Engineering Physics Seminars & Colloquium
Spring 2017
Martin Straka
Division of the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management, UJV Rez
Title of Presentation: An Overview of Ongoing Molten Salt Research at UJV Rez, Czech Republic
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Peter Yarsky
Nuclear Regulatory Research
Title of Presentation: Simulating Anticipated Transients without SCRAM with Instability in Boiling Water Reactors with Expanded Operating Domains
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
David LeBlanc
CTO and President of Terrestrial Energy
Title of Presentation: An Update on Terrestrial Energy and the IMSR
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Ian Hamilton
Title of Presentation: Radioisotope Batteries and Nuclear Innovation
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Wei Cai
Title of Presentation: Mesoscale Networks: from Microstructure Evolution to Material Properties
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 1610 Engineering Hall
Michal Korenko
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Title of Presentation: Molten Salts: From Fundamental Research to MSR Technology
Time: 11:45AM
Location: 106 ERB
Bruce Kammenzind
Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation, Bettis Laboratory
Title of Presentation: Brief Overview of the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Followed by Mechanisms for the In-PWR Acceleration of Zirconium Alloy Corrosion
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Mark Anderson
UW- Madison
Title of Presentation: High Temperature Energy Transfer for Sustainable Electrical Generation and Process Heat Applications
Time: 4:00PM
Location: Engineering Centers Building, Room 1025
Rachel Slaybaugh
UC- Berkeley
Title of Presentation: Advanced Solvers and Challenges for Nuclear Innovation
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Jennifer A Franck
Brown University
Title of Presentation: Simulations of Oscillating Foils with Applications to Flapping Flight and Energy Harvesting
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Manuele Aufiero
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley
Title of Presentation: Innovative Computational Methods for Advanced Reactor Design
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Brandon Miller
Idaho National Laboratory
Title of Presentation: An Overview, Material Characterization Capabilities with Results, and Future Opportunities
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Amber Robson
Clean Energy Policy Advisor, Third Way
Title of presentation: “The Role of Nuclear Energy in Deep Decarbonization”
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Rodolfo Ferrer
Lead Developer for the CASMO code systems at Studsvik Scandpower
Title of presentation: “Advanced Neutron Transport Methods for Practical Nuclear Reactor Analysis“
Time: 12:00pm
Location: 106 ERB
Richard Vasques
Project Scientist at Department of Nuclear Engineering at UC- Berkeley
Title of presentation: “Nonclassical Transport Theory and Applications“
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 106 ERB
Vasques Flyer
Kelly Jordan
Florida Power and Light Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Title of presentation: “Engineering Neutrons: Reactor Design, Experiments, and Benchmarking“
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 106 ERB
Nicolas Thiollière
Assistant Professor at the Engineering School Ecole des Mines de Nantes in France
Title of presentation: “Nuclear Scenarios studies at CNRS/IN2P3, from Reactor Simulation to Interdisciplinary“
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 106 ERB
Fall 2016
Kevin G. Field
Research scientist for the Nuclear Materials Science and Technology group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title of presentation: “R&D Activities Towards the Commercialization of Accident Tolerant FeCrAl Cladding”
Time: 2:00pm
Location: 1307 ERB
Ian Love
R&D Program Manager for Terrestrial Energy Inc.
Title of presentation: “An Overview of the Integral Molten Salt Reactor”
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm
Location: Wisconsin Energy Institute conference room 1115 (1552 University Avenue)
Dr. Peter Avitabile, PE
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Title of presentation: “Recent Advances in Measured Data Expansion for Full-Field Dynamic Response and Dynamic Strain for Linear and Non-Linear Systems (and additional applications and some other cool stuff going on in the SDASL Lab)”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Summer 2016
Professor Feng Xie
Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Title of Presentation: “Source term research in HTR-10: Tritium and Carbon-14”
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Spring 2016
Dr. Taher Saif
Professor
Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title of Presentation: “From synchrony to swimming – an engineered living machine”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Midwest Mechanics Seminar
Dr. David Srolovitz
Professor
Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
Title of Presentation: “Grand Unified Theory of Grain Boundaries”
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Dr. Adrien Couet
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Physics
UW-Madison
Title of Presentation: “PWR fuel cladding environmental degradation in normal and Loss of Coolant Accident conditions”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Dr. Koroush Shirvan
Research Scientist
Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Title of Presentation: “Multi-layer Ceramic Matrix Composite Silicon Carbide Cladding for Light Water Reactors”
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 1307
1500 Engineering Drive
Dr. Robert Peterson
XTD-IDA: Integrated Design & Assessment
Los Alamos National Laboratory
and
Dr. Brandon Smith
XCP-1: Lagrangian Codes
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title of Presentation: “Careers in National Security Science at Los Alamos National Laboratory: Recruiting Seminar”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Dr. Cristian Contescu
Senior Research Staff, Materials Science and Technology Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Title of Presentation: “This ubiquitous carbon…”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Dr. Paul Romano
Computational Scientist
Mathematics and Computer Science division
Argonne National Laboratory
Title of Presentation: “OpenMC: An Open Source Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code for Advanced R&D”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Dr. Philippe Bardet
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
Title of Presentation: “Seismic response of PWRs nuclear fuel assemblies”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Dr. Sam Sham
Technology Director
Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Title of Presentation: “High Temperature Structural Materials Challenges in Clean Energy Applications”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Midwest Mechanics Seminar
Distinguished Professor Graeme Milton
University of Utah
Title of Presentation: “Mechanical Metamaterials”
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Dr. Jess Gehin
Director, Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL)
Title of Presentation: “CASL: Progress in the Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Light Water Reactors”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Ray Rothrock
RedSeal Chairman and CEO
Title of Presentation: “21st Century Nuclear Innovation: New World. New Leadership. New Ways Forward.”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive
Professor Jacob Notbohm
Department of Engineering Physics
UW-Madison
Title of Presentation: “Internal Variables in the Equation of Motion for Collective Cell Migration”
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106
1500 Engineering Drive