Goddard Engineering Colloquia

Spring 2001 Schedule

All colloquia are held at 3:30 p. m. on Mondays in the Building 3 Auditorium, unless otherwise indicated below. Any changes in the schedule will be indicated on this page with the minimum possible delay.

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Date	Topic	Speaker
February 26	A Realistic Interstellar Explorer	Ralph McNutt Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
March 5	Beauty in Physics and the Accelerating Universe	Mario Livio Space Telescope Science Institute
March 12	Earth Observing 1: Validating Affordable New Landsat Technology	Dale Schulz NASA/GSFC
March 19	New Perspectives on the Control of Cell Division	Robert B. Silver Argonne National Laboratory
March 26	Optical and Mechanical Alignment of Off-Axis Optical Components Such As Those Employed in NGST	Mitch Ruda Ruda & Associates, Inc.
April 2	Fly Me to the Moon	Richard Gran Mathematical Analysis Co.
April 9	The Robotic Search for Antarctic Meteorites	Michael Wagner Carnegie Mellon University
April 16	SNAP - Super Nova/Acceleration Probe	Michael E. Levi Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
April 23	Liquid Nitrogen Powered Car	Mitty Plummer University of North Texas
April 30	Nanotechnology for NASA Missions	Meyya Meyyappan NASA Ames Research Center
May 7	Bio-centrism and Solar System Exploration	Carl Pilcher NASA Headquarters
May 14	Laser Ranging to Retro-Reflectors on the Moon as a Test of Theories of Gravity: Does Gravitational Binding Energy Gravitate?	Carroll O. Alley University of Maryland
May 21	Ultrafast Optical Phenomena	Anthony Johnson New Jersey Institute of Technology

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