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Spring 2011

The Spring series has ended.
Please watch for the Fall series, starting in September.

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 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 .

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic	Video
Mar. 4	Alan Robock	Rutgers University	Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?	V
Mar. 11	NO COLLOQUIUM
Mar. 18	Alicia Soderberg	Harvard University	A Holistic Study of Cosmic Explosions	V
Mar. 25	Jon Miller	University of Michigan	Galactic Black Holes - POSTPONED, WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED
April 1	Jane Rigby	Goddard Space Flight Center	Watching Galaxy Evolution in High Definition	V
April 8	Robert Pappalardo	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Searching for Europa's Hidden Ocean	V
April 15	William Borucki	Ames Research Center	Kepler Mission: An Overview of Science Results	V
April 22	NO COLLOQUIUM
April 29	Johannes Gemmrich	University of Victoria	Rogue Waves in the Ocean	V
May 6	Dominic Benford	Goddard Space Flight Center	How to Build and Search for Cost-Optimized Interstellar Beacons	V
May 13	John Wahr	University of Colorado	The GRACE Satellite Mission: Using Time-Variable Gravity to Study the Earth	V
May 20	Lisa Porter	Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity	Scientific Challenges Faced by the Intelligence Community
May 27	NO COLLOQUIUM
Jun. 3	Jeffrey McClintock	Center for Astrophysics	The Full Story on Eight Stellar-Mass Black Holes	V
Jun. 10	Paul A. Newman	Goddard Space Flight Center	THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE The Montreal Protocol and the Recent Findings of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010	V

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How speakers are selected for the Goddard Scientific Colloquium

Scientific Colloquium Committee Charter

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Goddard Scientific Colloquium Committee

Scott Braun	Larry Kepko	Ed Sittler	Dave Thompson, Chair.
Molly Brown	Hans Krimm	Michael Smith	Mian Chin, emeritus
Jim Foster	Conor Nixon	George Sonneborn	Ann Hornschemeier, emeritus
Demos Kazanas	Richard Ray	Michelle Thaller	Randy Kimble, 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

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

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2009 (chronological)

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