Spring 2022 Colloquium

DR. ANDREA (ANNIE) L. KRITCHER Design lead for HYBRID-E, Integrated hohlraum modeling team lead, Line Group leader in Design Physics Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory B.S. Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan (2005) M.S. Nuclear Engineering, University of California Berkeley (2007) Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering, University of California Berkeley (2009) The inertial fusion community have been working towards …

Dr. Sarah L. Nelson Office of Defense Programs National Nuclear Security Administration Abstract: TBD About the Speaker: Dr. Sarah Nelson, a nuclear and radiochemist, serves as the Director (Acting) for the Office of Experimental Sciences for the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (NA-11), including Academic Programs. Sarah joined …

Dr. Ali Ayoub - Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, ​Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The worldwide civil nuclear operations have accumulated more than 19'000 reactor-years of experience providing substantial amounts of data and knowledge. With the goal of more intensively learn from this experience to verify and improve the level of nuclear safety, this …

Dr. Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Reactor Administrator, and American Nuclear Society President Dr. Dunzik-Gougar received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2003. Her research interests include the nuclear fuel cycle, systems modeling, spent fuel processing, and waste form development. Join Zoom Meeting ID: 924 8593 4875  

Dr. Ren Cooper Staff Applied Physicist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The ability to detect, identify, and localize illicit radiological/nuclear sources in urban environments is a key component of nuclear security and nuclear non-proliferation efforts across the world. Recent advances in sensing, telecommunications, and edge and cloud computing have led to renewed interest in employing detector …

Society's response to the changing climate expresses values and priorities in balancing factors like risk, development, and equity. These choices are best informed by scientific understanding. This seminar will be a dialog on the certainties and uncertainties of climate science and how they are portrayed to non-expert decision makers and the public. The event is …

Simon R. Cherry                                               Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology   Positron emission tomography (PET) is a widely used medical imaging technique, and like many other tomographic imaging modalities, relies on …

Aditi Verma ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTIST, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (FALL 2022) Abstract While nuclear reactor design is recognized as an essential skill and intellectual output of academic nuclear engineering, little attention has been paid within the discipline to the structure of the reactor design process and how factors beyond physical constraints influence design outcomes. In this talk, …