Fall-Winter 2015 - 2016                                                                   

Next Talk: February 17, Angel Yanagihara,  From Beach to Bench and Back: The Science of the Box Jellyfish Sting

All Colloquia will be held at 3:30 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 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.  Some videos are also available for Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, 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. 23
 Multiple speakers Goddard Space Flight Center
 50 Years of the Goddard Scientific Colloquium
(includes links to colloquium history)

Sept. 30 James Acker Goddard Space Flight Center
 Rise of the Machines: Computational Power and the History of NASA's Ocean Color Missions


Oct. 7
 Steve Snowden
 Goddard Space Flight Center THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL AWARD AND LECTURE
The Soft X-ray Diffuse Background - Nearly 50 Years of Progress

Oct. 14
 Chryssa Kouveliotou George Washington University The State of Magnetars
Oct. 21
 Geoff Chester
 U.S. Naval Observatory
 The U.S. Naval Observatory: Time Standards and Daylight Time
Oct. 28
 No Colloquium


Nov. 4
 Julie Segre
 National Institutes of Health
 In Good Company: Human Microbial Ecosystems
Nov. 11
 No Colloquium


Nov. 18
 Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Ultracold Atoms as Quantum Simulators for New Materials - Optical Lattices, Synthetic Magnetic Fields and Topological Phases
Dec. 2 To be Announced
The Legacy of ASTRO-1 (STS-35): 25 Years Later
Dec. 9
 Ellen Williams
 Department of Energy
 Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy: Innovation for Impact

Dec. 10
SPECIAL DAY
 Joan Schmelz
 University of Memphis
 Why So Few? Growth Mindset, Stereotype Threat, and Spatial Skills
Dec. 16, 23, 30, Jan. 6
 No Colloquia


Jan. 13
 Nathan Kurtz
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 To the Ends of the Earth: Surveys of Polar Ice from Operation IceBridge
Jan. 20
 Paul Markowski
 Pennsylvania State University
 How to Make a Tornado: Ideas Emerging from Decades of Theory, Simulation, and Field Observations
Jan. 27
 Harvey Moseley Goddard Space Flight Center
 Exploration, Discovery, and Technology in Space Astrophysics
POSTPONED.
Feb. 3
 Jeremy Schnittman Goddard Space Flight Center The Science of Interstellar: Thoughts on the Habitability of Planets Orbiting Black Holes
Feb. 10
 Adam Szabo Goddard Space Flight Center The Two Faces of a Spacecraft: Both Earth and Space Science Observations by the DSCOVR Spacecraft
Feb. 17
 Angel Yanagihara
 University of Hawaii
 From Beach to Bench and Back: The Science of the Box Jellyfish Sting
Feb. 24
 Holly Gilbert
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 Fifty Shades of Magnetism - The Secret Life of Solar Prominences
Feb. 26
SPECIAL DAY
 Jordan Camp
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 LIGO Detection of Gravitational Waves
 V
Mar. 2
 Jessica Miesel
 Michigan State University
 Fires in the Wild West: Forest Carbon, Black Carbon and Post-fire Nutrient Dynamics

Other Information

Other Colloquia at Goddard

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Richard Barry
 Jim Foster Alexander Marshak Dong Wu Richard Ray, emeritus
Anand Bhatia George Huffman Michelle Thaller Pawan Bhartia, emeritus Ed Sittler, emeritus
Peter Colarco
 Demos Kazanas Dave Thompson, Chair Padi Boyd, emeritus
Carlos Del Castillo Hans Krimm Melissa Trainer Conor Nixon, 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,  Fall 2013, Spring 2014,  Fall 2014,  Spring 2015

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2014 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2014 (chronological)

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