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

FALL 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.

• Dr. Cecil Parks

  Acting Director, Nuclear Science and Technology Division
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
  

• "Overview of Nuclear Science and Technology R&D at ORNL"

Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.

• Dr. Brian M. Adams

  Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification

  Sandia National Laboratories
  
  

• "Uncertainty Quantification Methods Enabling Credible Simulation"

  
  
  

Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 4::00 p.m.

• Dr. David Petti
  Director, NGNP R&D
  Director VHTR Technology Development Office
  Laboratory Fellow
  Idaho National Laboratory
  
  
• "Status on NGNP and Its Technology Development"

Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Dr. William J. Kinsella
  Associate Professor of Communication
  Interdisciplinary Program Director
  Science, Technology & Society, North Carolina State University

• "Nuclear Energy in Germany : Institutional, Political, and Public Communication in a Changing Social Context"

Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Dr. David Kropaczek
  Chief Operating Officer and Product Development Leader Studsvik Scandpower

• "Multi-cycle Nuclear Fuel Optimization Based on Parallel Simulated Annealing With Mixing of States"

Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Dr. Zhong He
  Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
  The University of Michigan
  
  
• "Polaris 3-D CdZnTe Gamma-Ray Detectors and Their Applications"

Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Ethan Bodnaruk, Engineer and Regional manager
  Global Threat Reduction Initiative
  National Nuclear Security Administration

• " NNSA Global Threat Reduction Initiative"

Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Sam Volk, Inservice Inspection and Alloy 600 Program Manager
  &
  Dana Covill, Principal Engineer, Materials
  Chief Engineering Section
  Progress Energy
  
• "Alloy 600 and a Practical Management Approach"

Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Todd Urbatsch, Monte Carlo Team Leader
  Computational Physics Group
  Los Alamos National Laboratory

• "Simulating Real X-Ray Transport with Monte Carlo: Numerical Methods, Algorithms, Software, and Totally Juiced Supercomputers"

Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Dr. Cameron W. Coates
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• "System Effectiveness Model Formulation With Application To A Domestic Nuclear Safeguards Systems"

Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• John Oakberg
  Senior Information Analyst (retired)
  International Atomic Energy Agency

• "International Nuclear Safeguards"

Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Graduate Student Profiles:

• Steve Skutnik. “OASIS: A Simplified User Interface for Advanced Fuel Cycle Analysis in SCALE ”

• Cyrus Proctor. “Implementation of an Efficient Subspace Method in ERANOS”

SPRING 2009

Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Fred Beranek
  Environmental, Safety, Health and Quality Assurance Manager
  The Hanford Site, Richland, WA

• "Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposition at the Hanford Site"

Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Brian Hehr, PhD Candidate
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  NC State University
  
• "Calculation of the thermal neutron scattering cross section of alpha quartz"

Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Roger Sit
  Radiation Safety Officer
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• "Investigation of the Feasibility of a Small Scale Transmutation Device"

Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• G. Robert Odette
  Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Materials
  University of California at Santa Barabara

• Nuclear Engineering
  Distinguished Technical Lecture
  
  "Can We Teach an Old Dog (Steels) Some New Tricks? Nanostructured Ferritic Alloys for Advanced Fission and Fusion Energy"

Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• John Mattingly
  Sandia National Laboratory

• "Solution of Multivariate Inverse Radiation Transport Problems"

Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Phil Sharpe
  Fusion Safety Program
  Idaho National Laboratory

• "ITER: Realizing Nuclear Fusion Power"

Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Dr. Tom Evans, Research Scientist
  Radiation Transport and Shielding Group
  Nuclear Science and Technology Division
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• "HPC Development and Research in Radiation Transport: Methods, Algorithms, and Code"

Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Prof. Susan G. Sterrett
  Department of Philosophy
  Duke University
  

• "Nuclear Energy and Environmental Ethics: What Is the Question?"

Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Dr. Walid Metwally
  Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas
  Nuclear Methods Group
  
  
• "Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Overview and Recent Scrutiny"

Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• M. Dawn Eipeldauer
  Training Manager for Nuclear Nonproliferation
  
  
• " A Path Forward ‘Experience at International Atomic Energy Agency"

Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Keyes Niemer
  Module Program Project Manager
  Shaw Group
  
  
• "AP1000™ Modules"

Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 4 p.m.

• Robert T. Jubin
  Distinguished R& D Staff Member
  Nuclear Science and Technology Division
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
  
• "AFCI Separations Activities"

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 4 p.m

• Eric Loewen, PhD
  Chief Consulting Engineer, Advanced Plants Technology
  General Electric-Hitachi Nuclear
  
  
• "Closing the Fuel Cycle"

Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 4 p.m

• William Wieselquist
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  NC State University
  
  
• "A Quasidiffusion Method for Transport Problems on Unstructured Meshes"
  

• The Annual NE Distinguished Technical Lecture Series

• The Annual Progress Energy Nuclear Engineering Exectutive Lecture Series

• NE Seminars in 2008

• NE Seminars in 2007

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• NE Seminars in 2005

• NE Seminars in 2004

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• NE Seminars in 2002

• NE Seminars in 2001