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Fall - Winter 2005 - 2006

The Fall series has now ended. Please see http://scicolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/ for the current schedule.

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 2005, Fall 2004 , Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002 , Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001, and Fall 2000 .

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Video
Oct. 7	Antonio Busalacchi	University of Maryland	Climate Variability and Marine Ecosystems: The Role of Forcings and Feedback	V
Oct. 14	Ryan Scranton	University of Pittsburgh	Cosmic Magnification Seen by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey	V
Oct. 21	Xiaohui Fan	Steward Observatory	Probing the End of Cosmic Dark Ages with the Most Distant Quasars	V
Oct. 28	Ben Chao	GSFC	Earth's Changing Rotation and Gravity Field	V
Nov. 4	Brian Atwater	U.S. Geological Survey/ University of Washington	The Orphan Tsunami of 1700	V
Nov. 11	No Colloquium
Nov. 18	James Hansen	Goddard Institute for Space Studies	THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE Is There Still Time to Avoid Dangerous Human-Made Interference with Climate? Text and slides available HERE (5.5 MB PDF)	V
Nov. 25	No Colloquium
Dec. 2	Norman Ness	Bartol Research Institute	Voyager I Exits the Heliosphere by Crossing the Termination Shock	V
Dec. 9	J. Michael Shull	University of Colorado	Searching between the Galaxies: Missing Baryons in the Intergalactic Medium	V
Dec. 16	Douglas Osheroff	Stanford University	Understanding The Columbia Shuttle Accident And Its Impact On The Future Of Human Space Flight	V
Dec. 23 Dec. 30 Jan. 6	No Colloquia
Jan. 13	Fred Lamb	University of Illinois	RXTE TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION The Impact of Rossi XTE on General Relativistic and High Energy Astrophysics	V
Jan. 20	Christof Koch	California Institute of Technology	The Quest for Consciousness---A Neurobiological Approach	V
Jan. 27	James Smith	GSFC	Space Based Ornithology -- On the Wings of Migration and Biophysics	V
Feb. 3	Tom Brown	Space Telescope Science Institute	The Age of Andromeda	V
Feb. 10	Penelope Boston	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	The Planet Within: Cave Habitats from Earth to Mars and Beyond	V
Feb. 17	John Rundle	University of California, DaviS	Earthquake Forecasting on Complex Multiscale Earthquake Fault Systems: Progress and Prospects	V
Feb. 24	Hasso Niemann	GSFC	Huygens and Cassini Results at Titan	V
Mar. 3	Harold Weaver, Jr.	Applied Physics Laboratory	Pluto: Gateway to the Solar System's Third Zone

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