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Goddard Engineering Colloquium Series

Fall 2018 Schedule

Date in first column; Title link in second; speaker in third.
Date  Topic  Speaker  Video Link
July 9
At 10:00 AM
Visions of the Future: Graphic Design for Star Trek, NASA, and Beyond
This talk will be held at 10:00 AM, not at our usual time.
Michael and Denise Okuda Link to
Video of the talk by Michael and Denise Okuda
September 3 No Colloquium: Labor Day    
September 10 No Colloquium.  
 
September 17 Once We Went to the Moon: Are We Going Again? John Logsdon
George Washington Univerisity
emeritus
Link to
Video of the talk by John Logsdon
September 24 Rethinking Regulation in the Era of Driverless Cars Timothy Lee
Ars Technica
Link to
Video of the talk by Timothy Lee
October 1 Big Data and Real Time Analytics: Use of Learning Algorithms for Fire State Determination Noah Ryder
University of Maryland
Link to
Video of the talk by Noah Ryder
October 8 No Colloquium, holiday    
October 15 Atomic Flight: a History of the Quest for Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Sean Gallagher
Ars Technica
Link to
Video of the talk by Sean Gallagher
October 22 A Century of Missiles Ann Pollack
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Link to
Video of the talk by Ann Pollack
October 29 Advances in Internal Combustion Engines Jonathan Gitlin
Ars Technica
Link to
Video of the talk by Jonathan Gitlin
November 5 Cosmos and Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context Mark Lupisella
NASA-GSFC
 
November 12 No Colloquium; Veterans Day  
 
Wednesday,
November 14
Joint Scientific and Engineering Colloquium
The Hexagon Spy Satellite
For details, see the Goddard Scientific Colloquium Website
Phillip Pressel
 
November 19 The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Radio Astronomy Observatory Jorge Ibsen
ALMA
 
November 26 Seeing Through Other Eyes Thomas Cronin
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
 
December 3 Digital Imaging for Conservation of the National Portrait Gallery's Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington E. Keats Webb
Smithsonian Institution
 
December 10 Truth and Beauty in Astronomy Visualizations
Frank Summers
Space Telescope Science Institute
Link to
Video of the talk by Frank Summers
December 17 T. rex in silico: The limits of modeling in reconstructing the biology of dinosaurs
Thomas Holtz, Jr.
University of Maryland
Link to
Video of the talk by Thomas Holtz, Jr.
See also: Another talk by Tom Holtz in the Scientific Colloquium series.
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