| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| January 19 | No Colloquium (holiday) | |
| Postponed till September 21 |
Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century
Postponed because of snow. Rescheduled for September 21, 2015. |
Vinton G. Cerf Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist |
| February 2 Building 3 Auditorium |
Social Implications of Brain Emulations | Robin Hanson George Mason University |
| February 9 Building 3 Auditorium |
Sensors for On-Orbit Docking | Stephen Granade |
| February 16 | No Colloquium, holiday | |
| February 23 Building 3 Auditorium |
Laboratory-Based Satellite Impact Experiments for Better Characterization of the Orbital Debris Populations |
J.-C. Liou
NASA-JSC |
| March 2 Building 3 Auditorium |
The Slide Rule: 350+ Years from Napier through the Manned Apollo Missions
Bring your slide rule! We'll check to see how many people still have theirs. |
Ed Chamberlain |
| March 9 Building 3 Auditorium |
Interplanetary Transport Network | Dave Folta NASA-GSFC |
| March 16 Building 3 Auditorium |
CubeSats: Innovation & Risk in the (tiny) New Space Frontier | Alex "Sandy" Antunes Capitol Technology University |
| March 23 Building 3 Auditorium |
Storm and Surge Risk to Major Coastal Cities in a Changing Climate | Kerry Emanuel MIT |
| March 30 Building 3 Auditorium |
Infinite Worlds: NASA in Photographs | Michael Soluri Photojournalist |
| April 6 |
No Colloquium | |
| April 13 Building 3 Auditorium |
Additive Manufacturing for Spacecraft Applications; the Technology, the Hype, and What's Happening at Goddard | Ted Swanson NASA-GSFC |
| April 20 Building 3 Auditorium Changed time: 10:00 AM |
From Medicine to Space: Impact of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) on Society This talk will be at 10:00 AM | Jayant Balinga North Carolina State University |
| April 27 Building 8 Auditorium 10:00 AM<6/td> |
Note Changed Time and Location Safety Lessons from Top Gun This talk is part of the Goddard Safety Awareness Campaign |
Scott Altman NASA (retired) |
| May 4 Building 3 Auditorium |
How the Future Was: Visual Speculations of Tomorrow and Beyond | Vincent Di Fate Artist and Illustrator |
| May 11 Building 3 Auditorium |
The MESSENGER Mission to Mercury | Dan O'Shaughnessy Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab |
| May 18 Building 3 Auditorium |
Project Dyna-Soar: a Shuttle Ahead of Its Time | Amy Shira Teitel Spaceflight Historian |
| May 25 Building 3 Auditorium |
No Colloquium, Holiday | |
| Wednesday May 27 Building 3 Auditorium |
Joint presentation with the Goddard Scientific Colloquium: Fracking - Evil Scourge or Gamechanging Technology? |
John Veil Veil Environmental, LLC |
Engineering Colloquium home page: https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/
All colloquia are held at 3:30 p. m. on Mondays in either the Building 3 Auditorium or the
Building 8 Auditorium, as indicated above.
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