Nuclear Security Science Network, Science and Technology Facilities Council, and NNSA Consortium for Monitoring, Technology and Verification, Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation and Nuclear Science and Security Consortium are pleased to announce the first joint workshop in Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation Skills. The joint program supports mobility and training program to connect UK and US researchers working in the areas of nuclear skills, nuclear security, and nuclear energy.
The workshop will be hosted virtually on April 27 & 28, 2021. 10:00 – 13:45 (U.S. Eastern Time zone)
Click on the links below to view slides and speaker profiles. All times are U.S. Eastern.
Agenda at a glance
April 27
| Overview | |
| 10:00 | Workshop Welcome, Paul Sellin, UK, University of Surrey |
| 10:15 | Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification Overview, Sara Pozzi, MTV, University of Michigan |
| 10:30 | Overview of the Activities within the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation, Anna Erickson, EIT, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 10:45 | Nuclear Science and Security Consortium Overview, Jasmina Vujic, NSSC, University of California at Berkeley |
| 11:00 | UK Programs Overview, Robin Grimes, UK, Imperial College of London |
| 11:15 | BREAK |
| Science for Nonproliferation Talks | |
| 11:30 | Remote Reactor Monitoring with the AIT-NEO Project, Matthew Malek, UK, The University of Sheffield |
| 11:45 | Neutrinos for nuclear security, Patrick Huber, MTV, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 12:00 | Event-by-Event Neutron and Photon Multiplicity Correlations in Nuclear Fission, Shaun Clarke, MTV, University of Michigan |
| 12:15 | Nuclear Data, Computing and Optimization in Nuclear Applications, Vladimir Sobes, NSSC, The University of Tennessee |
| 12:30 | Nuclear Applications of Cosmic-ray Muography, Ralf Kaiser, UK, University of Glasgow |
| 12:45 | From Radiochemical Synthesis to Separations at the Edge of the Periodic Table, Rebecca Abergel, NSSC, University of California, Berkeley |
| 13:00 | The Use of High-Throughput Methods for Signature Definition in Metal Additive Manufacturing, Dan Thoma, ETI, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 13:15 | 30 min Breakout |
| 13:45 | Adjourn meeting |
April 28
| Radiation Detection of Nonproliferation Signatures Talks | |
| 10:00 | Innovations in the detection of nuclear materials: novel plastic scintillators and organic photodiodes, Bernard Kippelen, ETI, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 10:15 | New Scintillators for Nuclear Security, Chuck Melcher, NSSC, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| 10:30 | Wide bandgap electronics and sensors for nuclear fuel cycle monitoring, L. Raymond Cao, ETI, The Ohio State University |
| 10:45 | Digital detection of radiation signatures, Andrew Boston, UK, University of Liverpool |
| 11:00 | Three-Dimensional Position-Sensitive Room-Temperature Semiconductor Gamma-Ray Spectrometers & Imagers, Zhong He, MTV, University of Michigan |
| 11:15 | Multi-Sensor Fusion and 3D Mapping, Kai Vetter, NSSC, University of California, Berkeley |
| 11:30 | Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation Research in the Applied Nuclear Science Group at the University of Michigan, Igor Jovanovic, MTV, University of Michigan |
| 11:45 | BREAK |
| Machine Learning | |
| 12:00 | Bayesian Estimation for Radionuclide Detection, Stephen McLaughlin, UK Heriot-Watt University |
| 12:15 | Autonomous Sensing and Information Gathering, John Fisher, ETI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 12:30 | Estimating Uncertainty Intervals from Collaborating Deep Networks, David Carlson, ETI, Duke University |
| 12:45 | Material Science in the context of the NSSC, Peter Hosemann, NSSC, University of California, Berkeley |
| 13:00 | Plutonium Attribution Methodology Development using Experimental and Data Science Methods, Sunil Chirayath, MTV, Texas A&M University |
| 13:15 | 30 min Breakout |
| 13:45 | Adjourn meeting |