National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017,  Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010,  Spring 2010,  Fall 2009, Spring2009, 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. 26	Adam McKay	American University and Goddard Space Flight Center	The Composition of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov: Insights into Planet Formation in Other Planetary Systems
Mar. 4	David Brain	University of Colorado Boulder	Do Habitable Planets Require Magnetic Fields?
Mar. 11	Chuntao Liu	Texas A&M University Corpus Christi	Count Storms from Space - A Perspective from NASA Precipitation Measurement Mission
Mar. 18	Robert Rogers	NOAA/Hurricane Research Division	NOAA's Intensity Forecasting Experiment: Past, Present, and Future  THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Mar. 25	Kimberly Griffin	University of Maryland	Understanding and Improving our Developmental Relationships THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Apr. 1	Nour Raouafi	Applied Physics Laboratory	Parker Solar Probe: Breaking New Barriers in Space Exploration THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Apr. 3 FRIDAY	Ralph Kahn	Goddard Space Flight Center	THE WILLIAM NORDBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE Smoke Gets in Your Optics - The Airborne Particles We See from Space THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Apr. 8	Fred Adams	University of Michigan	The Degree of Fine-Tuning in our Universe THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Apr. 15	David Leckrone	Goddard Space Flight Center	THE JOHN BAHCALL LECTURE Hubble Space Telescope: 30 Years of Discovery THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Apr. 22	Helen James	Smithsonian Institution	Passenger Pigeon Extinction THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Apr. 29	Ashwin Vasavada	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Mars as an Abode for Life: Advances from Seven Years of Exploration by the Curiosity Rover THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
May 6	Robert DePalma and David Burnham	University of Kansas	Frozen in Time: A Mass-death Layer with Hyperchronology of the End-Cretaceous Asteroid Impact, and Insight into Future Hazards ONLINE PRESENTATION, NOT RECORDED
May 13	Linda Spilker	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Surprises in the Saturn System: Cassini-Huygens Science Highlights THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
May 20	John Knox	University of Georgia	The Evolution of Tornado Debris Research THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
May 27	Jens Redemann	University of Oklahoma	The Oracles Project THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Jun. 3	Peter Shawhan	University of Maryland	LIGO-VIRGO Discoveries of New Gravitational Wave Events ONLINE PRESENTATION, NOT RECORDED
Jun. 10	James Burch	Southwest Research Institute	Magnetic Reconnection:  Explosive Energy Conversion in Space Plasmas THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED

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

• Engineering Colloquia
• Exploring Leadership Colloquia
• Information Science and Technology Colloquia

Scientific Colloquium Committee

Mehdi Benna	Ruth Lieberman	Floyd Stecker	Some Past Committee Members
Anand Bhatia	Alexander Marshak	Dave Thompson, Chair	Pawan Bhartia
Jim Foster	Robert Michell	Kelsey Young	Peter Colarco
Diego Janches	Alexander Pavlov	Dot Zukor	George Huffman
Demos Kazanas			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,  Fall2014,  Spring 2015,  Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2019 (alphabetic by name)

Listing of Colloquium Speakers 1965-2019 (chronological)

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