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| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| January 19 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| January 26 Building 3 Auditorium |
Raising Gus Grissom's
Mercury Capsule [NOTE: Rescheduled to May 10] |
Curt Newport Newport Explorations |
| February 2
Building 3 Auditorium |
Challenges for Computing and Information Technology In the 21st Century | Wm. A. Wulf National Academy of Engineering |
| February 9 Building 3 Auditorium |
The US Navy's First Submarine | Paul Rice US Navy |
| February 16 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| February 23 Building 3 Auditorium |
A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of our Species, Planet, and Universe | Gino Segre University of Pennsylvania |
| March 1
Building 3 Auditorium |
Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age | Dave Clary Author |
| March 8 Building 3 Auditorium |
Science and Science Fiction | Catherine Asaro Molecudyne Research |
| March 15 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Past and Future of the Internet | Lawrence Roberts Caspian Networks |
| March 22 Building 3 Auditorium |
Back to the Moon with New Technologies: Better and Cheaper! | Paul Lowman GSFC |
| March 29 Building 3 Auditorium |
GRACE Mission | Byron Tapley University of Texas at Austin |
| April 5 Building 3 Auditorium |
Reading Between the Lines: Applications of Imaging Technology to Recover Lost Writings |
Roger Easton, Jr., and Keith Knox Rochester Institute of Technology |
| April 12 Building 3 Auditorium |
Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars | Roger Launius Smithsonian Institution |
| April 19 Building 3 Auditorium |
Aviation Automation | Charles Billings Ohio State University |
| April 26 Building 3 Auditorium |
CHINA'S GREAT LEAP UPWARD -- How Realistic Are Its Space Ambitions? | James Oberg Author |
| May 3 Building 3 Auditorium |
Seeing Technology's Impacts Beforehand | Jason Ohler University of Alaska |
| May 10 Building 3 Auditorium |
Raising Gus Grissom's Mercury Capsule | Curt Newport Newport Explorations |
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| May 17 Building 3 Auditorium |
Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight | Martha Ackmann Author |
| May 24 Building 3 Auditorium |
The LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory): how it works and what it hopes to find | Rainer Weiss MIT |
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