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Fall-Winter 2010-2011

The Fall-Winter series has now ended. Our current schedule is HERE.

All Colloquia will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Fridays 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) 286-0660 or by e-mail (click here), more than 48 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.

The Goddard Library has made streaming video available for most of our recent colloquia -- click 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 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, 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. 1	Andrew Ingersoll	California Institute of Technology	Lightning on Saturn	V
Oct. 8	Julie McEnery David Thompson	Goddard Space Flight Center	THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE Two Years of Discovery with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope	V
Oct. 15	Paul Kocin	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	East Coast Snowstorms of 2009/2010: An Extraordinary Winter for a Variety of Reasons	V
Oct. 22	Richard Mewaldt	California Institute of Technology	Record-Breaking Cosmic-Ray Intensities During an Unusual Solar-Minimum and in the Distant Past	V
Oct. 29	Ashley Davies	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Lava Lakes on Io and Earth – The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of the Jovian System?	V
Nov. 5	Nial Tanvir	University of Leicester	Exploring the First Stars and Galaxies with Gamma-ray Bursts	V
Nov. 12	NO COLLOQUIUM
Nov. 19	Bei-Lok Hu	University of Maryland	New View on Quantum Gravity and the Origin of the Universe	V
Nov. 26	NO COLLOQUIUM
Dec. 3	Lawrence Krauss	Arizona State University	Cosmology as Science? From Inflation to Eternity	V
Dec. 10	David Charbonneau	Harvard University	The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet	V
Dec. 17, 24, 31, Jan. 7, 2011	NO COLLOQUIA
Jan. 14	Paul Newman	Goddard Space Flight Center	What Would Have Happened to the Ozone Layer if Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) Had Not Been Regulated?	V
Jan. 21	Sarah Eno	University of Maryland	The Large Hadron Collider: Results from the Energy Frontier	V
Jan. 28	Andy Feinberg	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Epigenetics: What you Might Not Want to Know, but Might Need to Know if You Want to Go to Mars	V
Feb. 4	Michael Benefield	Bureau of Land Management	The Politics of Smoke and the Practical Issues Associated with the Management of Wild and Prescribed Fires in the West	V
Feb. 11	Ned Wright	University of California, Los Angeles	Exploring the Universe with WISE	V
Feb. 18	Daniel Fisher	University of Michigan	Lyuba: A Spectacular Baby Woolly Mammoth from Northwest Siberia	V
Feb. 24	Roger Blandford	Stanford University/KIPAC	THE JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE Higher Energy Astrophysics NOTE SPECIAL DATE (THURSDAY). REGULAR TIME (3:30)	V
Feb. 25	Robert Gehrz	University of Minnesota	The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)	V
Mar. 4	Alan Robock	Rutgers University	Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?	V

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Scott Braun	Larry Kepko	Ed Sittler	Dave Thompson, Chair.
Molly Brown	Hans Krimm	Michael Smith	Mian Chin, emeritus
Jim Foster	Conor Nixon	George Sonneborn	Ann Hornschemeier, emeritus
Demos Kazanas	Richard Ray	Michelle Thaller	Randy Kimble, emeritus

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 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2010

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2009 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2009 (chronological)

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