Archive for December 2014
The Challenge of Peace: Public Opinion, the Reagan Administration, and the Movement to Freeze the Arms Race
SPEAKER: HENRY MAAR PH.D. CANDIDATE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UCSB DATE/TIME: MON, 12/08/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Fall 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: This talk explores the role of public opinion and social-protest through a case-study of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign of the 1980s. The Freeze campaign grew in parallel to the onset of the…
Read MoreQuantifying Uncertainty in Nuclear and Cross Section Data
SPEAKER: MORGAN WHITE, PH.D. LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY DATE/TIME: MON, 12/01/2014 – 4:00PM TO 5:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Fall 2014 Colloquium Series Abstract: For the last five years, the nuclear data community within NNSA has been rallied around the goal of understanding the neutronic properties of plutonium-239. Unfortunately, it is a difficult problem and we are not…
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