of knowledge called Human Factors. Human factors professionals are in demand from Silicon Valley to the Department of Defense to the developing world.
From day one, you and your team will actively discuss and collaborate on your redesign. Each day, learn about the fundamentals of Human Factors, with guest speakers explaining how human-centered design is used in industry and government. Workshop space for projects will be available at the International Design Center (IDC).
Dr. Ben D. Sawyer's work has been covered by Forbes, Reuters, Fast Company, and The BBC. He is the winner of The Human Factors Prize for 2017, led the first driving evaluation of Google Glass, and formerly worked with the US Air Force’s BATMAN group, evaluating and designing new technologies for airmen. For more information, visit bendsawyer.com.
So, are you up to the challenge of designing for the human? Sign up today: space is limited.
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD International Design Center
Contact: Dr. Ben D Sawyer, humanfactors@mit.edu
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Jan/16 | Tue | 03:30PM-05:00PM | IDC N52 337, bring notebook and sketching supplies |
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Jan/17 | Wed | 03:30PM-05:00PM | IDC N52 337, bring notebook and sketching supplies |
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Jan/18 | Thu | 03:30PM-05:00PM | IDC N52 337, bring notebook and sketching supplies |
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Jan/19 | Fri | 03:30PM-05:00PM | IDC N52 337, bring notebook and sketching supplies |
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Jan/22 | Mon | 03:30PM-05:00PM | IDC N52 337, bring notebook and sketching supplies |
Dr. Ben D Sawyer - Research Scientist, AgeLab, Department of Engineering
IAP Mars Settlement Workshop
Bruce Mackenzie
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Mars Settlement, a Minimum One-Way Program
Bruce Mackenzie, Mars Foundation
Jan. 29th, Monday 12 noon – 1 pm
Will show a proposal for a very small, relatively inexpensive
manufacturing base for Mars. It starts with just 2 people, and can
grow into a permanent human settlement; a draft design in progress by
the Mars Foundation.
Internships on Mars
Jan. 29th, Monday 4 pm – 5 pm
Interested in an internship on the subject of Mars, or other ways you
can help settlement of space?
This will be an informal discussion of (mostly volunteer) internships
with various non-profit space activist organizations, including the
National Space Society, Mars Society, Moon Society, and Mars
Foundation; and how they might fit your academic and career plans.
Meetings at other times can be arranged.
Overview of Hillside Mars Settlement
Feb. 1st, Thursday, 7pm – 9pm
This “Hillside Settlement” proposal by the Mars Foundation would build
a permanent settlement on Mars, constructed by 12 people from local
materials such as fiberglass and masonry. Preliminary mass and cost
estimates show that we may be able to establish a permanent, growing
settlement for the same launch cost as a program of round-trip
exploratory missions. Members of National Space Society are invited.
Raising the First Children in Space
Feb. 2nd, Friday 12 noon – 1 pm
Open discussion of the safety and ethics of raising children at an
early settlement on Mars or other frontier location.
Sponsor(s): Astropreneurship and Space Industry Club
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, 2-146, 781-249-5437, bmackenzie@alum.mit.edu
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Jan/29 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 2-146 |
Will show a proposal for a very small, relatively inexpensive
manufacturing base for Mars. It starts with just 2 people, and can
grow into a permanent human settlement; a draft design in progress by
the Mars Foundation.
Bruce Mackenzie
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Jan/29 | Mon | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 2-146 |
Interested in an internship on the subject of Mars, or other ways you
can help settlement of space?
This will be an informal discussion of (mostly volunteer) internships
with various non-profit space activist organizations, including the
National Space Society, Mars Society, Moon Society, and Mars
Foundation; and how they might fit your academic and career plans.
Meetings at other times can be arranged.
Bruce Mackenzie
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Feb/01 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 2-146 |
This ¿Hillside Settlement¿ proposal by the Mars Foundation would build
a permanent settlement on Mars, constructed by 12 people from local
materials such as fiberglass and masonry. Preliminary mass and cost
estimates show that we may be able to establish a permanent, growing
settlement for the same launch cost as a program of round-trip
exploratory missions. Members of National Space Society are invited.
Bruce Mackenzie
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Feb/02 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 2-146 |
Open discussion of the safety and ethics of raising children at an
early settlement on Mars or other frontier location.
Bruce Mackenzie
Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy
Patrick Boisvert, Technical Associate
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Jan/24 | Wed | 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): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Patrick Boisvert, 13-1018, 617-253-3317, pboisver@mit.edu
Introduction to Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG) software
Hiroumi Tani, Visiting Shcolar
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Feb/01 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | E17-517, Bring your laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 20 participants
Prereq: General background in chemistry, laptop required
Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG) is an automatic mechanism generation software developed by the Green Research Group at MIT (http://rmg.mit.edu/). The software can be used to generate chemical kinetic mechanisms for a wide range of chemical species by using inbuilt reaction networks and libraries. In the Green Group, RMG is extensively used to develop chemical kinetic mechanisms for combustion and chemical process applications.
Please send an e-mail to hiroumi@mit.edu for the sign-up by 26th Jan.
In this course, you will learn about
- How RMG works
- How to access RMG on Pharos
- Generation of methane-oxy combustion mechanism using RMG
- Generation of methane-air combustion mechanism (or any other mechanism of interest)
- Scripts in RMG (creating libraries, merging mechanisms, simple batch reactor run etc.)
- Cool tools on rmg.mit.edu
- Visualizing the mechanism
- Model comparison
- Molecule search, kinetics search and others …
- How to cite RMG
Next Steps (optional, 30 min)
- Github basics (how to update RMG, troubleshooting etc.)
- How to install RMG on your computer
Sponsor(s): Green Research Group - ChemE
Contact: Hiroumi Tani, E18-509, 857 320-5085, HIROUMI@MIT.EDU
Introduction to TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy)
Yong Zhang
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Jan/22 | Mon | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 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
Manufacturing with Living Materials
Andreas Mershin, Research Scientist
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Jan/25 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | E15-359, followed by lab tour 2pm |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: none
From microns to meters MIT CBA research scientist Andreas Mershin (www.mershin.org) and redhouse architect Christopher Maurer (www.redhousearchitecture.org) discuss the state of the art and science of biomaterials. From bricks made by microbial induced calcite precipitation, to Mycotecture (building with mushrooms) to 3D-bioprinting this course covers a wide range of engineering practices and applications of living organisms in the manufacture of new materials and devices. Followed by lab tour and material demos.
Contact: Andreas Mershin, E15-401G, 617 515-4192, MERSHIN@MIT.EDU
MathWorks: Demystifying Deep Learning - A Practical Approach in MATLAB
JM.Modisette, PhD, Technical Evangelist
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Jan/24 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 3-270 |
Enrollment: Register on MathWorks Website (below)
Limited to 119 participants
Prereq: None
Are you new to deep learning and want to learn how to use it in your work? Deep learning can achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in many humanlike tasks such as naming objects in a scene or recognizing optimal paths in an environment.
The main tasks are to assemble large data sets, create a neural network, to train, visualize, and evaluate different models, using specialized hardware - often requiring unique programming knowledge. These tasks are frequently even more challenging because of the complex theory behind them.
In this seminar, we’ll demonstrate new MATLAB features that simplify these tasks and eliminate the low-level programming. In doing so, we’ll decipher practical knowledge of the domain of deep learning. We’ll build and train neural networks that recognize handwriting, classify food in a scene, and figure out the drivable area in a city environment.
For more information and registration at:
https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit-iap-2361872.html
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: JM.Modisette, JM.Modisette@mathworks.com
MathWorks: Introduction to Simulink
JM.Modisette, Phd, Technical Evangelist
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Jan/22 | Mon | 02:30PM-06:30PM | W31-301 |
Enrollment: Register on MathWorks Website (below)
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: No Simulink experience is assumed or necessary.
This workshop is a 4-hour hands-on tutorial of Simulink, the block diagram environment integrated with MATLAB for multidomain simulation and design.
During the workshop, you will follow along with the presenter in creating a Simulink model from scratch and then building upon and improving that model throughout the session. You’ll get an introduction to many Simulink features, including:
- Modeling a dynamic system
- Logic operations
- Model hierarchy
- Masks
- Creating custom libraries
- Model referencing
- Vectorization
Learn how Simulink is used for the following applications:
- Modeling continuous systems
- Control system development
- Algorithm design and simulation
Register at: https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit-iap-2341781.html%20.html
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: JM.Modisette, JM.Modisette@mathworks.com
MathWorks: Parallel and Distributed Computing with MATLAB Seminar
JM.Modisette, Phd, Technical Evangelist
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Jan/23 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 3-270 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 119 participants
Prereq: None
Large-scale simulations and data processing tasks that support engineering and scientific activities such as mathematical modeling, algorithm development, and testing can take an unreasonably long time to complete or require a lot of computer memory. You can speed up these tasks by taking advantage of high-performance computing resources, such as multicore computers, GPUs, computer clusters, and cloud computing services.
Using the Parallel Computing capabilities in MATLAB allows you to take advantage of additional hardware resources that may be available either locally on your desktop or on clusters and clouds. By using more hardware, you can reduce the cycle time for your workflow and solve computationally and data-intensive problems faster.
We will discuss and demonstrate how to perform parallel and distributed computing in MATLAB. We will introduce you to parallel processing constructs such as parallel for-loops, distributed arrays, and message-passing functions. We will also show you how to take advantage of common trends in computer hardware, from multiprocessor machines to computer clusters.
Highlights Include:
-Built-in support for parallel computing
-Creating parallel applications
-Scaling up to computer clusters, grid environments or clouds
-Employing GPUs
-Programming with tall and distributed arrays to work with large data sets
Register at: https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit-iap-2362013.html
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: JM.Modisette, JM.Modisette@mathworks.com
MathWorks: Parallel and Distributed Computing with MATLAB Workshop
JM.Modisette, PhD, Technical Evangelist
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Jan/23 | Tue | 01:00PM-04:00PM | W31-301 |
Enrollment: Register on MathWorks Website (below)
Limited to 30 participants
Following the Parallel and Distributed Computing Seminar, this workshop will allow attendees to practice different techniques for parallel and distributed computing.
Highlights include:
- 5-minute introduction to resources at MIT
- 20-minute overview of Parallel Computing with MATLAB
- 1.5 hour hands-on, self-paced workshop
- 30-minute Q&A session of workshop
- 30-minute hands-on session of submitting job to cluster
Register at: https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit-iap-2362013.html
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: JM.Modisette, JM.Modisette@mathworks.com
MathWorks: Practical Applications of Deep Learning, A Hands-On MATLAB Workshop
JM.Modisette, PhD, Technical Evangelist, MathWorks
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Jan/24 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | W31-301 |
Enrollment: Register on MathWorks Website (below)
Limited to 30 participants
Are you new to deep learning and want to learn how to apply these techniques it in your work? Deep learning achieves human-like accuracy for many tasks considered algorithmically unsolvable with traditional machine learning. It is frequently used to develop applications such as face recognition, automated driving, and image classification.
In this hands-on workshop, you will write code and use MATLAB to:
- Learn the fundamentals of deep learning and understand terms like “layers”, “networks”, and “loss”
- Build a deep network that can classify your own handwritten digits
- Access and explore various pretrained models
- Use transfer learning to build a network that classifies different types of food
- Train deep learning networks on GPUs in the cloud
- Learn how to use GPU code generation technology to accelerate inference performance
Register at: https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/mit-iap-2361872.html
Sponsor(s): Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Contact: JM.Modisette, JM.Modisette@mathworks.com
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Air Traffic Control and Satellite Program Tour
Dr. Tom Reynolds
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Jan/19 | Fri | 12:00PM-04:00PM | Lincoln Lab;, 1-3 pm at the lab; transportation provided. |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 15 participants
Prereq: Must be a U.S. citizenship
MIT Lincoln Laboratory was established in 1951 as a Department of Defense Federally Funded Research and Development Center to develop and prototype technologies to meet national security needs. This tour will provide an overview of the history of the Laboratory, its role today and more detailed information on two of its missions areas: Air Traffic Control (ATC) and satellite development. Tours of the ATC laboratories and TESS & TROPICS satellite fabrication & testing laboratories will be conducted.
Restricted to U.S. citizens with @mit.edu email addresses. Participants must bring passport to be admitted to the tour. Participants need to sign up by January 15 by providing full legal name to Marie Stuppard, mas@mit.edu.
Shuttle bus will depart from Building 39/Vassar Street entrance at noon for arrival at Lincoln by 1:00pm. Drop off back at Building 39 by 4:00pm.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics, Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Marie Stuppard, 33-202B, 617 253-2279, MAS@MIT.EDU
MIT.nano Tool Talks: Advanced Technologies for Analysis and Metrology in Nanotech, Life Science, and Material Science Applications
Dennis Grimard, MIT.nano, Managing Director;, Michael Georgalis, TMC
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Jan/25 | Thu | 09:30AM-03:45PM | 34-401A |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/24
The MIT.nano Tool Talks are a seminar series to engage the MIT.nano community before the facility even opens, introducing the latest, transformative technologies, tools, methods, and even new sciences emerging from these advances. Join us for the January Tool Talks with experts from Ametek: EDAX, Spectro, Zygo, Cameca, and TMC — come for one seminar or stay for all!
Agenda and registration here.
Sponsor(s): MIT.nano
Contact: MIT.nano, mitnano@mit.edu
Planning to work as an Engineer? How to Make Sense of your Engineering Education
Emanuel Sachs, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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Feb/02 | Fri | 03:00PM-04:00PM | Rm 3-370 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
Happily, you will not be doing problem sets as a working engineer! Not even close. No one right answer, for starters. So, what will you be doing? How do the pieces of engineering that you have been exposed to fit together? What other pieces are needed to complete the puzzle? What is the picture formed by the completed puzzle? (Hint: math and science may not be at the center.)
Come hear the thoughts of a faculty member who has spent half his career in academia and half in industry and has been involved with eight start-ups (some in 3D Printing, some in Photovoltaics) including licensor, co-founder and CTO roles.
Just an hour long. Good chance you'll hear something worth the hours' time.
Contact: Emanuel Sachs, 35-136, 617 253-5381, SACHS@MIT.EDU
Practical Computer Science for Computational Scientists
Ravikishore Kommajosyula, Research Assistant, Baglietto CFDlab, Corbin Foucart, Research Assistant, MSEAS lab
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, and engineering. Practical knowledge of computer science is a major enabler in our everyday research, improving our efficiency. In this course, we present some tools, techniques, and unwritten guidelines in computational science. The following topics will be covered, with customized content to fit a computational research audience, using examples from scientific codes to illustrate different concepts.
1) Writing good code: Whether prototyping an algorithm or implementing production quality code, there are certain numerical and computer science considerations to produce fault tolerant code, improve code quality, and save time in the process.
2) Debugging and maintaining: A survey of the best tools and practices that can be used with little effort to debug and maintain code, and ensure high reliability using the power of modern integrated development environments.
3) Collaborating and sharing: Version control systems such as GIT allow for tracking changes to code and integrate easily into most development environments, thus providing powerful collaboration capabilities.
4) Improving code efficiency: Performance on modern processors can be achieved by leveraging different levels of parallelism. This topic is introduced from a computer architecture perspective, and guidelines for efficient code are drawn from it.
Please register at: signup.mit.edu/cce_course
Sponsor(s): Computation for Design and Optimization, Center for Computational Engineering
Contact: Ricardo Baptista, RSB@MIT.EDU
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Jan/16 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 3-370 |
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Jan/18 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 3-370 |
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Jan/23 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 3-370 |
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Jan/25 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 3-370 |
Ravikishore Kommajosyula - Research Assistant, Baglietto CFDlab, Corbin Foucart - Research Assistant, MSEAS lab
Private Pilot Ground School (16.687)
Philip Greenspun, Tina Prabha Srivastava, Matt Guthmiller
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Jan/16 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 56-114, Bring your tablet or phone and laptop. |
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Jan/17 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 56-114, Bring your tablet or phone and laptop. |
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Jan/18 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | 56-114, Bring your tablet or phone and laptop. |
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:Philip Greenspun, an FAA Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor for both airplanes and helicopters, MIT alum (Course 18; Course 6 PhD); Tina Prabha Srivastava, pilot and MIT alum (Course 16; SDM SM, ESD PhD); Matt Guthmiller, a Course 6 undergraduate who flew a 6-seat Bonanza around the world at age 19.
Prerequisites: About two evenings of reading. Download three 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 your tablet or phone to class and also a laptop, if convenient. In-class exercises will be done in pairs, so you don't need to have your own devices.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Philip Greenspun, philg@mit.edu
Rebuild
Nicholas Mehrle
Enrollment: Sign up locks in spots, Walk Ins Welcome
Sign-up by 01/08
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Fundamental Physics
In this class we think about the question: "If you were suddenly teleported back to 500BCE (or some other time sufficiently far in the past) could you rebuild society as we know it?" For many of us, the answer to this question is an unequivocal "No", as the skills we develop in and out of the classroom tend to rely heavily on modern luxuries like computers, access to parts, and the work done by pioneers in our fields (Understanding quantum spin is useless if no one has done the Stern Gerlach experiment yet).
In this class we will think about what would need to be done to rebuild cornerstones of modern civilization such as electricity, running water, and transportaiton. We will think about ways to develop these entirely from scratch, without the access to things like copper wire that we take for granted today. In doing so, we will learn both how humanity developed these technologies in the first place, and how we can use the benefit of hindsight to rebuild.
Please fill out this google form to express interest: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrzQx-0q4EPKfnLh0A2ouCUj9g3oCUVxHskoHkXKV1FpPBgw/viewform
Contact: Nicholas Mehrle, 37-624b, (614) 458-8160, NMEHRLE@MIT.EDU
Space Propulsion Crash Course
Catherine Miller
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Calculus, Differential Equations, Electricity & Magnetism
Want to learn about spacecraft propulsion but don’t have time to take 16.522? This five lecture course covers the essentials of space propulsion and will give you the tools to understand the inner workings of electric thrusters. Knowledge of single variable calculus, differential equations, and basic electricity and magnetism are strongly encouraged. Each lecture is one hour.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Catherine Miller, MILLERCE@MIT.EDU
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Jan/22 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 33-319 |
This lecture will cover the fundamentals of rocket propulsion, including the ideal rocket equation. The working principles of both chemical thrusters and electric thrusters will be presented. The performance of chemical and electrical thrusters will be compared and suitable applications for each will be discussed.
Catherine Miller
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Jan/23 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 33-319 |
Many electric thrusters use ionized gases, or plasmas, to create thrust. This lecture will cover what plasmas are, how they are made, and how they are characterized. The Child-Langmuir Law will be derived and plasma sheaths will be discussed.
Catherine Miller
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Jan/24 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 33-319 |
This lecture covers the physics behind the most mature electric propulsion technologies: gridded electrostatic ion engines and Hall effect thrusters. The working principles of VASIMR will also be discussed.
Catherine Miller
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Jan/25 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 33-319 |
The advent of CubeSats and microspacecraft has necessitated the development micropropulsion technologies. This lecture is focused on the physics of electrospray propulsion, a technology naturally suited to small scales. Colloid thrusters, ion electrospray thrusters, and liquid metal ion sources will be discussed.
Catherine Miller
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Jan/26 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 33-319 |
Many experimental methods have been developed to characterize the performance of electric thrusters. This lecture will focus on some of the most often used techniques: Langmuir probes, retarding potential analysis, and time of flight mass spectrometry. How measurements are used to compute the specific impulse, thrust, and efficiency will be discussed.
Catherine Miller
Spacecraft Surface Charging and Deep Dielectric Charging in Space Environment
Dr. Shu T. Lai
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: N/A
These lectures offer awareness of hazards in space environment. Spacecraft charging affects electronic measurements onboard and may be destructive for a spacecraft. The physical concept will help equip the students for pursuing future scientific research ideas in fields of space physics, space propulsion, plasma physics, spacecraft engineering, and material science.
The attendants may have little or no background in this area.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Dr. Shu Lai, shlaii11@mit.edu
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Jan/08 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 33-319 |
This lecture explains what, where, when, and why spacecraft charging occurs. Current balance determines the spacecraft potential. A critical temperature of the ambient electrons governs the onset of spacecraft charging. In sunlight, the photoelectrons may be trapped on the sunlit surface.
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Jan/12 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 33-319 |
High energy (MeV) electrons penetrate deeply and accumulate inside dielectrics. The accumulation builds up internal electric fields. Eventually, internal discharges may occur. They may damage the electronic instruments and cause spacecraft anomalies. Delayed anomalies are characteristics of deep dielectric charging. There are methods for mitigating spacecraft surface charging and deep dielectric charging.
Water Management for Future Climate Scenarios
Andi Sutton, Communications and Program Manager, J-WAFS
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Jan/31 | Wed | 03:30PM-05:00PM | E51-095, Light refreshments provided |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Water quality and water supply reliability are challenged by climate change in ways that affect livelihoods and ecosystems alike. In fact, climate’s influence on water can already be seen through declining groundwater recharge; increased sedimentation and water contamination; intensified droughts, as well as many other indicators. While examples of these challenges manifest at an increasing rate across the globe, demand for water rises as well. Given the short- and long-term uncertainty and regional-differences in ways climate affects water systems, what is to be done? Join the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) for a panel that features research by MIT graduate students and postdocs that addresses this challenging water management issue.
Presenters include:
Sarah Fletcher, PhD candidate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, and 2017-2018 Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellow for Water Solutions
Julian Koelbel, Postdoc, Sloan School of Management
Cristina Logg, MCP candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Cindy Noe, MPA/MBA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Sloan School of Management
Tyler Swingle, M.Arch candidate in the Department of Architecture
Panel moderated by Janelle Heslop, dual degree SM/MBA candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Sloan School of Management
Sponsor(s): Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Sec Lab
Contact: Andi Sutton, E70-1283, 617 715-4222, ARSUTTON@MIT.EDU
WRITING YOUR DISSERTATION? WRITING YOUR PROPOSAL? PLANNING AHEAD?
Elizabeth Fox, Ph.D., Lecturer, Writing and Communication Center
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Jan/25 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:30PM | E17-136 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Prereq: none
Get resources, strategies, and tips to streamline your writing process. We’ll discuss similarities between writing a dissertation (or Master’s thesis) and writing a course paper but also recognize the differences so they do not derail you. Learn about “zero drafts,” writing groups, “writing scared,” and other techniques to get you to your goal: the last draft. Avoid isolation by structuring your time to balance work, sleep, socializing, and sanity.
The workshop will occur on Thursday, January 25, 2018, from 4-5:30, in E17-136. Bring laptops.
Please sign up by contacting Elizabeth Fox, Ph.D. and Writing Center Lecturer, at emfox@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Elizabeth Fox, E18-233, 617-253-3090, emfox@mit.edu
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