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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Catherine A Modica <<a href="mailto:cmodica@mit.edu">cmodica@mit.edu</a>><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>info on new Special Subjects from Physics -- please circulate</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">December 1, 2015 at 11:18:19 AM EST</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The Physics Department is offering two exciting special subjects this January, one on the history and policy of nuclear weapons, the other on underwater photography (including a week in Belize!):</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>8.S30, Nuclear Weapons from Beginning to End?</b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span class=""><font size="3">Instructors: A.M. Bernstein, Physics; J. Walsh, Political Science<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p>
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<span class=""><font size="3"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: normal;">Units listed in the catalog as </span></font><span style="line-height: normal;">“</span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height: normal;">by arrangement”:
students enrolling should register for 6 units.</span></font></font></span></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">No pre-requisites; limited to 20 students; </span><span style="line-height: normal;">listeners welcome if space permits</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt;"><font size="3"><span class="">MWF 2:30 to 5 PM, </span>Jan. 4 through 29, in <span style="font-family: Calibri;">26-414</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt;"><font size="3"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;">A</span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;">n undergraduate course</span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"> focused
on nuclear weapons: the technology, the history, the role of scientists, doctrine, ethics, and public policy challenges (including Iran, North Korea, going to zero, and nuclear terrorism). Each class will be comprised of two topics, each of approximately
40 minutes of lecture and 30 minutes of class discussion with a 10 min. break. The course is interdisciplinary and employs a multi-methods approach. As a “for credit” class taught in the space of a month, students will be asked to actively engage the course
readings and related preparation, requiring roughly 4 hours per class or 12 hours per week. The grade will be based on class participation, and a paper with an oral presentation. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt;"><font size="3"><span class="">Contact: Aron Bernstein, 26-419, 253-2386, <a href="mailto:bernstein@mit.edu" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">bernstein@mit.edu</a>; </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">James
Walsh, E40- 479, 324- 3712,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><a href="mailto:j_walsh@mit.edu" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); font-family: Calibri;">j_walsh@mit.edu</a></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt;"><b><font size="3">8.S10, Underwater Conservation Photography</font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span class=""><font size="3">Instructors: A. Adams, Physics; K. Ellenbogen, MIT Visiting Artist 2015-16; co-sponsor: The Edgerton Center</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span class=""><font size="3">MTWRF 9 AM to 12 PM, 4-261 (ends Jan. 22); plus MTWRF 12 to 5 PM, 4-361 (ends Jan 29)</font></span></p>
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Description: An intensive crash-course in underwater conservation photography covering everything from underwater optics to hacking simple ROVs to building custom imaging devices to the ecology of coral reef ecosystems and the behavior of their inhabitants.
These topics will be covered in lectures, in lab work, on local field trips, and in team design and construction projects. The final week will be spent putting these skills and devices to use at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Glover’s Reef Research Station
(GRRS) off the coast of Belize. Students from the University of Belize will be invited to join by Skype in Cambridge and in person on Glover’s Reef. Video and still images from this expedition will be collected into a traveling exhibition to be exhibited at
the Bronx Zoo, the MIT Weisner Gallery, the Boston Museum of Science, SUNY/FIT, and beyond. Enrollment: Up to 24 students on-campus, 16 of whom may travel to the field station. Targeted at undergrads, open to anyone at MIT subject to availability. Scuba certification
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Hours: 8 Units (2-5-1): 7 hours daily on campus, full-time on-site at GRRS.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Application: <a href="http://turbulent.lns.mit.edu/IAP16" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">http://turbulent.lns.mit.edu/IAP16</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Applications due by Dec. 4th.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Note: All equipment & travel costs covered.<o:p></o:p></div>
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