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The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society Faculty Seminar Series invites climate and energy researchers, including faculty, postdocs, and staff from across the disciplines to share their current work with colleagues. This lunchtime series, which launched in 2022, seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary connections and collaborations on some of the most critical topics and challenges facing our world today. Explore upcoming and past seminars below.
The Call to Lead Lab (IR-155, 1st Floor) | Also online via Zoom
Lunch will be served starting at 11:45 am
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 Engingeering
Combined Talk Title: Micro-to-nanoscale Materials Design for Energy Applications
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
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?
Watch a recording of the November seminar
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
May 16, 2025
April 4, 2025
February 14, 2025
View February seminar recording
January 10, 2025
November 01, 2024
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"