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Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society features a weekly public lecture on a wide range of topics geared toward a general audience.
Upcoming Events
Cold Spray Technology from Academic Research to the Marketplace
Hamid Assadi, Professor of Metallurgy, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran
Friday, May 25, 2012, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
Past Events
Natural Capital and the Worth of Nature: Concepts and Tools for Planning and Decision-Making
Marta Ceroni, Fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont and Senior Manager of Green Compass, LLC
May 18, 2012
Chris Soderquist, Pontifex Consulting
May 11, 2012
Plasmonic Enhanced Femtosecond Laser Cell Nanosurgery
Michel Meunier, Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
May 4, 2012
Nanostructure Design for Efficient Energy Devices
Dr. Yan Yao, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
April 27, 2012
Rapid Aeromechanical Design of Marine Propellers and Wind Turbines
Brenden Epps, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 20, 2012
Mechanical Behavior of Random Fiber Networks
R.C. Picu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
April 13, 2012
Design of Microfluidic and Electronic Systems with Soft or Flexible Structures
Dr. Aaron Mazzeo, Harvard University
April 12, 2012
Microscale Sorption Technologies for Waste Heat Utilization and Carbon Capture
Dr. Matthew Determan, Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
April 9, 2012
Jian Yang, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
April 6, 2012
Radar Sounding and Imaging of Glacial and Sea Ice: Status and Future
Prasad Gogineni, University of Kansas
February 24, 2012
Small Molecules Can Tell Big Stories: Using Volatiles to Rapidly Diagnose Infectious Agents
Jane Hill, School of Engineering and COBRE: Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Vermont
February 17, 2012
Angie Laird, University of Texas
February 13, 2012
The Robotic Surface Exploration of Mars
John L. Callas, NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory
February 9, 2012
Resilience Through Compliance: Attachment of Dissimilar Materials at the Rotator Cuff
Guy Genin, Washington University in St. Louis
January 27, 2012
Building the RedShift: Startups, Design, and Breaking Markets with BRD Motorcycles
Marc Fenigstein ’01 Th’04, CEO and Co-Founder, BRD Motorcycles
January 20, 2012
David Madigan PE, LEED AP, Vice President and Principal, van Zelm Engineers
January 13, 2012
William Bittinger, President, Donella Meadows Institute
January 6, 2012
Patrick Parenteau, Professor, VT Law School
November 18, 2011
The New Face of War: Engineering Medicine for the Wounded Warrior in the 21st Century
Joseph Rosen, Professor of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Adjunct Associate Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
November 11, 2011
Head Probe for Combined Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Electroencephalography
Paolo Giacometti, Ph.D. Candidate and Research-In-Progress Winner, Thayer School of Engineering
November 4, 2011
Michael Mastanduno, Ph.D. Candidate and Research-In-Progress Winner, Thayer School of Engineering
November 4, 2011
Perspectives from a 34-year Career in Solar Power Development
Edward C. Kern Jr., President, Irradiance, Inc.
October 28, 2011
Photons to Bits and Beyond - The Science and Technology of Digital Image Sensors
Eric R. Fossum, Thayer School of Engineering
October 21, 2011
Miniaturization and Integration of Devices through Lithography
Axel Scherer, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
October 14, 2011
Harold Swartz, Dartmouth Medical School
October 7, 2011
Lessons from Nature on Engineering Molecules
Gevorg Grigoryan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College
September 30, 2011
A Radiation Biology Strategy for Long Term Human Space Exploration
Percival D. McCormack, Professor of Biophysics, Physiology and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
September 23, 2011
What is Life, and How Should We Look for it Elsewhere in the Universe?
David Grinspoon, Curator of Astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Adjunct Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science at the University of Colorado
May 27, 2011
Localization-Based Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging
Samuel Hess, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine
May 20, 2011
Auto-disable Syringes in the Developing World: A Technical Solution Addressing a Behavioral Problem
Edward Hoekstra, UNICEF
May 13, 2011
A Scientist in Politics: What I Learned from Running for Office
Jay C. Buckey, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
May 6, 2011
New Organic Donors for High Efficiency Solar Energy Harvesting
Guodan Wei, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
April 26, 2011
Shape Memory and Superelasticity: From Scientific Curiosity to Life Saving Technology
Dieter Stoeckel, Nitinol Devices and Components, Inc.
April 22, 2011
Thermal Cancer Therapy with Magnetic Nanoparticles: Opportunities and Challenges
Robert Ivkov, Johns Hopkins University
April 15, 2011
Self-assembled Carbon Nanomaterial Scaffolds for Efficient Energy Device Applications
Cary Pint, University of California, Berkeley
April 14, 2011
Nanostructured Energy Devices: Manipulating Electrons, Photons and Ions
Liangbing Hu, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
April 8, 2011
Next Generation Power Electronics Architectures
Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 5, 2011
Marina Leite, California Institute of Technology
March 30, 2011
Interfacial Electron Transport in Oxide Thin Films for Solar Energy
Rafael Jaramillo, Harvard University
March 4, 2011
Electronics: Evolution or Revolution
Ronald Lasky, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
February 25, 2011
Safety-Aware Transportation Systems: Cooperative Autonomous Driving for Vehicular Networks
Reza Olfati-Saber, Thayer School of Engineering
February 18, 2011
3D Techniques: An Advancing Technical Revolution in Design and Manufacturing Processes
Scott Mitchell, Creaform
February 11, 2011
Ice-templated Hybrid Materials
Ulrike Wegst, Assistant Professor, Drexel University
February 7, 2011
Rehabilitation of Sensorimotor Function through Human-Machine Interfaces
Cara Stepp, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Departments of CS and Engineering and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington
February 4, 2011
Mechanoadaptation of Bone in Growth, Maintenance and Disease
Sandra Shefelbine, Assistant Professor, Imperial College, London
January 24, 2011
Biochemical Engineering of Cancer Immunotherapeutics
Susan Thomas, Postdoctoral Researcher, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
January 21, 2011
Using Machine Learning to Improve Security in Adversarial Environments
Richard Lippmann, Senior Staff in the Cyber Systems and Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
January 14, 2011
Computational Behavioral Analysis
George Cybenko, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
January 7, 2011
The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge
Christopher Trimble, Tuck School of Business
November 19, 2010
From Vinyl to YouTube: Engineering the 21st Century Music Industry
Michael Casey, Professor and Chair, Department of Music, Dartmouth College
November 5, 2010
Leadership, Climate Change, and Innovation
Peter A. Darbee D'75 Tu'77, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President, PG&E Corporation
October 22, 2010
Ices and Oceans in the Outer Solar System: Considerations for Habitability
Robert Pappalardo, NASA
October 15, 2010
Technology Alone is Never Enough: What it Takes to Build a Medical Products Company
Wes Chapman, President and CEO, PCD Partners LLC
October 8, 2010
Walter Bradley, Baylor University
October 1, 2010
Robert Hargraves, Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth (ILEAD)
September 24, 2010
Novel Enzyme Therapeutics for Bacterial Biofilm Treatment
John Lamppa, Ph.D. Candidate and Research-In-Progress Winner, Thayer School of Engineering
May 28, 2010
Towards $1000 Human Genome Sequencing Using Force Spectroscopy
Alex Bijamov, Ph.D. Candidate and Research-In-Progress Winner, Thayer School of Engineering
May 28, 2010
Engineering The Next Generation of Cancer Therapeutic Enzymes and Antibodies
George Georgiou, University of Texas, Austin
May 21, 2010
Axel Scherer, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
May 14, 2010
We are the Web: The Rise of the Social Machine
Jim Hendler, Tetherless World Chair of Computer and Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
May 7, 2010
The Impact of the EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive
Ron Lasky, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
April 30, 2010
When is a Rendered Image Good Enough: Perceptually-Based Realistic Rendering
Kavita Bala, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University
April 23, 2010
Blinking Tumors – and Other New Ways to Molecularly Image and Treat Cancer
Stephen A. Boppart, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medicine, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 16, 2010
Innovation that Moves the World Forward
Steven Megli, Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group, General Manager of Assembly Test and Manufacturing, Intel Corporation
April 2, 2010
Orientation and Assembly of Anisotropic Particles by Capillary Interactions
Kathleen J. Stebe, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
March 5, 2010
Image Sensors for Digital Cameras: Shedding Light on How They Work
Eric Fossum, Consultant, Samsung Semiconductor R&D Center
February 26, 2010
Michael Caramanis, Professor of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Boston University
February 19, 2010
Sea Ice and Sunlight: Climate Change and the Arctic Sea Ice Cover
Donald Perovich, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
February 12, 2010
Waking Giants: Ice Sheets in a Warming World
Robert Bindschadler, Chief Scientist, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
February 5, 2010
Systems Engineering Analytic Models: Heterogeneous Adherence to the Healthcare Evidence Base
James Benneyan, Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering; Northeastern University
January 29, 2010
Sox and Drugs: Baseball, Steroids, and Physics
Roger G. Tobin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University
January 22, 2010
Designing to Enhance Confidence and Effectiveness
Elizabeth Gerber, Northwestern University
January 15, 2010
Some Constraints on the Evolution of Multi-cellular Organisms and Related Systems
D. B. Zoon Nguyen, DMS'89, Th'89
January 8, 2010
David Vernon, University of California
November 20, 2009
Finding and Sealing Air Leaks to Improve Building Performance
Bob Walker, Sustainable Energy Resource Group
October 30, 2009
In Situ Monitoring of Snowpacks (and Other Harsh Environments) Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont
October 23, 2009
Sustainable Biofuels: A Personal Odyssey
Lee R. Lynd, Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design, Thayer School of Engineering
October 16, 2009
Pamela Silver, Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
October 2, 2009
Polar Science in a Time of Rapid Change
Mary Albert, Thayer School of Engineering
September 25, 2009
Transportation Planning and Vehicle Emissions - Where Are We? Where Are We Going?
Lisa Aultman-Hall, Director of the UVM Transportation Research Center and Professor in the School of Engineering, University of Vermont
May 22, 2009
A Systems Approach to Aerospace, Energy and the Environment
Ron Sega, Colorado State University
May 15, 2009
The Physics and Engineering of Bacteria Motility
Kenny Breuer, Division of Engineering, Brown University
May 8, 2009
Kinetic Hydropower - Practical Energy from Moving Water
Dean Corren, Director of Marine Current Technology, Verdant Power, Inc.
May 1, 2009
Structured Colloids: Helices, Pacmen, Patches, and Self-replication
David Pine, Professor of Physics, New York University
April 24, 2009
Sabotage in the Arctic: Fate of the Submarine Nautilus of 1931
Stewart Nelson, President, Pathfinder Group
April 17, 2009
Digital Tampering and Forensics
Hany Farid, Computer Science Department, Dartmouth College
April 10, 2009
A Holistic View of Product Design for the Enlightened Engineer
Stephen Endersby, SolidWorks
April 3, 2009
Elsa Garmire, Sydney E. Junkins 1887 Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
March 6, 2009
Plasmon Assisted Control of Heterogeneous Catalysis
David Boyd, California Institute of Technology
February 27, 2009
Nanostructured Porous Materials for Low Carbon Energy Conversion
Jessika Trancik, Santa Fe Institute and Earth Institute, Columbia University
February 20, 2009
Optical Hyperdoping: Extending Silicon's Reach
Mark Winkler, Department of Physics, Harvard University
February 13, 2009
Materials Characterization: From Intermetallic Compounds to Snow and Ice
Ian Baker, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
February 6, 2009
Nanobiomaterials for Immunotherapy and Immunodiagnostics
Tarek Fahmy, Yale University
January 16, 2009
The IBM Global Technology Outlook and the Evolution of the Business/Information Technology Boundary
David McQueeney, Technology and Strategy - Chief Technology Officer, IBM
January 9, 2009
Michael Morris, University of Michigan
November 21, 2008
Keith Paulsen, Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
November 14, 2008
The Physical Chemistry of Sickle Cell Anemia
Peter G. Vekilov, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry, University of Houston, Texas
October 31, 2008
Magnetic Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging and Therapy
Jinming Gao, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, University of Texas at Dallas
October 10, 2008
An Introduction to Magnetic Resonance Imaging: MRI of the 1-D Patient
Anthony Wolbarst, University of Kentucky
October 3, 2008
Research in Medical Imaging and Image Guided Surgery at Dartmouth
Alexander Hartov, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
September 26, 2008
Sensory Intelligence: Target Tracking and On-Line Classification
Yuichi Motai, School of Engineering, University of Vermont
May 23, 2008
Automated Use of Clinical Laboratory Results in Adults
Benjamin Littenberg, MD, University of Vermont and Vermont Clinical Decision Support, LLC
May 16, 2008
Searching For Oil And Gas In The U.S.: An Independent Explorationist's View
Charles Nearburg, Nearburg Producing Company
May 2, 2008
Dynamic Routing and Motion Coordination of Vehicle Networks
Emilio Frazzoli, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 25, 2008
Towards Quantum Control of Quantum Information Systems
Lorenza Viola, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
April 18, 2008
Innovations in Over-Snow Cargo Transport to South Pole
James Lever, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
April 4, 2008
Bridging by Light, Islets in the Stream & Splash
Wendy Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
March 28, 2008
Fuel Cells—Perspective from the Electrical Terminals
Steven Shaw, Montana State University
February 29, 2008
Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy: Challenges and R&D Opportunities
Jeffrey S. Nelson, Solar Technologies Department - Energy and Infrastructure Futures Group, Sandia National Laboratories
February 22, 2008
Electronic and Ionic Neural Interfaces for Neural Prostheses
Luke Theogarajan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 15, 2008
Adventures in Engineering Outreach—From Morocco to Afghanistan
Colonel Stephen Ressler, P.E., Ph.D., U.S. Military Academy at West Point
February 8, 2008
Exploiting Circuit Nonlinearity for Biological Signal Processing
Kofi Odame, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
February 1, 2008
Dripping Jetting Drops and Wetting: The Magic of Microfluidics
David Weitz, Harvard University
January 25, 2008
Eugene Santos Jr., Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
January 18, 2008
The Use of Magnetic Resonance to Monitor Water Redistribution in Tendon Under Static Load
Christopher H. Sotak, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
January 11, 2008
Instrumentation Research at Edwards Air Force Base
Dr. Charles H. Jones, Instrumentation Research Coordinator, USAF
November 30, 2007
Energy Trends and Technologies in the Coming Decades
Dr. Steve Koonin, BP, Germany
November 15, 2007
The Renewable Energy Transition and Buildings: Great Opportunities for New Directions
Donald W. Aitken, PhD '58, Donald Aitken Associates
November 9, 2007
Hydrogen Storage in Future Zero-Emission Vehicles
Thomas Klassen, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
November 2, 2007
Thermophotovoltaics and Carbon Nanotube Based Supercapacitors
John G. Kassakian, Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems, MIT
October 26, 2007
What Will it Take?—Reaching People on the Urgency and Solvability of the Climate Crisis
Cathy Zoi, CEO, The Alliance for Climate Protection
October 19, 2007
Building a Clean Energy Future: Technology, Policy and Finance
Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google.org
October 12, 2007
Cellulosic Biofuels: A High-Beams Perspective
Lee Lynd, Professor of Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biology, Thayer School of Engineering
October 5, 2007
Closing the Carbon Loop and Burying Global Warming
Kurt Zenz House, Research Assistant in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
September 28, 2007
Climate Policy in the Face of Irreducible Uncertainty
M. Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University
September 21, 2007