Spring 2023 Colloquium Series

SPEAKER: Dr. Sylvain V. Costes Space Biosciences Research Branch Chief Project Manager for Open Science for Space Biology (GeneLab/ALSDA) Director of the Radiation Biophysics Laboratory NASA Ames Research Center DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/28/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Abstract The challenges and risks associated with deep space missions require…

SPEAKER: Per F. Peterson Distinguished Professor William and Jean McCallum Floyd Endowed Chair Department of Nuclear Engineering DATE/TIME: FRI, 04/14/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Abstract: Fission energy is currently the largest source of zero-carbon electrical power in the United States, but expanded use has stalled due to…

SPEAKER: Ke Sheng, Ph.D., FAAPM, Professor and Vice Chair of Medical Physics Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/124/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: Zoom Radiotherapy delivers an ionizing cytotoxic dose to both tumors and normal tissues. Research in the past decades has focused on reducing normal tissue dose. Protons…

SPEAKER: Djamel Kaoumi Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/10/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 Etcheverry Hall Abstract: When coupled to an ion beam accelerator, the spatial resolution of Transmission Electron Microscopy makes it an invaluable imaging technique to track the real-time response of microstructure under irradiation, shedding…

SPEAKER: Ia Aanstoot, Stockholm DATE/TIME: FRI, 03/03/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: Zoom In what is undoubtedly a first for Berkeley Nuclear Engineering, this week’s colloquium will be given by a high school student in Stockholm, who played a critical role in delaying the COP27 climate negotiations by three hours and fundamentally changed the outcome…

SPEAKER: Dr. Andrea (Annie) Kritcher Team lead in the Inertial Confinement Fusion program and Group leader in Design Physics DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/24/2023 – 11:00AM TO 12:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series The inertial fusion community have been working towards ignition for decades, since the idea of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) was first…

SPEAKER: Greg Allen Senior Radiation Effects Engineer, Center for Space Radiation Lead DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/17/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Abstract: Radiation effects engineering is a highly multidisciplinary, rapidly growing field within the aerospace industry. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Greg Allen will be discussing the fundamentals of the…

SPEAKER: Dr. Paolo BALESTRA ART-GCR Methods Lead DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/10/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Abstract: RELAP5-3D is the latest in the RELAP5 code series developed at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for the analysis of transients and accidents in water-cooled nuclear power plants and related systems as well…

SPEAKER: Professor Alan Robock Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, USA http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/nuclear/ E-mail: robock@envsci.rutgers.edu DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/03/2023 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 ETCHEVERRY HALL Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Abstract:  The world as we know it could end any day as a result of an accidental nuclear war between the United States…

SPEAKER: William Zywiec Staff Scientist and Group Leader in the Nuclear Criticality Safety Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory DATE/TIME: FRI, 02/03/2018 – 3:00PM TO 4:00PM LOCATION: 3105 Etcheverry Abstract: Since the discovery of fission and subsequent first criticality of Chicago Pile-1, more than 60 criticality accidents have occurred throughout the world. These accidents are…