Engineering Physics Seminars & Colloquium
Fall 2019
Teddy Kent
Title of Presentation: Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop (METL): A Liquid Sodium Test Facility
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Dr. Phillip Reu, Sandia National Laboratories
Title of Presentation: TBD
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Muhammad Abir
Title of Presentation: Neutron Imaging- A Nondestructive Diagnostic Tool for Material Science
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Prof. Nathan Salowitz, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Title of Presentation: Design and analysis of piezoelectric transducers for ultrasonic
inspection of plate‐like structures
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
The Mechanics Seminar Series
co-sponsored by Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, WISELI
Prof. Jenn Stroud Rossmann
Title of Presentation: TBD
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Astronaut Brewster Shaw
Title of Presentation: Achieving Your Potential
Time: 2:30PM
Location: 1003 ECB
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Student Talks:
- Dr. Jizhe Cai, postdoc in Engineering Physics, UW-Madison (Thevamaran Lab);
- Yanghao “Harry” Fang (Thevamaran Lab), graduate student in Materials Science & Engineering, UW‐Madison
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Stephanie Diem
Title of Presentation: Unique Solutions to the Challenges of Microwave Coupling in Overdense Plasmas
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
The Mechanics Seminar Series & Midwest Mechanics Seminar
Dr. Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
Title of Presentation: Towards Exascale Simulation of Turbulent Combustion in Complex Flows Relevant to High-Efficiency Engines
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Scott Mobley
Title of Presentation: Progressives in Navy Blue: How the Struggle between Technology and Strategy Forged a New Navy, 1873-1898
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Student Talks:
- Alana Stempien (Crone Lab), graduate student in Biomedical Engineering, UW-Madison;
- Vinay Damodaran (Prabhakar Lab), graduate student in Civil & Environmental Engineering, UW‐Madison
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Samuel Briggs
Title of Presentation: Enabling advanced nuclear reactor technologies through materials design and engineering
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Prof. Nimish Pujara
Title of Presentation: Flow and friction on the beach due to breaking waves
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Craig Marianno
Title of Presentation: Radiological Emergency Response and the Use of Search Dogs in Contaminated Environments
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
The Mechanics Seminar Series & Midwest Mechanics Seminar
Prof. Nadia Lapusta
Title of Presentation: Mechanics of earthquakes: extreme localization, frictional instability, and fluid effects
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Prof. Krishnan Suresh
Title of Presentation: Research Opportunities at the Cross‐Roads of Design,
Manufacturing and High‐Performance Computing
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Prof. Mike Graham
Title of Presentation: Blood, bacteria and boundary integrals: dynamics of cells in flow
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Dr. Kelly Senecal
Title of Presentation: CONVERGE-ing in Madison: An Introduction to Convergent Science
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Spring 2019
Rachel Slaybaugh
Title of Presentation: Computing in Nuclear Engineering: Moving Beyond Today’s Limitations
Time: 10:30AM
Location: 106 ERB
Shimon Kolkowitz
Title of Presentation: Probing magnetic noise near surfaces with spin qubits in diamond
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Nikolai Mokhov and Mr. Patrick Hurh
Title of Presentation: The Material Challenges of Next Generation Neutrino Beam Targetry
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Michael Short
Title of Presentation: Hastening Innovation in Materials for Energy
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
The Mechanics Seminar Series & Midwest Mechanics Seminar
Detlef Lohse
Title of Presentation: Droplets and bubbles with phase transitions
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Jonathan W. Engle
Title of Presentation: Mn-51 and -52g for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Madicken Munk
Title of Presentation: Tools for Transformation: Computational Methods and Modeling in Nuclear Engineering
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Igor Bargatin
Title of Presentation: Plate mechanical metamaterials and their applications
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Dr. Camille Palmer
Title of Presentation: NuScale Plant Electromagnetic Pulse Resilience in Reducing the Threat of a ‘Very Bad Day’
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Jeff Terry
Title of Presentation: Using Fundamental Characterization Tools to Understand the Chemistry of Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuels
Time: 1:15PM
Location: 265 MSE
Florent Heidet
Title of Presentation: Current status of the VTR core design
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Charles G. Bathke
Title of Presentation: Graded Safeguards Tables, Materials Attractiveness, and Bare Critical Mass
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Jamie Coble
Title of Presentation: Data-Driven Decision Making for Economic Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Maintenance
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Matthew Weathered
Title of Presentation: Overview of METL, Argonne’s Foremost Liquid Sodium Test Facility
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Marat I. Latypov
Title of Presentation: From physics-based models to materials research in the cloud
Time: 1:30PM
Location: 265 MSE
Dan J. Thoma
Title of Presentation: The Effect of Alloying on the Structure and
Properties of Uranium
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Yongfeng Zhang
Title of Presentation: Microstructure-based modeling of nuclear materials in extreme conditions
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Xing Wang
Title of Presentation: Designing radiation-resistant materials using structural and chemical complexity
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Enrique Martinez Saez
Title of Presentation: Understanding Radiation-Induced Segregation and Precipitation in Fe-Cr Alloys Using a Multiscale Modeling Framework
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Adib Samin
Title of Presentation: A multiscale analysis of transport in nuclear material systems
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Anter El-Azab
Title of Presentation: Recent progress in continuum dislocation dynamics and mesoscale plasticity
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Victor M. Zavala
Title of Presentation: Optimization of Energy Systems: At the Interface of Data, Modeling, and Decision-Making
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Kumar Sridharan
Title of Presentation: Materials Research and Development for the Harsh Environments of Nuclear Energy Systems
Time: 1:00PM
Location: 265 MS&E
Fall 2018
Dr. Troy C. Haskin
Title of Presentation: Next Generation Severe Accident and Dynamic Event Tree Modeling
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Tom Gray
Title of Presentation: Nuclear Security: Challenges and Opportunities
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Thomas Fanning
Title of Presentation: Sodium Fast Reactors and the Versatile Test Reactor
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Midwest Mechanics Seminar
Davide Bigoni
Title of Presentation: Instabilities in solids and structures: folding of
continua and fluttering of rods
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Dr. David A. Petti
Title of Presentation: MIT Study on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Midwest Mechanics Seminar
Andrew N. Norris
Title of Presentation: Transformation Acoustics, Phononic Structures and Applications
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Professor Xiaoping Qian
Title of Presentation: Computational Design in the Era of Additive Manufacturing
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Dr. Mary Baker
Title of Presentation: Methods for Simulation of Flight Vehicle Dynamic Environments with the Goal of Understanding the Statistics and Uncertainty of the Result
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1106 ME
Dr. Brain Kiedrowski
Title of Presentation: Hybrid Deterministic-Monte Carlo methods for DXTRAN Angular Biasing
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Hans Gougar
Title of Presentation: Advanced Reactors: The Future of Nuclear Energy
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series
Tom Werner
Title of Presentation: Changing the Way Our World is Powered
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1610 Engineering Hall
Dr. David Holcomb
Title of Presentation: Development and Deployment of Molten Salt Reactors: History and Current Status
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Mark Messner
Title of Presentation: Predicting Long-Term Properties of Nuclear Reactor Structural Materials using Physically-based Models
Time: 3:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Kemal Pasamehmetoglu
Title of Presentation: Versatile Test Reactor Overview
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Dr. Igor Jovanovic
Title of Presentation: From eV to MeV: Laser- and Accelerator-based Detection of Nuclear Materials
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Summer 2018
Peter Yarsky
Title of Presentation: Progress in Validating POLARIS and PARCS for USNRC Use
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Peter Yarsky
Title of Presentation: TRACE Analysis of APR1400 using Conventional and Advanced Three-Dimensional Coupled Neutronics/Thermal-Hydraulics Methods
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Spring 2018
Suzanne Hobbs Baker
Title of Presentation: Third Way: Clean Energy Policy and Communication
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Frank A. Garner
Title of Presentation: New insights on the credibility of ion irradiation to simulate neutron-induced void swelling
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Daniel Weisz-Patrault
Title of Presentation: Multiphase Transformation Induced Plasticity and Applications To Forming Processes
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Jason R. Trelewicz
Title of Presentation: Controlling Deformation Mechanism Transitions in Nanocrystalline Alloys through Grain Boundary Engineering
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Patricia Schuster
Title of Presentation: Materials science and applied systems with organic scintillator radiation detectors
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Stephanie J. Diem
Title of Presentation: Unique Solutions to the Challenges of Microwave Coupling in Overdense Plasmas
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series
Joseph E. Shepherd
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology
Title of Presentation: Pushing the Boundaries: From Detonations to Auto-injectors
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1610 Engineering Hall
Benedikt Geiger
Title of Presentation: Fast-ion transport in advanced tokamak scenarios with qmin above two at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 1025 ECB
Janelle Wharry
Title of Presentation: Nanomechanical Testing of Irradiated Materials
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Carlos Paz-Soldan
Title of Presentation: The Measurement and Control of Energetic Electrons in Tokamaks
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 1610 Engineering Hall
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series
Patrick Le Tallec
Professor, Department of Mechanics, Ecole Polytechnique
Title of Presentation: Variational Multiscale Modelling Of Soft Materials Based On Elastic Networks Models
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1610 Engineering Hall
Bu Wang
Assistant Professor, Grainger Institute for Engineering Fellow, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UW-Madison
Title of Presentation: Structural Rigidity of Atomic Network During Irradiation-Induced Amorphization
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Ahmed Diallo
Title of Presentation: Suppression of Energy Losses in Fusion Devices: Challenges and Opportunities
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 1106 ME
Brad Micklich
Title of Presentation: Radiation Physics for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Jan Coenen
Title of Presentation: Materials for Fusion from Challenge to Realization
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 2241 Chamberlin Hall
Kevin Eliceiri
Title of Presentation: Multiscale Imaging of the Cellular Microenvironment
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Brian Grierson
Title of Presentation: Advances in Measuring and Understanding Plasma Rotation in Tokamaks
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 1106 ME
Jessica Lovering
Title of Presentation: The History of Nuclear Costs and Learning Curves
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Benjamin Peherstorfer
Title of Presentation: Data-Driven Multifidelity Methods for Monte Carlo Estimation
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Francesco Ganda
Title of Presentation: Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Andreas Velten
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW-Madison
Title of Presentation: Ultrafast Computational Imaging
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Jeffery F. Latkowski
Senior Vice President of Innovation, TerraPower
Title of Presentation: The Path for Molten Salt Reactor Development Goes Through Testing
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Fall 2017
Peng Xu
Principal Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Company
Title of Presentation: Westinghouse Accident Tolerant Fuel Program: Technical Progress and Challenges
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 1307 ERB
Jonathan Engle
Assistant Professor, Medical Physics, UW-Madison
Title of Presentation: Radionuclide Production: A Need for Materials Science in Accelerator Targetry
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Greeshma Gadikota
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Environmental Chemistry and Technology Program, Geological Engineering Program,
Grainger Institute of Engineering, Wisconsin Energy Institute,
UW-Madison
Title of Presentation: Tuning gas interactions at solid-water interfaces from the Angstrom-to-field scales for sustainable gas transport, recovery, and storage in extreme environments
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Todd Allen
Professor, UW-Madison & Senior Fellow at Third Way
Title of Presentation: Observations on 21st Century Nuclear Energy
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Mike Corradini
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Engineering Physics, UW-Madison
Title of Presentation: The Future of Nuclear Power in a Carbon Constrained World
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Erik Iverson
Managing Director, WARF
Title of Presentation: WARF: Investing in Research, Making a Difference
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series
John Eaton
Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Title of Presentation: Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Machine Learning to Understand and Model Turbulent Mixing
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1610 Engineering Hall
Andrew Osborne
Research Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Title of Presentation: Stability and Irradiation Damage in Breed-Burn Reactors
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Adam Steltzner
Mars 2020 Chief Engineer, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Title of Presentation: How a rocker became a lead engineer for the Mars rover: How Curiosity changed my life and I changed hers
Time: 2:00PM
Location: 1106 Mechanical Engineering
Arthur Motta
Chair, Nuclear Engineering Program and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University
Title of Presentation: Effects of Reactor Exposure on Nuclear Fuel Cladding
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Ramathasan Thevamaran
Assistant Professor, Engineering Physics, UW-Madson
Title of Presentation: TBA
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Jeffrey A. Favorite
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title of Presentation: Jezebel: Reconstructing a Critical Experiment from 60 Years Ago
Time: 12:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series
John Dolbow
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University
Title of Presentation: The Mechanics of the Surfactant-Driven Fracture of Particle Rafts and the Influence of Surface Tension
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1610 Engineering Hall
Pavana Prabhakar
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW-Madison
Title of Presentation: TBA
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series
Chiara Daraio
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Title of Presentation: Plant nanobionic materials for thermally active, structural woods and soft, artificial skins
Time: 11:00AM
Location: 1610 Engineering Hall
Jenifer Braley-Shafer
Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Title of Presentation: Making Americium Hexavalent Again
Time: 4:00PM
Location: 106 ERB
Summer 2017
Michael E. Hanson
Chemistry Lead for Elysium Industries
Title of Presentation: Elysium Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCSFR)
Time: 2:00PM
Location: 1307 ERB
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
Spring 2017
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