Goddard Engineering Colloquia

Fall 2002 Schedule

All colloquia are held at 3:30 p. m. on Mondays in either the Building 3 Auditorium or the Building 8 Auditorium, as indicated below. Any changes in the schedule will be indicated on this page with the minimum possible delay.

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**Current series schedule**
Date	Topic	Speaker
September 16 Building 8 Auditorium	A New Kind of Science Annual Schneebaum Award Ceremony and Lecture	Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Research, Inc.
September 23 Building 3 Auditorium	New Horizons: A Reconnaissance Expedition to Pluto-Charon and The Kuiper Belt	Alan Stern Southwest Research Institute
September 30 Building 3 Auditorium	Next Generation Space Shuttle	Dennis Smith NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
October 7 Building 3 Auditorium	History and Future of Nuclear Space Power: An Industry View	James Crocker Lockheed Martin
October 14 Building 3 Auditorium	No Colloquium (Columbus Day holiday)
October 21 Building 3 Auditorium	Modular Robots - Changing Their Shape to Get the Job Done	Mark Yim Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
October 28 Building 3 Auditorium	Engineering Thought: Oxymoron or Highest Calling -- Do women know something men don't?	Domenico Grasso Smith College
November 4 Building 3 Auditorium	Keeping Cars From Crashing (and what to do until we can)	Will Jones IEEE Spectrum
November 11 Building 3 Auditorium	No Colloquium (Veterans Day holiday)
November 18 Building 3 Auditorium	The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter	Hannah Holmes Author
November 25 Building 3 Auditorium	Protecting All of The Planets, All of The Time: Scientific and Engineering Challenges	John D. Rummel NASA/HQ
December 2 Building 3 Auditorium	MODIS Performance	William Barnes NASA Goddard
December 9 Building 3 Auditorium	"We have Capture!" The Story of Rendezvous and Docking in Space, and How What Today Seems Routine Was Once Considered Almost Unachievable	Bob Zimmerman Author

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