ESP Biography
LOTTA BLUMBERG, ESP Teacher
Major: Not available. College/Employer: MIT Year of Graduation: 2018 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)C10801: How to build a computer in Splash 2016 (Nov. 19 - 20, 2016)
Learn about the inner workings of your computer! We'll look at bits and logic gates, and see how to perform computations using simple building blocks.
W10937: Food tongue 101 in Splash 2016 (Nov. 19 - 20, 2016)
Come learn food tongue, a language in which every word is a food, by immersion!
M8813: Stretch, Twist, Squash in Splash 2014 (Nov. 22 - 23, 2014)
Ever heard of the joke that mathematicians can't tell the difference between a donut and a coffee mug? Well, now you have. Believe it or not, a mug made of *very* elastic rubber can be bent into a donut. Draw it out and see!
Topology is the study that bends shapes into one another. In this lecture we'll look at the bending of sheetlike objects called "surfaces". We'll conjure up and scrutinize some strange surfaces. Some surfaces appear to be different but are fundamentally the same; how do we classify them?
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