2008 Jones Seminar Speakers
Fall 2008
See Jones Seminar home page for details
Spring 2008
Yuichi Motai, School of Engineering, University of Vermont
"Sensory Intelligence: Target Tracking and On-Line Classification"
May 23, 2008
Benjamin Littenberg, MD, University of Vermont and Vermont Clinical Decision Support, LLC
"Automated Use of Clinical Laboratory Results in Adults"
May 16, 2008
Jeff Shamma, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Learning in Games and Feedback Control"
May 9, 2008
Charles Nearburg, Nearburg Producing Company
"Searching For Oil And Gas In The U.S.: An Independent Explorationist's View"
May 2, 2008
Emilio Frazzoli, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Dynamic Routing and Motion Coordination of Vehicle Networks"
April 25 , 2008
Lorenza Viola
Lorenza Viola, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
"Towards Quantum Control of Quantum Information Systems"
April 18, 2008
James Lever, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
"Innovations in Over-Snow Cargo Transport to South Pole"
April 4, 2008
Wendy Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
"Bridging by Light, Islets in the Stream & Splash"
March 28, 2008
Winter 2008
Nathan Lewis
Nathan S. Lewis, California Institute of Technology
"Global Energy Perspectives"
March 6, 2008
Steven Shaw, Montana State University
"Fuel Cells—Perspective from the Electrical Terminals"
February 29, 2008
Jeffrey S. Nelson, Solar Technologies Department - Energy and Infrastructure Futures Group, Sandia National Laboratories
"Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy: Challenges and R&D Opportunities"
February 22, 2008
Luke Theogarajan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Electronic and Ionic Neural Interfaces for Neural Prostheses"
February 15, 2008
Colonel Stephen Ressler, P.E., Ph.D., U.S. Military Academy at West Point
"Adventures in Engineering Outreach—From Morocco to Afghanistan"
February 8, 2008
Kofi Odame, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Exploiting Circuit Nonlinearity for Biological Signal Processing"
February 1, 2008
David Weitz, Harvard University
"Dripping Jetting Drops and Wetting: The Magic of Microfluidics"
January 25, 2008
Eugene Santos Jr.
Eugene Santos Jr., Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
"Engineering Human Social, Cultural, and Political Factors into Intelligent Systems—Inferring Intentions and Behaviors Behind Decision-Making"
January 18, 2008
Christopher H. Sotak; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Biomedical Engineering Department; Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"The Use of Magnetic Resonance to Monitor Water Redistribution in Tendon Under Static Load"
January 11, 2008