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| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| January 13 Building 3 Auditorium Joint event with Systems Engineering Seminars |
NASA's New Space Architect: Integrating Innovation and Reliability | Gary L. Martin NASA HQ |
| January 20 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| January 27 Building 3 Auditorium |
From the Seabed to the Laboratory: Archaeology of the Civil War Submarine H.L. Hunley | Claire Peachey Naval Historical Center |
| February 3
Building 3 Auditorium |
The Gravity Probe B Mission: A Marriage of Physics and Technology | Francis Everitt Stanford University |
| February 10 Building 3 Auditorium |
What can software engineering learn from physics? | Tim Menzies NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility |
| February 17 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| February 24 Building 3 Auditorium |
DARPA Space Initiative | Arthur A. Morrish DARPA |
| March 3
Building 3 Auditorium |
What makes Hubble special? | Edward Cheng Conceptual Analytics |
| March 10 Building 3 Auditorium |
James Webb and the Power Behind Apollo | W. Henry Lambright Syracuse University |
| March 17 Building 3 Auditorium |
Nuclear Propulsion and Project Orion: Manned Missions to Saturn for 1970 (After Mars in 1965!) | George Dyson Western Washington University |
| March 24 Building 3 Auditorium |
National Ignition Facility -- Programs Overview | George H. Miller Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| March 31 Building 3 Auditorium |
Designing the Next Industrial Revolution | Ken Alston McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry |
| April 7 Building 3 Auditorium |
Climate & History |
Brian Fagan University of California, Santa Barbara |
| April 14 Building 3 Auditorium |
Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies | Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland at College Park |
| April 21 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| April 28 Building 3 Auditorium |
Faster-than-Light Speeds and Tachyons: An Overview with Demonstrations | Robert Ehrlich George Mason University |
| May 5 Building 3 Auditorium |
Did the great masters "cheat" using optics? | David Stork Stanford University |
| May 12 Building 3 Auditorium |
Synchrotron Light: From Nuisance to Necessary Tool | Erik D. Johnson Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| May 19 Building 3 Auditorium |
A Thread Across the Ocean: the Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable | John Steele Gordon Author |
| May 26 | No Colloquium (holiday) |
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