2008 Seminars
December 11, 2008
Erich Schneider, University of Texas
Title: "A Parameterization of the Neutronic Characteristics of Recyclable Uranium"
December 10, 2008
Dave Holcomb at Ohio State University
Title: "Understanding Successors to Large Light Water Reactors Proliferation Resistance, Cost, and Safety"
December 4, 2008
Costas Tsouris at University of Cincinnati
Title: "Process Intensification: A Concept for Efficient Chemical Processing"
November 14, 2008
Mark DeHart at University of Las Vegas, Nevada
Title: "An Interactive Tutorial to Introduce the Capabilities of the SCALE 6 System"
November 13, 2008
Mark DeHart at University of Las Vegas, Nevada
Title: "The Black Art of Cross-Section Processing for Reactor Analysis"
November 5, 2008
Audeen Fentiman, Purdue University
Title: "Major Research Thrusts in Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University"
October 31, 2008
T.E. BLUE, Ohio State University
Title: "CALCULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS OF THE EFFECT OF NEUTRON IRRADIATION ON SIC SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS, SENSORS AND DEVICES"
October 30, 2008
B. L. Kirk at North Carolina State University
Title: "The Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) – In Support of the Nuclear Renaissance and Human Resource Development"
October 28, 2008
Kevin Clarno at Oregon State University
Title: "Multi-Physics and Numerical Complexities of Nuclear Reactor Simulation"
October 23, 2008
Costas Tsouris at Georgia Tech
Title: "Hydrodynamics and Interfacial Phenomena in Separtions of Nuclear Materials"
October 9, 2008
Joe Birdwell at University of Wisconsin
Title: "Nuclear and Chemical Engineering Synergies in the Fuel Cycle"
September 24, 2008
Paul Hovland and Jean Utke,Argonne National Laboratory
Title: "An Overview of Automatic Differentiation and Introduction to the OpenAD/F Tool"
September 8, 2008
Dawn Eipeldauer at University of California, Berkeley
Title: "The Path Forward - An IAEA Experience"
August 7, 2008
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
Title: "An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future"
August 5, 2008
Pavel V. Tsvetkov, Texas A&M University, College Station
Title: "High Fidelity System Modeling for Advanced Energy Technologies: Methods Development, Concepts, Design, and Analysis"
July 31, 2008
Craig Williamson,Director, South Carolina Universities Research and Education Foundation (SCUREF) Operating Manager, Southeast Universities Nuclear Reactor Institute for Science and Education Consultant, American Nuclear Society
Title: "Overview of SUNRISE and SCUREF"
July 29, 2008
John Gutteridge, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Title: "Federal Support for Nuclear Education - Stability Needed"
July 28, 2008
Ryan McLarren, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: "Numerical Methods for Radiation Hydrodynamics"
July 24, 2008
Mike Dunn, ORNL
Title: "The Voodoo Magic of Providing Nuclear Data Libraries for Radiation Transport Calculations"
July 21, 2008
Yaqi Wang, Texas A&M
Title: "Xuthus: A New Two-Dimensional Multigroup SN Transport Solver Based on a Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method with Adaptive Mesh Refinement "
July 10, 2008
Klaus Ziock, ORNL
July 17, 2008
Charlotta Sanders, University of Las Vegas, Nevada
July 10, 2008
Ed Larsen, University of Michigan
Title: "A Functional Monte Carlo Method for Neutron Transport Simulations"
July 10, 2008
Kenton J. Moody
Title: "Forensics Radiochemistry"
July 10, 2008
Troy Becker, University of Michigan
Title: "Monte Carlo/Deterministic Methods for Deep-Penetration Problems"
June 26, 2008
Ivan Maldonado
Title: "Burning the Trash - Recycling Americium-241 in a Boiling Water Reactor"
June 19, 2008
Brynn Voy, ORNL
Title: "Dissecting Genetic Susceptibility to Low-Dose Radiation Exposure using Systems Genetics "
June 17, 2008
David Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
June 12, 2008
Dawn Eipeldauer, ORNL
Title: "A Path Forward - an Experience Working at the International Atomic Energy Agency"
June 5, 2008
Elisabeth Walker, ORNL
Title: "Modified Direct Denitration–Product Conversion and the CETE Demonstration"
June 2, 2008
Matthew Francis, University of Tennessee
Title: "The Return of Nuclear Engineering to Chemistry: Chemical Applications at Nuclear Power Plants and Spallation Neutron Sources"
May 29, 2008
S. Nintcheu Fata and L. J. Gray, ORNL
Title: "Boundary Element Method for linear Partial Differential Equations"
May 14, 2008
Tim Tautges, University of Wisconsin
Title: "Geometry & Mesh Software Components for Scientific Computing"
May 8, 2008
Barry Ganapol, University of Arizona
Title: "Multipanel Formulation for Neutron Slowing Down"
April 28, 2008
William Wieselquist, North Carolina State University
Title: "The Quasidiffusion Method for Transport Problems on Unstructured Meshes of Quadrilaterals in Cartesian XY Geometry"
April 17, 2008
Fred Peretz, ORNL at University of Wisconsin
Title: "Nuclear Engineering and Oak Ridge National Laboratory "
April 11, 2008
Per Peterson, University of California, Berkeley
Title: "Recent Advances in the Application of Fluoride Salts to Cool High Temperature Reactors "
April 9, 2008
David P. Griesheimer, Daniel F. Gill, Jeffrey W. Lane, David L. Aumiller
Title: "An Integrated Thermal Hydraulic Feedback Method for Monte Carlo Reactor Calculations "
April 2, 2008
Frantisek Havluj
Title: "Modeling, Simulation and Isotopic Validation Studies for VVER Fuel Using SCALE"
March 28, 2008
Robert Joseph, University of Tennessee
Title: "Dose Equivalent Estimates for Possible Human Missions to Mars"
March 25, 2008
Jeffrey R. Preston University of Tennessee
Title: "Uncertainty Analysis and Optimization Methodology for the Design of Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles "
March 20, 2008
Jonathan Haire, ORNL at Rice University
Title: "Differences in Research Among Academia, Government Laboratories, and Industry"
March 18, 2008
Mustafa Sacit Cetiner, Pennsylvania State University
Title: "Development of an Ion Time-of-Flight Spectrometer for Neutron Depth Profiling"
March 17, 2008
Kent E. Wardle, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Computational and Experimental Analysis of the Flow in an Annular Centrifugal Contactor"
March 13, 2008
Scott Mosher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: "A Sequential Implicit Monte Carlo Method"
March 10, 2008
Alexander E. Maslowski, Department of Nuclear Engineering Texas A&M University
Title: "A New Approach to the Iterative Solution of Transport Problems"
February 27, 2008
Marco Tiziano Pigni, National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Title: "Covariance Methodology for Nuclear Data Evaluation"
February 26, 2008
Kevin Clarno at University of Texas, Austin
Title: "NEWTRNX: Massively Parallel Neutron Transport for Multi-Physics Nuclear Reactor Simulations"
February 26, 2008
Kevin Clarno at University of Texas, Austin
Title: "ORNL Nuclear Simulation and Analysis and Opportunities"
February 22, 2008
Kursat Bekar, Pennsylvania State University
Title: "MOZAIK: Modular Optimization Code Package"
February 20, 2008
Tom Evans, NSTD
Title: "SQE by Parts"
February 13, 2008
Tom Swain, University of Tennessee
Title: "Software Production Essentials: Beyond the Buzz Words"
February 1, 2008
Student Team Members The Vanderbilt Biodiesel Initiative
Title: "Vanderbilt Biodiesel Initiative "
January 30, 2008
Chaitanya Deo, Georgia Tech
Title: "Multiscale Modeling of Defect Mechanics in Materials for Advanced Nuclear Energy"
January 18, 2008
Lawrence Scheinman, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
Title: "Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty"
January 17, 2008
George Flanagan, ORNL at Seventh Day Adventist University
Title: "ORNL and the Nuclear Industry;"
January 11, 2008
Jun Li, North Carolina State University
Title: "Examining Repository Loading Options to Expand Yucca Mountain Repository Capacity"
January 10, 2008
Paul Wilson, University of Wisconsin
Title: "Innovations in 3-Dimensional Neutronics Analysis for Fusion Systems"
January 9, 2008
Michele Benzi, Emory University
Title: "Recent Advances in Large-Scale Numerical Linear Algebra"
