for Prospective Graduate Students Admitted to the
Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate
MIT Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

 
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Sunday March 8 to Tuesday March 10, 2009

 

Directions
to John Jeffries House  for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights
to Residence Inn
to Open House at MIT

 
OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE 
(subject to revisions before March 8)

 

 

     

  

 

 

 

 

  

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

SUNDAY, MARCH 8th
Students arrive in Boston, check in at the John Jeffries House after 2 p.m.
Meet at 6:00 in the Jeffries House lobby with hosts, current PAOC Students, to go to dinner together.

Reservation confirmation numbers for rooms will come from Carol Sprague (carols@mit.edu) in email messages before the Open House begins.

MONDAY, MARCH 9th
Students have coffee at John Jeffries House.


Morning

8:45 - 9:30 Coffee, juices and pastries served,  54-915
9:30 Welcome to the joint Open House of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program and the Program in Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate (PAOC) Paola Rizzoli
9:30 - 9:55 What is the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering – Paola Rizzoli
9:55 - 10:20

What is PAOC – Kerry Emanuel

10:20 - 10:45

Introduction of students and faculty – Logistics Ronni Schwartz

10:45 - 10:50

Introduction to morning presentations – Paola Rizzoli

10:50 - 11:30

Transdisciplinary opportunities in Biological Oceanography at MIT Penny Chisholm and Ed DeLong

11:30 - 11:40 Break
11:40 - 12:20

The Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Ronald Prinn and Jake Jacoby

12:20 - 12:30

Break

12:30 - 1:00

Environmental Research and the Earth Systems Initiative at MIT Dara Entekhabi

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch is provided in lunch boxes and students break out into Department groups:  PAOC Lunch 54-1827
2:00 - 3:00

Tour of GFD Lab with John Marshall

 

3:00 - 3:15

Break

3:15 - 5:30 Meetings with PAOC Faculty (Arranged appointments in offices)
5:30 - 7:30

Joint Program-PAOC supper for prospective students, current students, faculty

7:30

Visit clubs with current PAOC students.


TUESDAY, MARCH 10th

 

8:45 - 9:30 Coffee, juices and pastries,  54-915

9:30 - 10:00

Research presentation with Paul O'Gorman
10:00 - 10:30 Research presentation with John Marshall

10:30 - 10:45

Break  54-915
10:45 - 11:15 Research presentation with Ed Boyle
11:15- 11:45 Research presentation with Ron Prinn
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch with Grad Students 54-915 and Tour of MIT

2:00 - 3:00

Student Poster Presentation
3:00 - 5:30 Meet with PAOC Faculty (arranged appointments in offices)

5:30 - 6:00

Meet up with Faculty to head over to the Blue Room for Dinner
6:15 - 8:00 Dinner at Blue Room (Faculty and new students)
8:00 - Optional outing with Graduate Students

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11th
Students depart form John Jeffries House and head for home.

WHAT TO DO on your own around campus, Cambridge, and Boston?  Start with this web page:  http://web.mit.edu/visit/do.html


VISITOR ACCOMMODATIONS
    
For Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights, we have reserved a block of rooms at John Jeffries House, a local New England Bed and Breakfast in the historic Boston neighborhood, Beacon Hill, just across the bridge from MIT.  All rooms will be prepaid by the Department.
     Contact Carol Sprague (carols@mit.edu, 617-253-3381) to be assigned a space in a suite.  The week before the Open House, she will send visitors their room confirmation numbers.

VISITOR TRAVEL
All Prospective Students should make their own travel reservations.  For reimbursement, save all receipts for travel and food; after the Open house ends, give them to Carol Sprague.

 

 
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