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| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| September 5 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| September 12 Building 8 Auditorium |
Challenges for a New Generation of Space Engineers Annual Schneebaum Award Ceremony and Lecture |
Mike Griffin NASA |
| September 19 Building 3 Auditorium |
Mission Operations | Gene Kranz NASA retired |
| September 26 Building 3 Auditorium |
Postponed due to conflict with Administrator Griffin's talk.
Attracting and Retaining Women in Engineering |
Maria M. Klawe Princeton University |
| October 3 Building 3 Auditorium |
Preserving the Charters of Freedom: Conservation and Engineering Challenges | Margaret Kelly National Archives and Records Administration Richard Rhorer NIST |
| October 10 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| October 17 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Physics of Traffic | Craig Davis Universtiy of Michigan |
| October 24 Building 3 Auditorium |
Observatories on the Moon | Klaus Heiss High Frontier |
| October 31 Building 3 Auditorium |
Bear Bones vs. Ferrous Wheels: When Might Nature Be Worth Copying? | Steven Vogel Duke University |
| November 7 Building 8 Auditorium (Note Room Change) |
Apollo 11 Lunar EVA: From the Capcom Perspective | Bruce McCandless |
| November 14 Building 3 Auditorium |
Physics of Football | Timothy Gay University of Nebraska |
| November 21 Building 3 Auditorium |
Target Tempel 1: The Challenges of Autonomous Navigation for the Deep Impact Mission | Dan Kubitschek JPL |
| November 28 Building 3 Auditorium |
Crime Scene Investigation | Max Houck West Virginia University |
| December 5 Building 3 Auditorium |
CryoSat | Carl Leuschen Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab |
| December 12 Building 3 Auditorium |
SWIFT | Neil Gehrels and Joe Dezio NASA-GSFC |
| December 19 Building 3 Auditorium |
Protecting The Earth From Near-Earth Asteroid Impacts: A Status Report | Rusty Schweickart B612 Foundation |
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