Fall - Winter 2011-2012
The Fall-Winter series has ended. Visit the current schedule HERE
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 most of our recent colloquia -- click 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 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 |
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Sept. 30 |
Michael Flasar |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL
LECTURE Titan's Dynamic Atmosphere |
V |
Oct. 7 |
Erin McKean |
Wordnik | How to Make
a Massively Multiplayer Dictionary
Co-sponsored by the IS&T Colloquium series |
V |
Oct. 14 |
J. Michael Duncan | NASA Headquarters |
The Chilean
Miner Rescue: NASA's Experience |
-- |
Oct. 21 |
Jon Miller | University of Michigan |
Galactic Black Holes | V |
Oct. 27 10:00 a.m. |
Alden Myer | Union of Concerned Scientists |
Policy
Responses to the Threat of Global
Climate Change Co-sponsored by the Exploring Leadership Colloquium series |
V |
Oct. 27 3:30 p.m. |
Rashid Sunyaev | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics | THE
JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and Cosmology |
V |
Oct. 28 Building 8 |
Steven Chu |
Secretary of Energy |
How Innovation
has Changed the World and Can Help
Change it Again |
V |
Nov. 4 |
Richard Lenski | Michigan State University |
Evolutionary Dynamics in a 50,000 Generations Experiment with Bacteria | V |
Nov. 11 |
No Colloquium |
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Nov. 18 |
Sarah Horst |
University of Colorado |
Do the
Building Blocks of Life Exist in
Titan's Atmosphere: Lessons from
the Lab |
V |
Nov. 25 |
No Colloquium |
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Dec. 2 |
Thomas Seeley | Cornell University |
Swarm
Intelligence in Honey Bees Co-Sponsored by the Engineering Colloquium series |
V |
Dec. 9 |
Vernon Ehlers | U.S. House of Representatives (retired) | Science in
Congress |
V |
Dec. 16 |
Krishan Khurana |
University of California, Los
Angeles |
Moon Magnetic Fields and Oceans | V |
Dec. 23, 30 Jan. 6, 2012 |
No Colloquia |
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Jan. 13 |
Harold Brooks | NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory | The Record Breaking 2011 Spring Tornado Season: Historic Perspectives and Challenges for the Future | V |
Jan. 20 |
Paul Hseih | U.S. Geological Survey | The Science
Behind the Taming of the Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill |
V |
Jan. 27 |
No Colloquium |
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Feb. 3 |
David Smith | Duke University | Progress in Electromagnetic Metamaterials | V |
Feb. 10 |
Meg Urry | Yale University | The Interplay of Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution | V |
Feb.
17 |
Frank
Hill |
National
Solar Observatory |
Global Flows in
the Sun and their Relationship to
the Activity Cycle |
V |
Other Information
- Suggestions or comments about the Goddard Scientific Colloquium? Click here.
- How speakers are selected for the Goddard Scientific Colloquium
- Scientific Colloquium Committee Charter
Other Colloquia at Goddard
Scientific Colloquium
Committee
Padi Boyd |
Demos Kazanas |
Ann Parsons |
Dave Thompson, Chair |
Scott Braun |
Larry Kepko |
Richard Ray |
Randy Kimble, emeritus |
Molly Brown |
Hans Krimm |
Ed Sittler |
Michael Smith, emeritus |
Jim Foster |
Conor Nixon |
Michelle Thaller | George Sonneborn, emeritus |
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
Listing of
Colloquium Speakers 1965-2009
(alphabetic by name)