Fall-Winter  2017-18

The Fall-Winter series has concluded.  See the current schedule HERE.

IMPORTANT:  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 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.

The Goddard Library has made streaming video available for many of our colloquia -- click on the V in the column to the right of the topic.  NOT ALL BROWSERS WORK FOR ALL VIDEOS.  IF YOUR FAVORITE DOES NOT WORK, TRY A DIFFERENT ONE.  Some videos are also available for Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, 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
Aug. 30
3:00 p.m.

Film: The Farthest: Voyager in Space
Sept. 6
 No Colloquium


Sept. 13
 Anthony Del Genio Goddard Institute for Space Studies THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE
Cloud Feedback on Climate Change: Are We There Yet?
 V
Sept. 20
 Tom Barclay
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC) and the Search for Alien Worlds
 V
Sept. 27
 Nat Gopalswamy
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE
The Solar Energetic Particles: Origin and Consequences
 V
Oct. 4 Carol Cleland
 University of Colorado
 Life Without Definitions
 V
Oct. 11
 Molly Hammell
 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Dark Matter in the Genome: Transposable Elements and Human Disease
 V
Oct. 18
BUILDING 34
ROOM W150
 Eric Cline
 George Washington University
 1177 B.C.: the Year Civilization Collapsed
V
Oct. 25
 Robert Berwick
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Why Only Us: The Origin of Human Language
 V
Nov. 1
 Donald Fisher Pennsylvania State University
 Slow Earthquakes: A Paradigm Shift for the Slip Behavior of Tectonic Plate Boundaries
 V
Nov. 8
 Lori Glaze
 Goddard Space Flight Center Venus - the Forgotten, Mysterious Planet V
Nov. 15
 Sean Carroll Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Nature Works, and Why It Matters V
Nov. 22
 No Colloquium


Nov. 29
BUILDING 34
ROOM W150
 Dennis van Engelsdorp
 University of Maryland
 Drivers of Honey Bee Colony Losses
Dec. 6

 No Colloquium



Dec. 13
BUILDING 36
ROOM C211
 Sultana Nahar
 Ohio State University
 Knowing the Universe through Atoms
V
Dec. 20, 27, Jan. 3, 2018
 No Colloquia


Jan. 10
 Matthew McHarg
 Air Force Academy
 High-speed Imaging and Spectra of Streamers and Leaders
 V
Jan. 17

 Maria Chudnovsky
 Princeton University
 Some Problems in Graph Theory: Donuts, Parties, and Coloring
 V
Jan. 24
 Lazaros Oreopoulos Goddard Space Flight Center Clouds: Regulators of Earth's Radiation Budget
 V
Jan. 31
 Amir AghaKouchak
 University of California, Irvine
 Compound and Concurrent Climate Extremes: Detection, Modeling and Risk Analysis
 V
Feb. 7
 Ted Jacobson
 University of Maryland
 Black Hole Entropy, Entanglement, and Holographic Spacetime
 V
Feb. 14

 George Sonneborn
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 The Supernova of the Century: Supernova 1987A at 31 Years
 V
Feb. 21
 Michael Raupp
 University of Maryland
 Return of Periodical Cicadas: Why the Visit in 2017 and What to Expect in 2021?
 V
Feb. 28
 Robin Canup
 Southwest Research Institute
 Origin of the Moon

Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Richard Barry
 Jim Foster Robert Michell Some Past Committee Members
Mehdi Benna
 George Huffman Alexander Pavlov
 Pawan Bhartia
Anand Bhatia Diego Janches
 Floyd Stecker Conor Nixon
Peter Colarco Demos Kazanas Dave Thompson, Chair Richard Ray
Stephen Drake Alexander Marshak Melissa Trainer 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 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, Spring2014,  Fall 2014,  Spring 2015,  Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017,

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

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2014 (chronological)

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