2006 Seminars
S&MR Educational Participants Presentations
December 21 , 2006
Dr. Wesley Williams
Title: "Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Transport Phenomena in Nanoparticle Colloids (Nanofluids)"
November 30 , 2006
Jess C. Gehin at Pennsylvania State University
Title: "Advances in Analysis Methods and Reactor Simulation"
November 29 , 2006
Michael Z. Podowski, Center for Multiphase Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Instititue
Title: "Recent Advances in Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer: Nuclear Engineering Perspective" (Slides)
November 29 , 2006
Charles W. Forsberg, ORNL
Title: "Synergisms Between Nuclear Hydrogen, Renewable Electricity, and Coal Liquefaction"
November 1 , 2006
Bernadette Kirk at University of Tennessee
Title: "The Radiation Safety Information Computational Center - Half Century of support to the Nuclear Science Community"
October 20 , 2006
Dr. Thomas Evans, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: "Methods of Coupling Radiation, Ion, and Electron Energies Using Implicit Monte Carlo"
October 3, 2006
Dr. Cassiano Oliveira, Georgia Tech
Title: "Striving Towards Higher Fidelity Radiation Transport Methods: Multiphysics Coupling, Space-Angle Adaptivity, and Alternative Numerical Frameworks"
September 22, 2006
G. Ivan Maldonado, University of Cincinnati
Title: "BWR Nuclear Fuel Management Optimization: One Pellet at a Time"
September 21, 2006
Charles W. Forsberg, ORNL
Title: "The Liquid-Salt-Cooled Advanced High-Temperature Reactor for Hydrogen and Electricity" (at Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Flordia, Gainesville, Florida)
September 5, 2006
Dr. Thomas M. Miller, Bettis Atomic Power
Title: "A Reassessment of Galileo Radiation Doses in the Jupiter Magnetosphere"
August 4, 2006
B.D. Ganapol, University of Arizona
Title: "A New Analytical Solution to the Multigroup Diffusion Equation in One-Dimensional Plane Geometry"
August 3, 2006
Prof. Jim Morel, Dept of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M
Title: " A Preconditioned Krylov Method for Thermal Radiation Transport Calculations"
July 26, 2006
Don Copinger, Reactor & Facility Safety
Title: "Overview of GE's New Plant Design - the ESBWR " Available Resources
July 20, 2006
Prof. Tom Downar, Purdue University
Title: "Coupled Codes for Multi-Physics Simulation of Nuclear Reactors"
July 19, 2006
Randy Belles, Advanced Reactor Systemes
Title: "Overview of Westinghouse's New Plant Design - the AP-1000
Kevin Clarno, Reactor Analysis
Title: "Terascale Computing for Nuclear Energy "
June 28, 2006
Mark Williams, Criticality & Shielding Mth & Appl
Title: "Cross Section Processing and Nuclear Data"
June 21, 2006
Ian Gauld, Reactor Analysis Group
Title: "Application of ORIGEN for Spent Fuel Analysis, Safety, and Nuclear Safeguards"
June 14, 2006
J. L. McDuffee, Thermal Hydraulics & Irrad Engin
Title: "Materials Irradiation within the Nuclear Science and Technology Division"
June 15, 2006
Charles W. Forsberg, Rotary
Title: "The Advanced High-Temperature Reactor"
May 31, 2006
Valmor de Almeida, Separations and Material Research Group
Title: "SciDAC Tools for Nuclear Energy"
April 25, 2006
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov, Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University
Title: "Current Research on Computational Methods for Particle Transport Problems at NC State:
March 28, 2006
Zane Bell, University of Las Vegas, Nevada
Title: "Neutron Detection"
March 14, 2006
B. D. Ganapol, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona
Title: "Inside the Mind of an Analytical Benchmark Theorist"
March 6, 2006
Kevin Clarno, Texas A&M University Graduate Seminar
College Station, Texas
Title: "Nuclear Simulation @ ORNL"
March 6, 2006
Kevin Clarno, Texas A&M University Graduate Seminar
College Station, Texas
Title: "Battelle Alliance for Nuclear Energy Simulation"
March 2, 2006
Jim Rushton, Research Reactor Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia
Title: "Nuclear Science and Technology Opportunities at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory" and "Nuclear Research and Development Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory"
February 23, 2006
Panagiotis (Pan) Michaleris, PhD, Associate Professor - Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Title: "Analysis and Optimization of Coupled Multi-Physics Problems "
February 15, 2006
Claudio Gariazzo, Texas A&M
Title: "Nuclear Nonproliferation in the 21st Century: Opportunities in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory"
February 6, 2006
Dr. Sean McDeavitt, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University School of Nuclear Engineering
Title: "Materials Research in Nuclear Engineer"
January 24, 2006
Marvin Adams, Associate VP for Research, Texas A&M University
Title: "Toward ORNL/TAMU Collaborative Research (maybe on scientific simulation?)"
January 12, 2006
Greg Spriggs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title:"Livermore Weapon Activation Code (LWAC)"
