Spring 2014

The Spring series has now concluded.  The colloquium series will resume in the fall.

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 (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.  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 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





Feb. 7 Douglas Morton
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 Fire in the Earth System
 V
Feb. 14
 Robert Benson
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 The First Year of Human Habitation, and Science, at the Geographic South Pole    Re-scheduled to March 21
Feb. 21 Keith Gendreau
 Goddard Space Flight Center
 The NICER Mission: a Partnership in Science and Technology on the ISS
 V
Feb. 28
BLDG. 8
Auditorium
 Brian Greene
 Columbia University
 THE JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE
Where Do We Stand with String Theory?
 Sorry, no recording
Mar. 7
 Melissa Hayes-Gehrke
 University of Maryland Collisions in Space: The Threat of Asteroid Impacts
 V
Mar. 14
 Charles Day
 Physics Today
 Science News in the 21st Century
 V
Mar. 21
 Robert Benson Goddard Space Flight Center The First Year of Human Habitation, and Science, at the Geographic South Pole V
Mar. 28 Dalia Kirschbaum

 Goddard Space Flight Center
 Finding the Slippery Slope: Detecting Landslides from Space V
Apr. 4 Jacob Bleacher Goddard Space Flight Center
 How Explosive Was Ancient Mars?
 		V
Apr. 11
 Brigette Hesman
 Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland
 Saturn's Great Northern Storm of 2010-2011: from storm clouds to hot vortices V
Apr. 18
 No Colloquium


Apr. 25
 Gordon Holman
 Goddard Space Flight Center The Puzzle of Energy Release in Solar Eruptive Events
V
May 2
 Luke Oman
 Goddard Space Flight Center Modeling Extreme Events in the Earth System V
May 9
 Christopher Reynolds University of Maryland Putting a New Spin on Black Holes V
May 16
 Lester Brown
 Earth Policy Institute
 The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Wind and Solar Energy
 V
May 23
 No Colloquium


May 30
 Matthew Hill Applied Physics Laboratory
 Latest Results from Voyager 1 Observation in the Very Local Interstellar Medium
 V
Jun. 6
 Scott Luthcke
 Goddard Space Flight Center THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE
Satellite Geodesy and NASA Earth Remote Sensing Missions 		V
Jun. 13
 Michael Werner
 Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology
 10 Years of Infrared Exploration with the Spitzer Space Telescope 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,  Fall 2013

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

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2011 (chronological)

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