(Safely) Observe the Sun
Zach Berta-Thompson, Torres Postdoctoral Fellow, MKI, Michael Person, Research Scientist, EAPS
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Join us for daytime stargazing! We will have solar telescopes set up so you can safely observe our closest star, the Sun. Swing on by for a quick look, and feel free to stay and chat with MIT astronomers over cups of cocoa.
This activity is being co-sponsored with EAPS.
weather permitting
A complete listing of all IAP activities being offered by MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research is available here.
Sponsor(s): Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Contact: Debbie Meinbresse, 37-241, 617 253-1456, MEINBRES@MIT.EDU
| Jan/19 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | North Court |
First of three solar observing days -- weather permitting.
Zach Berta-Thompson - Torres Postdoctoral Fellow, MKI, Michael Person - Research Scientist, EAPS
| Jan/22 | Fri | 12:00PM-02:00PM | Student Center |
Second day of solar observing -- weather permitting. Look for us on the upper plaza area outside of the Student Center.
Zach Berta-Thompson - Torres Postdoctoral Fellow, MKI, Michael Person - Research Scientist, EAPS
| Jan/27 | Wed | 12:00PM-02:00PM | North Court |
Final day of solar observing -- weather permitting.
Zach Berta-Thompson - Torres Postdoctoral Fellow, MKI, Michael Person - Research Scientist, EAPS
Displaying Data and Models on a Digital Globe.
Glenn Flierl, Professor of Oceanography
| Jan/07 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 54-1827 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 54-1827 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 54-1827 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 54-1827 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
The Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences have been hosting a two foot diameter spherical display system. If you have data or interactive models you'd like to see visualized on the sphere, come to the sessions to learn how it can be done and to figure out better ways and how to present information using the iGlobe. Or try to make a compelling environmental movie using the sphere, an auxiliary screen, and sound. Or come if you'd just like to experiment with the way things look projected on a spherical surface.
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Glenn Flierl, 54-1626, 617-253-4692, glenn@lake.mit.edu
Electron Microprobe Analysis on the JEOL JXA-8200 Superprobe
Nilanjan Chatterjee
| Jan/15 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 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.
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Nilanjan Chatterjee, 54-1216, x3-1995, nchat@mit.edu
Electronic-structure software tutorials
David Strubbe, postdoctoral associate, materials science and engineering
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: see description
In this series of 4 hands-on sessions, we will learn how to use two software packages for ab initio electronic-structure calculations in condensed-matter physics, materials science, and chemistry research. Simulations will be run on supercomputers at NERSC and local machines. Both codes are free and open-source, and adapted to massively parallel computation.
The first two sessions will use Octopus, a real-space code for density-functional theory (DFT) for ground-state properties and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) for excited-state properties. It is aimed primarily at molecules, though it is also applicable to crystals, nanostructures, or model systems.
The second two sessions will use BerkeleyGW, a plane-wave code for many-body perturbation theory, applicable to materials from bulk crystals to molecules and nanostructures such as slabs, sheets, tubes, wires, and dots. It calculates quasiparticle energies (i.e. band structure or HOMO/LUMO etc.) in the GW approximation, and the optical spectrum with the Bethe-Salpeter Equation. Output from a DFT code (e.g. Octopus, Quantum ESPRESSO, etc.) is used as input.
Contact instructor to sign up for the tutorials.
Installation of Octopus and BerkeleyGW on your laptop or a cluster may be helpful. See Course website for help on this.
Pre-requisites:
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: David Strubbe, 13-4066, 617 324-9613, DSTRUBBE@MIT.EDU
| Jan/12 | Tue | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 8-119 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 8-119 |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 8-119 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 8-119 |
Introduction to Blacksmithing
Mike Tarkanian
Enrollment: Limited to participants with no prior blacksmithing experience.
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Students will learn basic blacksmithing techniques using traditional tools to hand-forge mild steel. Drawing a taper, forming a scroll, twisting, and finishing techniques will be incorporated into simple projects.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Mike Tarkanian, 8-003, x3-5946, tarky@mit.edu
| Jan/04 | Mon | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/05 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/05 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/05 | Tue | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-006 |
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Students must choose to be a part of group 1, 2 or 3. Mandatory introductory training with demonstration will be held for all participants from 3-5 PM on the first day of each session. At this meeting, students will be assigned to the 1-3, 3-5 or 5-7 PM sections for three consecutive afternoons.
| Jan/11 | Mon | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-006 |
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Students must choose to be a part of group 1, 2 or 3. Mandatory introductory training with demonstration will be held for all participants from 3-5 PM on the first day of each session. At this meeting, students will be assigned to the 1-3, 3-5 or 5-7 PM sections for three consecutive afternoons.
| Jan/25 | Mon | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 4-006 |
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Students must choose to be a part of group 1, 2 or 3. Mandatory introductory training with demonstration will be held for all participants from 3-5 PM on the first day of each session. At this meeting, students will be assigned to the 1-3, 3-5 or 5-7 PM sections for three consecutive afternoons.
Introduction to Metal Casting
Mike Tarkanian
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Students in this class will learn the techniques necessary for investment casting metals. We’ll first make models of the items to be cast – either by sculpting wax into the desired shape, or by casting wax into a rubber mold of an existing object. We will then build ceramic shells around the models, burn out the wax, and cast molten bronze, brass or aluminum into the resulting mold. If time permits, we will also cover the basics of sand casting.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Mike Tarkanian, 8-003, x3-5946, tarky@mit.edu
| Jan/04 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/05 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/08 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Applicants should email tarky@mit.edu, and state their group preference when signing up.
| Jan/11 | Mon | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Applicants should email tarky@mit.edu, and state their group preference when signing up.
| Jan/19 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Applicants should email tarky@mit.edu, and state their group preference when signing up.
| Jan/19 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Applicants should email tarky@mit.edu, and state their group preference when signing up.
Introduction to ocean data-model analysis
Gael Forget, Research Scientist
| Jan/08 | Fri | 10:30AM-12:00PM | room 54-1623, bring your laptop |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:30AM-12:00PM | room 54-1623, bring your laptop |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 10:30AM-12:00PM | room 54-1623, bring your laptop |
| Jan/29 | Fri | 10:30AM-12:00PM | room 54-1623, bring your laptop |
Enrollment: Contact instructor before 1st meeting.
Sign-up by 01/07
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
This non-credit activity intends to inform students and postdocs of the wealth of ocean data and models that are readily available to them at MIT, including vast collections of Argo profiles, MITgcm set-ups and ECCO output. It will proceed through interactive lectures and MATLAB sessions, aiming to enable attendees to exploit available data and models for their own research.
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Gael Forget, 54-1422, 617 452-2977, GFORGET@MIT.EDU
Introduction to Welding
Michael Tarkanian
Enrollment: ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
This Class is Full
This course will cover the basics of welding metals with various techniques: oxyacetylene torches, stick welding (SMAW), MIG (GMAW) and TIG (GTAW) will be explored. The first four instructional sessions will review the procedures and techniques, safety concerns and equipment, and capabilities of each welding methods. Students can then use the final session as time to practice welding or to weld a small project under the supervision of the instructor.
Sponsor(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Mike Tarkanian, 8-003, x3-5946, tarky@mit.edu
| Jan/04 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/08 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
(Note that there are 2 classes on Weds, 1 each on Monday/Friday ¿ you must attend all 4)
Applicants should email tarky@mit.edu, and state their group preference when signing up.
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
| Jan/11 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 10:00AM-12:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
(Note that there are 2 classes on Weds, 1 each on Monday/Friday ¿ you must attend all 4)
Applicants should email tarky@mit.edu, and state their group preference when signing up.
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
| Jan/19 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 4-006 |
Applicants should email tarky@mit.edu, and state their group preference when signing up.
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
| Jan/19 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 4-006 |
Applicants should email tarky@mit.edu, and state their group preference when signing up.
ENROLLMENT CLOSED: CLASS FULL
Learning Science through Cooking
Dario Marrocchelli, researcher
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none
Enrollment is closed. Class is at capacity with extensive waitlist.
Cooking is one of the most fascinating (and rewarding!) application of science and engineering. Indeed, few people realize that even the easiest recipe (scrambled eggs) requires a working knowledge of important scientific principles spanning the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science and many more. The goal of this course is to show this connection between cooking and science.
This course is designed to be a fun, hands-on experience in which students learn basic scientific principles by performing simple experiments with food. The first four lectures will cover ice cream making, chocolate tasting, naked eggs, rock candies and other fun activities. At the end of each lecture, I will provide a connection between the lecture subject and some of the cutting-edge research happening at MIT. A private tour of nearby Taza Chocolate factory will conclude the course.
This course requires absolutely no prior knowledge. The only requisite for this course is a passion for food, cooking and science.
Registration for course will be first-come, first serve. Based on last year experience, this class tends to fill up rapidly. Please register as soon as possible by emailing the instructor.
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration
Contact: Dario Marrocchelli, (ENROLLMENT IS CLOSED- no more requests please), dmarrocc@mit.edu
| Jan/11 | Mon | 06:00PM-07:30PM | W20-308 coffeehouse |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 06:00PM-07:30PM | W20-308 coffeehouse |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 06:00PM-07:00PM | Taza Factory, arrive by 5:45PM |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 05:30PM-06:30PM | W20-308 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 06:00PM-07:30PM | W20-308 |
The session on the 14th will be located at the Taza Chooclate factory. Closed toed shoes are required. Jewelry & perfume are not permitted. There is no outside food or drink allowed. Come prepared to try a wide variety of stone ground chocolate!
Location for tour is 561 Windsor St. between Inman Square and Union Square in Somerville.
Quaternion Gravity: Theory and Experiment
Douglas Sweetser '84
| Jan/21 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 54-100 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
A new proposal for explaining gravity will be detailed (the URLs below). A prediction we will try to confirm is that measuring the Poynting vector (ExB) in the Green building should be the same in 54-100 as near the top.
http://bit.ly/qg_sketch
http://bit.ly/vp-qg
http://bit.ly/vp-qg_talk
http://bit.ly/qg_paper
http://quaternions.com
Doug Sweetser '84
Course 7 and Course 10
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
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