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2013 EAPS Lecture Series: The Atmosphere as an Intersection with ...
Dan Cziczo
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
A series of four lectures that each focus on the atmosphere's interaction with a different component of the Earth system.
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Vicki McKenna, 54-911B, x3-3380, vsm@mit.edu
| Jan/07 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 54-915 |
Dan Cziczo
| Jan/14 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 54-915 |
Rachel Chang
| Jan/18 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 54-915 |
Alsona Wiack
| Jan/28 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 54-915 |
Gannet Hallar
DANCE and SCIENCE meets CREATIVITY
Larry Pratt, Adwoa Boakye
| Jan/07 | Mon | 02:30PM-04:30PM | McCormick Hall, Dance Studio | |
| Jan/09 | Wed | 02:30PM-04:30PM | McCormick Hall, Dance Studio | |
| Jan/11 | Fri | 02:30PM-04:30PM | McCormick Hall, Dance Studio |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
This class will merge science and creativity with improvised human motion. The aim is to use dance as a way of accessing heightened consciousness and proprioception in a way that allows for more fluent creativity. Movement improvisation as a group will be guided by ideas about energy, entropy, turbulence and other processes and properties that are commonly known but poorly understood. Participants will walk away with a deeper intuition into these entities.
The workshops will be led by Riley Watts, professional dancer with the William Forsythe Company (Germany) and fluid dynamics expert Larry Pratt of the Woods Hole Oceanographic/MIT Joint Program. Please contact Larry Pratt, by email, to register.
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Larry Pratt, lpratt@whoi.edu
Electron Microprobe Analysis on the JEOL JXA-8200 Superprobe
Nilanjan Chatterjee
| Jan/11 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 54-1221 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This session is to introduce new users to the JEOL JXA-8200 Superprobe. You will have hands-on experience (if time permits) on our electron microprobe equipped with enhanced imaging capabilities and learn about wavelength and energy dispersive spectrometry, back-scattered electron, secondary electron, cathodoluminescence, and elemental X-ray imaging. Please contact Dr. Chatterjee by submitting form at http://web.mit.edu/e-probe/www/courses.shtml#noncredit, or call: 617-253-1995/email: nchat@mit.edu,
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Nilanjan Chatterjee, 54-1216, x3-1995, nchat@mit.edu
The Physics of Energy Exploration
Johathan Kane, Shell-MIT Liaison and Visiting Scientist
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Currently, the most economically viable sources of energy are found beneath the Earth’s surface. Exploring for these resources, therefore, requires physical methods that can probe the interior of opaque objects. Given the size of the earth, along with its physical properties, the three most effective methods can be categorized as follows:
We will survey each of these three categories, examining the physical properties each is sensitive to, the scale and quality of information each provides, and the economic/physical constraints that limit their applicability. Each topic will be covered in a half-day of lectures. Students will be given a small exercise during each lecture in order to gain physical intuition into the advantages and drawbacks of each method.
Following the final lecture a “Shell IAP Challenge” will be presented to the class, where the students will be offered the opportunity to compete in a contest. Given the knowledge obtained in the couse, the goal of the contest will be for students to “think out-of-the-box”, and come with a radical new idea for probing the Earth’s crust. The idea can be a new/un-tested physical principle that could potentially be tried, or else an novel application of one of the methods listed above. Students will have the remainder of IAP to put together a proposal and report, which will then be reviewed by Shell scientists. The best idea(s) will be awarded a cash prize.
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Physics
Contact: Jonathan Kane, 617-715-5198, jonathan.kane@shell.com
| Jan/14 | Mon | 09:00AM-02:00PM | 4-159 | |
| Jan/15 | Tue | 09:00AM-02:00PM | 4-159 | |
| Jan/16 | Wed | 09:00AM-02:00PM | 4-159 | |
| Jan/17 | Thu | 09:00AM-02:00PM | 4-159 |
Johathan Kane - Shell-MIT Liaison and Visiting Scientist, Mark Rosenquist, Ed Biegert, Paul Sava
Tour of Wallace Astrophysical Observatory
Michael J Person
| Jan/18 | Fri | 06:15PM-10:45PM | Wallace Observatory, Dress Warmly |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Come tour the heavens at MIT's George R. Wallace Jr. Astrophysical Observatory located 45 minutes northwest of Boston in Westford, MA. Use various telescopes from 14" to 24" for both visual observing and electronic imaging of Jupiter, and other celestial bodies. Signup via website: http://web.mit.edu/wallace/iaptour/
Sponsor(s): Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Michael J Person, iaptour@occult.mit.edu
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