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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: Holly B Sweet
<hbsweet@MIT.EDU></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:33:00
-0500</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: Corrected copy for ug seminars
for Spring 2012</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Spring 2012 Undergraduate Seminars
sponsored by ESG. All seminars are 6 pass/fail units and open to
all MIT and Wellesley students</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>These seminars are designed to be
highly interactive, hands-on, and based on material not typically
found in standard MIT classes. For more information about each
seminar, contact the instructors.</i></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>ES.010 Chemistry of Sports:
Understanding How Exercise Affects Your Body
Chemistry</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Instructors: Dr. Patti Christie (<a
href="mailto:patti@mit.edu">patti@mit.edu</a>) & Steve
Lyons</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Time: Wednesdays 3-5 p.m. plus additional
workout sessions TBA</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Location: 24-619</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>This seminar is an exciting way for
students to study and apply chemistry knowledge to the improvement of
their biological systems. We will be focusing on three sports
(swimming, cycling and running), with a slight emphasis on running.
There will be both a classroom and laboratory component to the
seminar. The classroom component will introduce the students to the
chemistry of their own biological systems. We will look at nutrition
(to understand how to fuel and rebuild your body), anatomy and
physiology (to better build your system), and how the body can be
improved (or hurt) through physical activities. We will examine the
chemistry of sports equipment including swimming (wetsuit and swimsuit
manufacture), bicycling (including a field trip to a bicycle shop),
and running (how running shoes are manufactured). We will also look at
ways your body deals with exercise through building up and repair of
muscles, improvement in lung and cardiovascular capacity, the
chemistry of supplements and their effectiveness, and how we can use
this knowledge to improve our physical fitness. The two
components to the laboratory portion of the class are the running
study and training for and completing a triathlon. The students can
earn up to 2 PE points during the term if they attend the supervised
Triathlon training workouts. The students can also earn some PE points
by completing the Mooseman Triathlon in NH in early June. Upon
completion of the running study, participants will own a new pair of
Newton running shoes and a heart rate monitor. This seminar is open to
all MIT students.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Dr. Patti Christie is Department Head
of Chemistry and Biology at ESG. She has been teaching at ESG since
1995 (full-time since 1999) and is the designer of the Kitchen
Chemistry seminar. Patti is the course coordinator for both 5.111 and
5.112 and is very familiar with the Chemistry GIRs. She also helps run
the MIT Masters swimming program at the Z center pool. Patti graduated
from the MIT chemistry department with a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry
in 1996. She worked in a cardiovascular laboratory in the Biology
Department from 1996 to 2005, where she helped develop and study a
mouse with a predisposition for heart attacks.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Steve Lyons has been involved in the
sport of triathlon for 18 years. He is a former member of the US
National Team and a veteran of 13Ironman races including the world
championships in Kona, Hawaii. After helping out with the seminar last
spring, he placed second in his age division in the Olympic Distance
Los Angles triathlon, September, 2007. He is a successful lawyer in
civil and criminal litigation and a partner in the Boston firm of KSL
& G Assigned Readings.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>ES.S10 Fiber Seminar</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Instructor: Debra Slocum (<a
href="mailto:dslocum@mac.com">dslocum@mac.com</a>)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Time: Thursdays 3-5</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Location: 24-618</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Ever wondered how your clothes were made
or what they are made of? New England is full of cities
and towns where textiles where the major product for many years, where
in fact, advances in textile machinery became the driving engine for
the transition from an agricultural economy to and industrial
economy. We will look at fibers, where they come from, how they
are processed, and why different fibers are used for certain
processes. We will also look at the history of fiber
processing. Then we will actually take raw fibers and process
them into yarn and either weave or knit them into something fun and
useful.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Debra Slocum received the MS in
Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1989. Her background is in
robotics and control systems and she is currently the head coach for a
FIRST robotics team in Concord, NH. However, she has been
spinning, knitting, crocheting and working with fibers for over 30
years.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>ES.S11 Chemistry Related to
You</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Instructors: Prof. John Essigmann (<a
href="mailto:jessig@mit.edu">jessig@mit.edu</a>), Dr. Patti Christie (<a
href="mailto:patti@mit.edu">patti@mit.edu</a>) & George
Zaidan</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Time: Tuesdays 3-5</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Location: 24-619</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Every student at MIT takes a GIR class in
chemistry, usually during their first year. We would like to
make this chemistry class as relevant as possible to first-year
students. This seminar will introduce the participant to the
methodology of educational research and the processes used in course
design; the project has the potential to become a paid summer project
for interested students. The goals of the seminar
are:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· Determine which
concepts in 5.111/5.112 are the hardest to understand.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· Do literature
and internet searches on those topics to see how they are taught
elsewhere.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· Work with the
team to produce innovative educational modules for each of the
concepts identified above.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· Design, write
and produce a concise report on how to make those concepts better
taught at MIT.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite>· Write problem
sets that make the concepts relevant to your potential major here at
MIT.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>John Essigmann is an MIT professor of
Chemistry, Biological Engineering and Toxicology. His work
involves using custom designed building blocks of DNA as probes to
help understand how genetic change happens. The practical
aspects of his work deal with blocking the initiation of cancer, and
putting pathogenic viruses into a state of fast-forward evolution,
leading to their extinction in the host.</i></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> <b>ES.S20 Polymathy: The World in
10 Curves</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Instructor: Visiting Lecturer
Charles Fadel (<a
href="mailto:charlesfadel@gmail.com">charlesfadel@gmail.com</a>),
MIT alumna Nadezhda Belova (<a
href="mailto:nadezhda@alum.mit.edu">nadezhda@alum.mit.edu</a>)</blockquote
>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Time: Wednesdays 7-9 p.m.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Location: 24-619</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Feed your inner DaVinci by exploring the
range of human disciplines from philosophy to physics, from
anthropology to zoology. By focusing on ten curves (from hyperbolic to
sigmoid to cusp etc), you will explore how phenomena represented by
the curves can be found in all walks of life and disciplines-not
only scientific and technical fields, but in the social science and
humanities as well (e.g. philosophy, history, law, art, music, etc).
By the end of the course, you will have gained a keener understanding
of the *concepts* behind the curves. You will construct your knowledge
through exploration and synthesis. In doing so, you will co-create an
innovative example of how to teach polymathy, practice project-based
learning (very little lecturing) and skills such as collaboration, and
design the course materials, video and book/e-book for the next
generation.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Charles Fadel is a visiting scholar at
Harvard, MIT, and Wharton/U. Penn; senior fellow, human capital at The
Conference Board; co-author of a best-selling book<u> 21st Century
Skills</u>; and an angel investor. He was formerly Global Education
Lead at Cisco Systems. He holds a BSEE and an MBA and has been
awarded five patents.</i></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>ES.S41 Speak ItalianŠwith your mouth
full</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Instructor: Dr. Paola Rebusco (<a
href="mailto:pao@mit.edu">pao@mit.edu</a>)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Time: Thursdays 7-9 p.m.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Location: 24-619</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The participants to this seminar will
dive in the Mediterranean diet while learning basic conversational
Italian. For the past 50 years scientists have studied the benefits of
the Mediterranean diet, but a good diet is not based on recipes only,
it is also rooted in healthy habits and in culture. On the other hand
it is well known that language immersion courses are more effective
and lasting than traditional language courses. Each class is based on
the preparation of a delicious dish and on the bite-sized acquisition
of parts of the Italian language and culture. At the end of the
seminar the participants will be able to cook some healthy and tasty
recipes in their dorm and to understand and speak basic
Italian<i>.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i> </i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Paola Rebusco is a native Italian, who
among other things worked as a cook on a sailing boat. She earned her
master in theoretical physics at the University of Trieste (Italy) and
received her Ph.D. in Astronomy from the Ludwig Maximillian University
(Munich, Germany). She came to MIT as a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow
and is now teaching Physics at ESG. Paola is also interested in how
specialized knowledge is made publicly accessible. She is member of
the European Southern Observatory Outreach Network and is a
commentator upon scientific news for the Italian radio program
Moebius.</i></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>ES.S60 The Art and Science of
Happiness</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Instructor: Dr. Holly Sweet (<a
href="mailto:hbsweet@mit.edu">hbsweet@mit.edu</a>)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Time: Mondays 3-5 p.m.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Location: 24-619</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>In the seminar we will look at current
theories on happiness and positive psychology as well as practical
implications of those theories for our own lives. We will explore the
concept of happiness, different cultural definitions of happiness, and
the connection between happiness, optimism, and meaning. Time will be
spent on sources of unhappiness particularly applicable to
undergraduates (such as academic failure and social rejection) and how
to help turn those crises into opportunities for growth. Weekly class
discussions will be supplemented with speakers, movie clips, in-class
exercises, and student presentations on a topic of their choosing.
Readings will include excerpts from<i> The Art of Happiness, Stumbling
into Happiness</i>,<i> The Geography of Bliss</i>, and<i> Learned
Optimism.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Holly Sweet is Associate Director of
ESG and a licensed psychologist in private practice in the Brookline
MA area. She has taught experiential seminars at MIT for the
past 30 years, winning the MIT Sizer award in 1997 for a seminar she
team-taught with Dr. Lee Perlman on sex roles and relationships.
She is the editor of<u> Gender in the Therapy Hour</u> and a co-author
of<u> A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life</u> (based on a seminar
she taught at MIT with ESG colleague Graham Ramsay). She tries to keep
her happiness quotient high by staying connected to friends and
family, as well as skiing, hiking, and biking whenever she
can</i>.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>ES.S61 Introduction to
Trading</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Instructors: Kanjun Qiu (<a
href="mailto:kanjun@mit.edu">kanjun@mit.edu</a>), Di Wu, Ted Hilk &
Thiago Vieria</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Time: Mondays 7-9 p.m.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Location: 4-145</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Faculty supervisor: Professor Alex
Slocum</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>The goal of this seminar is to teach
students trading fundamentals and strategies not commonly taught in
business or finance classes. Our class will help prepare students for
future full-time jobs and internships. At the end of the term,
students will be able to understand the basics of trading and
exchanges, discuss markets fluently, generate models using Excel, and,
most importantly, are able to create their own trading
strategies.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Kanjun Qiu '12 (Course 6) is
primarily interested in high-frequency trading. She has worked on
strategy development with electronic trading groups at various firms
including J.P. Morgan, Gelber Group, and Allston Trading. Kanjun has
been president of Traders@MIT for the past two years, and is also
involved in the Sloan Trading Room Taskforce.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Di Wu '12 (Courses 15 & 18),
class has experience working in many different types of firms,
including a hedge fund, a bank, and a proprietary trading firm. He has
worked with and traded a variety of asset classes, with specific
focuses on cash equity arbitrage, equity options, and fixed income
products. After graduation, he will be working at IMC Financial
Markets in electronic options market-making.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Ted Hilk '13 (Courses 6 and 18)
interned in algorithmic trading at Tower Research Capital last summer
and worked as a research analyst at Weiss Asset Management throughout
sophomore year. In addition to Traders@MIT, Ted is involved in
various other trading- and non-trading-related student groups and
conducts independent research in quantitative
finance.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Thiago Vieira '13 (Courses 6 and 8)
is interested in foreign currency exchange and emerging
markets. Previously, he has worked as a research assistant to
Economist Professor Autor studying rent control in Cambridge,
and a renewable energy market analyst for Altran
Management. </i></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>ES.S70: More than a Website: Creating
Your Own Dynamic Brand on the Interweb</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Instructor: Graham Ramsay (<a
href="mailto:ramsay@mit.edu">ramsay@mit.edu</a>)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Time: Tuesdays 7-9 p.m.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Location: 24-618</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>How can each of us use technology to our
advantage when looking to apply to graduate school, get the ideal job,
internship, or consulting gig? How can we use the web most effectively
to promote that great idea for a startup, help get the capital we
need, or promote our products and services? This seminar addresses the
many facets of presenting oneself and one's ideas to the greatest
effect using a wide variety of tools currently available to create an
effective, targeted web presence. Through guided in-class discussion,
case study, and hands-on exercises this class will explore how to make
a dynamic multi-faceted website that presents your best face to the
world.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Graham Gordon Ramsay works as both
professional photographer and musician in the greater Boston area, and
is a part-time administrator for the MIT Experimental Study Group.
As photographer, his work has appeared in national and international
publications including the Atlantic Monthly, Time Magazine, and Figaro
Magazine (France). As a musician, he is a regularly commissioned
composer whose works are performed regularly in the US and abroad.
His CD "The Sacred Voice," a compilation of many of his choral
works, was released by Albany Records in 2011. He has been
teaching classes as instructor photography since 1990 at the MIT
Student Art Association, and has developed and taught numerous
seminars through the Experimental Study Group since 2003. Based
on one such seminar, he co-authored the book<u> A Creative Guide to
Exploring Your Life</u> with Dr. Holly Sweet.</i></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>ES.S71 Making a Difference:
Humanitarian Success</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Instructor: Sally Susnowitz (<a
href="mailto:susnowitz@mit.edu">susnowitz@mit.edu</a>)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Time: Thursdays 3-5 p.m.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Location: 24-619</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>What makes humanitarian initiatives work?
We'll examine some successes in order to understand the challenges
and opportunities that shape them. Students will also develop
humanitarian projects of their own. Students can decide on specific
topics (such as global health initiatives), and guest speakers will
add their perspectives and experiences to the class discussions.
Students will work in teams to develop and refine project ideas.
We'll also do short presentations, write plans and proposals, and
conduct some interviews to learn about MIT resources and faculty and
staff experiences. Readings will include excerpts from<u> A Chance to
Make History</u>,<u> Mountains Beyond Mountains</u>,<u> Three Cups of
Tea,</u> and articles from relevant publications.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><i>Sally Susnowitz is Director of the MIT
Public Service Center and an Assistant Dean in Student Life. As
a lifelong volunteer and educator, she has gained interesting
perspectives on public service enterprises, and she has also
co-founded a few, including the IDEAS Global Challenge.</i><br>
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