Spring 2018
The Spring series has ended.
Please see https://scicolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov
for the latest information about the series.
IMPORTANT: 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 72 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.
PLEASE NOTE:
TALKS IN THE GODDARD
SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIUM SERIES
REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE
SPEAKERS. THEY ARE NOT
OFFICIAL GODDARD OR NASA
POLICIES.
The Goddard
Library has made
streaming video available for
many of our colloquia -- click
on the V in the column to the
right of the topic. NOT
ALL BROWSERS WORK FOR ALL
VIDEOS. IF YOUR FAVORITE
DOES NOT WORK, TRY A DIFFERENT
ONE. Some videos are
also available for Fall
2017, Spring
2017, Fall
2016, Spring
2016, Fall
2015, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Feb.
28 |
Robin
Canup |
Southwest
Research
Institute |
Origin of the Moon |
|
Mar.
7 |
Rolando
Garcia |
National
Center for
Atmospheric
Research |
The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and the K-Pg Extinction | V |
Mar.
13 3:45 SPECIAL DAY/TIME |
Garth Illingworth | University of California, Santa Cruz | THE
JOHN BAHCALL
LECTURE Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn: Exploring the First Billion Years with Hubble and Spitzer - Implications for JWST Co-sponsored by the Hubble Project and the Astrophysics Science Colloquium |
V |
Mar.
14 |
James
Beasley |
Savannah
River Ecology
Laboratory |
Radioactive Wildlife: The Secret Life of
Animals in
Chernobyl and
Fukushima |
|
Mar. 21 |
NO
COLLOQUIUM |
The talk by
Jens Redemann
will be
re-scheduled.
|
||
Mar. 28 | Sharon Hill |
Lithospherica,
LLC |
Earthquake
Lights: Are
They Real? |
V |
Apr. 4 |
Tane
Casserley |
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary | Heavy
Metal on the
High Seas: USS
Monitor and
the Wartime
Shipwrecks off
the Coast of
North Carolina |
V |
Apr. 11 |
No
Colloquium |
The
previously
scheduled talk
will be given
in the fall
series. |
||
Apr. 18 |
Arthur
Shapiro |
American
University |
Why
Are We
Surprised by
Only Some of
the Things We
See? Optical
Illusions,
Contrast, and
Harmonic
Systems |
|
Apr. 25 |
Mark Perry | Applied
Physics
Laboratory |
Ring
Rain and Tar
Polluting
Saturn: A New
Understanding
of the
Interactions
Between Saturn
and Its Rings
|
V |
May
1 3:45 SPECIAL DAY/TIME |
Katherine
Freese |
University
of Michigan |
The Dark Matter in the Universe Co-sponsored by the Astrophysics Science Colloquium |
V |
May 2 |
Scott
Guzewich |
Goddard Space Flight Center | Swimming
in Martian
Lakes |
V |
May
9 |
Kirstin Petersen | Cornell
University |
Designing
Robot
Collectives Co-sponsored by the Engineering Colloquium |
V |
May 16 |
Katherine
Marvel |
Columbia
University |
What
Does Recent
History Teach
Us About
Equilibrium
Climate
Sensitivity? |
V |
May
23 |
Alfred
McEwen |
University
of Arizona |
Are
Martian
Recurring
Slope Lineae
(RSL)
Habitable? |
V |
May
30 |
Daniel
Kadouri |
Rutgers
School of
Dental
Medicine |
A
Predator a Day
Might Keep the
Doctor Away |
|
Jun.
6 |
Patrick
McGovern |
University
of
Pennsylvania |
Ancient
Brews
Rediscovered
and Re-created |
|
Jun. 13 |
David
Helfand |
Columbia
University |
Surviving
the
Misinformation
Age |
V |
Other
Information
- Suggestions or comments about the Goddard Scientific Colloquium? Leave a message at (301) 286-8168.
- How speakers are selected for the Goddard Scientific Colloquium
- Scientific Colloquium Committee Charter
- Winners of the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award
- Winners
of the William
Nordberg
Memorial Award
Other
Colloquia at
Goddard
Scientific
Colloquium
Committee
Richard
Barry |
Jim Foster | Robert Michell | Some
Past Committee
Members |
|
George Huffman | Alexander
Pavlov |
Pawan Bhartia |
Anand Bhatia | Diego
Janches |
Floyd Stecker | Conor Nixon |
Peter Colarco | Demos Kazanas | Dave Thompson, Chair | Richard Ray |
|
Alexander Marshak | Melissa Trainer | Ed Sittler |
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,
Spring2014,
Fall
2014,
Spring
2015, Fall 2015, Spring
2016, Fall 2016, Spring
2017, Fall 2017
Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2014 (alphabetic by name)