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Date | Topic | Speaker |
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January 17 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
January 24 Building 3 Auditorium |
Fusion - the Next Steps | John Willis Department of Energy |
January 31 Building 3 Auditorium |
The James Webb Space Telescope | Mike Menzel NASA GSFC |
February 7 Building 3 Auditorium | Distributing Time and Frequency Information | Judah Levine NIST |
February 14 Building 3 Auditorium | Satellite altimetry, tsunamis, and bathymetry from space | Walter H. F. Smith NOAA |
February 21 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
February 28 Building 3 Auditorium |
Rescheduled to May 9 because of snow. | |
March 7 Building 3 Auditorium |
Changing Garbage to Oil - Eliminating Landfills with a New Technology | Brian Appel CWT |
March 14 Building 3 Auditorium |
Science and Science Fiction | Stanley Schmidt Editor, Analog magazine |
March 21 Building 3 Auditorium |
Shining Sea to Silent Space: Sea Launch | Jim Maser Sea Launch |
March 28 |
No Colloquium (holiday) | |
April 4 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Big Splat: How the Moon Came to Be | Dana Mackenzie author |
April 11 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Hydrogen Economy: Challenges and Opportunities | George Crabtree Argonne National Laboratory |
April 18 Building 3 Auditorium |
NASA in Historical Perspective | John Logsdon George Washington University |
April 25 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Hubble Space Telescope Robotic Servicing Mission | Frank Cepollina NASA GSFC |
May 2 Building 3 Auditorium | Atoms, Molecules, and Light: Physics Serving Society | Wendell T. Hill, III University of Maryland |
May 9 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Robotic Lunar Exploration (RLE) Program | Jim Watzin NASA GSFC |
May 16 Building 3 Auditorium |
Electrodynamic Tethers in Space and More | Enrico Lorenzini Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
May 23 Building 3 Auditorium |
A Physicist's View of the Automobile Engine | Bernard J. Feldman University of Missouri-St. Louis |
May 30 |
No Colloquium (holiday) |
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