Videotapes (VHS Format) of Scientific
Colloquia are available in the Goddard Library. They may be checked
out with a Goddard library card or viewed in the Library. For further information,
contact the Goddard Library Patron Services Desk at (301) 286-7218.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| Sept. 17 | Baruch Blumberg | NASA Astrobiology Institute | The Discovery of the Hepatitis B Virus and the Invention of a Vaccine to Prevent Cancer |
| Sept. 24 | Bradley Cox | University of Virginia | Time Reversal Violation |
| Oct. 1 | Steven Vogel | Duke University | Locating Life's Limits with Dimensionless Numbers |
| Oct. 8 | Diane Evans | JPL | Recent Developments in SAR Remote Sensing |
| Oct. 15 | Glenn Schneider | Steward Observatory | Exploring the Environments of Nearby Stars |
| Oct. 22 | Jeffrey Taubenberger | Armed Forces Institute of Pathology | The Search for the 1918 Spanish Influenza Virus |
| Oct. 29 | Robert Laughlin | Stanford University | The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect |
| Nov. 5 | Samuel Goward | University of Maryland | The Landsat 7 Mission - Early Results and Future Plans |
| Nov. 12 | Walter Pitman | Columbia University | Noah's Flood |
| Nov. 19 | Richard Williams | U.S. Geological Survey | WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE
Iceland: Dynamic Land of Ice and Fire |
| Nov. 26 | no colloquium (Thanksgiving) | ||
| Dec. 3 | Freeman Dyson | Institute for Advanced Study | Life in the Universe: Is Life Digital or Analog? |
| Dec. 10 | Bohdan Paczynski | Princeton University | Hypernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts |
| Dec. 17,
24, 31 |
no colloquia (holidays) | ||
| Jan. 7 | Martin Blume | American Physical Society | The Physical Review and Scientific Publishing: Past and Future |
| Jan. 14 | David Crossley | St. Louis University | The Superconducting Gravimeter as a Geophysical Tool |
| Jan. 21 | Alice Harding | GSFC | Magnetars: Nature's Strongest Magnetic Fields |
| Jan. 28 | Yervant Terzian | Cornell University | Binary Galaxies and Dark Matter in the Universe |
| Feb. 4 | David Randall | Colorado State University | Atmospheric Circulations on Buckeyball Grids |
| Feb. 11 | Gary Hinshaw | GSFC | Observing the Cosmic Microwave
Background:
A Unique Window on the Early Universe |
| Feb. 18 | Mario Acuna and
Jack Connerney |
GSFC | Mars Crustal Magnetism: Part II |
| Feb. 25 | Pierre Sokolsky | University of Utah | The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays |
All colloquia will be held in the Building 3 Auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Coffee and tea will be served in the Lobby beforehand, courtesy of GEWA. If you plan to attend and do not have a NASA badge, please contact Carol Krueger, at (301) 286-6878, at least 24 hours beforehand. To be added to our mailing list, call the same number.
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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Previous Schedules: Fall 1998, Spring 1999
Last Update February 14, 2000
