Agenda

The MTV Workshop begins on Tuesday, March 10, 2020, and will conclude on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. During the meeting, agenda titles below will link to a pdf of the presentation for talks and posters.

• Day 1, March 10: Oral Presentations and Poster Session
• Day 2, March 11: Oral Presentations, National Lab Engagement luncheon, and U. Michigan lab tours
• Poster Presenter Listings
• Lab Tour at the Unversity of Michigan – Nuclear Engineering

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March 9, 2020
Welcome Dinner University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)  525 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109	Guest Speaker: Megan Slinkard, CTBTO
March 10, 2020, Day 1 Presentations
8:00	Registration	Rogel Ballroom, 2nd floor
	Breakfast and Poster Setup	Rogel Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:00	Welcome & Logistics	Prof. Sara Pozzi, MTV Director, U. Michigan
9:10	NNSA goals for MTV	Mr. Randy Bell, Sr. Program Manager, NNSA US DOE
9:30	MTV Overview	Prof. Sara Pozzi, MTV Director, U. Michigan
9:50	CEvNS for Nuclear Security	Prof. Patrick Huber, MTV Faculty, Va. Tech
10:05	Neutrino-Induced Nuclear Fission	Mr. Tyler Johnson, MTV Fellow, Duke U.
10:20	An Overview of Neutrino Directional Detection with Inverse Beta Decay	Mr. Connor Awe, MTV Fellow, Duke U.
10:35	BREAK – 20 mins
10:55	Fragment-by-Fragment and Event-by-Event Multiplicity Correlations in Fission	Mr. Stefano Marin, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
11:10	Dry Storage Fuel Cask Tomography Using Muons	Mr. Jesus Valencia, MTV Fellow, U. New Mexico
11:25	Technology Development of 3-D CZT Detectors for MTV Applications	Prof. Zhong He, MTV Faculty, U. Michigan
11:40	Adaptive Imaging:  Gimmick or Godsend?	Mr. Niral Shah, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
11:55	Group Photo	Rogel Ballroom, 2nd floor
12:00	General luncheon	Rogel Ballroom, 2nd floor
	MTV Faculty luncheon	Pendleton Ballroom, 2nd floor
13:30	PANEL: Policy (45 mins)	Moderated by: Dr. Randy Bell, NNSA US DOE Ms. Megan Slinkard, CTBTO Dr. Mona Dreicer, LLNL Prof. Alex Glaser, Princeton U. Prof. Paul Wilson, U. Wisconsin
14:15	Melt-Cast Organic Glass	Mr. Nathan Giha, MTV Fellow, U. Michigan
14:30	Development of Methodologies for Wide Area Environmental Sampling	Ms. Emily Kwapis, MTV Fellow, U. Florida
14:45	BREAK – 15 mins
15:00	Infrasonic Progression	Mr. Milton Garces, MTV Faculty, U. Hawaii (Remote)
15:15	Characterizing Seismic Sources	Dr. Göran Ekstrom, MTV Faculty, Columbia (Remote)
15:30	Poster Overview Presentations (1-minute each)	All Poster Presenters
16:00	Poster Session A (odd numbers, 45 mins)	Presenters stand by posters
16:45	Poster Session B (even numbers, 45 mins)	Presenters stand by posters
17:30	Adjourn Day 1

March 11, 2020, Day 2 Presentations
8:00	Breakfast	Rogel Ballroom, 2nd floor
9:00	PANEL: National Laboratory Partners (45 mins)	Moderated by: Prof. Igor Jovanovic, U. Michigan All National Lab POCs
9:45	Autonomous Mobile Robots for Managed-Access Inspections	Dr. Alex Glaser, MTV Faculty, Princeton U.
10:00	Nondestructive Assay of Np237 Using Organic Scintillators	Mr. Michael Hua, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
10:15	Plutonium Characterization for Forensics Applications in the Monitoring of Nuclear Fuel Cycle	Prof. Sunil Chirayath, MTV Faculty, TAMU
10:30	BREAK – 20 mins
10:50	Development of a Portable System for Epithermal Neutron Resonance Analysis	Mr. Ethan Klein, MTV Fellow, MIT (Remote)
11:05	Stress monitoring in plants via chlorophyll fluorescence and pigment analysis	Mrs. Lauren Finney, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
11:20	PANEL: Education & Outreach (45 mins)	Moderated by: Dr. Shaun Clarke, U. Michigan Prof. Sunil Chiriyath, TAMU Mr. Michael Hua, U. Michigan Prof. Kim Kearfott, U. Michigan Prof. Chris Perfetti, U. New Mexico
12:05	General Luncheon	Rogel Ballroom, 2nd floor
	National Lab Engagement Luncheon	Pendleton Ballroom, 2nd floor All students and National Lab representatives
13:35	Closing Remarks & Student Awards	Prof. Sara Pozzi and Mr. Randy Bell
14:00	Depart for lab tours
14:30	Lab Tours – University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering	2355 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109
16:30	Adjourn Day 2

Poster Presentations
Poster #	Research Title (links to poster pdf)	Presenter Names
1	Measure of Proton Light Yield of Water-based Liquid Scintillator	Mr. Edward Callaghan, MTV Fellow, UC Berkeley
2	Reactor Evaluation Through Inspection of Near-Field Antineutrinos	Prof. Anna Erickson, MTV Faculty, Ga. Tech
3	lanTErn: a Handheld Time-Encoded Imager	Mr. John Kuchta, MTV Fellow, U. Michigan
4	Sensitivity Analysis of Evaluated Neutron Parameters	Mr. Matthew Lazaric, U. New Mexico
5	Advanced MLEM Algorithm for Truncated Space Imaging of High Flux Photon Sources	Ms. Valerie Nwadeyi, MTV Fellow, U. Michigan
6	Gamma-Ray Imaging Using Pixelated CdZnTe	Mr. Daniel Shy, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
7	Development of 16N and 17N Sources for Calibration of a Large Gd-Doped Water Cherenkov Detector	Mr. Kristofer Ogren, MTV Fellow, U. Michigan
8	Hammer: A Student-Driven Monte Carlo Research Code for Nonproliferation	Mr. Kyle Beyer, MTV Fellow, U. Michigan
9	Rossi-alpha Measurements and Simulations of Reflected, Fast Metal Assemblies to Validate Organic Scintillators	Mr. Caiser Bravo, MTV Fellow, U. Michigan
10	Analysis of the Isotopic Composition of Uranium Enriched By AVLIS	Mr. Henry Burns, MTV Fellow, Ga. Tech
11	The Effect of Detection Threshold on Rossi-alpha Measurements	Ms. Leah Clark, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
12	Preliminary Validation of the Two-Region Point Kinetics Model for Rossi-alpha Measurements	Mr. Flynn Darby, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
13	Time-of-flight Facility for Epithermal Neutrons at Penn State University	Mr. Nick Grenci, MTV Fellow, Penn State U.
14	Establishing Temporal Constraints on Radionuclide Exposure and Contamination from Time Signatures Preserved in Plants and Associated Microbiomes	Ms. Isis Fukai, MTV Associate, UT Knoxville
15	Characterization of FS-3: A Detection System for Neutron-Photon Correlations in Fission	Ms. Isabel Hernandez, MTV Fellow, U. Michigan
16	Evaluation of the Effect of Pulse Shape Discrimination of Fast, Fissioning Assemblies	Mr. John-Tyler Iacovetta, MTV Fellow, U. Michigan
17	Point-Kinetic Neutron Multiplicity Distributions Using Stochastic Simulation and Deterministic Methods	Mr. Jawad Moussa, MTV Fellow, U. New Mexico
18	Validation of Tin-Copper Graded Shielding for Plutonium Measurements	Mr. Noah Kleedtke, MTV Fellow, U. Michigan
19	Linearity Characterization of Quantum Dot-Doped Organic Scintillators	Mr. Aaron MacDonald, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
20	Detection of Fast Neutrons During Photon Active Interrogation	Mr. Christopher Meert, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
21	Graph representation of a fuel cycle from Cyclus input	Ms. Katie Mummah, MTV Fellow, U. Wisconsin
22	Measured and Simulated Energy-Multiplicity Correlations in Neutrons from the Spontaneous Fission of Cf-252	Mr. Eoin Sansevero, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
23	Millisecond Suppression of Counter-propagating Optical Signal using Ultrafast Laser Filaments	Mr. Patrick Skrodzki, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
24	Extracting Neutron Energy Spectra Using a Handheld Dual Particle Image	Mr. William Steinberger, MTV Associate, U. Michigan
25	Simplified Neutron Scatter Camera for Nuclear Safeguards Applications	Mr. Taylor Harvey, MTV Fellow, U. Florida
26	The Do-It-Yourself Geiger Muller (DIYgm): Practical Experience with Construction and Planned Technical Enhancements	Mr. Jordan Noey & Mr. Long Chung, MTV Fellows, U. Michigan
27	Source Detection Through Geophysical Data Fusion Methods	Mr. Jonathan Tobin & Mr. Samuel Takazawa, MTV Fellows, U. Hawaii
28	Quantifying Moss Response to Pollution from Exposure to Increasing Levels of Copper and Uranium using Laser Induced Photoluminescence.	Ms. Kelly Truax, MTV Fellow, U. Hawaii
29	Analyzing Legacy Seismic Data from Nuclear Explosions using Modern Approaches	Mr. John D. Wilding, MTV Fellow, Columbia U.

Lab tour – University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Tour participants will meet at the main lobby of the Mortimer E. Cooley Building: 2355 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109.

Parking: Nearby parking is available.  A BLUE parking pass can be picked up from the main office at the Cooley Building. See the parking map.

Tour Start Time	Laboratory	Faculty Lead and Tour Guides
14:30 – 15:00	Detection for Nuclear Nonproliferation Group	Prof. Sara Pozzi Tour guide: Will Steinberger
15:05 – 15:35	Orion Measurements Group, Glenn Knoll Laboratory	Prof. Zhong He Tour guide: Daniel Shy
15:40 – 16:10	Gerard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences	Prof. Igor Jovanovic Tour guides: Patrick Skrodzki & Lauren Finney
16:20 – 16:50	Neutron Science Laboratory	Prof. Igor Jovanovic Tour guide: Kris Ogren