IAP 2008
12.950 Parallel Programming for Multicore Machines Using OpenMP and MPI
Constantinos Evangelinos: 54-1518, x4-3386, ce107@MIT.EDU
Schedule: January 23, 25, 28, 29, 31; 2-4pm; 54-1510
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.
12.115 Field Geology
12.482 Advanced Field Geology II
12.484 Directed Field Studies
Clark Burchfiel: 54-1010, x3-7919, bcburch@mit.edu
Schedule: January
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Enter lottery by: 06-Dec-2007
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
12.120
Environmental Earth Science Field Course
Sam Bowring
Mon Jan 7 thru Tues. Jan 15, Field Trip to Western U.S.
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Enter lottery by: 01-Dec-2006
Prereq: 12.001 or 12.102 or permission of the instructor
Level: U 6 units Standard A - F Grading
Fee: 200.00 for Travel, food, lodging
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 7th ) through January 16th. Participants will fly from Boston on the morning of the 8th and return their on the 17th. A non-refundable deposit of $100 is required to hold a place. Sign-up early of you are interested! Questions? Contact Sam Bowring via email <sbowring@mit.edu> or in person [54-1126].
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
Tim Grove, Dr.Nilanjan Chatterjee
Tue Jan 8, Thu Jan 10, Tue Jan 15, Thu Jan 17, 01-05:00pm, 54-1221
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Enter lottery by: 03-Jan-2007
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
12.159/12.459
Sedimentary and Surficial Geology Investigations
Geomorphology Field
Dan Rothman, Alex Petroff
Mon Jan 7 thru Sat Jan 12, Field trip to the Florida Panhandle, Sun. 1/6 - Sat. 1/12
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Enter lottery by: 10-Dec-2007
No listeners
Prereq: 12.110 or permission of instructor
Level: U 12 units Standard A - F Grading Can be repeated for credit
Fee: 200.00 for travel expenses. Contact Ed. Office [3-3380] if a hardship
Meets with graduate subject 12.459, but assignments differ. See description under 12.459.
Join an ongoing project devoted to learning how the flow of water and sand shapes landscapes at scales of meters to tens of kilometers. Students will use modern mapping, global positioning, and subsurface imaging techniques to help discern the dynamical mechanisms via which dendritic channel networks arise from subsurface flows. We will fly from Boston to Tallahassee on January 6 and return January 12. Upon return, opportunities will exist for interested students to participate in the design and analysis of mathematical models related to the data we collect.
Contact: Dan Rothman, 54-626, x3-7861, dhr@mit.edu
12.213
Alternate Energy Sources
Nafi Toksoz
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 23, 25, 28 , 30 Feb 1; 10:00am-12:00pm, 54-915
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Listeners allowed, space permitting
Prereq: None
Level: U 6 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit
This class explores a number of alternative energy sources in the
context of worldwide energy usage, with focus on several specific topics
which vary each year. This January, the course outline will include: a
general energy summary, discussion of traditional fossil fuels, nuclear
energy, geothermal energy, and biofuels. There will also be local field
trips during the January term to visit energy-related sites. A passing
grade will be based on readings, participation in class discussions,
three short position papers, and a team project presented to the class
at the end of the term. Course materials will be covered at the Freshman level.
Additionally, there will be an
optional for-credit field trip during spring break (24-28 March 08) to sites (either in California or the Caribbean) where geothermal and wind energy are being produced on a large scale.
Contact: Nafi Toksoz, E34-440, x3-7852, toksoz@mit.edu
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 14 thru Fri Jan 18, 02-05:00pm, 56-169
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
12.221
Field Geophyiscs
Bradford Hager, Thomas Herring, StÈphane Rondenay
Mon Jan 7 thru Fri Jan 24, Jan 7-9, on campus, 10am-1200pm, 54-611 when on campus; field trip to western U.S Jan 10-17.
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Enter lottery by: 05-Dec-2007
Mandatory organizational meeting Dec 5, Room 54-611 4-5pm. Notify one of the contacts if you are unable to attend.
No listeners
Prereq: permission of instructor
Level: U 6 units Grading P/D/F
Fee: 100.00 for Travel, food, lodging
Course provides an introduction to practical methods of modern geophysics including the Global Positioning System (GPS), gravity, and seismology. Fieldwork is conducted in western US and includes intensive 7-day field exercise. 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: Bradford Hager, 54-622, x3-0126, brad@mit.edu
Thomas Herring, 54-820A, x3-5941, tah@mit.edu
StÈphane Rondenay, 54-618, x3-6299, rondenay@mit.edu
12.310
An Introduction to Weather Forecasting
Lodovica Illari
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 23, 25; 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
12.411
Astronomy Field Camp
Jim Elliot
Mon Jan 7 thru Fri Feb1, 2008, Lowell Observatory, located in Flagstaff, AZ
Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Enter lottery by: 26-Oct., 2007
Limited to 6 participants.
No listeners
Prereq: 12.410J or 8.287J
Level: U 9 units Graded P/D/F Can be repeated for credit
Fee: 200.00 for partial cost of transportation, food, and lodging
Individual research projects in observational astronomy involving supervised work at Lowell Observatory (located in Flagstaff, AZ). Written and oral reports required. Enrollment limited to 6.
Applications (due 10/26/07) may be obtained from contacts listed below. Because of the early deadline each year, please plan ahead.
Contact: Allison Cocuzzo, 3-9317, cocuzzo@mit.edu or Jim Elliot, 54-422, x3-6308, jle@mit.edu
12.091
Special Topics Course
Title: Basics of Terrestrial Impact Cratering: Environmental and geochemical
research studies of Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
Dr.P.Ila pila@mit.edu 617-253-3387
Date and Time: Jan 8, 10, 15, 17 and 22 Tues and Thurs 10 AM to Noon
Location: 54-313
rade:P/F Credits: 2 U
There are now 170 identified impact craters on the Earth, and this number is
growing, ever since the well known discovery of Meteor Crater in 1920s.
Currently, multi/inter disciplinary research studies of impact structures are
getting conducted in fields like mineralogy, petrology, environmental geology
and marine biology.
Course objectives are to understand:
- Basics of terrestrial impact cratering: General characteristics, formation,
identification
- Review of latest ongoing research on some terrestrial impact structures
- Tools of analysis: Argon dating, ICPMS, X-ray Diffraction, INAA
- Chesapeake Peak Bay Impact Crater: Current and future environmental
geochemical research studies.
This is a credit course involving five sessions, each of two hours, study
assignments and a case study report and presentation by each student at the end
of the course.
2007 EAPS Lecture Series: Extinctions and Radiations, The Rise and Fall of Life on Earth
Lindy Elkins-Tanton
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Over most of the last 3.8 billion years life on Earth consisted of algae. About 570 million years ago the single greatest radiation of life on Earth occurred, as the complexity of multicellular life rapidly increased. Since that Cambrian explosion the numbers of species of life on Earth has risen in general, but its rise has been punctuated by five major extinction events, during which numbers of species dropped suddenly, and by as many or more radiations, in which the numbers and varieties of species surged. The causes of both the extinction events and the radiations are not all understood.
Contact: Vicki McKenna, 54-910, x3-3380, vsm@mit.edu
"The K-T extinction"
Steve D'Hondt, Graduate School of Oceanography, URI
Fri Jan 7, 12-01:00pm, 54-915
"High-precision chronologies of extinctions and radiations"
Sam Bowring
Fri Jan 18, 12-01:00pm, 54-915
"A likely but improbable event: The unique consequences of oblique impacts in Earth history"
Peter Schultz Geological Sciences, Brown University
Wed Jan 23, 12-01:00pm, 54-915
"From water to land, and limbs from fins: The landmark evolutionary emergence of tetrapods "
Farish Jenkins Alexander Agassiz Prof. of Zoology in the MCZ, Harvard Univ.
Mon Jan 28, 12-01:00pm, 54-915
"The rise of multicellularity"
Andrew Knoll Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Mon Jan 29, 12-01:00pm, 54-915
"The Paleocene-Eocene crisis"
Will Clyde Earth Science, University of New Hampshire
Wed Jan 30, 12-01:00pm, 54-915
Electron Microprobe Analysis on the JEOL JXA-733 Superprobe
Nilanjan Chatterjee
Fri Jan 11, 01-03:00pm, 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
Looking for Hydrocarbons: Seismic exploration in pictures and software
Mark Willis
Mon Jan 21 thru Fri Jan 25, 01-04:00pm, 37-312
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 14-Jan-2008
Limited to 12 participants.
Single session event
Learn about the concepts of finding hydrocarbons through pictures. The class will be part lecture showing the methods and machinery for finding oil. The other part will be hands-on use of seismic processing tools.
Contact: Mark Willis, 54-512, x2-2816, mewillis@MIT.EDU
