Fall-Winter 2022-23
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.
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
2022, Fall 2021, Spring
2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012.
Current
Schedule
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
Video
Oct.
5
Renee
Howell
Siemens
Laboratory Diagnostics
The Test: How Covid-19
Changed the
Future of
Laboratory
Diagnostics
Oct. 12
Christopher
Maloney
Cooperative Institute
for Research in
Environmental Sciences
(CIRES)
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric
Administration
Chemical Sciences
Laboratory
Climate and Ozone Impacts of Emissions from
Global Rocket
Launches
Oct. 19
Jonathan
Gardner
Goddard
Space Flight Center
Early Science Results from the James Webb Space
Telescope
Oct. 26
NOON
Sabine
Hossenfelder
Frankfurt
Institute for Advanced
Studies
How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
Nov. 2
Ralph Kahn
Goddard Space Flight
Center
THE WILLIAM NORDBERG
MEMORIAL LECTURE
Smoke Gets in Your Optics – The Airborne
Particles We See
from Space
Nov.
9
Ivy Tan
McGill University
Constraining
the Role of
Mixed-phase Clouds
in Earth’s Present
and Changing Climate
with Satellite
Observations
Nov.
16
BLDG.
8
Raffaella Margutti
University of
California, Berkeley
Mining the Transient Sky in the Era of Time
Domain
Multi-Messenger
Investigations
Nov.
23
NO COLLOQUIUM
Nov. 30
Heather Graham
Goddard Space Flight
Center
Unknown Knowns: Deciphering Biosignatures from
the Abiotic Context
Dec. 7
Mark Moffett
Smithsonian
Institution
What Are Societies, and What Keeps Them
Together and Tears
Them Apart?
Dec. 14
Elisabetta
Matsumoto
Georgia
Institute of
Technology
Knotty Knits: A Chat about Math and Crafts
CANCELLED - WILL BE
RESCHEDULED
Dec. 21, 28, Jan. 4,
11
NO COLLOQUIA
Jan. 18
Edith
Widder
Ocean
Research and
Conservation
Association
Secret Lights in the Sea: Explorations in
Deep-Sea
Bioluminescence
Jan. 25
Shobita
Satyapal
George
Mason University
Supermassive
Black Holes at the
Centers of Galaxies
CANCELLED - WILL BE
RESCHEDULED
Feb. 1
Srija
Chakraborty
Earth
from Space Institute
Monitoring the Earth at Night with A
Machine Learning
Lens
Feb. 8
P.
Jeremy Werdell
Goddard
Space Flight Center
Observing the Microscopic Living (and
Non-Living) Ocean
from Space
Feb. 15
Michael
McCormick
Harvard
University
The Worst Year: new light on 536 CE, climate
change and human
history from the
Science of the Human
Past at Harvard
(SoHP) and the
Climate Change
Institute,
University of Maine
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
- Winners
of the John C.
Lindsay
Memorial Award
- Winners
of the William
Nordberg
Memorial Award
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
Ruth
Lieberman
Compton
Tucker
Peter
Colarco
Jim Foster
Alexander
Marshak
Dot
Zukor
George
Huffman
Diego
Janches
Robert Michell
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, Fall 2020, Spring
2021, Fall 2021, Spring
2022
Listing
of Colloquium
Speakers
1965-2019
(alphabetic by
name)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Chemical Sciences Laboratory
NOON
Smoke Gets in Your Optics – The Airborne Particles We See from Space
BLDG. 8
CANCELLED - WILL BE RESCHEDULED
CANCELLED - WILL BE RESCHEDULED
- 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
- Winners of the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award
- Winners
of the William
Nordberg
Memorial Award
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, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
