2007 Jones Seminar Speakers
Fall 2007
Dr. Charles H. Jones, Instrumentation Research Coordinator, USAF
Instrumentation Research at Edwards Air Force Base
November 30, 2007
Dr. Steve Koonin, BP, Germany
Energy Trends and Technologies in the Coming Decades
November 15, 2007
Steve Koonin
Donald W. Aitken, PhD '58, Donald Aitken Associates
The Renewable Energy Transition and Buildings: Great Opportunities for New Directions
November 9, 2007
Thomas Klassen, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
Hydrogen Storage in Future Zero-Emission Vehicles
November 2, 2007
John G. Kassakian, Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems, MIT
Thermophotovoltaics and Carbon Nanotube Based Supercapacitors
October 26, 2007
John Kassakian
Cathy Zoi, CEO, The Alliance for Climate Protection
What Will it Take?—Reaching People on the Urgency and Solvability of the Climate Crisis
October 19, 2007
(Also part of the Abbot Technology Leaders Program)
Dan Reicher, Google.org
Building a Clean Energy Future: Technology, Policy and Finance
October 12, 2007
(Also part of the Dartmouth Energy Symposium)
Lee Lynd, Professor of Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biology, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Cellulosic Biofuels: A High-Beams Perspective
October 5, 2007
Kurt Zenz House, Research Assistant in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Closing the Carbon Loop and Burying Global Warming
September 28, 2007
M. Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University
Climate Policy in the Face of Irreducible Uncertainty
September 21, 2007
Spring 2007
Jennifer Blain Christen
A Hybrid CMOS/PDMS Microsystem for Cell Culture and Incubation
May 24, 2007
Watt W. Webb, Professor of Applied Physics, S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Illuminates the Biophysics of Life
May 18, 2007
Watt W. Webb
Robert Malkin, Duke University
Engineering World Health: Students Helping the World's Poorest Hospitals
May 11, 2007
Robert Malkin
John Boone, University of California Davis Medical Center, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Breast Ct: A Tool for Breast Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
May 4, 2007
George C. Valley, Electronics and Photonics Laboratory, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Direct Digitization of Terahertz Signals
April 27, 2007
Judith Cardell, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Picker Engineering Program/Department of Computer Science, Smith College
The Distributed Utility: A Future for Electric Power
April 20, 2007
Diana Dabby, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Music, Olin College
Two-part Invention: Creating at the Interface of Art and Science
April 13, 2007
Susan Roberts, University of Massachusetts Institute for Cellular Engineering
Plant Cell Culture Technology for Production of the Anti-Cancer Agent Paclitaxel
April 6, 2007
Peter Caravan, EPIX Pharmaceuticals
Molecular Imaging Probes for Clinical MRI
March 30, 2007
Winter 2007
Gerald Pollack, Professor of Bioengineering - University of Washington
Cells, Gels and Water: A Fresh Approach to Cell Function
March 2, 2007
Gerald Pollack
Jon McGowan, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Utility Scale Wind Energy: An Engineering Triumph
February 23, 2007
Thomas Klassen, Director, Institute of Materials Technology, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany
Cold Spraying: A Novel Technique for Constructing Functional Coatings by Impacting Particles
February 16, 2007
Chris Schaffer, Cornell University
Nonlinear Optics in Vivo: Using Light to Study and Perturb Function in the Living Brain
February 9, 2007
Jeffrey Melton, Research Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Outreach Program Coordinator, Recycled Materials Resource Center, University of New Hampshire
Recycled Materials & Sustainable Engineering in the Highway Environment
February 2, 2007
Jeffrey Melton
Corey Lofdahl, BAE Systems, Burlington, Massachusetts
Using Simulation to Understand Complex Physical and Non-physical Systems
January 26, 2007
Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Assistant Professor in Biological and Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Control of Biological Function via Interaction with Nanoparticles
January 19, 2007
Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli
Carl Wunsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Ocean and Climate Change
January 12, 2007