Seminars

FAll 2003

Thursday, November 13, 2003, 4:00 P.M.

• William A. Summers
  Savannah River Technology Center
  DOE Savannah River Site
• “Nuclear Energy and the Hydrogen Economy”
  

Thursday, November 6, 2003, 4:00 P.M.

• Imelda Ariani
  Electric Power Research Center
  North Carolina State University
• “Development and Verification of an Alternative Formulation for Dynamic Reactivity Measurement of Rod Worth”

Thursday, October 30, 2003, 4:00 P.M.

• Madeline Anne Feltus
  Senior Advisor for Research
  Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Program Manager
  Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology
  U. S. Department of Energy
• “Overview of the DOE Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Development and Qualification Program and Gas Reactor R&D”
• Host: Ayman Hawari

Thursday, September 18, 2003, 4:00 P.M.

• Ron Berliner
  
• “Instrumentation for Neutron Diffraction”

Thursday, September 11, 2003, 4:00 P.M.

• Walid Metwally, Post-Doc,NCSU, Department of Nuclear Engineering
  
• “Coincidence Prompt Gamma-Ray Neutron Activation Analysis (CPGNAA)”

Thursday, August 28, 2003, 4:00 P.M.

• Weijun Guo, Post-Doc, NCSU, Department of Nuclear Engineering
  
• “Improving the MCLLS Method Applied to the in Vivo XRF Measurement of Lead in Bone by Using the Differential Operator Approach (MCDOLLS) and Coincidence X-ray Fluorescence (CXRF) Spectroscopy”

Monday, August 18, 2003, 4:00 P.M.

• Ekaterina Korobkina, Research Scientist Hahn-Meitner-Institute, Berlin
  
• “Ultra-Cold Neutrons: Production and Applications”

SPRING 2003

Thursday, May 1, 2003, 4:15 P.M.

• Alice Caponiti, Department of Energy
  
• “Space Fission Reactors for Solar System Exploration - Overview and Technology Needs”

Thursday, April 24, 2003, 4:15 P.M.

• Doddy Kastanya, PhD Candidate, NCSU, Department of Nuclear Engineering
  
• “A Newton-BICGSTAB Solver in the FORMOSA-B Code”

Thursday, April 17, 2003, 4:15 P.M.

• Roberto Garcia, Adjunct Researcher Aerospace Technical Center, Institute of Advanced Studies (CTA/IEAv), Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
  
• “A Method for Computing Collision, Escape and Transmission Probabilities in Three Dimensions”

Thursday, April 3, 2003, 4:15 P.M.

• Hikaru Hiruta, PhD Student, NCSU, Department of Nuclear Engineering
  
• “Splitting Method For Solving The Coarse-Mesh Discretized Low-Order Quasidiffusion Equations”

Thursday, March 27, 2003, 4:00 P.M.

• Terry Kammash, Stephen S. Attwood, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
  University of Michigan
  
• “Adavanced Propulsion Systems for Human Space Exploration”

Thursday, February 20, 2003, 4:15 P.M.

• The Annual Nuclear Engineering Distinguished Technical Lecture Series.
  
• Edward W. Larsen, Professor, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan
  
• “Hybrid Monte Carlo – Deterministic Methods for Simulating Radiation Interactions with Matter”
• Lecture slides