Spring 2012 - The series has now ended.

Next Talk: September 28, THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE

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 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
Feb. 17
 Frank Hill
 National Solar Observatory
 Global Flows in the Sun and their Relationship to the Activity Cycle
 V
Feb. 24
 Anna Frebel
 Harvard University
 Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old Stars
 V
Mar. 2
 No Colloquium
    
Mar. 9
 Lora Koenig
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 Cold Facts: Snow Accumulation Research in West Antarctica
 V
Mar. 16
 Robert Houze
 University of Washington
 TRMM Insights into Recent Floods in India and Pakistan     V
Mar. 23
 Michael Blanpied
 United States Geological Survey
 The Virginia Earthquakes of August, 2011     V
Mar. 30
 Tod Strohmayer
Jean Swank
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer: Taking the Pulse of the Universe
 V
Apr. 6
 No Colloquium


Apr. 13
 Niel Brandt
 Pennsylvania State University
 A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth
 V
Apr. 20
 No Colloquium

Apr. 27
 Kathyrn Zurek
 University of Michigan
 Theories of Dark Matter and Their Observational and Experimental Signatures
 V
May 4
 Claire Parkinson
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 Aqua at Ten Years and Counting
 V
May 11
 Lindy Elkins-Tanton
 Carnegie Institution of Washington
 Processing Volatiles in Terrestrial Planets during Accretion: Setting the Stage for Plate Tectonics
 V
May 18
 David Burrows
 		Pennsylvania State University
 Swift J164449.3+573451: Death Throes of an Unlucky Star
May 25
 No Colloquium


May 31
Special Day
 James Dickson
 University of Glasgow
 Why Ancient Glacier Mummies Are so Important: the Intestinal Contents are Encoded Maps and Diaries
 V
June 1
 No Colloquium
The previously scheduled talk has been postponed until the Fall series.

June 8
 Elizabeth Middleton
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE
Advancing Study of Ecosystems from Space with Spectroscopy
 V

Other Information

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 Fall 2011
Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2009 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2009 (chronological)

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