Colloquium Archive

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Date Speaker Topic Location
January 9, 2009 John Adam
Old Dominion University
"Guesstimation": Fermi Problems, Orders of Magnitude and the Goldilocks Principle
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
January 16, 2009 Dr Mario Livio
Space Telescope Science Institute
Is God A Mathematician?
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
January 23, 2009 Tom Vanderbilt
Author
Objects In Mirror Are More Complicated Than They Appear: Looking Into Traffic
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
January 30, 2009 Steven Brams
New York University
Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
February 6, 2009 Erik van Ommeren
Sogeti USA LLC
Me the Media: Rise of the Conversation Society
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
February 13, 2009 Denise Gray
General Motors Engineering
Reinventing GM and the Automobile: From Batteries to Sustainability
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
February 20, 2009 Slava Rotkin
Lehigh University
Transistor Channels "Flying" a Few Nanometers Above the Surface: Novel Physics of "Empty" Space
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
February 27, 2009 Reuben Pitts
NSWC Dahlgren (ret)
The USS Vincennes Incident---The Data
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
March 6, 2009 Sudip Bose
Advocate Christ Medical Center
On Call In Iraq
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
March 13, 2009 Giles Dorronsoro
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus and Exit: An Alternative Strategy for the Afghan War
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
March 27, 2009 James Hwang
Lehigh University
RF MEMS Technology for Space Applications
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
April 3, 2009 Marcus Jones
U.S. Naval Academy
U.S. Strategic Bombing in Doctrine and Practice in World War II: The Case of the European Theater
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
April 10, 2009 Charles Seife
New York University
Fusion, Politics, and the Press
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
April 17, 2009 Ned Tillman
Growth Adventures
The Chesapeake Watershed - Past, Present and Future
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
April 24, 2009 George Helfrich
JHU/APL (ret)
APL and the US Navy in the Deserts of New Mexico
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
May 8, 2009 Waleed Abdalati
University of Colorado CIRES
Dramatic Changes in Polar Ice: Are We Waking Sleeping Giants
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
May 15, 2009 Kal Shastri
Lightwire
Journey of a Physicist in the Engineering World
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
May 22, 2009 Martin P. Harmer
Lehigh University
Complexions: New States of Matter at Interfaces
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
May 29, 2009 Richard Talbott
JHU/APL
Information Assurance Lessons From the Past, WWII and Today
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
June 5, 2009 Michael C. MacCracken
Climate Institute
Climate Change - A Challenge We Must Address
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
June 11, 2009 Joseph D'Aleo
Meteorologist
Climate Change
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
September 18, 2009 Rear Admiral Jay A. DeLoach, USN (Ret.)
Naval History & Heritage Command
Hispanic Americans in American Naval History
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
September 25, 2009 CAPT Mark B. Lyles, MS, DMD, Ph.D.
U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Medical Geology: Dust Exposure and Potential Health Risks in The Middle East
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
October 16, 2009 Nirdhar Khazanie
Northrop Grumman
Information Sharing Behind Firewalls
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
October 23, 2009 George F. Riley
Georgia Institute of Technology
Network Simulation with NS3
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
October 27, 2009 Brad Parkinson
Stanford University
The Origins of GPS and the Role of APL in the Technology
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
November 13, 2009 Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF (ret)
former director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
The Strategic Defense Initiative, JHUAPL, and the Cold War
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
November 20, 2009 Roger D. Launius
National Air and Space Museum
Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future of Human Spaceflight
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium
December 1, 2009 I-Jeng Wang, Chad M. Hawes, and Joshua L. Santarpia; Hart Prize Winners
JHU/APL
The 2009 Hart Prizes for Excellence in Independent Research & Development Research: Information Fusion and Localization in Distributed Sensor Systems Research: Exploitation of Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Products Development: Environmental Changes on Biological Aerosol Particles
» Overview
Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
December 11, 2009 Scott Pace
George Washington University
International Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Space Policy
» Overview
Parsons Auditorium