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Goddard Engineering Colloquium Series

Fall 2016 Schedule

Date in first column; Title link in second; speaker in third, video link in fourth.
Date Topic Speaker Video Link
September 5 No Colloquium: Labor Day    
Wednesday
September 7
Building 3 Auditorium
Star Trek and NASA: 50 Years of Inventing the Future Together Rick Sternbach
Link to
Video of the talk by Rick Sternbach
September 19
Building 3 Auditorium
Infrastructure: the Road Taken Henry Petroski
Duke University
Link to
Video of the talk by Henry Petroski
September 26
Building 3 Auditorium
A Simple, Durable, and Refuelable Interplanetary Spacecraft Brian McConnell
Engineer and Entrepreneur
 
October 3
Building 3 Auditorium
Flags on the Moon Jack Clemons
 
October 10
Building 3 Auditorium
No Colloquium, holiday    
October 17
Building 3 Auditorium
Free Falling: LISA Pathfinder and the Road to Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories Ira Thorpe
NASA-GSFC
 
October 24
Building 3 Auditorium
Rebuilding the Largest Deadweight Machine in the World Rick Seifarth
NIST
 
October 31
Building 3 Auditorium
Self-Replicating Robots for Lunar Development Gregory Chirikjian
Johns Hopkins University
Link to
Video of the talk by Gregory Chirikjian
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November 7
Building 3 Auditorium
Model-Based Engineering Jessica Knizhnik
NASA-GSFC
Link to
Video of the talk by Jessica Knizhnik
November 14
Building 3 Auditorium
GMAT: the General Mission Analysis Tool Steven Hughes
NASA-GSFC
Link to
Video of the talk by Steven Hughes
November 21
Building 3 Auditorium
LYTRO, the Light Field Camera Ren Ng
Lyrto, Inc.
Link to
Video of the talk by Ren Ng
November 28
Building 3 Auditorium
No Colloquium; Monday after Thanksgiving  
 
December 5
Building 3 Auditorium
CubeSats: Smaller Technology, Broader Horizons Allison Evans
NASA-GSFC
Link to
Video of the talk by Allison Evans
December 12
Building 3 Auditorium
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Lecture starts at 2:30 PM, one hour earlier than usual.
Mike Massimino
Columbia University
NASA-retired
 
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