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What Happens at the End of Inflation?, Dr. Mustafa Amin
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The 10th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 13, 2011 Dr. Mustafa Amin, 2008--2011 Pappalardo Fellow (Theoretical Astrophysics) Inflation, a period of accelerated expansion in the very early Unive...
Population Genetics in a Petri Dish, Dr. Kirill Korolev
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The 10th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 13, 2011 Dr. Kirill Korolev, 2010--2013 Pappalardo Fellow (Soft Condensed Matter Theory & Biophysics) The evolution of natural populations involves...
Technology Day 1996 — “Miracle or Mirage: Technology at the Horizon”
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MIT's Technology Day 1996, on the theme "Miracle or Mirage: Technology at the Horizon" features speakers Bran Ferren '74 ("There's No Bits like Show Bits"), David Baltimore LI '61 ("The Next Gene"), John Preston ("Mat...
Rescuing Hubble: HST Servicing After STS-61
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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of STS-61, the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics presented the symposium Rescuing Hubble, on Wednesday, November 13, 2...
Rescuing Hubble: The Public and Political Reaction to Hubble’s Problems, John Logsdon
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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of STS-61, the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics presented the symposium Rescuing Hubble, on Wednesday, November 13, 2...
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 20 — Model Train Speed Control
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Topics include: speed control of a model (Lionel Corp.) train; time division multiplex telemetry scheme; cogging; up-down counter; review of the hardware; demos with oscilloscope; switching amplifiers. Recorded: 1985.
The BICEP2 Results And What They Mean: Scott Hughes
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Alan Guth (MIT), Scott Hughes (MIT), John Kovac (Harvard), and Max Tegmark (MIT) joined in an event to discuss the results of BICEP2, and the background for understanding the results and their implications. Recorded ...
15th Killian Award Lecture (1987) — Mildred S. Dresselhaus, “Adventures in Carbon Research”
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Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus delivers the first of two talks for James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty Achievement Award, titled "Adventures in Carbon Research", on April 1, 1987. Established in 1971 as a trib...
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 19 — Architectures: GPS, SOAR, Subsumption, Society of Mind
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Recorded November 22, 2010.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 12 — Learning: Neural Nets, Back Propagation
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Recorded October 25, 2010.
