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Fall-Winter 2008-2009

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 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 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. 3	Brian Fields	University of Illinois	When Stars Attack! Live Radioactivities as Signatures of Near-Earth Supernova Explosions	V
Oct. 10	Robert Provine	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Tickle and Beyond	V
Oct. 17	Vicky Kalogera	Northwestern University	Black Holes and Neutron Stars: From Explosive Birth to Powerful Mergers	V
Oct. 24	Scott Hughes	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Astronomy with Gravitational Waves	V
Oct. 31	No Colloquium
Nov. 7	Susan Solomon	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE A World of Change: Climate Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Nov. 14	David Morrison	Ames Research Center	Impacts and Evolution	V
Nov. 21	Gregory Cajete	University of New Mexico	Native Science: An Indigenous Philosophy of Human Relationship to the Natural World	V
Nov. 28	No Colloquium
Dec. 5	Craig Sarazin	University of Virginia	Hot Baryons in the Biggest Potential Wells in the Universe	V
Dec. 12	Richard Stolarski	Goddard Space Flight Center	Chlorofluorocarbons, Stratospheric Ozone, and the Montreal Protocol	V
Dec. 19, 26 Jan. 2, 9	No Colloquia
Jan. 16	Loren Acton	Montana State University	The Day the Earth Caught Fire	V
Jan. 23	Ron Gelaro	Goddard Space Flight Center	Atmospheric Data Assimilation and Observing System Science	V
Jan. 30	Alex Szalay	Johns Hopkins University	From Galaxies to Sensor Networks: Science in an Exponential World
Feb. 6	Jennifer Sokoloski	Columbia University	Fountains from Exploding Stars
Feb. 13	Steve Schwartz	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Consider a Spherical Earth: Heat Capacity, Time Constant and Sensitivity of Earth's Climate System	V
Feb. 20	Drake Deming	Goddard Space Flight Center	The EPOXI/EPOCh Investigation of Transiting Extrasolar Planets	V
Thurs. Feb. 26 2:30 p.m	Sandra Faber	Lick Observatory	THE JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE - NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME The Galaxy-Forming Main Sequence	V

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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, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008

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Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2006 (chronological)

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