March 30 Presentations

Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification/2021 MTV Virtual Workshop/March 30 Presentations

Tuesday, March 30
12:30 – 12:35 pm (ET)

Welcome and Overview

Sara Pozzi

Director
Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification
University of Michigan

Tuesday, March 30
12:35 – 1:20 pm (ET)

Alumni Panel

Kyle Hartig

Ph.D, University of Florida

Meghan McGarry

Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Charles Sosa

Ph.D., Radiation Monitoring Devices

Alexis Trahan

Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tuesday, March 30
1:20 – 1:38 pm (ET)

Structure in the Energy-Dependent Event-by-Event Neutron-Photon Multiplicity Correlations

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Stefano Marin

Ph.D. Student
University of Michigan

Tuesday, March 30
1:38 – 1:56 pm (ET)

Review of the Windowed Multipole Nuclear Data Formalism

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Matthew Lazaric

Ph.D. Student
University of New Mexico

Tuesday, March 30
1:56 – 2:14 pm (ET)

Exploring novel wavelength shifters in organic glass scintillators

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Nathan Giha

Ph.D. Student
University of Michigan

Tuesday, March 30
2:14 – 2:32 pm (ET)

Revisiting seismic magnitudes of Soviet UNEs to investigate the mb-MS discriminant

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Jocely Lopez Luna

Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow
Columbia University

Tuesday, March 30
2:32 – 2:47 pm (ET)

Poster Session: 1-minute overviews

Tuesday, March 30
2:47 – 3:17 pm (ET)

Poster Session

Tuesday, March 30
3:17 – 3:35 pm (ET)

Low-Frequency Sound from Explosive Sources

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Milton Garces

Research Faculty
University of Hawaii

Tuesday, March 30
3:35 – 3:53 pm (ET)

Investigation of Organic Glass Scintillators for Improved Energy Resolution for Radioxenon Detection

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Leah Clark

Ph.D. Student
University of Michigan

Tuesday, March 30
3:53 – 4:11 pm (ET)

The Do-It-Yourself Geiger-Muller (DIYgm): Circuit Optimization and Evaluation

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Jordan Noey

Ph.D. Student
University of Michigan

Tuesday, March 30
4:11 – 4:29 pm (ET)

Group Photo

Tuesday, March 30
4:29 – 5:00 pm (ET)

National Laboratory / MTV Student Roundtables

Alexander Heifetz

Argonne National Laboratory

John Valentine

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jason Nattress

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

David Peters

Sandia National Laboratories

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Poster 12

Tuesday, March 30

ROOT_FAME: Analysis Scripts for the Investigation of Fission Events

Isabel Hernandez

Undergraduate Student
University of Michigan

Poster 13

Tuesday, March 30

Scintillator coupled with photographic film for application to zero-knowledge verification

Jihye Jeon

Ph.D. Student
Princeton University

Poster 14

Tuesday, March 30

Development of Magnetic Microcalorimeters for Decay Energy Spectroscopy

Alexander Kavner

Ph.D. Student
University of Michigan

Poster 15

Tuesday, March 30

Validation of Nuclear Data Sensitivity Calculations by the MCNP PERT Card

Juliann Lamproe

Ph.D. Student
University of Michigan

Poster 16

Tuesday, March 30

No Access, No Data, No Problem: Toward Autonomous Robotic Inspections of Nuclear Facilities

Eric Lepowsky

Ph.D. Student
Princeton University

Poster 17

Tuesday, March 30

Simulations of a small-scale NRTA setup using an isotopic source to generate the epithermal neutron beam

Peninah Levine

Masters Student
MIT

Poster 18

Tuesday, March 30

Validation of MCNP through Isotopic Analysis of LEU UO2

Sean Martinson

Ph.D. Student
Texas A&M University

Poster 19

Tuesday, March 30

Discriminating Single and Pile-up Pulses Using an Autoencoder in Photon Active Interrogation

Tessa Maurer

Undergraduate Student
University of Michigan

Poster 20

Tuesday, March 30

Detection of fast neutrons during photon active interrogation

Christopher Meert

Ph.D. Student
University of Michigan

Poster 21

Tuesday, March 30

Systems modeling of the nuclear fuel cycle to enhance safeguards implementation

Katie Mummah

Ph.D. Student
University of Wisconsin