Fall-Winter 2013-14

The Fall-Winter series has now concluded. Please go HERE for the latest schedule. 

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 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





Sept. 27
 James Klimchuk
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE
Why is the Solar Corona So Hot?		 V
Oct. 4 -  rescheduled
 Keith Strong
 Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland
 The Solar Cycle Conundrum
Oct. 11- to be rescheduled Christopher Reynolds
 University of Maryland
 Putting a New Spin on Black Holes
Oct. 18
 Matthew Knight
 Lowell Observatory
 What's the Big Deal about Comet ISON? V
Oct. 25
 David Grinspoon
 Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Library of Congress Astrobiology and the Anthropocene Epoch V
Nov. 1
 Rob Pfaff
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 It Is Rocket Science -- Remarkable Discoveries from NASA's Sounding Rocket Program 
V
Nov. 8
BLDG. 34
Rm W150
 Kelly Brunt and Terry Hurford
 Goddard Space Flight Center Antarctic Rifts as an Analog for Studying Tidal Motions along Cracks on Icy Satellites V
Nov. 15
BLDG. 34
Rm W150 		Christopher Hamilton
 University of Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center
 Volcanism on Io: Implications for a Subsurface Magma Ocean V
Nov. 22
BLDG. 34
Rm W150 		Jennifer Heldmann
 Ames Research Center
 Mars: Periglacial Morphology and Ice Stability
 		V
Nov. 29
 No Colloquium


Dec. 6
BLDG. 34
Rm W150
 Keith Strong Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland The Solar Cycle Conundrum V
Dec. 13
BLDG. 34
Rm W150
 Paul Ray
 Naval Research Laboratory
 Attack of the Gamma-Ray Spiders from Space! V
Dec. 20, 27, Jan. 3, 2014
 No Colloquia


Jan. 10
 Steven Anlage
 University of Maryland
 Play It Again Sam, This Time Backwards!
 V
Jan. 17
 Larry Nittler
 Carnegie Institution of Washington
 Exploring Mercury: Scientific Results from the MESSENGER Mission
 V
Jan. 24

 Ralph Lorenz
 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
 Dune Worlds : How Windblown Sand Shapes Planetary Landscapes
V
Jan.  31
 William McDonough
 University of Maryland
 Imaging the Earth's Interior with Geo-neutrinos
 V






Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Pawan Bhartia
 Carlos Del Castillo
 Larry Kepko Ann Parsons Dong Wu
 Scott Braun, emeritus
Padi Boyd Jim Foster Hans Krimm Michelle Thaller Richard Ray, emeritus Molly Brown, emeritus
Eric Brown de Coulston Demos Kazanas Conor Nixon Dave Thompson, Chair Ed Sittler, 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 Fall 2011  Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2011 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2011 (chronological)

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