Spring 2015

The spring series has ended.  The colloquium series will resume in the fall.  Please check http://scicolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/ for the latest information.

All Colloquia will be held at 3:30 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 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.  Some videos are also available for Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010,  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.

Current Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Video
Feb. 11
 Jocelyne DiRuggiero Johns Hopkins University
 Desert Worlds: the Dry Limit for Life V
Feb. 18 Joanna Joiner Goddard Space Flight Center
 Taking the Pulse of Plants from Space: Satellite Measurements of Chlorophyll Fluorescence

Feb. 25
 No Colloquium



Mar. 4 Gail Skofronick Jackson
 Goddard Space Flight Center Let it Rain and Snow: A Year of Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission Data V
Mar. 11
 Michael Gottesman
 National Cancer Institute
 The Future of Cancer Research
Mar. 18
 Heather Knutson
 California Institute of Technology
 Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets in the Super-Earth Era V
Mar. 25
 Alexander Werth
 Hampden-Sydney College
 Living Fossils
 V
Apr. 1
 Nat Gopalswamy Goddard Space Flight Center Coronal Mass Ejections: From a  Novelty to a Natural Hazard
V
Apr. 8
 Charles Lawrence Jet Propulsion Laboratory
 Measuring the Universe
 V
Apr. 15 Theodore Gull Goddard Space Flight Center Eta Carinae: Astrophysical Laboratory for the Study of the Most Massive Stars V
Apr. 22
 No Colloquium
The talk by Claudia Alexander will be re-scheduled

Apr. 24
Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Bldg. 8 Auditorium
 Robert Kirshner
 Harvard University
 THE JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE
Hubble and the Extravagant Universe
 V
Apr. 29
 No Colloquium


May 6
 Bruce Jakosky
 University of Colorado
 Early Results from the MAVEN Mission to Mars V
May 13
 Miguel Nicolelis Duke School of Medicine
 Computing with Populations of Neurons: from Basic Science to Brain-Machine Interfaces V
May 20
 Duncan Lorimer West Virginia University Fast Radio Bursts: The Story So Far
 V
May 27
 John Veil
 Veil Environmental
 Fracking - Evil Scourge or Game-changing Technology?
Co-Sponsored by the Engineering Colloquium
 V
Jun. 3
 Robert Schoelkopf
 Yale University
 Using Cat States in a Microwave Cavity for Quantum Information V
Jun. 10
 Claire Parkinson
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL AWARD AND LECTURE
Climate Change as Revealed in Satellite Sea Ice Observations

Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Anand Bhatia
 Carlos Del Castillo
 Alexander Marshak
 Dong Wu
 Richard Ray, emeritus
Pawan Bhartia
 Jim Foster Michelle Thaller Larry Kepko, emeritus Ed Sittler, emeritus
Padi Boyd Demos Kazanas Dave Thompson, Chair Conor Nixon, emeritus
Eric Brown de Coulston Hans Krimm Melissa Trainer
 Ann Parsons, 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 Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Fall 2011  Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013,  Fall 2013, Spring 2014,  Fall 2014

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2014 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2014 (chronological)

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