IAP 2010
12.093
Energy: Science, Technology, and Sustainable Development
David Patrick Murphy; Industry Consultant, Richard A. Sears, Shell International; Rob van der Hilst, MIT
Mon Jan 25 thru Fri Jan 29, 02-05:00pm, TBD
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Level: U 3 units Graded P/D/F
Today’s energy infrastructure delivers an enormous amount of energy to consumers around the world. The challenges of modern energy production are explored in this 3 credit pass-fail IAP offering. The course will introduce today’s energy systems and the science and technology necessary to meet current demand. Oil and natural gas provide approximately two-thirds of primary energy today, and will continue to be major sources of energy for several decades. Given this reliance on hydrocarbons, participants in this course will work in teams, with facilitator guidance, to design and present plans for the development of a multi-billion dollar natural gas project that has the potential to supply energy for over three million households. The course will look at how technology, economics, society and sustainability must be balanced to deliver energy efficiently and in a manner that all stakeholders would regard as responsible. Science and technology topics will include state of the art geoscience and engineering.
Contact: Rob van der Hilst, 54-522, x3-6977, hilst@mit.edu
12.097
Understand and run your own climate model
Paul O'Gorman
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 11, 13, 15, 20, 22, 25, 27, 29, 10:00am-12:00pm, 54-1615
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Limited to 8 participants.
No listeners
Prereq: GIR:PHY1, GIR:CAL1
Level: U 6 units Graded P/D/F
Overview of the fundamentals of simulating the Earth's climate. Basic background on the processes maintaining the climate is provided. Students run simple climate models (radiative-convective equilibrium and energy balance models) in Matlab and analyze output from the comprehensive climate models used in global-warming assessments. The components of a modern general circulation model will be discussed.
Contact: Paul O'Gorman, 54-1616, 452-3382, pog@mit.edu
12.099
Astronomical Spectroscopy
Amanda Bosh
Tue-Thu, Jan 5-7 and 19-21, 10:30am-12:00pm, TBD
2-3 nights observing during the week of Jan 11-15.
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Limited to 6 participants.
Listeners allowed if space permitting
Prereq: familiarity with data analysis software such as iraf, IDL, Mathematica, or matlab
Level: U 3 units Graded P/D/F
Explore spectroscopy of stars, planets, nebulae, and more. We will cover principles of astronomical spectroscopy, data acquisition and analysis, and interpretation of spectra for spectral type, composition, or velocity. Students will use the 16-inch telescope at Wallace Astrophysical Observatory with a spectrograph to obtain data. This course is intended to extend 12.410J/8.287J, but is not limited to those who have previously taken it.
Contact: Amanda Bosh, 54-420, 3-4115, asbosh@mit.edu
12.120
Environmental Earth Science Field Course
Sam Bowring
Mon Jan 4 thru Tues. Jan 12, Field Trip to Western U.S.
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Enter lottery by: 01-Dec-2009
Prereq: 12.001 or 12.102 or permission of the instructor
Level: U 6 units Standard A - F Grading
Fee: for travel, food, lodging; not to exceed $300-contact Sam Bowing for details
Sam Bowring and Tim Grove lead students to the western United States where they examine, in the field, a variety of topics that involve a better understanding of natural hazards and human influence on the environment. The class will specifically deal with the issues of water use and availability in the west, climate change, earthquakes and faulting, landslides, volcanic hazards and geothermal power, effects of river diversion, and the geology of the Yucca Mountain facility for the storage of radioactive waste. The trip is designed to follow 12.102 Environmental Earth Science but we will accept other students as well, on a first come -first serve basis. On many nights we will camp in beautiful places, including Death Valley, while other nights we will enjoy the comforts of the White Mountain Research station in Bishop California as well as unglamorous motels. The weather can vary from very hot and sunny to cold and snow!!
The dates are the from first day of IAP (January 4th ) through January 12th. Participants will fly from Boston on the morning of the 4th and return on the 12th. Sign-up early if you are interested! Contact Sam Bowring via email <sbowring@mit.edu> or in person [54-1126] about the fee or to register.
If you are curious as to what we do and learn on the trip, please check out the EAPS field trip page
12.141
Electron Microprobe Analysis
Nilanjan Chatterjee
Tue Jan 19, Wed Jan 20, Tue Jan 26, Wed Jan 27, 01-05:00pm, 54-1221
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Enter lottery by: 12-Jan-2010
Limited to 8 participants.
No listeners
Prereq: —
Level: U 6 units Graded P/D/F
Introduction to the theory of x-ray microanalysis through the electron microprobe including ZAF matrix corrections. Techniques to be discussed are wavelength and energy dispersive spectrometry, scanning backscattered electron, secondary electron, cathodoluminescence, and x-ray imaging. Lab sessions involve use of the electron microprobe.
Offered for undergraduate credit, but persons interested in an in-depth discussion of quantitative x-ray analysis are invited to participate. Students will be required to complete lab exercises to obtain credit. Find required reading at URL.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/e-probe/www/iap.html
Contact: Dr. Nilanjan Chatterjee, 54-1216, x3-1995, e-probe-www@mit.edu
12.091
Basics of Earth's Heat Production: elemental analysis by geoneutrinos
Ila Pillalamarri
Tue Jan 5, Thu Jan 7, Tue Jan 12, Thu Jan 14, Tue Jan 19, 10am-12:00pm, 54-322
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Listeners allowed, space permitting
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Level: U 2 units Graded P/D/F
What are the predominant heat producing elements of the Earth? Where and how much are they? Are they present in the core of the Earth?
Geo-neutrino detection can provide information on the sources of the terrestrial heat flow, direct testing of the Bulk Silicate Earth (BSE) model and a check for non-conventional models of Earth?s core.
Use of geo-neutrinos to probe the deep interior of our planet is becoming practical due to recent fundamental advances in the antineutrino detectors.
Contact: Ila Pillalamarri, NW13-263, x3-3387, pila@mit.edu
12.221
Field Geophyiscs
Dale Morgan
Scheule to be determied
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Enter lottery by: 05-Dec-2007
No listeners
Prereq: permission of instructor
Level: U 6 units Grading P/D/F
Fee: 100.00 for Travel, food, lodging
Focus is on measurement techniques and their interpretation. Subjects discussed include an introduction to the science of gravity, GPS and field seismology. In field trip we will measure crustal structure, fault motions, tectonic deformations, and the local gravity field. Students perform high-precision measurements and participate in data analysis. Emphasis is placed on the principles of geophysical data collection and the relevance of these data for tectonic faulting, crustal structure, and the dynamics of the earthquake cycle
Contacts: Dale Morgan, 54-1824, x3-7857, morgan@erl.mit.edu
12.310
An Introduction to Weather Forecasting
Lodovica Illari
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 11, 13, 15, 20, 22, 25, 27, 29; 01:30-03:00pm, 54-915
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Limited to 50 participants.
Listeners allowed, space permitting
Prereq: 8.01, 18.01
Level: U 6 units Graded P/D/F
Basic principles of synoptic meteorology and weather forecasting. Analysis of hourly weather data and numerical weather prediction models. Regular preparation of weather forecasts.
Guest lecture by local TV meteorologist.
Web: http://www-paoc.mit.edu/synoptic/courses/12.310/12310.htm
Contact: Lodovica Illari, 54-1612, x3-2286, illari@mit.edu
12.115 Field Geology
12.482 Advanced Field Geology II
12.484 Directed Field Studies
Clark Burchfiel: 54-1010, x3-7919, bcburch@mit.edu
Oliver Jagoutz
Schedule: January
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Limited to 20 participants.
No listeners
A suite of classes at varying levels. During the classes students will conduct a geological and geomorphological study of a selected area in the wesern United States. The following term includes: preparation of maps and report based on field study conducted in January; and laboratory analysis of samples.
Fee: $200.00 for Travel
12.950 Parallel Programming for Multicore Machines Using OpenMP and MPI
Constantinos Evangelinos: 54-1518,324-3386, ce107@MIT.EDU
Schedule: January 25-29; 1-3pm; TBD
Pre-register on WebSIS or attend first class.
Prereq: Good programming skills in C/C++ or Fortran
Limited to 30 participants.
Level: H 2 units Standard A - F Grading Can be repeated for credit
Listeners allowed, space permitting
You just got a brand new quad core machine but don't know how to actually use
it to solve your research problems in less time? Then it might be time to
consider using MPI and/or OpenMP to recode your applications in parallel.
OpenMP is a standard API for shared memory parallel programming that allows
for incremental parallelization of your codes while providing the constructs
necessary for performance tuning; it has demonstrated scaling on up to 8
processor cores and is well suited for parallel execution on multicore chips.
While basic OpenMP is a small set of compiler directives, there are quite a
few details one needs to pay attention to when using it to achieve both
program correctness and good performance. We will go over OpenMP
parallelization, starting with the basic principles of shared memory
programming and moving on to basic and intermediate OpenMP use demonstrated
with model scientific codes.
MPI, the Message Passing Interface is a highly successful, universal API
standard for distributed memory parallel programming. Used in applications
scaling to thousands of processors, MPI may appear daunting. This course will
cover basic principles of message passing, move on to MPI environment
functions and blocking and non-blocking point-to-point communications,
continue on to topics of collective communications, and elaborating on
derived datatypes, process topologies, and groups, contexts and
communicators.
Hybrid MPI-OpenMP codes will be discussed on the last day.
The course will involve "homework" of evolving parallel codes. The class will
use the Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud as well as virtual machines using
the Eclipse PTP IDE for developing and debugging parallel codes.
Electron Microprobe Analysis on the JEOL-JXA-8200 Superprobe
Nilanjan Chatterjee
Fri Jan 21, 3-5:00pm, 54-1221
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
In this session you will have hands-on experience on our JEOL-733 electron microprobe with enhanced imaging capabilities. You'll learn about wavelength and energy dispersive spectrometry, backscattered electron, secondary electron, cathodoluminescence, and elemental x-ray imaging.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/e-probe/www/iap.html
Contact: Nilanjan Chatterjee, 54-1216, x3-1995, nchat@mit.edu
