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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.

In addition to the upcoming events below, speakers for the Spring 2024 series include:

More info TBA.

Upcoming Events

May

03

VIT Distinguished Speaker

Julia Greer, Ruben and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering, Caltech

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Rm 100, Cummings Hall (Spanos)/Online

"Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials"

May

13

Special Seminar: Integrating High-Throughput Experimentation with AI to Achieve Successful Gene Therapy

Jacob Witten, Postdoc, MIT

Monday
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET

Online

Two approaches to identifying lipid nanoparticles with the potential to treat or cure deadly lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

May

17

Jones Seminar: Illuminating the Potential for Fluorescent Sensors in Oncology and Infectious Disease

Aaron Mohs, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UNMC College of Pharmacy

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium/Online

Two applications of fluorophores being investigated in the Mohs lab.

Past Events

Julianna Gesun
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

From Surviving to Thriving—Frontiers of research & applications on engineering thriving

Stewart Sherrit
Technical Staff
JPL, Caltech

Novel Applications of Piezoelectric Materials

Geoffroy Hautier
Hodgson Family Associate Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Accelerated Materials Design Using High-throughput First Principles Computations

Daniel Olson
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Engineering Microbes for Cellulosic Biofuel Production

Matthew McGarry
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Imaging the Mechanics of the Brain Using MRI

Kurt DeMaagd
Chief AI Officer & Co-founder
Sight Machine

LLMs as Knowledge Orchestrators

Whitney Harrington
Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Seattle Children's Research Institute

New Non-invasive Method to Sample Luminal T-Cells from the Female Genital Tract

Javad Shabani
Associate Professor of Physics
NYU

Microwave Quantum Circuits Using Epitaxial Al-InAs Planar Josephson Junctions

Muriel Médard
NEC Professor of Software Science & Engineering
MIT

How I Learned to Decode

Hang Yu
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Virginia Tech

Forging a Sustainable Future with Solid-State Metal Additive Manufacturing

George Pharr
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Texas A&M

Exploring the Unusual World of Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior with Nanoindentation

Tim Whitehead
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
U Colorado, Boulder

High-Throughout, Quantitative Measurements of Protein Function

Richard Katz
Professor of Geodynamics
University of Oxford

Earth Orbital Cycles Inscribed on the Ocean Floor by Faulting

Wanliang Shan
Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Syracuse University

Mechanics of Soft Active Structures for Compliant Manipulation

Weidong Zhou
Professor of Electrical Engineering
UTA

Photonic Crystal Lasers & Membranes for Smart Society & Biomedical Applications

Jeffrey Reed
Professor of ECE
Virginia Tech

What to Expect from 6G Wireless

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