Alexandre Bayen Liao-Cho Professor, EECS; Associate Provost for the Berkeley Space Center This talk will describe the latest development of the Berkeley Space Center, a project in which UC Berkeley is developing a 36 acres parcel at NASA Ames (Moffett Field, near Mountain View), to build a new 1.4M sqft research hub, which will host research …
Daniel Siefman Assistant Professor Abstract: Engineering and research projects often involve optimizing a variable with respect to input parameters while respecting a constraint. For example, this might be optimizing the power production of a reactor by changing fuel parameters while maintaining a power peaking factor below a certain threshold. The design process can involve expensive …
Dr. Brian Quiter Staff Applied Physicist/Engineer and Deputy Program Head of the Applied Nuclear Physics Program Researchers in the Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP) program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have focused on developing new radiation detectors and radiation detection methods to solve problems related to mitigating the effects of nuclear disasters, preventing nuclear proliferation, …
J. Adam M. Cunha Associate Professor Abstract: Radiation has been used for the …
Youssef A. Ballout Division Director, Reactor Systems Design & Analysis Abstract: Dr. Youssef Ballout will discuss the historical evolution of reactor technology at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Dr. Ballout will also discuss the three microreactors under construction at INL. These microreactors are leading the path forward for allowing the advanced nuclear industry to bring …
Dr. Ke Sheng Professor and Vice Chair of Medical Physics Department of Radiation Oncology Abstract: Traditional medical physics research focuses on the energy deposition of MV X-rays for radiotherapy and attenuation for kV X-ray imaging. Nevertheless, the secondary particles of X-ray tissue interaction carry rich information that should be integrated and utilized. The presentation will …
Zach McDaniel Director, Partnerships and Grants Abstract: Westinghouse is developing the eVinci™ microreactor to revolutionize how cost-competitive, carbon-free energy is delivered. The eVinci microreactor is a 15MW thermal heat pipe reactor capable of generating 5MW of electricity and is designed to run for approximately eight full power years before refueling. This transportable technology simplifies the …
Francesco Volpe Founder, CEO, CTO Abstract French- and Swiss-based startup Renaissance Fusion strives to build a commercial nuclear fusion reactor by reinventing and synergistically combining three main technologies. The first one is the stellarator: more stable and steady state than a tokamak, but historically complicated to build. Renaissance dramatically simplifies its “coil winding surface”. The …
Ling-Jian Meng, Ph.D Professor Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, and Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ljmeng@illinois.edu Abstract: Nuclear Medicine is a critical element of modern medicine and healthcare practice, in which we use imaging instrumentation and radiopharmaceuticals to study physiological processes, and …
Raphael Pestourie Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech, School of Computational Science and Engineering Abstract Complex systems are hard to simulate and even more difficult to optimize. In this talk, I will showcase how surrogate models accelerate the evaluation of properties of solutions to partial differential equations. I will present a precise definition of the computational benefit …
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