So you’ve got the basic PowerPoint presentation down pat. Are you ready to go beyond static bullet points? Interested in adding animations and transitions? Want to go behind the scenes and customize the default slide designs — or build your own? Do you crave sound and video? We’ll cover these topics (and more) in a hands-on workshop session. (When you sign up via email, please indicate any other topics you’d like to see covered.)
This course will help researchers performing large or complex statistical analyses to identify and analyze computational problems and thus improve performance, accuracy and reliability. Topics will include: fundamentals of computer arithmetic; computing architecture and performance; statistical benchmarking; principles of performance tuning; timing and profiling statistical codes; large database management; high-performance libraries; and distributed computing approaches.
The course is offered in a one-day mixed format. The morning portion of the class will be devoted to lecture and discussion. During the afternoon, the instructor will be available to offer one-on-one consulting on projects in either the planning or active stages. Please contact the instructor in advance to reserve a specific afternoon consulting time slot.
WHEN: Monday, January 28, 10 am - 1 pm & 1 - 4 pm (Individual consulting)
Please note that advance sign-up is required and participation is limited to 20 participants. We require prior familiarity with fundamentals of statistical model estimation.
Contact Micah Altman, Senior Research Scientist Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, to sign up or with any questions.
Have your ever used the Web of Science to find citations? Have you used Google Scholar? Perhaps you have used citation links in journal articles. This session will explore the different ways you can use citation searching to identify literature on a subject. The concept of citation searching has been around for over 50 years, but it has evolved with the technology. Several methods will be explored including the Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, Google Scholar, Research Index (CiteSeer), ScienceDirect, PROLA, GeoScienceWorld, and Citation Bridge (US Patents). Come and share your own citation searching methods.
Learn about how to find chemical properties and other new exciting features in SciFinder Scholar by attending this hands-on virtual lab! Go to the link below to join the session, or see more information about the training session, including its agenda.
Get an introduction to R, the open-source system for statistical computation and graphics available on Athena. With hands-on exercises, learn how to import and manage datasets, create R objects, and generate figures. Join Ernest Sergenti, Data Fellow, Harvard-MIT Data Center, for this informative session.
Are you curious about already-awarded grants in your field of study? Wondering where grant money goes and what for? Want to know what grants NASA, NSF or NIH are funding? This hands-on session will covers the primary web resources of grant funding in the sciences. Attendees will find out what information these resources cover, what data they contain, and how to navigate them. Although this session will not cover how to write a grant, knowing where the money goes will improve your research and grant writing skills.
This workshop is designed for people interested in economic and environmentally sustainable farming. Chestnut Farms is committed to humanely raising great-tasting meat while strengthening connections to the local community. Former educator and livestock farmer Kim Denney and her husband Rich Jakshtis own and operate a 106-acre farm in Hardwick, MA. They raise grass-fed cattle, pastured pigs, lamb and free-range poultry which are pre-sold to CSA members throughout MA. In this workshop, participants will learn the real scoop on creating, running and nurturing a sustainable livestock farm in the Northeast. Animal selection and care, regulatory issues, marketing for profit and perpetuity as well as the humane care and feeding of CSA members will be addressed.
Make the Libraries work where you do! Search the MIT Libraries from your Facebook or Google page. Learn how the LibX library toolbar can speed up your research. Discover resources at your own pace with web tutorials. Increase Firefox capabilities with cool tools, tips, and tricks.
Come hear about some new web tools that may help you work more efficiently. Learn to organize and share your references, and search seamlessly between library resources and other web sites.
Interested in learning a statistical analysis software package? Get an introduction to Stata, the software available on Athena and commonly used in many departments across MIT. With hands-on exercises, explore Stata’s many features and learn how to import and manage datasets and do statistical analysis. Join Nealia Khan, Statistical Consultant, Harvard-MIT Data Center, for this informative session.
CSA is an arrangement where individuals buy into the farm a the start of the growing season and in exchange receive a share of the farm’s harvest. Receive a weekly share of fresh produce either at the farm or delivered to locations in Greenfield, Springfield, Jamaica Plain, Somerville, Cambridge, or Montague. Shares are distributed each week throughout the season.
Harvest Co-op Markets is a community-owned market with two stores in the greater Boston area. Harvest specializes in organic, natural and wholesome food choices. Harvest sells organic, natural, gourmet and conventional products. Harvest supports sustainable agriculture, certified organic, fair trade, and local and small family farms in our buying practices.
Sure, most of us can hammer out a few slides in PowerPoint and call it a presentation. But some PowerPoint shows look crisp and professional, while others look like amateur hour. What are the telltale signs of a not-ready-for-prime-time presentation — and how can you fix them? In this hands-on session, we’ll haul a delinquent presentation before the bar of PowerPoint justice, enumerate its crimes, and rehabilitate it. We’ll use PowerPoint 2003. (Note: This session is not for PowerPoint beginners.)
Learn about chemical reaction searching in SciFinder Scholar by attending this hands-on virtual lab! To attend this WebEx session with CAS trainer, go to the link below for more information about the training session, including its agenda, or to join the session.
Geared for graduate students, addresses what copyright means to you as an author, how you can assess a publisher’s copyright policies, and how you can use web-based tools that assess journal quality. Open access publishing models and the use of the MIT amendment to alter standard publisher agreements will also be discussed.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Entrez family of databases is the foundation of knowledge for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization of key NCBI databases, understand the database record structure, and work with the BLAST search tool. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to, or curious about bioinformatics research tools.
WHEN: Thursday, January 10, 4 - 5 pm
Friday, January 18, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Scientists from BIOBASE will do training on these bioinformatics databases that include Proteome, TransFac, TransPath, and ExPlain, with focus on the new database ExPlain and updates on new features for all of them. The MIT Libraries subscribes to these, and you will find them on VERA. There will be a 2 hour training session plus hands-on time to work on your own research if you wish.
1001 uses of MIT TechTV in support of education, research, activities, and outreach!
MIT TechTV is MIT’s free video posting and hosting service, specializing in science, engineering, and MIT-related videos. Any member of the MIT Community can use MIT TechTV to post video content for the world to see. In this seminar, you’ll learn how you can use MIT TechTV to accomplish your goals and support your group whether its a class, lab, student organization, sport team, or department.
WHEN: Friday, January 11 am - 12 pm
Thursday, January 17, 12 - 1 pm
Wednesday, January 23, 1 - 2 pm
Tuesday, January 29, 2 - 3 pm
EndNote is a “personal bibliographic software” package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references.
Attendees will create a personal database of cited literature by importing references from resources such as Barton, Web of Science, PubMed, & other sources of published literature. Your database can be used to automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies in your manuscripts. It can also help you organize and manage your PDF files.
WHEN: Thursday, January 17, 5 - 6 pm
Wednesday, January 23, 5 - 6 pm
Wednesday, January 30, 12 - 1 pm
Are you an apartment dweller wishing for some backyard space to compost? Don’t worry, you can compost indoors and start any time of the year! In this 2-hour workshop, you will learn how to use worms to turn your garbage into “black” gold from Cambridge’s Recycling Director, Randi Mail. For the past couple years, Randi has composted food scraps in two 10-gallon plastic containers, making rich soil for her houseplants.
RefWorks is a web-based resource designed to help you to organize references and create a bibliography. RefWorks allows you to search, retrieve relevant citations, and build your bibliography. It allows users to create individual or group accounts, and makes it easy to write papers, or post your results to web pages.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 16, 4 - 5 pm
Tuesday, January 22, 4 - 5 pm
Thursday, January 31, 4 - 5 pm
So you’ve got the basic PowerPoint presentation down pat. Are you ready to go beyond static bullet points? Interested in adding animations and transitions? Want to go behind the scenes and customize the default slide designs — or build your own? Do you crave sound and video? We’ll cover these topics (and more) in a hands-on workshop session. (When you sign up via email, please indicate any other topics you’d like to see covered.)
Are you curious about already-awarded grants in your field of study? Wondering where grant money goes and what for? Want to know what grants NASA, NSF or NIH are funding? This hands-on session will covers the primary web resources of grant funding in the sciences. Attendees will find out what information these resources cover, what data they contain, and how to navigate them. Although this session will not cover how to write a grant, knowing where the money goes will improve your research and grant writing skills.
Interested in learning a statistical analysis software package? Get an introduction to Stata, the software available on Athena and commonly used in many departments across MIT. With hands-on exercises, explore Stata’s many features and learn how to import and manage datasets and do statistical analysis. Join Nealia Khan, Statistical Consultant, Harvard-MIT Data Center, for this informative session.
