Dear Physics Community,
Another quiet day, MIT-wise. I was cleaning the bathroom today thinking about the first time I heard about MIT. I remember loitering in the College of Marin Library and seeing Technology Review. The cover article was incredibly intriguing and I thought, “Main, that is where I want to go to school…
…I was not admitted either as an undergraduate or graduate student. No matter, I got here anyway. Many paths.
Physics Department Events
- Thursday, April 2, 2020, 4-5 pm – Colloquium – Prof. Alan Guth, MIT, “Inflation”
- April 1-3, Admitted Graduate Studnet Open House, details to come.
- Thursday, April 2, 2020, 12-1:30 pm – Faculty-Staff-Student lunch, “How we are doing with Remote Teaching So Far?”
- Thursday, April 9, 2020, 12-1:30 pm – Faculty-Staff-Student lunch, “Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing”, David Kaiser and Julie Shah
- Thursday, April 16, 2020, 12-1:30 pm – “Grading and Exam Guidelines for the Spring Term”, Nergis Mavalvala
- Thursday, April 23, 2020, 12-1:30 pm – Nikta Fakhri
All events are open to the entire Physics Community. The zoom link for all lunches is https://mit.zoom.us/j/514440037.
Physics Department
Remote learning starts tomorrow – I wish the best to our students, instructors, and staff who will make it all go. Please let me know of any problems you can encounter I can help with or anything you did that went well. We will have the faculty-staff-student lunch Thursday devoted to seeing how we are doing.
Zoom – Krishna and Mark Sillis have a message about zoom security here, mainly about setting to prevent outside zoom-bombing.
I looked up the word “dongle” which first heard about 10 years ago. The etymology is not surprising:
Peter
P.S. I am posting these messages in my blog roll here and I have been accumulating useful links that have gone by here. In particular, I am trying to keep a list of MIT policy communications.
Thanks to Physics Council, Cathy Modica, Vicky Metternich and Christina Andujar for input and comments on these messages.