Goddard Engineering Colloquia

Spring 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 
February 25 
Building 3 Auditorium  		The NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP)  Bob Murphy  
NASA/GSFC  
March 4 
Building 3 Auditorium  		MARS or BUST  Laurence Bergreen 
Author 
March 11 
Building 3 Auditorium  		Interactive Stealth Learning  Noah Falstein 
The Inspiracy 
March 18 
Building 3 Auditorium  		Stellar Interferometry from the Ground and Space  Bill Danchi 
NASA/GSFC 
March 25 
Building 8 Auditorium  		AI Techniques in Planetary Robotics  Ayanna Howard  
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
April 1 
Building 8 Auditorium  		Silicon Micromachines for Lightwave Networks  David J. Bishop 
Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories 
April 8 
Building 8 Auditorium  		Sputnik, the Shock of the Century  Paul Dickson
Author
April 15 
Building 3 Auditorium 
(**NOTE changed location, not Bldg. 8)		 A Short History of Fiber Optic Communications  Jeff Hecht 
Author 
April 22 
Building 8 Auditorium  		Measuring the Universe: Why Tycho Brahe Didn't Live in Vain  Kitty Ferguson  
Author 
April 29 
Building 8 Auditorium  		Beam Powered Sails  James Benford 
Microwave Sciences, Inc.
May 6 
Building 8 Auditorium  		Euclid's Window: the Story of Curved Space from Thales to String Theory  Leonard Mlodinow 
Scholastic, Inc. 
May 13 
Building 8 Auditorium  		The Moon and the Future of NASA  Paul Spudis 
Lunar and Planetary Institute 
May 20 
Building 8 Auditorium  		The Science of Optics; The History of Art  Charles M. Falco 
University of Arizona 

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