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Fall-Winter 2004-05 - the series has now concluded

The Goddard Library has made streaming video available for some colloquia by clicking on the V in the column to the right of the topic.  Due to speakers' authorizations, some videos are not playable outside Goddard.  Please note: connection speeds lower than 56 K may be able to handle only the audio portion of the transmission. Some videos are also available for Spring 2004Fall 2003,  Spring 2003,  Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001, and Fall 2000.
Date Speaker Affiliation Topic Video
Oct. 1
Gordon Bell
Bay Area Research Center
MyLifeBits: The Memex Vision and Some Implications of Storing Everything Personal
Co-sponsored with the Information Science and Technology Colloquium

V
Oct. 8
Steven Beckwith
Space Telescope Science Institute
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field
V
Oct. 15
Torrence Johnson
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Galileo at Jupiter
V
Oct. 22
Michael Schlesinger
Univ. of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
Human-Induced Climate Change: To Hedge or Not to Hedge Against an Uncertain Climate Future V
Oct. 29
John Townshend
University of Maryland
Monitoring Land Cover Change Globally:  Opportunities and Challenges V
Nov. 5
Christopher Martin
California Institute of Technology
GALEX: A Year Exploring the UV Universe
V
Nov. 12
No Colloquium



Nov. 19
Soroosh Sorooshian
University of California, Irvine
THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE - BUILDING 8 AUDITORIUM
Water Distribution and Availability
V
Nov. 26
No Colloquium



Dec. 1
WED.
Ed Seidel
Louisiana State University
SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM - BUILDING 8 AUDITORIUM, 1:00 P.M.
Using Supercomputers to Collapse Gravitational Waves, Collide Black Holes (and study other Cataclysms)
V
Dec. 3
Robert Crease
Stony Brook University
BUILDING 8 AUDITORIUM
The Prism and the Pendulum: the Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science
V
Dec. 10
Mike Maunder
Fairchild Tropical Garden
Invasive Species
Dec. 17, 24, 31
No Colloquia


Jan. 7, 2005
Steven Squyers
Cornell University
Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Missions
Jan. 14
Mark Schoeberl
GSFC
The Interaction between the Troposphere and the Stratosphere: What are We Learning from Satellite Observations?
V
Jan. 21
Steve Ackerman
University of Wisconsin
Assessing from Space the Effects of Clouds on Weather and Climate
Jan. 28
Richard Mushotzky
GSFC
The Accretion History of the Universe - New Results on Active Galaxies from Chandra and XMM
The talk by Christof Koch previously scheduled for this date will be re-scheduled.
V
Feb. 4
Marshall Shepherd
GSFC
From the Chicago Heat Wave to Houston Floods: How Cities Affect Weather and Climate
V
Feb. 11
Michael Flasar
GSFC
CIRS/Cassini First Results from Saturn
V
Feb. 18
Siegfried Schubert
GSFC
On the Cause of the 1930's Dust Bowl Drought
V
Feb. 25
Michael Mumma
GSFC
Detection and Mapping of Methane on Mars
The talk by Richard Smalley previously scheduled for this date will be re-scheduled
V

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Robert Knox Michael Smith
Jim Foster Vincent Salomonson George Sonneborn
Demos Kazanas Jeanne Sauber Yogesh Sud
Randy Kimble Ed Sittler
Dave Thompson, Chair.

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