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- | //[[Doing a Zoom Presentation|Presenting to the group with Zoom]]\\ not ready for prime time: [[using ppt impress etc to present|Tips for using MS Powerpoint and LibreOffice Impress in your presentation]]\\ This schedule last modified ~~LASTMOD~~// | + | ~~NOCACHE~~ |
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- | |Dec 16, 2020|**Acoustic Detection & Localization of an Active Shooter or Sniper** presented by Tony Galaitsis\\ Deranged shooters and terrorist or enemy snipers have been a concern for a long time. Technological advances over the past few decades have used gunfire acoustic information to detect and localize active shooters and snipers in order to prevent or minimize their deadly impact. This presentation reviews the general state of acoustic shooter/ | + | ====== |
- | |Dec 23, 2020|Vacation - Enjoy the holidays!| | + | |
- | |Dec 30, 2020|**Career stories** (update). People with careers during which interesting (and now unclassified) things have happened. | + | |
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- | |Jan 6, 2021|Peter Braun talk on Covid\\ (we have his OK to show to LCTG; we should invite him to this meeting)(1h //smi warehouse// but consider playing on zoom as it has transcript)|yes| | | + | |Mar 27, 2024|How the MIT museum has restructured itself |
- | |Jan 13, 2021|**Priestly and the Discovery of Oxygen** (Jerry) Joseph Priestly (1733 - 1804) is credited with the discovery of oxygen. His discovery was a part of a long term scientific effort | + | |Apr 3, 2024|<bg yellow> |
- | |Jan 20, 2021|**Quantum Biology** (GeorgeG) | + | |Apr 10, 2024|Oppenheimer |
- | |Jan 27, 2021|**Potpourri**\\ Freakonomics? | + | |Apr 17, 2024|[[https:// |
- | |Feb 3, 2021|[[https:// | + | |Apr 24, 2024|Potpourri| |
- | |Feb 10, 2021|**Polaroid**: Recently I learned about a Google talk on the history of Polaroid (Instant: | + | |May 1, 2024|Five Levels of Difficulty Day. <fc # |
- | |Feb 17, 2021|**History relating to Rubber**, what used for, how manufactured, | + | |May 8, 2024|(tentative) Arthritis. |
- | |Feb 24, 2021|(GeorgeG) **Mars landing**, Perseverance, | + | |May 15, 2024|Spacecraft Technology, |
- | |Mar 3, 2021|**Potpourri**\\ | + | |May 22, 2024|Your favorite apps and websites. Follow-up on meeting |
- | |Mar 10, 2021|Chris Barnett, theory of recycling | + | |May 29, 2024| |
- | |Mar 17, 2021|**Why is Venus so bloody hot?** The greenhouse effect. | + | |June 5, 2024| |
- | |Mar 24, 2021|I. I. Robi, a story of scientific rags-to-riches (Dan Kleppner)|yes|**Dan K** to supply summary| | + | |June 12, 2024| |
- | |Mar 31, 2021|(GeorgeG to fup) Flying Cars, technology | + | |June 19, 2024| |
- | |Apr 7, 2021|**Telephone Switching Before Computers** (Ken Pogran)|yes| | + | |June 26, 2024| |
- | |Apr 14, 2021|The Apollo Mission. Presented by Fred Martin who was involved in the program from 1960-1969 as part of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, now Draper Lab.)| pending|speaker confirmed, date to be verified\\ subject expansion pending | | + | |July 3, 2024| |
- | |Apr 21, 2021|Andrea Ghez; won Nobel Physics for black holes, Brian Green video has interview with her. JohnR has videos with Ghez (and will investigate applicability for LCTG)\\ [[https:// | + | |July 10, 2024| |
- | |Apr 28, 2021|**Potpourri**| | + | |July 17, 2024| |
- | |May 5, 2021|Space Debris: A Big Problem (Georg Kirchner?) //When the first satellites were launched some 60 years ago, space was more or less empty. However, the ever increasing launching activities since that now have created a rather crowded environment above our heads: More than 30.000 space debris objects – old / defunct satellites, upper stages of rockets, remaining parts after explosions of collisions etc. – are now orbiting in different altitudes, tracked by radar, laser and passive optical telescopes. The possibility of collisions is already rather high: Collision warning systems create already more than 1000 warnings per day (!) of close encounters between | + | |July 24, 2024| |
- | |May 12, 2021|Ivor Morgan is willing to talk about his career in Antarctica, he has photos. It started with him being assigned to a radar station in UK after WWII, then to Antarctica for 2 years. [**George Gamota**] | + | |July 31, 2024| |
- | |May 19, 2021|**Potpourri** | + | |August 7, 2024| |
- | |May 26, 2021|Lex Liby presentation on security by Bruce Schneier [[https:// | + | |August 14, 2024| |
- | |June 2, 2021|Eli Brookner would like to present to the group "Fun Family Talk on Contributions of Radar to Winning WWII" | + | |August 21, 2024| |
- | |June 9, 2021| | + | |August 28, 2024| |
- | |June 16, 2021| | + | |
- | |June 23, 2021| | + | |
- | |June 30, 2021| | + | |
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+ | |Jan 3, 2024 |We Will Have a Syncing Feeling: Using applications and files across platforms - a forum (Drew King, lead) [[2024lctgmeetingchats# | ||
+ | |Jan 10, 2024|LIDAR mapping with Dale Fried of 3DEO, hosted by Dan Kleppner [[2024lctgmeetingchats# | ||
+ | |Jan 17, 2024|Unifying Nature’s Laws: The State of String Theory.| | ||
+ | |Jan 24, 2024|Videos played:\\ [[https:// | ||
+ | |Jan 31, 2024|potpourri: | ||
+ | |Feb 7, 2024 |Space Update (George Gamota) [[2024lctgmeetingchats# | ||
+ | |Feb 14, 2024|Nifty Smartphone apps. Like Seek; Shazam; Pedometer; etc. [[2024lctgmeetingchats# | ||
+ | |Feb 21, 2024|Nifty Smartphone Apps Part 2 [[2024lctgmeetingchats# | ||
+ | |Feb 28, 2024|More neat apps for phones and computers -- and more (Adam Broun)\\ * several interesting apps from the useful to the idiotic: '' | ||
+ | |Mar 6, 2024 |potpourri\\ * [[https:// | ||
+ | |Mar 13, 2024|Sleep Deprivation (John Rudy) [[https:// | ||
+ | |Mar 20, 2024|2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine: mRNA (Harry Forsdick & Dick Wagner) {{https:// | ||
- | * Orphaned (moved from 12/9/2020)\\ Computational Photography - changing what's used as a camera. [[https:// | + | </hidden> |
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- | * Orphaned Best of Freakonomics an interview with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, moderated by Faith Salie. Recorded at the 92nd Street Y on May 2015. (Peter Albin has link to 70min video) | + | |
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