Spring 2024

All Colloquia will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Building 3 Goett auditorium, except as noted.

If you would like to attend and do not have a NASA badge, please contact the Scientific Colloquium at (301) 286-8168, more than 72 hours beforehand. Use the same contact information to be added to our mailing list.  Access to Goddard Space Flight Center is limited to those holding Goddard badges or official visitors.  You can become an official visitor by finding a badged Goddard employee to escort you.  The Scientific Colloquium Committee cannot promise to provide escorts.

PLEASE NOTE: TALKS IN THE GODDARD SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIUM SERIES REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE SPEAKERS.  THEY ARE NOT OFFICIAL GODDARD OR NASA POLICIES.

AT PRESENT, ALL VIDEOS OF SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIA ARE OFFLINE FOR SERVER UPGRADES.


Current Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Video
Mar. 6
NO COLLOQUIUM


Mar. 13
Bulent Atalay
The University of Virginia and Mary Washington University (retired)
Beyond Genius: A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds

Mar. 20
Steven Platnick
Goddard Space Flight Center
THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE
Cloudy with a Chance of Retrievals: Remote Sensing Cloud Radiative Properties from Space

Mar. 27
BLDG. 8
Ning Zeng
University of Maryland
Wood Vault: Burying Biomass to Fight Climate Change - a Simple Idea that Really Works

Apr. 3
Naoko Kurahashi Nielson
Drexel University
Neutrino Astronomy, From Dream to Reality

Apr. 10
BLDG. 8
Geronimo Villanueva
Michael Doyle Smith
Goddard Space Flight Center
THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE
The Solar System Revealed by Remote Sensing

Apr. 17
NO COLLOQUIUM



Apr. 24
BLDG. 8
Konstantin Batyagin
California Institute of Technology

Planet Nine from Outer Space: A Status Update and New Evidence

May 1
Thomas Hertog
KU Leuven, Belgium
On the Origin of Time

May 8
Alvine Kamaha
University of California, Los Angeles
The Quest to Find the Invisible Matter of the Universe

May 15
Benjamin Bond-Lamberty
Joint Global Change Research Institute
The Carbon Cycle

May 22
Scott Carney
Jason Miklian
Independent
Vortex: The Bhola Cyclone of November 12, 1970

May 29
Thankful Cromartie
Naval Research Laboratory
Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing: Updates from NANOGrav and the IPTA

June 5
2:00
BLDG. 8

Sarah Hart
Gresham College
Once Upon a Prime: the Wondrous Connections between Mathematics and Literature


Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Shahid Aslam
Demos Kazanas
Floyd Stecker
Some Past Committee Members
Mehdi Benna
Rosemary Killen
Dave Thompson, Chair
Pawan Bhartia
Anand Bhatia
Ruth Lieberman
Compton Tucker
Peter Colarco
Jim Foster
Alexander Marshak
Dot Zukor
George Huffman
Diego Janches
Robert Michell

Ed Sittler

Previous Schedules: Fall 1998, Spring 1999,Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003,
Spring 2004, Fall 2004,  Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006,  Fall 2006Spring 2007,  Fall 2007,  Spring 2008,  Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Fall 2011  Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013Fall 2013, Spring2014,  Fall2014Spring 2015,  Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2022 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2022 (chronological)

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