Seminars

FALL 2004

Thursday, December 2, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• James Tulenko
  Director, Laboratory for Development of Advanced Nuclear Fuels and Materials
  University of Florida
  President, American Nuclear Society
  
• “Advanced Nuclear Fuel and Materials Research at the University of Florida"

Thursday, November 11, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Indrajit Charit
  Center for Friction Stir Processing (C-FSP) and Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  University of Missouri
  
• “Friction Stir Processing for Superplasticity"

Thursday, November 4, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Hany Abdel-Khalik
  Doctoral student
  Department of Nuclear Engineering, NC State University
  
• “Adaptive Core Simulation"

Thursday, October 28, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Brian L. Bures
  Doctoral student
  Department of Nuclear Engineering, NC State University
  
• “Rapid Mortality of Pest Arthropods by Direct Exposure to a Dielectric Barrier Discharge"

Thursday, October 21, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Bobby E. Leonard
  President and Senior Scientist
  International Academy School for Nuclear Power Safety Technicians
  
• “Cellular (DNA and Chromosome) Repair Capabilities and Implications to Nuclear Workers and General Public Radiation Health Risks"

Thursday, October 14, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Juan Manuel Bravo-Sanchez
  North Carolina State University
  Former Nuclear Reactor Engineer at Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station
  
• “Experiences in Nuclear Engineering in Mexico"

Thursday, September 30, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• William Wieselquist
  North Carolina State University
  
• “Introduction to LaTeX"

Thursday, September 23, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• William Wieselquist
  North Carolina State University
  
• “Advanced Programming with Fortran95"

Thursday, September 16, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• M. Jonathan Haire
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
• “Research Opportunities with Uranium"

Thursday, September 9, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Faculty Research Interests
• Paul J. Turinsky, Professor of Nuclear Engineering
• Mohamed A. Bourham, Professor of Nuclear Engineering
• Ayman I. Hawari, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering
• Charles W. Mayo, Professor of Nuclear Engineering

Thursday, September 2, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Faculty Research Interests
• J. Michael Doster, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering
• Dmitriy Y. Anistratov, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering
• K. Linga Murty, Professor of Nuclear and Materials Engineering

Thursday, August 26, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Faculty Research Interests
• Robin P. Gardner, Professor of Nuclear and Chemical Engineering
• Man-Sung Yim, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering
• Orlando E. Hankins, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering
  

SPRING 2004

Thursday, April 29, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• The Annual Executive Lecture Series Sponsored by Progress Energy
• Andy White
  President and CEO, GE Nuclear Energy
  
• “Global Renaissance at GE Nuclear Energy"

Thursday, April 22, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Robert C. Singleterry Jr.
  NASA Administrator’s Fellow
  Langley Research Center stationed at the University of New Mexico
  
• “Space Radiation Engineering"

Thursday, April 15, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• William Charlton
  Associate Professor
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  Texas A&M University
  
• “Nuclear Forensics: Identifying the Actors Involved in an RDD Incident"

Thursday, April 12, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Denis E. Beller
  Research Professor
  University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  
• “The Reactor-Accelerator Coupling Experiments (RACE) Project
  of the U.S. Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative"

Thursday, April 1, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Hikaru Hiruta
  Ph.D. Candidate
  Department of Nuclear Engineering, NC State University
  
• “Spatially Consistent Coarse-Mesh Discretization of the Low-Order Quasidiffusion Equations for Solving Reactor-Physics Problems"

Thursday, February 26, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Thomas M. Sutton
  Advisory Scientist - Nuclear Methods and Computation
  Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
  
• “Using the Probability Table Method to Treat the Unresolved Resonance Range in Monte Carlo"

Thursday, February 19, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• Dade W. Moeller
  Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
  Chairman of the Board, Dade Moeller & Associates, Inc.
  
• “Standards for the Proposed High Level Radioactive Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain”

Thursday, February 12, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• David J. Hill
  Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear Science and Technology
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• “The Future of Nuclear Power in the US, with and without Closed Fuel Cycles”

Thursday, February 5, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• The Annual Nuclear Engineering Distinguished Technical Lecture Series
• Glenn F. Knoll, Professor Emeritus, Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan
• “Progress in Radiation Instrumentation”

Thursday, January 29, 2004, 4:00 P.M.

• George F. Flanagan,
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
• “Space Nuclear Power: Nuclear Safety Issue”