Seminars

FALL 2006

Thursday, December 7, 2006, 4:30 P.M., Reception at 3:45 P.M.

• The Annual Nuclear Engineering Distinguished Technical Lecture Series
• Jack Carpenter
  Technical Director
  Argonne National Laboratory’s Intense Pulsed Neutron Source
• “From the Cosmos to the Nucleus: The Early History of the Spallation Reaction”

Thursday, November 16, 2006, 4:30 P.M.

• Don Estep
  Department of Mathematics
  Colorado State University
  
• Model Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Quantification, and Error Control in a Complex World

Thursday, November 9, 2006, 4:30 P.M.

• Eric Loewen, GE
  
• GE's PRISM Design Evolution For GNEP

Monday, November 6, 2006, 4:30 P.M.

• Bruce D. Smith
  Associate Professor
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Texas San Antonio
  
• “Tomographic Collimation: Proposed Inspection Technique for Detecting Nuclear Contraband”

Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4:30 P.M.

• W. Corwin
  National Director
  Generation IV Materials Technology Program
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
• “U.S. Generation IV Reactor Integrated Materials Technology Program”

Thursday, October 26, 2006, 4:30 P.M.

• John Kessler
  Program Manager
  High-Level Waste and Spent Fuel Management Program
  Electric Power Research Institute
  
• "EPRI's Research on High Level Nuclear Waste Disposal and
  Spent Fuel Management"

Thursday, October 19, 2006, 4:30 P.M.

• Paul Turinsky
  Professor
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  North Carolina State University
  
• "Sensitivity/Uncertainty Analysis Current Status and Unsatisfied Needs [as applies to nuclear power enterprise]"

Thursday, October 5, 2006, 4:30 P.M.

• Greg Selby
  Senior Program Manager
  Electric Power Research Institute
  
• “The Role of Nondestructive Evaluation for Materials Management in the Nuclear Power Industry”

Thursday, September 28, 2006, 4:30 P.M.

• Indrajit Charit
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  North Carolina State University
  
• “Structural Materials for Gen-IV Reactors: Challenges and Opportunities”

Thursday, September 21, 2006, 4:30 P.M.

• Ronald Berliner
  Nuclear Reactor Program
  North Carolina State University
  
• “The Pulstar Neutron Powder Diffractometer”

SPRING 2006

Thursday, April 27, 2006, 4:00 P.M., Reception at 3:30 P.M.

• The Annual Nuclear Engineering Distinguished Technical Lecture Series
• Sidney Yip
  Professor of Nuclear Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• “Role of Modeling and Simulation in the Discipline of Nuclear Engineering”

Thursday, April 20, 2006, 4:00 P.M.

• Man-Sung Yim, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs of the Department of Nuclear Engineering
  Jun Li, Ph.D. Candidate
  
• “Ethical Issues in Nuclear Engineering”

Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 3:30 P.M.

• Adrian Constantinescu
  Matt Jessee
  Jun Li
  Yaxi Lui
  Chang Kim
  Fritz Schirmers
  Hengliang Shen
  Matt Stokely
  Department of Nuclear Engineering, NCSU
  
• Graduate Research Award Presentations

Thursday, April 13, 2006, 4:00 P.M.

• James Tickner
  The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
  
• “New Measurement Technologies for the Minerals and Security Industries in Australia”

Thursday, March 23, 2006, 4:00 P.M.

• Scott Hinnant, Senior Vice President - Chief Nuclear Officer
  Progress Energy
  
• “Powering the Future: An Update of What's Behind the News”

Thursday, January 12, 2006, 4:00 P.M.

• Michael R. Hartman
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  
• “Investigation of Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Materials Using Neutron Scattering Techniques”