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Spring 2007

The series has concluded. The Fall 2007 series will start in October.

Video of John Mather's special Scientific Colloquium (courtesy of the Goddard Library).

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), at least 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 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 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
Mar. 2	Steven Ghan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Aerosols and Climate	V
Mar. 9	Kailash Sahu	Space Telescope Science Institute	Worlds in Transit	V
Mar. 16	John Fitzpatrick	Cornell University	How Ivory-billed Woodpeckers (and Other Birds) Will Help Save the World	V
Mar. 23	Bruce Balick	University of Washington	Collimating Stellar Ejecta	V
Mar. 30	Claire Max	University of California, Santa Cruz	Nearby Active Galaxies Seen with Keck Telescope Adaptive Optics	V
April 6	No Colloquium
April 13	William Bottke	Southwest Research Institute	New Views on the Lunar Late Heavy Bombardment	V
April 20	Keith Noll	Space Telescope Science Institute	Is Pluto a Planet? The Great Planet Debate	V
April 27	No Colloquium		John Sigwarth's talk, Global Auroral Imaging During the Polar Mission Era, will be re-scheduled for the Fall series
May 4	Lorraine Remer	GSFC	Can Aerosols Solve the Global Warming Problem?	V
May 11	Michael Goddard		Robert H. Goddard - A Beginning Without End	V
May 18	Lisa Kewley	University of Hawaii	The Star Formation and Metallicity History of Galaxies	V
May 25	No Colloquium
June 1	Thomas Schelling	University of Maryland	Game Theory and Applications to Global Warming	V
June 8	Jerry Goldstein	Southwest Research Institute	New View of the Plasmasphere: Results From IMAGE EUV	V
June 15	James Gunn	Princeton University	THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE Surveys: Picture Windows Into the Universe	V
June 22	Rashid Sunyaev	Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics	Special Colloquium The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination	V

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Goddard Scientific Colloquium Committee

Mian Chin	Randy Kimble	Michael Smith
Jim Foster	Robert Knox	George Sonneborn
Ann Hornschemeier	Richard Ray	Yogesh Sud
Demos Kazanas	Ed Sittler	Dave Thompson, Chair.

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

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