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Advanced Applications of Raman Microscopy and Imaging Workshop
Dr. Ken Smith, Applications Scientist at Renishaw
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Jan/19 | Fri | 08:30AM-05:00PM | 13-5002 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
The Center for Materials Science and Engineering's Analysis Shared Experimental Facility has a new Raman Microscope available to researchers. Come learn about the many ways Raman can be used.
Sponsor(s): Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Tim McClure, 13-4149, 8-6470, mtim@mit.edu
Death to Riemann! Long Live Minkowski using Quaternions!
Douglas Sweetser '84
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Jan/25 | Thu | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 3-333 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Einstein asked his great buddy and math savant Marcel Grossman for a flexible math tool for geometry. Marcel went to the library and returned the next day with his answer: Riemann geometry. It was a great answer even if arcain and has ruled the road ever since. Yet not efforts to unify gravity with the rest of physics have worked.
In this two hour jam session, we challenge Grassman's suggestion by working with a number that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, or divided and has 4 part harmony, the quaternions. Leonard Susskind's three books from The Theoretical Minimum series will be our guide. Always having four parts to every written expression no matter how simple or complex is odd but opens many new views on mathematical physics. Register today!
Sponsor(s): Alumni Association
Contact: Elena Byrne, W98-206C, 617 252-1143, EBYRNE@MIT.EDU
Electron Microprobe Analysis on the JEOL JXA-8200 Superprobe
Nilanjan Chatterjee, Principal Research Scientist
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Jan/19 | 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. It will involve hands-on instructions on the electron microprobe, and a discussion on wavelength and energy dispersive spectrometry, and imaging with back-scattered electrons, secondary electrons, x-rays (elemental mapping) and cathodoluminescence. Please fill out the form located here, or e-mail Dr. Chatterjee at nchat@mit.edu if you plan to attend.
Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Nilanjan Chatterjee, 54-1216, 617 253-1995, NCHAT@MIT.EDU
He Ion Microscopy Lab
Karl Berggren, Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Mark Mondol, Assistant Director NanoStructures Laboratory
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Jan/25 | Thu | 10:00AM-04:00PM | 24-041 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 12 participants
Learn to use the most recent innovation in charged particle imaging. You will learn to operate a Zeiss Orion He Ion Microscope (HIM) with sub-nanometer beam diameter and very localized interaction volume. Surface imaging of conductive and non-conductive samples up to 3" in diameter and 5 mm thick (note that wet, non-vacuum suitable samples are not allowed).
Fundamentals of He Ion source and imaging will be presented by a Zeiss scientist closely involved with the design and innovation of the HIM followed by instruction and use of the HIM to image samples provided by the attendee or interesting samples on hand.
To sign up for this activity, please fill in your information here.
Sponsor(s): Research Laboratory of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Rinske Wijtmans, 36-213, 617-253-0926, wijtmans@mit.edu
Night-time observing with MIT's Sidewalk Astrogazers Outreach Team
Dr. Duane Lee, MLK Postdoctoral Fellow
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Please join MIT's Sidewalk Astrogazers Outreach Team for night-time observing on January 23, 24, 25 from 7:00-9:00pm. The group will have telescopes set up in North Court (behind Stata and Koch Buildings) -- weather permitting. Talk with astronomers and observe the night sky.
Sponsor(s): Kavli Institute for Astrophysics
Contact: Debbie Meinbresse, 37-241, 617 253-1456, MEINBRES@MIT.EDU
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Jan/23 | Tue | 07:00PM-09:00PM | North Court |
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Jan/24 | Wed | 07:00PM-09:00PM | North Court |
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Jan/25 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | North Court |
Join MKI's Sidewalk Astrogazers Outreach Team for 3 evenings of night observing (weather permitting)
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
Solar Observing
Michael Person, Shuo Zhang, Postdoctoral Associate, Paul Hemphill, Postdoctoral Associate
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.
Weather permitting on the following 3 dates:
Monday, January 22
12noon-2pm
location: MIT North Court
Tuesday, January 23
12noon-2pm
location: Upper Plaza Area outside of MIT Student Center W20
Thursday, January 25
12noon-2pm
location: MIT North Court
Sponsor(s): Kavli Institute for Astrophysics , Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Wallace Astrophysical Observatory
Contact: Debbie Meinbresse, 37-241, 617 253-1456, MEINBRES@MIT.EDU
| Jan/22 | Mon | 12:00PM-02:00PM | (CANCELED) | |
| Jan/23 | Tue | 12:00PM-02:00PM | (CANCELED) | |
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Jan/25 | Thu | 12:00PM-02:00PM | North Court |
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.
Weather Permitting
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