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Wed, Jun 10, 2020
Summer Thesis Research Table
The Thesis Research Table is a weekly Zoom gathering for students beginning large, independent research projects (including but not limited to honors theses). The Table is a time to build a network of support from peers and instructional staff from the Writing Center and Library, to build skills useful for sustaining remote research projects, and to share strategies for balancing productivity and wellness in an uncertain time. Each week will focus on an aspect of the research and writing process, with topics announced through the Daily Mammoth. Drop in or attend regularly.
Hosted by Blake Doherty (Frost Library) and Jessica Kem (Writing Center)
Students Only
Tue, Jun 16, 2020
Mapping Geographic Data with ArcGIS
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a powerful tool to discover spatial relationships and illuminate your research with intuitive maps:
• Illustrate historic sites and extract features from old maps
• Spatially correlate census, economic, and other data
• Display geologic formations and delineate watersheds
• Track human, animal, and plant populations
• Map locations from a GPS receiver
You will learn about:
• Constructing and Sharing Maps (including with Google Earth)
• Mapping Named Data (including census data and street addresses)
• Mapping Coordinate Data (including using a GPS receiver)
• Mapping Image Data (including scanned maps and satellite data)
• Extracting Map Features
ArcGIS can be (but does not need to be) installed on faculty, staff, and student Windows computers or on Macs running Windows under Parallels (note link to the Student Edition) or a similar virtual machine (16 GB of total RAM is highly recommended!). Download ArcGIS 10.7.1 from the Amherst Software Collection.
This course will take place online via Zoom.
Please register in advance: https://forms.gle/CVaMQczWavzK52zG6
Registration Required
Wed, Jun 17, 2020
Mapping Geographic Data with ArcGIS
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a powerful tool to discover spatial relationships and illuminate your research with intuitive maps:
• Illustrate historic sites and extract features from old maps
• Spatially correlate census, economic, and other data
• Display geologic formations and delineate watersheds
• Track human, animal, and plant populations
• Map locations from a GPS receiver
You will learn about:
• Constructing and Sharing Maps (including with Google Earth)
• Mapping Named Data (including census data and street addresses)
• Mapping Coordinate Data (including using a GPS receiver)
• Mapping Image Data (including scanned maps and satellite data)
• Extracting Map Features
ArcGIS can be (but does not need to be) installed on faculty, staff, and student Windows computers or on Macs running Windows under Parallels (note link to the Student Edition) or a similar virtual machine (16 GB of total RAM is highly recommended!). Download ArcGIS 10.7.1 from the Amherst Software Collection.
This course will take place online via Zoom.
Please register in advance: https://forms.gle/CVaMQczWavzK52zG6
Registration Required
Summer Thesis Research Table
The Thesis Research Table is a weekly Zoom gathering for students beginning large, independent research projects (including but not limited to honors theses). The Table is a time to build a network of support from peers and instructional staff from the Writing Center and Library, to build skills useful for sustaining remote research projects, and to share strategies for balancing productivity and wellness in an uncertain time. Each week will focus on an aspect of the research and writing process, with topics announced through the Daily Mammoth. Drop in or attend regularly.
Hosted by Blake Doherty (Frost Library) and Jessica Kem (Writing Center)
Students Only
Thu, Jun 18, 2020
Mapping Geographic Data with ArcGIS
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a powerful tool to discover spatial relationships and illuminate your research with intuitive maps:
• Illustrate historic sites and extract features from old maps
• Spatially correlate census, economic, and other data
• Display geologic formations and delineate watersheds
• Track human, animal, and plant populations
• Map locations from a GPS receiver
You will learn about:
• Constructing and Sharing Maps (including with Google Earth)
• Mapping Named Data (including census data and street addresses)
• Mapping Coordinate Data (including using a GPS receiver)
• Mapping Image Data (including scanned maps and satellite data)
• Extracting Map Features
ArcGIS can be (but does not need to be) installed on faculty, staff, and student Windows computers or on Macs running Windows under Parallels (note link to the Student Edition) or a similar virtual machine (16 GB of total RAM is highly recommended!). Download ArcGIS 10.7.1 from the Amherst Software Collection.
This course will take place online via Zoom.
Please register in advance: https://forms.gle/CVaMQczWavzK52zG6
Registration Required
Mon, Jun 22, 2020
Fulbright Webinar for Applicants--Sub-Saharan Africa
The Fulbright Program offers grants for research, study or assistant teaching to college graduates in over 140 countries outside the U.S. This webinar focuses on the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa--opportunities, available grants, how to apply, and more. To register: https://bit.ly/2N5uwHV
Tue, Jun 23, 2020
Fulbright Applicant Webinar for South and Central Asia (U.S. Citizens)
The Fulbright student program offers grants for research, study or assistant teaching for college graduates in over 140 countries outside the U.S. This webinar focuses on the countries in the South and Central Asia -- opportunities in specific countries, what to expect, how to apply, and more. Register: https://bit.ly/3fRG2D3
Scientific Programming with Python
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online with Zoom
Python is a freely distributable, high-level programming language that has become very popular for everything from scripting applications and web-page generation to solving scientific problems. It shares many basic characteristics with languages like Mathematica, Matlab, and Labview, and has an extensive set of numerical and scientific modules. In this class we will use Python to build instructions describing scientific problems, and solve them using the College computing cluster.
This workshop is in three parts:
Tuesday – Thursday, June 23 – 25, 1 PM – 5 PM
Please register in advance: https://forms.gle/CVaMQczWavzK52zG6
Registration Required
Wed, Jun 24, 2020
Fulbright Webinar for Applicants - Middle East and Northern Africa
The Fulbright program offers grants for research, study or assistant teaching for college graduates in over 140 countries outside the U.S. This webinar focuses on the countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa -- opportunities in specific countries, what to expect, how to apply, and more. Register: https://bit.ly/2Y7oVH8
Scientific Programming with Python
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online with Zoom
Python is a freely distributable, high-level programming language that has become very popular for everything from scripting applications and web-page generation to solving scientific problems. It shares many basic characteristics with languages like Mathematica, Matlab, and Labview, and has an extensive set of numerical and scientific modules. In this class we will use Python to build instructions describing scientific problems, and solve them using the College computing cluster.
This workshop is in three parts:
Tuesday – Thursday, June 23 – 25, 1 PM – 5 PM
Please register in advance: https://forms.gle/CVaMQczWavzK52zG6
Registration Required
Summer Thesis Research Table
The Thesis Research Table is a weekly Zoom gathering for students beginning large, independent research projects (including but not limited to honors theses). The Table is a time to build a network of support from peers and instructional staff from the Writing Center and Library, to build skills useful for sustaining remote research projects, and to share strategies for balancing productivity and wellness in an uncertain time. Each week will focus on an aspect of the research and writing process, with topics announced through the Daily Mammoth. Drop in or attend regularly.
Hosted by Blake Doherty (Frost Library) and Jessica Kem (Writing Center)
Students Only
Thu, Jun 25, 2020
Scientific Programming with Python
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online with Zoom
Python is a freely distributable, high-level programming language that has become very popular for everything from scripting applications and web-page generation to solving scientific problems. It shares many basic characteristics with languages like Mathematica, Matlab, and Labview, and has an extensive set of numerical and scientific modules. In this class we will use Python to build instructions describing scientific problems, and solve them using the College computing cluster.
This workshop is in three parts:
Tuesday – Thursday, June 23 – 25, 1 PM – 5 PM
Please register in advance: https://forms.gle/CVaMQczWavzK52zG6
Registration Required
Fulbright Applicant Webinar for East Asia and the Pacific (U.S. Citizens)
The Fulbright student program offers grants for research, study or assistant teaching for college graduates in over 140 countries outside the U.S. This webinar focuses on the countries in East Asia and the Pacific-- opportunities in specific countries, what to expect, how to apply, and more. Register: https://bit.ly/3ekjGcV
Internships and Fellowships with the U.S. Department of State: Planning Ahead and Getting Ahead
The U.S. Department of State represents U.S. interests around the world. The Department’s employees, with their skills, character, and commitment to public service, are the backbone of America’s diplomacy. To introduce students to the world of U.S. diplomacy, the Department offers numerous student internships and fellowship programs. Diplomat in Residence for the Northwest Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, along with Diplomat in Residence for New England Phil Beekman and Diplomat in Residence for the North Central Lou Fintor, will talk with students at the 39 schools within the Liberal Arts Career Network about the internship and fellowship programs, with an eye toward preparing students for the applications, which are due in September. Pre-register at http://tinyurl.com/y93t3sg8 and the Zoom meeting information will be emailed to you.
Students Only
Registration Required
Fri, Jun 26, 2020
Fulbright Applicant Webinar for Europe and Eurasia (U.S. Citizens)
The Fulbright student program offers grants for research, study or assistant teaching for college graduates in over 140 countries outside the U.S. This webinar focuses on the countries in Europe and Eurasia-- opportunities in specific countries, what to expect, how to apply, and more. Register: https://bit.ly/319QRft
Mon, Jun 29, 2020
Graduate Study in the UK Webinar - University of Warwick
Want to do graduate study in the UK? Join this webinar on the University of Warwick, Monday, June 29. Fellowships like the Marshall and Fulbright programs support study at numerous UK universities. This webinar is part of a series to be held throughout June and July on many of them. Get the inside scoop on their academic programs and what it’s like to be there as a grad student. Brief tour, short lecture, alumni panel, and Q&A at the end. Register: https://bit.ly/37ReACn
Tue, Jun 30, 2020
Debugging and Version Control for Programming
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
Want your computer code to be perfect? Start by realizing that you will make mistakes when writing it! In this class you’ll learn how to discover and fix your errors. We will cover basic principles of debugging applicable to any programming language, though examples will use the Python language and its standard debugger pdb. Sometimes you’ll also want to try out new ideas without ruining the code that’s already working. We will therefore learn the basics of using the Git version control system, which makes it easy to fall back to an earlier version of your code if necessary. Git is also an important tool for collaborating with others, so that you can safely experiment with fixing errors in their code and taking it in new directions.
Please register in advance: https://forms.gle/CVaMQczWavzK52zG6
Registration Required
Fulbright Applicant Webinar for the Western Hemisphere (U.S. Citizens)
The Fulbright student program offers grants for research, study or assistant teaching for college graduates outside the U.S. This webinar focuses on the countries in Central and South America and Canada-- opportunities in specific countries, what to expect, how to apply, and more. Register: https://bit.ly/37WXV0c