Fall-Winter 2024-25 - PRELIMINARY

All Colloquia will be held at 3:00 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 72 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.

PLEASE NOTE: TALKS IN THE GODDARD SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIUM SERIES REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE SPEAKERS.  THEY ARE NOT OFFICIAL GODDARD OR NASA POLICIES.

AT PRESENT, ALL VIDEOS OF SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIA ARE OFFLINE FOR SERVER UPGRADES.


Current Schedule

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Video
Sept. 25
Alison Duck Ohio State University
Understanding the Information Content of Transiting Exoplanets

Oct. 2
David Sinclair
Harvard University
Science of Aging

Oct. 9
Lesley Ott
Goddard Space Flight Center
Tracking the Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases with Satellites, Models ... and Interagency Partnerships

Oct. 16
NO COLLOQUIUM



Oct. 22
TUES

Thomas Hertog
KU Leuven, Belgium
On the Origin of Time

Oct. 23
Amy Reines
Montana State University
Dwarf Galaxies and the Smallest Supermassive Black Holes

Oct. 30
Julian Muñoz
University of Texas
Cosmic Dawn

Nov. 6
NO COLLOQUIUM



Nov. 13
Rita Rubin
Journal of the American Medical Association
Changing the Clocks

Nov. 20, 27, Dec. 4, 11, 18, 25, Jan. 1
NO COLLOQUIA



Jan. 8, 2025
Carlos Argüelles-Delgado
Harvard University
New Physics with Neutrinos

Jan. 15
To Be Announced



Jan. 22
F. Scott Porter
Caroline Kilbourne
Goddard Space Flight Center
THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL AWARD AND LECTURE


Jan. 29
Svetlana Shkolyar
Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland
Perseverance Rover and the Search for Fossil Life on Mars

Feb. 5
Yaireska Collado Vega
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Recent Solar Storms

Feb. 12
Lauren Schroeder
University of Toronto, Mississauga
Processes of Human Evolution

Feb. 19
Alexander Kostinski
Michigan Technical University
Terrestrial Glitter

Feb. 26
Carlo Rovelli
Rotman Institute
Quantum Gravity


Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Shahid Aslam
Demos Kazanas
Floyd Stecker
Some Past Committee Members
Mehdi Benna
Rosemary Killen
Dave Thompson, Chair
Pawan Bhartia
Anand Bhatia
Alexander Marshak
Compton Tucker
Ruth Lieberman
Jim Foster
Robert Michell
Dot Zukor
George Huffman
Diego Janches


Ed Sittler

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 2006Spring 2007,  Fall 2007,  Spring 2008,  Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Fall 2011  Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013Fall 2013, Spring2014,  Fall2014Spring 2015,  Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2022 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2022 (chronological)

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