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Sujood Khalid Eldouma recently relocated to the UK for her master’s studies, having previously lived in Egypt after fleeing her native Sudan to escape the devastating civil war in that country. Sujood holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Khartoum, but her ambitions extend far beyond the field she was trained in. She recently graduated from the MIT Emerging Talent certificate program in Computer and Data Science and is pursuing a MicroMasters in statistics and data science through the support of MIT Emerging Talent. In this episode, we hear how Sujood and her classmates at the university in Khartoum used MIT OpenCourseWare lecture videos as the basis of a group learning experience, in which knowledge was shared and lasting friendships were formed. We also hear how Sujood is pursuing her current online studies not just as a means of self-improvement but as part of the groundwork for a much bigger, future project: helping to rebuild Sudan’s educational and scientific infrastructure when peace comes to that country. “I'm not doing it just for myself,” she says. “I'm not doing it just for my family, but in the bigger picture and with a heart filled with hope.”

Uploaded 18-12-24

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MIT HST.508 Genomics and Computational Biology, Fall 2002
Instructor: George Church
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/hst-508-genomics-and-computational-biology-fall-2002/
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Uploaded 22-08-22

We just finished our talk of predator, prey, and host parasites impact on ecological modeling in oceans and in public health. What are the global and socioeconomic considerations? What kind of impact do these kind of models have on how we make decisions?

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An Open Conversation Hosted by Chris Capozzola

Uploaded 17-12-24

June Odongo is an innovative entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Senga Technologies, a logistics software and services company in Kenya catering to businesses that ship in Africa. In this conversation hosted by Christopher Capozzola, Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning, Odongo will share insights on learning, entrepreneurship, and the role of open education in upskilling and in changing the world.

June Odongo is the founder and CEO of Senga Technologies (https://senga.co/), a Nairobi-based startup streamlining logistics and supply chains for the formal retail sector, starting with Africa. June previously worked in some of the world's leading technology companies, including Hewlett Packard, Dell-EMC, and Cisco Meraki, in engineering and business leadership roles. June resided in the US for twenty years, before moving to her native Kenya to start Senga. June holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, magna cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and a Master in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. She is also the founder of ZOO Memorial Foundation (https://www.zoomemorialfoundation.org/), a non-profit that provides computing education to underserved Kenyan communities.



Christopher Capozzola is Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning. He oversees open education offerings including OpenCourseWare, MITx, and MicroMasters, as well as the Digital Credentials Consortium, MIT Digital Learning Lab, Digital Learning in Residential Education, and MIT Video Productions. A faculty member with more than 20 years of experience at MIT, he is committed to teaching and is a passionate advocate for open knowledge communities at MIT and around the world.

As part of his work with MIT instructors, he participates in the MITx Faculty Advisory Committee, the OCW Faculty Advisory Committee, and the Learning Management System Advisory Committee. Together with the Office of the Vice Chancellor, he convenes the MIT Festival of Learning each January, and the Teaching with Digital Technology awards each spring.

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MIT HST.508 Genomics and Computational Biology, Fall 2002
Instructor: George Church
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Uploaded 22-08-22

Welcome back to the second half, where we'll talk about multisequence alignment, for starters. This leads to the issue of finding genes, a particular type of distant sequence comparison. The ones interested in is finding motifs that are involved in finding genes. And finally, we'll end on hidden Markov model, the simplest one that I could think of that would really illustrate the idea of Markov models, probabilistic models, and the hiddenness.

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MIT 2.43 Advanced Thermodynamics, Spring 2024
Instructor: Gian Paolo Beretta

Uploaded 05-12-24

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This lecture covers: Liquid-vapor equilibria in mixtures. Raoult’s law. Dew line and bubble line. Distillation. Freezing point depression. Boiling point elevation. Non-ideal mixtures. Duhem-Margules relations. Ideal and excess Gibbs free energy and chemical potentials.

Instructor suggests to set viewing speed at 1.5 for faster learning.

Slides for this lecture: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/2-43-advanced-thermodynamics-spring-2024/resources/mit2_43_s24_lec16_pdf/

Key moments:

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:33 - Review: Liquid-Vapor Equilibria in Ideal Mixtures
00:02:30 - Raoult's Law
00:27:10 - Principles of Distillation
00:34:16 - Freezing Point Depression; Boiling Point Elevation
00:41:08 - Non-Ideal Mixtures
00:41:43 - Mixture Properties from the Partial Properties
00:43:24 - Duhem-Margules Relation; Excess Mixing Properties
00:56:31 - Simple and Complex Model Relations for Mixtures
01:12:34 - Activities and Activity Coefficients
01:15:25 - Fugacities and Fugacity Coefficients
01:17:53 - Activities for the Margules and Van Laar Models
01:18:37 - Liquid-Vapor Equilibrium with the Van Laar Model
01:22:44 - Lennard-Jones Binary Mixture
01:28:02 - Liquid-Vapor Equilibria for Non-Ideal Mixtures

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MIT 14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Fall 2020
Instructor: Prof. Robert Townsend

Uploaded 31-08-22

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An equilibrium with competitive markets implies a particular distribution of income, which some may not like. Nevertheless, there is a way to get to any Pareto Do competitive markets always function well? Existence of a competitive equilibrium is not to be taken for granted. How can computer science contribute in computation? What if participants are few in number and act strategically? What does it mean for a trade to fail and why does this happen? What is the ex ante optimal design of market structures needed to support competitive outcomes?

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MIT 2.43 Advanced Thermodynamics, Spring 2024
Instructor: Gian Paolo Beretta

Uploaded 05-12-24

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This lecture covers: Stratification in gas and liquid mixtures in gravitational, centrifugal, and electrostatic fields. Oxygen and CO2 concentration with elevation in the atmosphere. Liquid-vapor equilibria in pure substances. Metastable states and spinodal decomposition.

Instructor suggests to set viewing speed at 1.5 for faster learning.

Slides for this lecture: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/2-43-advanced-thermodynamics-spring-2024/resources/mit2_43_s24_lec15_pdf/

Key moments:

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:24 - Mixing and Separation. Stratification
00:00:51 - Review: Mixing of Ideal Gases; Entropy of Mixing
00:01:11 - Review: Adiabatic Availability of Mixing
00:01:38 - Minimum Work of Complete Mixture Separation
00:02:12 - Illustration on an Energy vs Entropy Diagram
00:05:27 - Ideal Separation Using Semipermeable Membranes
00:09:24 - Stratification of Mixtures in Gravity Field
00:19:57 - Stratification in the Atmosphere
00:27:06 - Mutual Equilibrium Between Ocean and Atmosphere
00:35:12 - Stratification of Mixtures in a Centrifuge
00:38:49 - Gas Centrifuges for Uranium Enrichment
00:43:32 - Stratification of Charges in an Electric Field
00:54:44 - Liquid-Vapor Equilibria in Pure Substances
00:55:36 - Review: Lennard-Jones Potential
00:56:02 - Lennard-Jones Pure Substance (“Lennardjonesium”)
01:07:20 - Van der Waals Non-Ideal Behavior Model
01:11:51 - Van der Waals Metastable and Unstable States
01:30:47 - Wilson Cloud Chamber and Glaser Bubble Chamber
01:34:35 - Liquid-Vapor Spinodal Decomposition

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MIT 14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Fall 2020
Instructor: Prof. Robert Townsend

Uploaded 31-08-22

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How do profit maximizing firms decide on the level of employment, and on their input/output mix more generally? The problem is broken down into its component parts: feasible production technology, and the prices of inputs and outputs. Predictions are made for individual firms’ responses to domestic price changes with implications for profits. Surprisingly, the same constructs can be used for economy-wide responses to international tariffs, with implications for household welfare.

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MIT 2.43 Advanced Thermodynamics, Spring 2024
Instructor: Gian Paolo Beretta

Uploaded 05-12-24

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This lecture covers: Thermo-osmotic and mechano-caloric effects. Interdiffusion in a binary mixture, Maxwell-Stefan and Fick diffusion coefficients. Thermophoresis: Soret and Dufour effects. Multicomponent heat, mass, and charge transport.

Instructor suggests to set viewing speed at 1.5 for faster learning.

Slides for this lecture: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/2-43-advanced-thermodynamics-spring-2024/resources/mit2_43_s24_lec25_pdf/

Key moments:

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:19 - Onsager Cross Effects and Curie Symmetry Principle
00:00:55 - Relation Between Independent Diffusive Fluxes
00:01:51 - Relative Diffusive Fluxes and Forces
00:04:43 - Cross Effects Between Vectorial Fluxes and Forces
00:12:34 - Thermoelectric Effects
00:13:06 - Second-Law Efficiency of Thermoelectric Generator
00:22:46 - Thermo-Osmosis of Pure Substances in Porous Media
00:29:39 - Interdiffusion of Two Constituents
00:38:38 - Thermodiffusion Effects. Thermophoresis
00:52:14 - Other Mechanisms for Molecular Transport in a Pore/Capillary
01:05:07 - Modeling Electrochemical Systems
01:08:47 - Nonequilibrium Beyond the Linear Regime
01:08:57 - More on Far-Nonequilibrium Models
01:17:00 - In 2024 Thermodynamics Turned 200 Years Old!
01:17:17 - Prigogine Prize for PhD Theses in Thermodynamics
01:19:03 - Thank You for Attending or Viewing These Lectures!

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MIT 14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Fall 2020
Instructor: Prof. Robert Townsend

Uploaded 31-08-22

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What exactly are smart contracts? The theory of mechanism design and the protocols for validation of decentralized ledgers are compared. Trust means different things to different people. Yet economics and computer science can come together. The tools of incentive compatibility, encryption, platforms, and programmability are explained and featured in key applications.

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