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| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| September 1 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| September 8 Building 3 Auditorium |
Time, Einstein, and the Coldest Stuff in the Universe Annual Schneebaum Award Ceremony and Lecture |
William Phillips NIST |
| September 15 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Falcon Launch Vehicle -- A Starting Point for Revolutionizing Access to Space | Elon Musk SpaceX |
| September 22 Building 3 Auditorium |
Remote Sensing of Coastal Marine Ecosystems | Tiffany Moisan NASA/GSFC/Wallops Flight Facility |
| September 29 Building 3 Auditorium |
Biologically Inspired Electronics | Rahul Sarpeshkar MIT |
| October 6 Building 3 Auditorium |
Iridium -- Revolutionizing Space | Dannie Stamp Iridium Satellite LLC |
| October 13 Building 3 Auditorium |
No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| October 20 Building 3 Auditorium |
Government Surveillance and Electronic Privacy After 9/11 | David Sobel Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) |
| October 27 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Next Era of Computing: Autonomic Computing | Alan Ganek IBM |
| November 3 Building 3 Auditorium |
Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls | Robert Thorson University of Connecticut |
| November 10 Building 3 Auditorium |
Space Elevators | Bradley Edwards Institute for Scientific Research |
| November 17 Building 3 Auditorium |
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) | John Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| November 24 Building 3 Auditorium |
Cold Fusion: Problems, Progress and Prospects | David Nagel The George Washington University |
| December 1 Building 3 Auditorium |
Once and Future NASA Technologies | Murray Hirschbein NASA HQ |
| December 8 Building 3 Auditorium |
Engineering Living Cells with Computation | Ron Weiss Princeton University |
| December 15 Building 3 Auditorium |
Technical Roadmap to Reach the Outer Planets | Bill Jeffrey White House Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP) |
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