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History of the APL Colloquium (1988-2006)
History of the APL Colloquium (1947-1988)
May 23, 2008
Asian Pacific American Heritage Colloquium
Anh N. Duong
Science Advisor, Office of the CNO, Pentagon
Naval Explosives Parsons Auditorium
May 16, 2008 Beth O'Leary
New Mexico State University
Space Archeology and the Lunar Legacy: One Giant Leap for Historic Preservation Parsons Auditorium
May 9, 2008 Kenneth Budka
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Public Safety Wireless Broadband Parsons Auditorium
May 2, 2008 Brandon Southall
NOAA
Marine Mammals and Noise: Science Applications and Perspectives on a Contentious (and Misrepresented) Issue Parsons Auditorium
April 25, 2008 Alan Brandt
JHU/APL
Waves, Fish and Submarines: Thirty Years of Hydrodynamics Research at APL Parsons Auditorium
April 11, 2008 Peter Thomson
Author
Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal Parsons Auditorium
April 4, 2008 Mattias Mountain
Space Telescope Science Institute
The Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope and Looking to the Future: Space Science at a Cross Road? Parsons Auditorium
April 2, 2008 Steven Benner
Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
Unconventional Forms of Life and Life Detection Parsons Auditorium
March 14, 2008 Jo Anne B. Barnhart
Former Commissioner
Social Security Administration
Challenges Facing Social Security Parsons Auditorium
February 20, 2008
Black History Month Colloquium
Dr. James Turner
National Institute of Standards and Technology
African-American Technological Contributions: Past, Present, and Future Parsons Auditorium
February 15, 2008 Colonel Michael A. Shupp, USMC
Legislative Assistant for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Battle of Falluja Parsons Auditorium
February 1, 2008 George Bibel
University of North Dakota
Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes Parsons Auditorium
January 18, 2008 Robert Strom
University of Arizona
Global Warming and the Human Condition Parsons Auditorium
January 4, 2008
A. I. Mahan Colloquium
Sam Yee
JHU/APL
Upper Atmosphere: Gateway Region for Solar-Terrestrial Interaction Parsons Auditorium
December 14, 2007 Spencer Wells
National Geographic Society
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
December 7, 2007 Sten Odenwald
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The Superstorm of 1859: Learning from the Past to Anticipate Future Consequences Parsons Auditorium
November 30, 2007 James C. Mayfield
Andrew J. Newman
Keith J. Rebello

JHU/APL
The Hart Prizes for Excellence in Independent Research & Development Parsons Auditorium
November 16, 2007 Bradley Layton
Drexel University
Bionanotechnology and Mechanoevolution Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
November 7, 2007 Sky Alibhai
and Zoe Jewell

WildTrack
WildTrack: A Synergy of Wild Beasts, Ancient Tracking Skills and Modern Techniques for Footprint Identification Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
November 5, 2007 David Mindell
MIT
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Six Lunar Landings Parsons Auditorium
October 26, 2007 Dr. Ernest A. Seglie
DOT&E - OSD
The Costs of Unsuitability and Benefits of Building-In Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Parsons Auditorium
October 12, 2007 William B. Scott
Author
Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III Kossiakoff Center Auditorium
October 5, 2007
Hispanic Heritage Colloquium
Juan Maldacena
Institute for Advanced Study
QCD, Strings and Black Holes: A Duality Between Gravity and Field Theory Parsons Auditorium
September 28, 2007 Andrew F. Cheng
JHU/APL
A Tale of Two Asteroids, or Catastrophic Disruption Revisited Parsons Auditorium
August 24, 2007 Gadi Evron
Security Evangelist, Beyond Security
Estonia: Information Warfare and Strategic Lessons Kossiakoff Center
June 6, 2007 Jeff Barr
Amazon Web Services
Building a 'Web-Scale Computing' Architecture Parsons Auditorium
June 1, 2007 William Dunham
Muhlenberg College
A Tribute to Euler Parsons Auditorium
May 18, 2007
Asian Pacific American Heritage Colloquium
Aravinda Chakravarti
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Genes for Common, Chronic Diseases Parsons Auditorium
May 16, 2007 MG David P. Fridovich
USSOCPAC
War On Terror in Asia, "Basilan Model" and Indirect Approach Parsons Auditorium
May 4, 2007 S. Fred Singer
Science & Environmental Policy Project
Origin of the Moon Parsons Auditorium
April 27, 2007 Greg Jackson
University of Maryland, College Park
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Challenges for Applications Beyond Hydrogen Parsons Auditorium
April 4, 2007 Dr. Alan Moloff
Consultant
Special Operations and Disaster Medicine. Common Challenges! Common Solutions? Kossiakoff Center
March 23, 2007 James G. Rickards
Global-I Advisors, LLC
Theory and Practice of the New Science of Market Intelligence Parsons Auditorium
March 16, 2007 Zee Duron
Harvey Mudd College
Field Procedures for Tracking Stability in Burning Buildings Parsons Auditorium
March 2, 2007 Dwayne Meadows
NOAA
Riding the World's Biggest Wave: Preparedness and Recovery Lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Thailand Parsons Auditorium
February 23, 2007 Ronald Kelly
FBI
Forensic Aspects of Explosion/Bombing Investigations Parsons Auditorium
February 16, 2007
Black History Colloquium
Isaiah Blankson
NASA Glenn
Aeronautical Research Activities in Hypersonics at the NASA Glenn Research Center Parsons Auditorium
February 9, 2007 Bruce Campbell
Smithsonian Institution
What Lies Beneath? Using Radar to Look Below the Surface of the Moon and Mars Parsons Auditorium
February 2, 2007 David Jacobson
NIST
Using Neutron Radiography to Study Hydrogen Fuel Cells Parsons Auditorium
January 19, 2007 James Bamford
Author
NSA: A History of Domestic Eavesdropping Parsons Auditorium
January 12, 2007 R. Alan King
Author
Iraq: The Past, The Present, and The Way Ahead Parsons Auditorium
January 5, 2007
A. I. Mahan Colloquium
Barry Geldzahler
NASA
Next Generation Deep Space Network: Vision for the Next 100 Years Parsons Auditorium
December 15, 2006
E. P. Gray Colloquium
Jeffery S. Lin
David G. Drewry

JHU/APL
The Hart Prizes for Excellence in Independent Research & Development
Research: Data Fusion and Hypothesis Evaluation for Syndromic Surveillance
Development: High Temperature Structures and Thermal Management Systems
Parsons Auditorium
December 8, 2006 John R. Benedict, JR,
JHU/APL
Taking a Long-Term Perspective on U.S. Navy ASW Objectives, Capabilities & Trends (Historical Survey & Projections, 1940-2020) Parsons Auditorium
December 1, 2006 Robert Farquhar, JHU/APL
Joseph Veverka, Cornell University
The Next Steps in Human Space Exploration: What are the Alternatives? Kossiakoff Center
November 16, 2006 Michael Vlahos
JHU/APL
Productive Deterrence: Preserving America at Modernity's End Kossiakoff Center
November 3, 2006 Michael Krieger
Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer
Transforming the Way DoD Shares Information Parsons Auditorium
October 20, 2006 Robb Wilcox
JHU/APL
The Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group - Science Advisor's Perspective Kossiakoff Center
October 11, 2006
Hispanic Heritage Colloquium
Anna Escobedo Cabral
U.S. Treasurer
Hispanic Heritage Month Colloquium Kossiakoff Center
May 24, 2006 Christopher Coker
London School of Economics
Ethics of the Long War Parsons Auditorium
May 19, 2006 RADM William J. McDaniel
USN (ret)
Faces of the Tsunami
Parsons Auditorium
May 12, 2006 Nathaniel Fick
Former Captain, USMC
The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Junior Officer's Perspective on What We've Learned and Where We're Going Parsons Auditorium
May 5, 2006 Barry Rubin
Global Research in International Affairs Center
The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East Parsons Auditorium
April 26, 2006 COL Geoffrey Ling, M.D., Ph.D.
DARPA
Revolutionizing Prosthetics
Parsons Auditorium
April 21, 2006 Dr. Kim Weaver
NASA Goddard
New Eyes on the Universe: Observing Beyond Hubble with NASA's Other Space Telescopes Parsons Auditorium
April 12, 2006
Dr. David F. Dinges
University of Pennsylvania
Sleep, Fatigue and Stress: Monitoring Human Behavioral Capability
Kossiakoff Center
March 31, 2006 Dr. Harold Schmitz
Mars, Inc.
Chocolate Tasting following lecture
The Science of Cocoa and Chocolate: What Do Migratory Birds and Nitric Oxide Synthesis Have In Common?
Kossiakoff Center
March 24, 2006 BG Victor N. Corpus (ret)
Armed Forces of the Philipines
The Assassin's Mace: A Worst Case Scenario for the New American Century
Parsons Auditorium
March 17, 2006 Dr. Michael A. Roberto
New York University, Stern School of Business
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes For An Answer: Managing For Conflict and Consensus
Parsons Auditorium
March 10, 2006 Sheriff Ted G. Kamatchus
Marshall County, Iowa
A Sheriff's View of Homeland Security
Parsons Auditorium
February 17, 2006
Black History Colloquium
Dr. Woodrow Whitlow, Jr.
NASA Glenn Research Center
Breakthrough Technologies that Enable Space Exploration
Parsons Auditorium
February 3, 2006 Dr. Frank Doyle
University of California - Santa Barbara
A Systems Approach to Modeling and Analyzing Biological Systems
Parsons Auditorium
January 27, 2006 Dr. Paul Spudis
JHU/APL
Robot Precursor Missions for a Human Return to the Moon
Parsons Auditorium
January 20, 2006 Mr. Ron Beard
Naval Research Laboratory
The Future of the UTC Time Scale
Parsons Auditorium
January 13, 2006 Dr. Theodor Krauthammer
Pennsylvania State University
R&D Needs for Effective Blast, Shock, and Impact Mitigation
Parsons Auditorium
January 6, 2006 Dr. Mark Lewis
Chief Scientist, USAF
Speed as a Critical Issue for the USAF
Parsons Auditorium
December 16, 2005
A. I. Mahan Colloquium
Mr. Bruce A. Dale
National Geographic Society
A Lifetime of BAD Photographs
Kossiakoff Center
December 9, 2005 Dr. Charles Nicholas
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Who Wrote This Document?
Parsons Auditorium
December 2, 2005 Dr. Steven M. Anlage
University of Maryland, College Park
Physics and Applications of Negatively Refracting Electromagnetic Materials
Parsons Auditorium
November 18, 2005 Dr. Carey M. Lisse
JHU/APL & University of Maryland
Deep Impact and Comet 9P/Tempel 1: From Evolved Surface to Interior Primeval Dust
Kossiakoff Center
November 2, 2005 Dr. Thomas P. M. Barnett
Author & Strategic Planner
Warfighting in the Twenty-First Century
Parsons Auditorium
October 28, 2005 Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Pakistan: Between Mosque, Military and Nuclear Weapons
Parsons Auditorium
October 21, 2005 Dr. Kay Jamison
JHU School of Medicine
Scientific Exuberance
Parsons Auditorium
October 14, 2005 Mr. Tom Voltaggio
US Environmental Protection Agency
Responding to Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents and Natural Disasters
Parsons Auditorium
October 7, 2005
E. P. Gray Colloquium
Dr. John C. Sommerer
JHU/APL
Science and Technology: Why Should We Care?
Parsons Auditorium
September 30, 2005
Hispanic Heritage Colloquium
VADM Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H.
U.S. Surgeon General
Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture
Parsons Auditorium
May 26, 2005
Dr. Louise Richardson
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Democracy & Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past
Parsons Auditorium
May 13, 2005
Norman Polmar
Analyst, Consultant and Author
Surprise! US and Western Intelligence and Warning Failures During the Cold War
Parsons Auditorium
May 6, 2005
Dr. Steven Bellovin
Columbia University
Permissive Action Links and the History of Public Key Cryptography
Parsons Auditorium
April 29, 2005
Dr. Raymond W. Baker
Trinity College
The Future of Islam: Egypt and the New Islamists
Parsons Auditorium
April 15, 2005
Brig Gen Duane W. Deal
USAF


Beyond the Widget: Columbia Accident Lessons Affirmed
Parsons Auditorium
April 8, 2005
Robert E. Gold
JHU/APL
Defending the Earth from Asteroid Impacts
Parsons Auditorium
April 1, 2005
Dr. Ashley Tellis
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
US-India Strategic Relations
Parsons Auditorium
March 18, 2005
Dr. Francis M. Deng
JHU/SAIS
A Clash of Identities: Darfur's Crisis in the National Context
Parsons Auditorium
March 16, 2005
Dr. Colin S. Gray
University of Reading, England
What Do We Know About Future Warfare?
Parsons Auditorium
March 11, 2005
James P. Blair
National Geographic Society
Where God Lives
Kossiakoff Center
March 9, 2005
Dr. Stephen Flynn
Council on Foreign Relations
America the Vulnerable: Can the Homeland be Secured?
Kossiakoff Center
February 18, 2005
Black History Colloquium
Dr. John Slaughter
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
Black History: A Time for a New Chapter in Science and Technology
Parsons Auditorium
February 16, 2005
Mr. Vincent Vitto
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
The Naval Studies Board and Its Views on Naval Issues
Parsons Auditorium
February 11, 2005
Dr. Hans Mark
University of Texas at Austin
Naval Applications of Electro-Magnetic Guns
Parsons Auditorium
February 7, 2005
Col Thomas X. Hammes, USMC
National Defense University
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
Parsons Auditorium
January 28, 2005
Dr. Gal Luft
Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
Terrorism on the High Seas
Parsons Auditorium
January 20, 2005
Michael Scheuer
(Anonymous)

Former CIA
They Still Don't Get It: The Danger of Ignoring Reality in the War on Terrorism
Kossiakoff Center
December 17, 2004
A. I. Mahan Colloquium
Dr. David J. Nagel
George Washington University
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions: Problems, Progress and Prospects
Parsons Auditorium
December 10, 2004
Dr. John M. Carroll
Pennsylvania State University
Scenarios and Design Cognition
Parsons Auditorium
December 3, 2004
E. P. Gray Colloquium
Dr. Stamatios (Tom) Krimigis
JHU/APL
Cassini at Saturn: Wonders of the Giant Planet Revisited
Parsons Auditorium
November 19, 2004 Dr. Jill Tarter
SETI Institute
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Pulling Signals Out of Cosmic Noise
Parsons Auditorium
November 12, 2004 Douglas Farah
Author and Journalist
Diamonds, Weapons and Passports: The Strategic Challenge of Failed States to U.S. National Security
Parsons Auditorium
October 29, 2004
Dr. Peter Heller
International Monetary Fund
Confronting Long-Term Fiscal Challenges
Parsons Auditorium
October 15, 2004 Mike Vlahos
JHU/APL
The War At Midpassage: Where Do We Go From Here?
Parsons Auditorium
October 4, 2004
John Stenbit
Formerly CIO & Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3I)
Why Net-Centric?
Parsons Auditorium
September 17, 2004
Hispanic Heritage Colloquium

Orlando Figueroa
Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs in the Science Mission Directorate, NASA
Science and the Vision for Space Exploration
Parsons Auditorium
July 15, 2004
Griff Corpening
NASA
X-43A -- The First Flight of a Scramjet Powered Airplane
Parsons Auditorium
June 25, 2004
James B. Hickey
Colonel, US Army
Capture of Saddam Hussein
Kossiakoff Center
May 24, 2004 Johnny R. Wolfe Jr.
Commander, US Navy
The Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation - A Member's Perspective
Parsons Auditorium
May 14, 2004
David Dunham
JHU/APL
Exploring the Cosmos by "Doing Something Different"
Parsons Auditorium
May 7, 2004 Dr. Norman Friedman
Defense Analyst
Where Is the Navy Likely To Go?
Parsons Auditorium
April 30, 2004
Dava Sobel
Author
Galileo in the Applied Physics Laboratory
Parsons Auditorium
April 23, 2004
James Oberg
Author
China's Great Leap Upward -- How Realistic Are Its Space Ambitions?
Parsons Auditorium
April 16, 2004
John T. Emmert
George Mason University & NRL
Climate Change at the Edge of the Atmosphere: Evidence of Long-Term Thinning
Parsons Auditorium
April 2, 2004
MG Robert H. Scales, Jr., USA (Ret)
Lessons Learned From The Iraq War
Parsons Auditorium
March 26, 2004
Maynard Hill
JHU/APL-Retired
Trans-Atlantic Radio Controlled Model Flight
Parsons Auditorium
March 19, 2004
Avi Rubin
JHU-Homewood

Security Issues in Electronic Voting
Parsons Auditorium
March 5, 2004
Wayne Merry
American Foreign Policy Council

The Future of Trans-Atlantic Relations: Thinking Beyond NATO
Parsons Auditorium
February 27, 2004
Dr. Richard Restak
Neurology Associates
The New Brain: The Role of Technology in Changing Our Concepts About Neuroscience
Parsons Auditorium
February 20, 2004
Dr. Sunil Khilnani
JHU - SAIS
South Asia on the Edge
Parsons Auditorium
February 6, 2004
Black History Colloquium
Ellis Barksdale
Barksdale Solutions

E 3 = Egypt, Engineering and Education
Parsons Auditorium
January 30, 2004
Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan
Virginia Tech

System X: Building the Virginia Tech Supercomputer
Parsons Auditorium
January 23, 2004
A. I. Mahan Colloquium

Major General Robert F. Behler, USAF (ret)
JHU/APL

Enforcing US Foreign Policy from the Edge of Space
Parsons Auditorium
January 16, 2004
Dr. Sheldon Jacobson
University of Illinois, Urbana

Understanding Aviation Security Issues using Operations Research Models and Analysis
Parsons Auditorium
January 9, 2004
Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski, USN (ret)
Director, Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Force Transformation
Parsons Auditorium
December 19, 2003
Admiral Dennis C. Blair, USN (ret)
President, Institute for Defense Analyses

Future Strategic Strike Forces
Parsons Auditorium
November 21, 2003
Phillip Longman
New America Foundation

The Geo-Politics of Global Aging: Fertility Decline and the Fate of Nations
Parsons Auditorium
November 14, 2003
Bradley C. Edwards
Institute for Scientific Research

The Space Elevator
Parsons Auditorium
October 24, 2003
E. P. Gray Colloquium

James Franson
JHU/APL

Quantum Computing Using Linear Optics
Parsons Auditorium
October 17, 2003
Antulio J. Echevarria II
U.S. Army War College

Globalization and the Nature of War
Parsons Auditorium
September 19, 2003
Knox Andress
Christus Schumpert Health System

Hospital Emergency Management for WMD: An Overview
Parsons Auditorium
September 5, 2003
George Friedman
Strategic Forecasting Inc.

The Iraq Campaign: An Episode in a War
Parsons Auditorium
May 16, 2003
New Critical Challenge Colloquium

Sheldon Greenberg
The Johns Hopkins University Division of Public Safety Leadership

The Hidden Facts About First Responder Readiness
Parsons Auditorium
May 9, 2003
William Farrell
NASA/GSFC

The Electro-Meteorology of Dust Devils
Parsons Auditorium
May 2, 2003
Angela Stent
Georgetown University

U.S. - Russian Relations After the Iraq War
Parsons Auditorium
May 1, 2003
New Critical Challenge Colloquium

Edward MacKerrow
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Threat Anticipation Program: Agent-Based Simulation of Factors Motivating Terrorism
Kossiakoff Center
April 25, 2003
Victor Utgoff
Institute for Defense Analysis

Running for Sheriff
Parsons Auditorium
April 11, 2003
Alan Rudolph
DARPA

Harvesting Biology for Defense Technology
Parsons Auditorium
April 4, 2003
Jason Ellis
National Defense University

The Best Defense: Counterproliferation and U.S. National Security
Parsons Auditorium
March 28, 2003
Guy M. McKhann & Marilyn S. Albert
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Keeping Your Brain Young
Parsons Auditorium
March 21, 2003
Gerald M. Stokes
Univ. of Maryland & Pacific Northwest Natl. Laboratory

Two Grand Challenges of Climate Research
Kossiakoff Center
March 7, 2003
New Critical Challenge Colloquium

Peter F. Verga
Dept. of Defense Homeland Security

DOD Role in Homeland Security
Kossiakoff Center
February 25, 2003
New Critical Challenge Colloquium

Ruth Wedgwood
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Preemptive Self-Defense and the U.N. Charter
Parsons Auditorium
February 21, 2003
Black History Colloquium

Anthony D. King
Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.

Global Connectivity: Leveraging Remote Access Technology
Kossiakoff Center
February 7, 2003
Tim Miller
JHU-Applied Physics Laboratory

High Energy Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole
Parsons Auditorium
January 31, 2003
New Critical Challenge Colloquium

Stephen Biddle
U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute

Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy
Kossiakoff Center
January 24, 2003
Thomas Ferguson
U.S. Dept. of The Treasury, Bureau of Engraving & Printing

Design and Counterfeit Deterrence
Parsons Auditorium
January 17, 2003
George Ayittey
American University

West Africa: Its Strategic Importance
Parsons Auditorium
January 10, 2003
Victor Yakovenko
Univ. of Maryland

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income and Wealth
Parsons Auditorium
December 13, 2002
A. I. Mahan Colloquium

Stuart Gilman
The Ethics Resource Center

Ethics in Science, Engineering and Organizations
Parsons Auditorium
December 6, 2002
Samuel C. Colbeck
U.S. Army Cold Regions Res. & Eng. Laboratory

The Physics of Snow and Skiing: What is Snow Anyway?
Parsons Auditorium
November 22, 2002
New Critical Challenge Colloquium

Richard D. Fisher, Jr.
The Jamestown Foundation

China's Military Modernization
Kossiakoff Center
November 15, 2002
Robert Ehrlich
George Mason Univ.

Crazy Ideas in Science
Parsons Auditorium
November 8, 2002
Benjamin F. Chao
NASA/GSFC

Time-Variable Gravity from Space: Quarter Century of Observations, Mysteries and Prospects
Kossiakoff Center
October 25, 2002
New Critical Challenge Colloquium

Vicki Freimuth
Center for Disease Control
The Anthrax Attacks and CDCs Communication Response
Kossiakoff Center
October 18, 2002
Edward Liszka
Applied Research Laboratory-Pennsylvania State Univ.
Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State Univ.: An Overview Parsons Auditorium
October 11, 2002
Robert Fischell
Fischell Biomedical, LLC
Coated Stents: A Major Breakthrough in the Treatment of Heart Disease Kossiakoff Center
October 4, 2002
E. P. Gray Colloquium

Robert Fry
APL
The Engineering of Cybernetic Systems: From Neurons to Ballistic Missile Defense Kossiakoff Center
June 17, 2002
New Critical Challenge Colloquium

Richard Haver
OSD
Technology and the Needs of the Intelligence Community Kossiakoff Center
May 17, 2002 John Gearhart
JHU-SOM
Stem Cell Research Parsons Auditorium
May 10, 2002 Jeng-Hwa Yee &
David Kusnierkiewicz

APL's Space Dept.
TIMED Spacecraft: Science & Technology Parsons Auditorium
May 3, 2002 David Kestenbaum
Natl. Public Radio
My Father Sees Muons in the Driveway or How to Explain Physics to Everybody Else Parsons Auditorium
April 26, 2002
New Critical Challenge Colloquium
R. James Woolsey
Shea & Gardner
Possible U.S. Responses to Terrorism Kossiakoff Center
April 19, 2002 Lester Salamon
JHU-Inst. for Policy Studies
Global Civil Society: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector Parsons Auditorium
April 12, 2002 Michael E. O'Hanlon
Brookings Inst.
Military Transformation & Defense Policy Choices Parsons Auditorium
April 5, 2002 Mario Livio
Space Telescope Science Inst.
Beauty and the Accelerating Universe Parsons Auditorium
March 22, 2002 John N. Moore
U. of Virginia
Law of the Sea Treaty Kossiakoff Center
March 15, 2002
New Critical Challenge Colloquium
James F. Jarboe
FBI Headquarters
Counterterrorism Kossiakoff Center
March 8, 2002 Gail Richter-Nelson
JHU-Eisenhower Library
Center for Educational Resources at Homewood Parsons Auditorium
March 1, 2002 Millard Firebaugh
General Dynamics, Electric Boat Div.
Submarine Design and Construction Parsons Auditorium
February 22, 2002
Black History Colloquium
Calvin Mackie
Tulane Univ.
African Americans and technology: A Harbinger of the Future Parsons Auditorium
February 15, 2002 R. Keith Raney
APL
From Geosat into the ABYSS: Ocean Radar Altimetry at APL Parsons Auditorium
February 8, 2002 John Langford
Aurora Flight Sciences Corp.
Advanced UAV for Science Defense and Applications Parsons Auditorium
February 1, 2002
New Critical Challenge Colloquium
Bradley Roberts
Inst.of Defense Analysis
Bioterrorism
Kossiakoff Center
January 25, 2002 David Zubrow
Carnegie Mellon Inst.
Measurement and the Capability Maturity Model Integration Parsons Auditorium
January 18, 2002
Scot Kuo
Biomedical Eng. - JHU
Nano-Tracking: Cell Mechanics Without Pulling or Prodding Parsons Auditorium
January 11, 2002 Roger R. Schell
Aesec Corp.
Computer Security Kossiakoff Center
December 19, 2001
New Critical Challenge Colloquium
S. Frederick Starr
JHU School of Advanced International Studies
Central Asia
Parsons Auditorium
December 14, 2001
A. I. Mahan Colloquium
Donald Duncan
JHU - Applied Physics Laboratory
RDT&E in Navy Programs: Optics at ADSD Parsons Auditorium
December 7, 2001 Norman Owsley
ONR
On Environmental Limits to Sonar Performance
Parsons Auditorium
November 29, 2001
New Critical Challenge Colloquium
Marius Deeb
SAIS
On Why Bin Laden?
 
November 16, 2001 Melissa McGrath
STScI
Jupiter's Galilean Satellites
Parsons Auditorium
November 9, 2001 Walter Dyer
BMDO
Advanced Electro-Optic Technologies for Ballistic Missile Defense
Kossiakoff Center
November 5, 2001
New Critical Challenge Colloquium
Michael Vlahos
JHU/APL
Upcoming Upheavals
Kossiakoff Center
November 2, 2001 Michael O.Wheeler
SAIC
Changing Directions in U.S. Defense Policy
Parsons Auditorium
October 26, 2001
David W. Jourdan
Nauticos Corp.
The Discovery and Salvage of DAKAR
Kossiakoff Center
October 19, 2001
New Critical Challenge Colloquium
Bruce Hoffman
The Rand Corp.
Change and Continuity in Terrorism
Kossiakoff Center
October 12, 2001 Christopher J. Lobb
U. of MD
Smaller, Faster, Cheaper: From Transistors to Artificial Microstructures
Parsons Auditorium
October 5, 2001
E. P. Gray Colloquium
Paul J. Waltrup
JHU-Applied Physics Laboratory
Hypersonic Air Breathing Propulsion: Future Flight Vehicles
Parsons Auditorium
July 18, 2001 William A. Wulf
President, Natl. Academy of Engineering
Technology Societal Issues
Parsons Auditorium
May 18, 2001 Joseph Peri
APL
Data Fusion & Target ID: Dempster-Shafer & Probability Theories Holy War
Parsons Auditorium
May 11, 2001 Terry Collins
Carnegie-Mellon U.
Green Chemistry
Kossiakoff Center
May 4, 2001 Dennis McBride
U. of Central Florida
Simulation and Training
Parsons Auditorium
April 27, 2001 Raman Sundrum
JHU - Dept. of Phys. & Astron.
Extra Dimensions & Weakness of Gravity
Parsons Auditorium
April 20, 2001 Kenna Peusner
George Washington U. Medical Center
A Promising Model to Investigate Brain Plasticity
Parsons Auditorium
April 6, 2001 Jim Allen
Sandia National Lab.
Intelligent Micromachine Initiative and MEMS Fabrication Technologies
Kossiakoff Center
March 30, 2001 Andrew Cheng
APL
NEAR at Eros
Kossiakoff Center
March 23, 2001 Louise Shelley
American U.
Transnational Crime & Corruption
Parsons Auditorium
March 16, 2001 Anne Kinney
NASA Headquarters
From Red Dropouts to Pale Blue Dots: The Science of the Origins Theme
Parsons Auditorium
March 9, 2001 Peter Loscocco
NSA
Security Enhanced Linux
Kossiakoff Center
March 2, 2001 Tee L. Guidotti
George Washington U.
Bioterrorism
Parsons Auditorium
February 23, 2001 Aprille Ericsson-Jackson
NASA Goddard
Microwave Anisotropy Probe: Stability, Design and Analysis
Parsons Auditorium
February 16, 2001 Robert W. Flower
U. of MD
Medical Applications of One APL Technology:Coming Full Circle
Parsons Auditorium
February 9, 2001 Adm. Stansfield Turner
Ex-Director of CIA
The Dilemma of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
Kossiakoff Center
February 2, 2001 Chia-Ling Chien
JHU-Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Heterostructures and Spintronics
Parsons Auditorium
January 26, 2001 Gregory Hager
JHU-Dept. of Computer Science
Software Systems for Vision-Based Interaction & Control
Parsons Auditorium
January 19, 2001 Athena Andreadis
U. Mass. Medical School
Human Settlement of Other Planets
Parsons Auditorium
January 5, 2001 Alexander Szalay
JHU - Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Digital Sky Survey
Parsons Auditorium
December 15, 2000
A. I. Mahan Colloquium
Sayeed Choudhury
JHU - MSE Library
The Digital Knowledge Center
Parsons Auditorium
December 8, 2000 James Hahn
George Washington Univ.
The Virtual World of the Computer
Parsons Auditorium
December 1, 2000 William Harris
Critical Information Assessment Office - Wash.DC
Improving Surface Transportation Security
Parsons Auditorium
November 17, 2000 David M. Schubert
ONR
Naval Science and Technology Initiatives
Kossiakoff Center
November 10, 2000
Millenial Challenges Colloquium
Virginia Trimble
U. Maryland-College Park
Astrophysics Faces The Millennium
Kossiakoff Center
November 3, 2000 Richard J. Foch
NRL
Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
Kossiakoff Center
October 27, 2000 Stephen G. Brush
U.Maryland - College Park
Why was Relativity Accepted
Kossiakoff Center
October 20, 2000
E. P. Gray Colloquium
Donald G. Mitchell
JHU-Applied Physics Laboratory
Images of the Magnetosphere
Kossiakoff Center
October 10, 2000
Millenial Challenges Colloquium
Daniel S. Goldin
NASA
NASA in the 21st Century
Kossiakoff Center
June 9, 2000
Millenial Challenges Colloquium
Robert Skinner, Jr.
Transportation Research Board
Transportation in the 21st Century
Kossiakoff Center
June 2, 2000 James Mayfield
JHU - Applied Physics Laboratory
Intelligent Web Searching
Parsons Auditorium
May 19, 2000 Claude R. Canizares
M.I.T.
First Results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Parsons Auditorium
May 12, 2000 James W. Head
Brown University
Water on Mars: Recent Results on Oceans and Polar Deposits
Parsons Auditorium
April 28, 2000
Millenial Challenges Colloquium
Frank L. Fernandez
Director, DARPA
DARPA in the 21st Century
Kossiakoff Center
April 14, 2000
Millenial Challenges Colloquium
Shirley Ann Jackson
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Science & Engineering Education of Women in the 21st Century
Kossiakoff Center
April 7, 2000
Millenial Challenges Colloquium
Rear Admiral Rodney P. Rempt and Rear Admiral Michael G. Mullen
U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy in the 21st Century
Kossiakoff Center
March 31, 2000 C. Lee Giles
NEC Research Institute
Searching the Web: It is Worse than you Thought
Parsons Auditorium
March 17, 2000 John D. Anderson
National Air & Space Museum
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Parsons Auditorium
March 10, 2000 Gregory Chaitin
IBM
A Century of Controversy over the Foundations of Mathematics
Parsons Auditorium
March 3, 2000 Michael I. Miller
JHU-Center for Imaging Science
Deformable Templates and Image Understanding
Parsons Auditorium
February 25, 2000 Frank E. McGarry
Computer Sciences Corp.
Attaining Level 5 in the Capability Maturity Model
Parsons Auditorium
February 18, 2000
Millenial Challenges Colloquium
Richard T. Roca
Director - Applied Physics Laboratory
A Telecommunications Architecture for the 21st Century
Kossiakoff Center
February 11, 2000
Black History Colloquium
Ronald Demon
VectraSense Technologies Inc.
Footwear Technology on the Cutting Edge: Computerized Footwear
Parsons Auditorium
February 4, 2000 Michael Zolensky
NASA Johnson Space Center
Extraterrestrial Water
Parsons Auditorium
January 28, 2000 Ralph Chapman
Smithsonian Institution
The Virtual Triceratops-Creating the First Digital Dinosaur
Parsons Auditorium
January 21, 2000 Eberhardt Rechtin
University of Southern California (Retired)
Systems Architecting of Organizations
Parsons Auditorium
January 14, 2000
Millenial Challenges Colloquium
William R. Brody
President - The Johns Hopkins University
The Quantum Physics Model of the Univ. in the New Millennium
Kossiakoff Center
January 7, 2000 Marc G. Millis
NASA
Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Research Program
Parsons Auditorium
December 17, 1999
A. I. Mahan Colloquium
Isaac N. Bankman
JHU - Applied Physics Laboratory
Laser Radar in Ballistic Missile Defense
Parsons Auditorium
December 10, 1999 Thomas H. Guderjan
St. Mary's University
Blue Creek: An Ancient Maya City
Parsons Auditorium
December 3, 1999 Mario Acuna
NASA
Mars Global Surveyor
Parsons Auditorium
November 19, 1999 Russell Howard
Naval Research Laboratory
Space Weather