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Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society

Jones Seminars invites engineering, science, and technology leaders from across the nation to present and facilitate conversation on cutting edge research or scientific issues of our day.

This endowed speaker series was launched in the 1970s through the generosity of Charles C. Jones '18 Th'19, who sought to facilitate conversation and learning for the curious-minded. All Dartmouth faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the general public are welcome to attend the seminars, typically held on Friday afternoons. PhD students are required to attend weekly, as well as meet before or after each event to discuss its topic in more detail.

If you would like to receive email reminders about the weekly Jones Seminars, please email jones.seminar@dartmouth.edu with your email address.

Upcoming Events

Sep

Special Seminar: Perspectives on AI Risk or "How I learned to stop worrying and love AI"

William Regli, Professor of Computer Science, U Maryland at College Park

Thursday
12:00pm - 1:15pm ET

Spanos Auditorium/Online

A summary of personal views developed during a decade away from academia in various forms of public service.

Sep

Jones Seminar: How Do Neural Networks Learn Features from Data?

Adit Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium/Online

A unifying mechanism that characterizes feature learning across neural network architectures.

Oct

Jones Seminar: Quantum Computing with Sound

Andrew Cleland, Professor of Molecular Engineering, U Chicago

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium/Online

Advances pointing to the possibility of a phonon-based quantum computer, in which phonons allow inexpensive scaling to a large quantum computer.

Oct

Jones Seminar: Modern Developments in Error Correction

Ken Duffy, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern U.

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium/Online

An introduction to Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND), a class of error correction decoders suitable for any moderate redundancy code.

Past Events

Prabjit Singh
Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM Poughkeepsie

Jugaad Engineering

Mads Rønne Almassalkhi
L. Richard Fisher Associate Professor
University of Vermont

Scalable Grid Architectures for Intelligent Electrification & Decarbonization

Roberto Andresen Eguiluz
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Merced

Sticky Science—Unlocking biomolecular secrets with SFA slip'n'slide

Roger Easton Jr.
Professor of Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology

Modern Imaging Technologies and the Forthcoming New 'Golden Age' in Cultural Heritage Studies

Sarah Swisher
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
U Minnesota

Photonic Processing of Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors for Flexible Thin-Film Transistors

Grant Ruan
Postdoc
MIT LIDS

Role of Grid Edge Control in Electrification and Flexibility Markets

Kim Samkoe
Associate Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Fluorescence Molecular Imaging for Improving Clinical Experience and Patient Outcomes in Oncology

Will Scheideler
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Scalable Nanomanufacturing for Flexible Electronics and Energy Devices

Hélène Seroussi
Associate Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Ice Sheet Evolution—Combining observations and models to improve future projections

Colin Meyer
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Glacier Sliding Controlled by Subglacial Water Flow

Ahmed Alahmed
Postdoctoral Fellow & Assistant Professor
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Distributed Energy Resources Under Net Energy Metering—Optimal decisions and adoption dynamics

Petr Brůža
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Transforming the Future of Cancer Care with Optical Imaging

Junghun Cho
Assist Professor of Biomedical Engineering
SUNY Buffalo

Quantitative Mapping of Brain Oxygen Metabolism Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Wen Chen
Assoc Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
UMass Amherst

Additive Manufacturing of Emerging Complex Alloys

Britney Schmidt
Professor of Astronomy and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell

Robots Under Antarctica, and One Day, in Space

Luke Zoet
Chair of Geoscience
U Wisconsin-Madison

Experimental Insights into Glacier Slip

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