Faculty Seminar Series

Friday, March 6

Speaker I: Mukul Sharma, Professor, Earth Sciences
Talk Title: Atmospheric CO2 Removal with Co-benefits

Speaker II: Elijah Stommel, Professor, Neurology at Geisel School of Medicine 
Talk Title: Harmful Algal Blooms and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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Friday, February 6

Speaker I: Anthony Rizzo, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Talk Title: Addressing the Data Center Energy Crisis with Light

Speaker II:  Bryce Ferguson, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Talk Title: Algorithmic Incentive Design via Pricing and Persuasion

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Friday, January 16 

Speaker I: Nate Dominy, Professor & Chair, Department of Anthropology
Talk Title: Catching fire: can firelight ignite collective action?

Speakers II & III: Miguel I. Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Will Scheideler, Associate Professor of Engineering
Combined Talk Title: Micro-to-nanoscale Materials Design for Energy Applications

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Friday, December 5

Speaker I: Mahima Sneha, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Talk Title: Making Molecular Movies with Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy

Speaker II: Eric G. Schaller, Professor of Biological Sciences 
Talk Title: Genetic and chemical approaches to combating drought stress in plants

Watch a recording of Eric Schaller's talk

Friday, November 7 

Speaker I: Aleah Sommers, Research Scientist, Thayer School of Engineering
Talk Title: Understanding Himalayan glacier dynamics, future evolution, water resources, and floods.

Speaker II: Yoshihiro Nakayama, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering 
Talk Title: What is happening in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica?

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Friday, October 3 

Speaker I: Praveen Kopalle, Endowed Professor and Chair of Marketing, Tuck School of Business
Talk Title: Effect of Pricing on Residential Electricity Conservation, and Delivering Clean Energy

Speaker II: Manpreet Singh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Irving Institute and Economics Department
Talk Title: Designing Large Procurement Auctions: India's Utility-Scale Electricity Market

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May 16, 2025

• Yan Li, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering: "Multifunctional Materials Design and Manufacturing"
• Vikrant Vaze, Associate Professor, Thayer School of Engineering: "Developing Green Energy Infrastructure in Conflict-Affected Regions of Africa"

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April 4, 2025

• Kimberly Clark, Lecturer, PBS: "Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap: Applying Neuroscience for More Effective Climate Communications"
• Donald Perovich, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering: "The next best thing to being there: Autonomous observations of Arctic Sea Ice"

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February 14, 2025

• George O'Toole, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Leslie Day, Postdoc, Department of Biological Sciences: "Engineering Microbes to Reduce Methane"
• Klaus Keller, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering: "Beyond the loading dock: Approaches to co-producing knowledge to inform climate risk management"

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January 10, 2025

• Ian Baker, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering: "Developing Mn-AI Permanent Magnets," and
• Marisa C. Palucis, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences: "Climate Change and Landscape Evolution in the Canadian Arctic"

November 01, 2024

• Soroush Vosoughi, Computer Science
• Geoffroy Hautier, Thayer School of Engineering

January 12, 2024
Mathieu Morlighem (Earth Sciences) and visiting scholar Joerg Matschullat discuss their research. 

March 29, 2024
Ekaterina Pletneva (Chemistry): Inspirations from Bioenergetics in Directing Electron Flow
Nathaniel Kitchel (Anthropology): Facing the Forest: Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Northern New England at the end of the Ice Age

December 1, 2023
Soroush Vosoughi, "Large Language Models and Persuasive Language," and "Economics, Climate Change, and Ecosystem Services: From Carbon Pricing to the Northern Forest." 

November 10, 2023
Robert McLellan (The Dartmouth Institute) "Climate-Informed Pediatric Care," and Laura Paulin (Geisel), "Environmental Exposures and Respiratory Health Outcomes" 

May 24, 2023
Chris Snyder (Economics) "Shaping the Market for Green Innovation," and Anant Sundaram (Tuck), "ESG Investing: Hope or Hype?"

April 21, 2023
Vikrant Vaze (Thayer), "Optimizing Food Waste Disposal," and Lee Lynd (Thayer), "Dartmouth Biofuels Overview"

March 31, 2023
Fiona Li (Thayer), "Enabling Next-Generation High Performing Sodium Batteries," and Jifeng Liu (Thayer), "Engineering Atomic Ordering for High Performance Energy Materials"