Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science
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The MIT School of Science is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The school is composed of 6 academic departments and grants S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. or Sc.D degrees. The current Dean of Science is Professor Marc A. Kastner. With approximately 300 faculty members, 1200 graduate students, 1000 undergraduate majors, the school is the second largest at MIT. 16 faculty members and 16 alumni of the school have won Nobel Prizes.[1]
Biology
The Department of Biology (Course VII) began as a department of natural history in 1871.
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course IX) began as the Department of Psychology in 1964.[2]
Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry (Course V) was one of the original departments when MIT opened in 1865.[3]
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
The Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Course XII) was formed from the 1983 merger of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, the former tracing its origins back to the first geology courses taught at MIT in 1865.[4]
Mathematics
Department web site Department of Mathematics (Course XVIII)
Physics
The Department of Physics (Course VIII)
Affiliated laboratories and centers
Bates Linear Accelerator
Center for Cancer Research
Center for Global Change Science
The Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded in January 1990 to address fundamental questions about climate processes with a multidisciplinary approach. In July 2006 the CGCS became an independent Center in the School of Science. The Center’s goal is to improve the ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment.
The CGCS seeks to better understand the natural mechanisms in ocean, atmosphere and land systems that together control the Earth’s climate, and to apply improved knowledge to problems of predicting climate changes. The Center utilizes theory, observations, and numerical models to investigate climate phenomena, the linkages among them, and their potential feedbacks in a changing climate.
The director of the CGCS is Professor Ron Prinn from MIT.
Center for Ultracold Atoms
The MIT–Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) is a collaborative research laboratory between MIT and Harvard University.
The core research program in the CUA consists of four collaborative experimental projects whose goals are to provide new sources of ultracold atoms and quantum gases, and new types of atom-wave devices. These projects will enable new research on topics such as quantum fluids, atom/photon optics, coherence, spectroscopy, ultracold collisions, and quantum devices. In addition, the CUA has a theoretical program centered on themes of quantum optics, many-body physics, wave physics, and atomic structure and interactions.
The Director of the CUA is Wolfgang Ketterle (a 2001 Nobel laureate in physics) from MIT.[5][6]
Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL)
Experimental Study Group
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate
Spectroscopy Laboratory
George R. Wallace, Jr. Astrophysical Observatory
References
- ^ "About MIT's School of Science". MIT. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- ^ "About BCS/History". MIT. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- ^ "MIT Chemistry: History of the Department". MIT. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- ^ "MIT EAPS: History". MIT. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- ^ Mass. Inst. of Tech., Research Lab. of Electronics, MIT–Harvard Ctr. for Ultracold Atoms. (2009). "Contact". Retrieved 2009-10-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (“Director: Ketterle, Wolfgang … MIT …; Co-Directors: Doyle … Harvard …; Kleppner … MIT …”) - ^ National Science Found., Comm. of Visitors of the Div. of Physics. (2006). Report of the Committee of Visitors to the Division of Physics (PDF) (FY 2006 ed.). PHYcov_06.pdf (“The 2001 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to the [Bose-Einstein condensates] work of … Wieman, … Cornell and … Ketterle.”)
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