Seminars

All department seminars are held on Thursdays at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Seminars are held in Progress Energy Lecture Hall, 1202 Burlington Engineering Laboratories.

Light refreshments will be served 15 minutes before the start of seminars.

Seminars are open to the public.

Coordinator of NE Graduate Research Seminars: Dr. Man Sung Yim

SPRING 2008

Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 4 p.m.

• Dorwin C. Black
  Electronic Support Measures (ESM) Branch
  Naval Research Laboratory
  
• "Automated Emitter Classification Using Dempster-Shafer Reasoning"

Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.

• Massimo Salatores
  Scientific Advisor to the Director of the
  Nuclear Energy Division of the CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Cadarache, France)
  
  
• Nuclear Engineering
  Distinguished Technical Lecture
  "A Physicist Trip From Nuclear Data To Transmutation
  (With A ‘Return' Ticket)"

Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.

• J. Michael Doster
  Associate Professor
  NC State's Nuclear Engineering Department
  
  
• TBA

Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.

• Jim Scarola
  Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer
  Progress Energy
  
  
• Progress Energy Nuclear Engineering
  Distinguished Executive Lecture
  "Nuclear Renaissance - Real Or Pipe Dream"
  
  

Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 4 p.m.

• Frank T. Princiotta
  Director of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division
  National Risk Management Research Laboratory
  Office of Research and Development
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  
• "The Role of Power Generation Technology in Mitigating
  Global Climate Change"

Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 4 p.m.

• Ashok Bhatnagar
  Senior Vice President
  Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  

• "TVA’s New Nuclear Projects"

Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 1:00 p.m.

• David Hill
  Deputy Laboratory Director for Science & Technology
  Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
  
  
• "INL, the Nation's Nuclear Energy National Laboratory"

Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 4 p.m.

• Jacob Eapen
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  NC State University
  

• "Nanomaterials and Multiscale Modeling in Nuclear Engineering"

Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 4 p.m.

• H.K. Choi
  Manager
  Advanced Nuclear Projects
  Washington Group
  

• "Are We Ready for the Upcoming Nuclear Renaissance in the U.S.?"

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 4 p.m.

• Joint Seminar by Nuclear Engineering & Physics
  
  
• George H. Miley, Professor
  Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• "Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Fusion: Physics and Applications"
  

Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 4 p.m.

• Avneet Sood, Adjunct Assistant Professor
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  X-3, Eolus/MCNP Monte Carlo Team
  

• "Analytic Verification of Non-Boltzmann Problems"

Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 4 p.m.

• Spencer W. Semmes, P.E.
  Supervisor, Engineering and Technology North Anna 3 Combined License Project Dominion Resources
  
• "Dominion and the Future of Nuclear Power"

Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.

• Joint Nuclear Engineering / Mechanics and Materials Seminar
• Thak Sang Byun
  Materials Science & Technology Division
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
• "Advances in Understanding Deformation in Irradiated Metallic Materials: True Stress Parameters and Deformation Mode Maps"

Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.

• Robert M. Mayo
  SNM Movement Detection, Radiation Sensors, Advanced Materials Program Manager
  Proliferation Detection Office
  Office of Nonproliferation Research and Development
  Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
  National Nuclear Security Administration
  U.S. Department of Energy
  
• "Radiation Detection for National Security Applications"

Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.

• Steven C. Shannon
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  NC State University
  
• "Multi-Frequency CCP Discharges for State of the Art Micro- and Nano-Scale Manufacturings"

Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.

• Jeremy Moxom
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  NC State University
  
• "Development and Application of Intense Positron Source at the
  PULSTAR Nuclear Reactor"

• The Annual NE Distinguished Technical Lecture Series

• The Annual Progress Energy Nuclear Engineering Exectutive Lecture Series

• NE Seminars in 2007

• NE Seminars in 2006

• NE Seminars in 2005

• NE Seminars in 2004

• NE Seminars in 2003

• NE Seminars in 2002

• NE Seminars in 2001