Seminars

FALL 2007

Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Eric S. Snider
  Progress Energy
  Foreign Affairs and Public Communications Director
  Naval Reactors
• "Naval Nuclear Propulsion Technologies"

Wednesday, November 2007

• The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award For Excellence In Teaching, Research, And Extension
  Distinguished Lecture Series
  Lecture by the Twenty-Third Award Recipient
  
• Paul J. Turinsky
  Professor of Nuclear Engineering
  North Carolina State University
• "Nuclear Fuel Management: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges"
• Truitt Auditorium
  1402 Broughton Hall
  2:30 pm: Reception
  3:00 pm: Award Presentation and Lecture

Thursday, October 30, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Dana Knoll
  Multiphysics Methods Group
  Idaho National Laboratory
• "Jacobian-Free Newton-Krylov Methods for the Accurate Time Integration of Multiphysics Systems"

Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Dick Gombert
  Consulting Engineer
  Idaho National Laboratory
• "GNEP Integrated Waste Management Strategy"

Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Markus Berheide
  Senior Research Scientist
  Schlumberger-Doll Research
• "Nuclear Applications in the Oil Industry"

Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Shelly X. Li
  Technical Group Leader, Electrorefining Technology R&D
  Fuel Cycle Division
  Idaho National Laboratory
• "Electrorefining Experience for Pyrochemical Processing of Spent Nuclear Fuel - An Integral Part of Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle"

Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. (reception at 3:30)

• Special lecture by Dr. Alex Burkart, Deputy Director
  Office of Nuclear Energy, Safety, and Security
• "Perspectives on International Nuclear Cooperation"

Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Paul Hovland
  Argonne National Laboratory
  
• "Automatic Differentiation: Tools & Applications"

Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Tyler Schweitzer, Jason Harp, Andy Li, and Ross Hays
  Nuclear Engineering graduate students
  
• "Nuclear Engineering Graduate Student Research Panel"

Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Eric Loewen
  Chief Consulting Engineer for Advanced Plants Technology for General Electric
  
• "Climate Policy - How Legislation is Passed into Law"

Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Abhinav Gupta and Vernon Matzen
  Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
  
• "The Center for Nuclear Power Plant Structures, Equipment and Piping: Current Activities and Future Prospects "

Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Hany Abdel-Khalik
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  Department of Nuclear Engineering, NC State University
  
• "Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Simulation's Recent Developments at NCSU"

SPRING 2007

Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.

• Special Lecture by Mr. R. Shane Johnson
  Office of Nuclear Energy
  U.S. Department of Energy
  
• "The Evolving Mission of the U.S. Department of Energy"

Thursday, April 12, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• Alexander Marshak
  Goddard Space Flight Center
  NASA
  
• "Atmospheric Radiative Transfer for Satellite Remote Sensing"

Monday, April 9, 2007, 3:00 P.M.

• Yanfeng Du
  GE Global Research
  
• "Applications of Room Temperature Semiconductor CdZnTe/CdTe Detectors in Homeland Security and Medical Imaging"

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• Gary S. Was
  Professor
  Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
  University of Michigan
  
• "Use of Proton Irradiation to Study Neutron Damage in Materials"

Friday, March 30, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• Jacob Eapen
  Theoretical Divison
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  
• "Multiscale/Multiphysics Framework for Nuclear Engineering Design and Analysis"

Thursday, March 22, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• Todd Palmer
  Associate Professor
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  Oregon State University
  
• "A Comparison of Monte Carlo and Deterministic Transport Dose Calculations of the MammositeTM Breast Cancer System"

Monday, March 19, 2007, 10:00 A.M.

• Yousry Azmy
  Professor
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  Pennsylvania State University
  
• "Error Estimates for Discrete Ordinates Methods Used in
  Solving the Neutron Transport Equation"

Friday, March 16, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• Steven Shannon
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  
• "Multi-Frequency Plasma Discharges for State of the Art Micro and Nano Technology Applications Plasma"

Thursday, March 1, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• Mario D. Carelli
  Chief Scientist
  Westinghouse Electric Co.
  
• "IRIS. A new breed of PWR for deployment by the middle of next decade"

Thursday, February 22, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• L. K. Mansur
  Materials Science and Technology Division
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
• "Materials Issues in High Power Accelerators, Advanced Fission Reactors and Fusion Reactors"

Thursday, February 15, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• Raymond L. Murray
  Professor Emeritus
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  NC State University
  
• "The Manhattan Project"

Thursday, February 8, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• Karthik, IGCAR
  
• TBA

Thursday, January 25, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• David Hurley
  Physics Department
  Idaho National Laboratory
  
• "Laser-Based Methods for Determination of Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Materials in Harsh Environments"

Thursday, January 18, 2007, 4:00 P.M.

• Harold Denton
  Nuclear Safety Consultant
  
• "From License R-1 Forward: Paradigm Shifts in Nuclear Reactor Regulation"