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Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society

Jones Seminars invites engineering, science, and technology leaders from across the nation to present and facilitate conversation on cutting edge research or scientific issues of our day.

This endowed speaker series was launched in the 1970s through the generosity of Charles C. Jones '18 Th'19, who sought to facilitate conversation and learning for the curious-minded. All Dartmouth faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the general public are welcome to attend the seminars, typically held on Friday afternoons. PhD students are required to attend weekly, as well as meet before or after each event to discuss its topic in more detail.

If you would like to receive email reminders about the weekly Jones Seminars, please email jones.seminar@dartmouth.edu with your email address.

Upcoming Events

Sep

Jones Seminar: Electronics on Anything—How thin film electronics can instrument the world

Ioannis (John) Kymissis, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall/Online

The hybrid integration enabled by new semiconductor process options allows for active and spatially localized control of systems.

Oct

Jones Seminar: Operations Engineering in Healthcare—Many different ways to make impact

Amy Ellen Mainville Cohn, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, U Michigan

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall/Online

Examples and opportunities for operations research to make both theoretical and societal impact.

Oct

Jones Seminar: Experimental Insights into Glacier Slip

Luke Zoet, Chair of Geoscience, U Wisconsin-Madison

Friday
3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall/Online

Using a novel experimental device that can slip a ring of temperate ice atop a sediment bed to determine basal shear stress and slip velocity.

Past Events

Aaron Mohs
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
UNMC College of Pharmacy

Illuminating the Potential for Fluorescent Sensors in Oncology and Infectious Disease

Julia Greer
Ruben and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering
Caltech

VIT Distinguished Speaker

Summer Gibbs Th'08
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Oregon Health and Science University

Can Near Infrared Nerve-Specific Imaging Improve Surgical Outcomes?

Julianna Gesun
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

From Surviving to Thriving—Frontiers of research & applications on engineering thriving

Stewart Sherrit
Technical Staff
JPL, Caltech

Novel Applications of Piezoelectric Materials

Geoffroy Hautier
Hodgson Family Associate Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Accelerated Materials Design Using High-throughput First Principles Computations

Daniel Olson
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Engineering Microbes for Cellulosic Biofuel Production

Matthew McGarry
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth

Imaging the Mechanics of the Brain Using MRI

Kurt DeMaagd
Chief AI Officer & Co-founder
Sight Machine

LLMs as Knowledge Orchestrators

Whitney Harrington
Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Seattle Children's Research Institute

New Non-invasive Method to Sample Luminal T-Cells from the Female Genital Tract

Javad Shabani
Associate Professor of Physics
NYU

Microwave Quantum Circuits Using Epitaxial Al-InAs Planar Josephson Junctions

Muriel Médard
NEC Professor of Software Science & Engineering
MIT

How I Learned to Decode

Hang Yu
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Virginia Tech

Forging a Sustainable Future with Solid-State Metal Additive Manufacturing

George Pharr
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Texas A&M

Exploring the Unusual World of Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior with Nanoindentation

Tim Whitehead
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
U Colorado, Boulder

High-Throughout, Quantitative Measurements of Protein Function

Richard Katz
Professor of Geodynamics
University of Oxford

Earth Orbital Cycles Inscribed on the Ocean Floor by Faulting

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