Events

Design Thinking at "Continuum Innovation"

Gianfranco Zaccai, Co-founder, Continuum Innovation

Thursday
4:30pm - 6:00pm ET

Rm 201, Life Sciences Center

A guest lecture organized by the Design Initiative at Dartmouth (DIAD) and the Italian Studies Dept.

Jones Seminar: Organic and Oxide Semiconducting Materials for Ductile Opto/Bioelectronic Applications

Antonio Facchetti, Chair in Biopolymers, Georgia Tech

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium/ Online

The realization of novel semiconductor materials, as well as thin-film processing and morphology engineering, for flexible and stretchable electronic devices.

PhD Thesis Defense: Gregory Hyde

Thursday
10:00am - 12:30pm ET

Rm B45, ECSC/ Online

"Reward Representational Learning"

Jones Seminar: Assessing Rotator Cuff Tear Pathology—Insights from imaging and mechanics into tear progression and joint degeneration

Ara Nazarian, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium/ Online

Identifying the mechanical consequences of RC tears and a tear classification system based on biomechanical data.

Irving Faculty Seminar: Energy & Society

Friday
12:00pm - 1:00pm ET

IR-155/ Online

Hear from Aleah Sommers and Yoshihiro Nakayama about glacier dynamics and Antarctica.

Jones Seminar: Decoding the Aging Immune System—Multi-omic insights and the promise of precision medicine

Jessica Lasky-Su, Associate Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium/ Online

A translational framework grounded in the distinct strengths of each omic layer, with biological aging as a unifying phenotype.

Jones Seminar: The Physics of Failure—Engineering startup survival through a reluctant entrepreneur's lens

Mike Konrad, Founder & CEO, Aqueous Technologies

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium/ Online

Konrad shares his journey armed only with ego, passion, arrogance, ignorance, and a poor sense of risk as he stumbled into entrepreneurship.

Thayer Thanksgiving Potluck

Tuesday
5:00pm - 7:00pm ET

The Great Hall, Cummings Hall

A traditional Thanksgiving feast for Thayer students, faculty, and staff.