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| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| January 16 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| January 23 Building 3 Auditorium |
Von Braun and the Saturn V | Ed Buckbee |
| January 30 Building 3 Auditorium |
Back to the Future, Applying Thermal Control Experiences on Apollo Lunar Project to Rovers for Future Space Exploration | Ronald Creel SAIC |
| February 6 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved | Mario Livio Space Telescope Science Institute |
| February 13 Building 3 Auditorium |
Large Space Based Telescopes | John Mather NASA-GSFC |
| February 20 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| February 27 Building 3 Auditorium |
Pad Leader, to the Moon and Beyond | Guenter Wendt |
| March 6 Building 3 Auditorium |
Gravitational Wave Waveforms | Joan Centrella NASA-GSFC |
| March 13 Building 3 Auditorium |
Autonomous Robots: the DARPA Challenge | William Whittaker Carnegie Mellon University |
| March 20 Building 3 Auditorium |
His Brain, Her Brain | Larry Cahill University of California at Irvine |
| March 27 |
Katrina and Her Brothers and Sisters: The 2004 and 2005 Hurricane Season and The Unique Scientific View Gained From Space | Marshall Shepherd Universtiy of Georgia |
| April 3 Building 3 Auditorium |
Out of the Ice: the Excavation and Research of Siberian Frozen Mammoths | Larry Agenbroad Northern Arizona University |
| April 10 Building 3 Auditorium |
Aerogels | Eric Lerner Contributing Editor, The Industrial Physicist |
| April 17 |
No colloquium, holiday. | |
| April 24 Building 3 Auditorium |
Big, Green Energy Machines | Jesse Ausubel Rockefeller University |
| May 1 Building 3 Auditorium |
Astronomy for the People | John Dobson |
| May 8 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Creation of the Apple I Computer This talk is expected to run slightly longer than the standard 45 minutes to 1 hour. |
Steve Wozniak formerly Apple Computer, now Wheels of Zeus (woz.org) |
| May 15 Building 3 Auditorium |
Wi-Fi and Beyond | Alex Hills Carnegie Mellon University |
| May 22 Building 3 Auditorium |
20 Questions | Robin Burgener 20Q.net |
| May 29 |
No Colloquium (holiday) |
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