Goddard Engineering Colloquia

Spring 1998 Schedule

All colloquia are held at 3:30 p. m. on Mondays in the Building 3 Auditorium, unless otherwise indicated below. Any changes in the schedule will be indicated on this page with the minimum possible delay.

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Date	Topic	Speaker
February 2 Special Event: 40th Anniversary of the Launch of Explorer I	In the Beginning...Explorers	Norman F. Ness University of Delaware
February 17 Technology Forum	"Phase Retrieval, Wavefront Sensing, & Optical Control Systems" "Regional Validation Centers Manage Realtime Access to Satellite Data" "Innovative Uses for TDRSS"	Richard Lyon, GSFC Robert Cromp, GSFC David Israel, GSFC
March 16	Star Trek Science Logs: Exploring the Boundries Between Science Fiction and Science Fact	Andre Bormanis Science Consultant, Star Trek
March 23	MAP Anisotropy Experiment	David Wilkinson Princeton University
March 30	Engineering Aerospace Software: From FORTRAN to Java and Beyond!	Tim Korson Senior Partner, Software Architects
April 6	Longitude	Dava Sobel Science Writer
April 13	The Politics of Space Science Funding	Brenda Forman Lockheed/Martin Corporation
April 20	Breakthrough Discoveries from Hubble	Bob Williams Space Telescope Science Institute
April 27	Documenting the African-American Experience with Technology	Carroll Pursell Case Western Univ.
May 4	An Astronaut's View of the Planet Earth	Mary L. Cleave GSFC, Former Astronaut
May 11	Hybrid Electric Vehicles	Victor Wouk U.S. technical advisor to the IEC committee
May 18	Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence and Liquid Fracture	Andrea Prosperetti Johns Hopkins University
May 25 No Colloquium (Holiday)
June 1	Science and the Future of Cities	James Trefil George Mason University
June 8 -- Bldg. 8 Auditorium

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