IAP 2018 Activities by Sponsor - Lincoln Laboratory

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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Build A Small Radar IAP

	Jan/24	Wed	01:00PM-05:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
	Jan/29	Mon	01:00PM-05:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
	Feb/02	Fri	01:00PM-05:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop

Kenneth Kolodziej

Bob Schulein

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Free-space laser communication (lasercom) is poised to revoluntionize space-based data transmission by enabling links with vastly higher data rates and longer ranges than are practically achievable with radio-frequency systems.  MIT Lincoln Laboratory and NASA recently demonstrated a record-breaking high-data-rate lasercom link from a spacecraft orbiting the moon to ground stations on Earth with the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD).

Although we won't be sending laser beams into space, this class will provide students with hands-on experience designing and building a basic lasercom system.  The accompanying lectures will provide an overview of lasercom concepts, lasers and optical components, lasercom-relevant electronics, communication link design, and analog and digital modulation techniques.  Students will learn to apply these principles by building their own free-space lasercom systems, and will work in teams to compete for a best-project award.

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Bob Schulein, iap-lasercom@mit.edu

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Lasercom IAP 2018

	Jan/25	Thu	10:00AM-04:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
	Jan/26	Fri	10:00AM-04:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
	Jan/31	Wed	10:00AM-04:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
	Feb/01	Thu	10:00AM-04:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop

Bob Schulein

Greg Balonek

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a practical and engaging course exploring the fascinating applications of holography.  What is holography?  It is not merely art; holography encompasses a variety of measurement and recording techniques at the intersection of wave-propagated interference and diffraction.  Consequently, it enjoys utility and relevance across physics domains, from low radio frequencies through optical wavelengths, to X-ray and beyond.  This course will demystify holography by covering fundamental theory copuled with hands on laboratory sessions.  During the laboratory sessions students will create their own computer generated holograms and a traditional optical hologram to take home.

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Greg Balonek, gregory.balonek@ll.mit.edu

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Hands on Holography IAP

	Jan/10	Wed	08:30AM-12:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
	Jan/11	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
	Jan/18	Thu	08:30AM-12:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
	Jan/22	Mon	01:00PM-04:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop
	Jan/24	Wed	08:30AM-12:00PM	Beaver Works NE45, bring your laptop

Greg Balonek

Matthew Alt, Associate Staff - Cyber System Assessments Group

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Python / Bash scripting (optional)

Have you ever wondered how the components in modern automobiles communicate with one another? More importantly, have you ever considered how secure (or insecure, as we'll learn) these networks are? During this IAP course we will cover various topics in automotive cybersecurity ranging from network analysis to replay and spoofing attacks over CAN (the Controller Area Network, a commonly used vehicle bus), all utilizing open source tools and resources.

 

Day 1 - Automotive Architecture Overview

Day 2 - Lab / Hands On

 

***REQUIREMENTS***

Laptop running a recent version of a Linux-based operating system (capable of utilizing socketCAN drivers), Ubuntu 16.04 recommended

 

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Matthew Alt, Lincoln Laboratory, 781-981-4905, matthew.alt@ll.mit.edu

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Introduction to Autosec

	Jan/17	Wed	09:00AM-04:00PM	Beaver Works, Laptop Required
	Jan/19	Fri	09:00AM-04:00PM	Beaver Works, Laptop Required

MIT Beaver Works

Second Floor

300 Tech Square

Dr. Tom Reynolds

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

Dwight Hutchenson

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
Limited to 16 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Engineering Background or interest

Software radio technology is having a tremendous impact not only in consumer devices but also in the areas of rapid prototyping and research and development.  MIT Lincoln Laboratory is offering a course to introduce students to software radio fundamentals and applications.  Students will gain hands-on experience with USRP, RTL-SDR, and HackRF software radio platforms while learning theory and practice of digital signal processing and digital communications.  The course will consist of several projects, such as FM radio receivers, digital video transmission and reception, and spectrum sensing, highlighting the flexibility of software radios.

Sponsor(s): Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Dwight Hutchenson, 781-981-4495, dwight.hutchenson@ll.mit.edu

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Software Radio

	Jan/18	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	Beaver Works, bring your laptop
	Jan/23	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	Beaver Works, bring your laptop
	Jan/25	Thu	01:00PM-04:00PM	Beaver Works, bring your laptop
	Jan/30	Tue	01:00PM-04:00PM	Beaver Works, bring your laptop

Dwight Hutchenson

Daniel Sheehan, Joe Wright, Carmen Bazzano

Jan/11

Thu

09:00AM-12:00PM

4-231

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required

This workshop has two components: (1) An introduction the resources and tools available at MIT to fly drones and process photographs into geospatial formats useful in a GIS along with some examples of how drone imagery has been used at MIT. (2) A primer on the rules and regulations of small UAS flight. We will cover requirements and protocols for flight planning and piloting, and introduce software tools for flight planning.

Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/3784330

Sponsor(s): Geographic Information Systems Lab, Libraries, Lincoln Laboratory
Contact: Daniel Sheehan, dsheehan@mit.edu