SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIA 2000-2001 FALL-WINTER
SERIES
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Fall_Winter Colloquium
series
has now concluded. The Goddard
Library has digitized some of the colloquium recordings and made
them
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technical
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Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic |
Video |
Sept. 8 |
Bruce Margon |
University. of Washington |
The
Universe
in Ten Terabytes:
Scientific
Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
H,L
|
Sept. 15 |
Steve Ostro |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Strange
Worlds:
Radar Encounters with
Earth-Approaching
Asteroids |
|
Sept. 22 |
Dava Sobel |
|
Galileo's Daughter |
H,L
|
Sept. 29 |
Nima Arkani-Hamed |
University of
California, Berkeley |
How to
Make Gravity Join the Other Forces of Nature at a
Reasonable
Energy: Localizing Gravitons in an Extra Dimension |
H,L
|
Oct. 6 |
Michael Marder |
University of
Texas |
How
Things
Break |
H,L
|
Oct. 13 |
Max Tegmark |
University of
Pennsylvania |
Zeroing
in
on Cosmological Parameters |
H,L
|
Oct. 20 |
Lincoln Brower |
Sweet Briar College |
Biological
Studies of the Migration of the Monarch Butterfly |
H,L
|
Oct. 27 |
Maria Zuber |
MIT |
Seasonal
Variations,
Climate Change and the Thermal History of
Mars
from Mars Global Surveyor Topography and Gravity |
H,L
|
Nov. 3 |
Lynn Margulis |
University of
Massachusetts |
WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE
New
Gaia:
Living Earth from Space |
H,L
|
Nov. 10 |
|
|
NO Colloquium - holiday |
|
Nov. 17 |
Michael West |
Advanced Cell Technology |
Telomeres,
Cellular
Immortality, and Cloning:
Opportunities
and Challenges |
H,L
|
Nov. 24 |
|
|
NO Colloquium (Thanksgiving) |
|
Dec. 1 |
Barbara Thompson |
NASA/GSFC |
Sun
Storms
- The Science of Space Weather Eruptions |
H,L
|
Dec. 8 |
Erik Larson |
|
Isaac's
Storm:
the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 |
H,L
|
Dec. 15 |
Norden Huang |
NASA/GSFC |
Applications
of the Hilbert-Huang Transform |
H,L
|
Dec. 22, 29 |
|
|
NO Colloquia (holidays) |
|
Jan. 5 |
Suzanne Lomax |
National Gallery of Art |
The
Application
of Chemistry to the Examination of Works of Art |
H,L
|
Jan. 12 |
Ken Nealson |
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory |
Extremophiles - POSTPONED |
|
Jan. 19 |
Donald Gurnett |
University of Iowa |
Magnetospheric
Radio and Plasma Waves Throughout
the Solar System |
H,L
|
Jan. 26 |
Daniel Lavanchy |
World Health
Organization |
Epidemics:
Properties, Surveillance and Early Warnings |
H,L
|
Feb. 2 |
Bruno Coppi |
MIT |
Theoretical and
Experimental Results
in Fusion Research: Related Issues in Astrophysics |
H,L
|
Feb. 9 |
Richard Mushotzky |
NASA/GSFC |
The X-Ray Background
- A Year
of Discovery |
H,L
|
Feb. 16 |
Andrew Westphal |
University of California, Berkeley |
The Origin of Galactic
Cosmic
Rays: New Results from the Russian Space Station |
H,L
|
Feb. 23 |
James Burch |
Southwest Research Institute |
"First Light" from the
IMAGE Spacecraft |
H,L
|
Goddard Scientific Colloquium Committee
Bob
Cahalan
Barbara
Giles
John Pearl
Jim
Collatz
Demos
Kazanas
Jerry Soffen
Joe
Dolan
Paul
Lowman
Caroline Stahle
Jim
Foster
Steve
Maran
Dave Thompson, Chair.
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2000
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