2009 Jones Seminar Speakers
Fall 2009
See the Jones Seminar home page for details.
Spring 2009
Lisa Aultman-Hall, Director of the UVM Transportation Research Center and Professor in the School of Engineering, University of Vermont
"Transportation Planning and Vehicle Emissions - Where Are We? Where Are We Going?"
May 22, 2009
Ron Sega, Colorado State University
"A Systems Approach to Aerospace, Energy and the Environment"
May 15, 2009
Kenny Breuer, Division of Engineering, Brown University
"The Physics and Engineering of Bacteria Motility"
May 8, 2009
Dean Corren, Director of Marine Current Technology, Verdant Power, Inc.
"Kinetic Hydropower - Practical Energy from Moving Water"
May 1, 2009
David Pine, Professor of Physics, New York University
"Structured Colloids: Helices, Pacmen, Patches, and Self-replication"
April 24, 2009
Stewart Nelson, President, Pathfinder Group
"Sabotage in the Arctic: Fate of the Submarine Nautilus of 1931"
April 17, 2009
Hany Farid, Computer Science Department, Dartmouth College
"Digital Tampering and Forensics"
April 10, 2009
Stephen Endersby, SolidWorks
"A Holistic View of Product Design for the Enlightened Engineer"
April 3, 2009
Winter 2009
Elsa Garmire, Thayer School of Engineering
"Technical Aspects of International Communications and Information Policy or How I Spent my Sabbatical"
March 6, 2009
David Boyd, California Institute of Technology
"Plasmon Assisted Control of Heterogeneous Catalysis"
February 27, 2009
Jessika Trancik, Santa Fe Institute and Earth Institute, Columbia University
"Nanostructured Porous Materials for Low Carbon Energy Conversion"
February 20, 2009
Mark Winkler, Department of Physics, Harvard University
"Optical Hyperdoping: Extending Silicon's Reach"
February 13, 2009
Ian Baker, Thayer School of Engineering
"Materials Characterization: from Intermetallic Compounds to Snow and Ice"
February 6, 2009
Charles Falco, University of Arizona
"The Science of Optics: The History of Art"
January 30, 2009
Bernd Klauer, Helmut-Schmidt University
"IT-Security by Hardware"
January 23, 2009
Tarek Fahmy, Yale University
"Nanobiomaterials for Immunotherapy and Immunodiagnostics"
January 16, 2009
David McQueeney, Technology and Strategy - Chief Technology Officer, IBM
"The IBM Global Technology Outlook and the Evolution of the Business/Information Technology Boundary"
January 9, 2009