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

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Current Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Video
Sept. 30	Linda Spilker	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	The Wonders of Saturn:  CASSINI’S Intriguing Discoveries
Nov. 18	Fred Adams	University of Michigan	The Degree of Fine-Tuning in our Universe - and Others
Dec. 2	Nour Raouafi	Applied Physics Laboratory	Parker Solar Probe: Ushering a New Frontier in Space Exploration
Jan. 6	John Knox	University of Georgia	The Evolution of Tornado Debris Research	V
Jan. 13	James Burch	Southwest Research Institute	Perspectives on Magnetic Reconnection from the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission	V
Jan. 20	NO COLLOQUIUM
Jan. 27	Kimberly Griffin	University of Maryland	Understanding and Improving Mentoring Relationships: Lessons from Theory and Research	V
Feb. 3	Ashwin Vasavada	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	What We’ve Learned about the Habitability of Mars from NASA's Curiosity Rover Mission	V
Feb. 10	James Head	Brown University	Increasing Science Capabilities in the Apollo Lunar Exploration Program:  Perspectives for Artemis
Feb. 17	David Deamer	University of California, Santa Cruz	Hydrothermal Vents or Hydrothermal Fields: Where Can Life Begin?	V
Feb. 24	Megan McKenna	Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University	Acoustic Ecology: How Sound Shapes the World around Us	V
Mar. 3	Sean Carroll	California Institute of Technology	The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics

Other Information

• Suggestions or comments about the Goddard Scientific Colloquium?  Leave a message at (301) 286-8168.
• How speakers are selected for the Goddard Scientific Colloquium
• Scientific Colloquium Committee Charter
• John C. Lindsay Memorial Award Recipients
  
• William Nordberg Memorial Award Recipients
  

Other Colloquia at Goddard

• Engineering Colloquia
• Exploring Leadership Colloquia
• Information Science and Technology Colloquia

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Mehdi Benna	Ruth Lieberman	Floyd Stecker	Some Past Committee Members
Anand Bhatia	Alexander Marshak	Dave Thompson, Chair	Pawan Bhartia
Jim Foster	Robert Michell	Kelsey Young	Peter Colarco
Diego Janches	Alexander Pavlov	Dot Zukor	George Huffman
Demos Kazanas			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,  Fall2014,  Spring 2015,  Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2019 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2019 (chronological)

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