The Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification will be hosting their 2023 MTV Workshop March 21 – 22 at the Michigan League in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Registration is by invitation only.
The workshop agenda pdf can be found here.
MTV Student Presentation and Publication Awards
Each year the Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification (MTV) recognizes the outstanding work and research by MTV graduate and undergraduate student presenters at the MTV Workshop. In addition to the MTV Student Presentation Awards, we will be offering a newly created 2023 MTV Student Publication Award in graduate and undergraduate categories!
Details of the awards and selection process can be found here.
The list of hotels linked are suggestions for nearby accommodations. Individuals are responsible for making their own reservations and payments for the rooms. Distance to the Michigan League is noted.
Parking Options
The Michigan League is located at 911 N. University Ave and the closest public parking structure to the League is the Maynard Parking Structure at 324 Maynard St .
In addition to parking at Maynard, Uber and Lyft are great options to get to University of Michigan’s campus!
Agenda at a glance:
March 21 – Workshop Day 1 (link here)
| 08:00 | Registration and poster set-up |
Michigan League, Concourse |
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| 09:00 | Welcome and Logistics | Shaun Clarke, MTV Associate Director, and Sara Pozzi, MTV Director, University of Michigan | |||
| 09:15 | NNSA goals for MTV | Keith McManus, Deputy Director, Office of Proliferation Detection, NNSA | |||
| 09:30 | MTV Accomplishments | Sara Pozzi, MTV Director and Faculty, University of Michigan | |||
| 09:50 | Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum (PROSPECT-I) Measurement of Absolute Reactor Antineutrino Flux | Paige Kunkle, MTV Graduate Student, Boston University | |||
| 10:05 | Evaluating Sensitivity Trends for Mobile Antineutrino-Based Safeguards | Matthew Dunbrack, MTV Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology | |||
| 10:20 | First Search For Neutrino-Induced Nuclear Fission | Tyler Johnson, MTV Graduate Student, Duke University | |||
| 10:35 | Break | ||||
| 10:55 | Application of Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry (RIMS) to Spent Fuel Analysis | Henry Burns, MTV Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology | |||
| 11:10 | Simulations of Prompt-Gamma Response to Epithermal-Neutron Activation for Nuclear Forensics | Brad Nethercutt, MTV Graduate Student, Penn State University | |||
| 11:25 | Toward a Robotic Multi-Tool for Neutron Measurements in Support of Remote Inspections | Eric Lepowsky, MTV Graduate Student, Princeton University | |||
| 11:40 | Characterization of New Organic Glass Scintillators | Tessa Maurer, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | |||
| 11:55 | Group Photo and National Laboratory Meet-and Greet Luncheon with MTV Students | ||||
| 13:15 | CVT/MTV Consortia Alumni Panel, Moderated by Shaun Clarke | Angela Di Fulvio, University of Illinois, Michael Hua, Helion; Steven Czyz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Meghan McGarry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ; Tony Shin, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |||
| 14:10 | Better Seismic Event Locations Using Geographically Registered Master Events | Goran Ekstrom, MTV Faculty, Columbia University | |||
| 14:25 | Effect of Plume Hydrodynamics on the Combustion Chemistry of Laser Ablation Plasmas | Emily Kwapis, MTV Graduate Student, University of Florida | |||
| 14:40 | Analysis of Explosion Data Collected from the High Stratosphere | Sarah Popenhagen, MTV Graduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi | |||
| 14:55 | Break | ||||
| 15:15 | HITMAN: A General Deep Learning Approach to Building Likelihood Functions for Neutrino Detectors | Garrett Wendel, MTV Graduate Student, Penn State University | |||
| 15:30 | Evaluation of Muon Tomography Techniques for Dry Cask Spent Fuel Storage Imaging | Jesus Valencia, MTV Graduate Student, University of New Mexico | |||
| 15:45 | Building Towards Coherent Elastic Neutrino Scattering For Reactor Monitoring | Ryan Bouabid, MTV Graduate Student,, Duke University | |||
| 16:00 | Neutron Resonance Analysis for the Identification and Quantification of Nuclear Material | Ethan Klein, MTV Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
| 16:15 | Special Nuclear Material Experiments with a Dual-Particle Imager and Visualization in Mixed Reality | Ricardo Lopez, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | |||
| 16:30 | Poster Overview Presentations (1-minute each) | Odd-numbered poster presenters | |||
| 16:50 | Poster Reception: Odd-numbered posters |
Hussey and Vandenberg Rooms |
March 22 – Workshop Day 2 (link here)
| 08:30 | Hybrid Optical Neutrino Detectors: Research and Development toward Eos and Theia | Edward Callahan, MTV Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley |
| 08:45 | Advancements in Cylindrical Time-Encoded Imaging and Explorations in Spherical Time-Encoded Imaging | John “Jack” Kuchta, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan |
| 09:00 | Extending Nucleon-Nucleus Interaction Models to the Fission Fragment Region | Kyle Beyer, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan |
| 09:15 | Development of 241Am13C Calibration Sources for a Large Water Cherenkov Detector | Colton Graham, University of Michigan |
| 09:30 | Break | |
| 09:50 | DEI Initiatives and Successes Panel, Moderated by Sara Pozzi | Aditi Verma, University of Michigan; J’Tia Hart, Idaho National Laboratory; Chris Perfetti, University of New Mexico; Mackenzie Warwick, University of Michigan; Nancy Jo Nicholas, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 10:45 | New Developments in Zero-knowledge Verification: Toward 2D-Radiography and Real-time Confirmation Measurements | Jihye Jeon, Princeton University |
| 11:00 | Quantifying Effects of Measurement Uncertainty on Separated Plutonium Attribution Methodology | Patrick O’Neal, Texas A&M University |
| 11:15 | Detector System Component Feasibility for Fresh Nuclear Fuel Signature Analysis | Cathleen Barker, University of Florida |
| 11:30 | Poster Overview Presentations (1-minute each) | Even-numbered poster presenters |
| 11:50 | General Luncheon and coPI Meeting | |
| 13:00 | Poster Reception: Session B (even-numbered posters) | Hussey and Vandenberg Rooms, Michigan League |
| 14:00 | Analysis of Laser Induced Fluorescence Images of Plants Exposed to Metal Contamination and Environmental Stress | Kelly Truax, MTV Graduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi |
| 14:15 | Electric Zero Knowledge | Areg Danagoulian, MTV Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 14:30 | Response of a High-pressure He-4 Scintillation Detector to Nuclear Recoils up to 9 MeV | Oskar Searfus, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan |
| 14:45 | Closing Remarks and Student Awards | Sara Pozzi, MTV Director, and Keith McManus, NNSA |
| 15:15 | Adjourn Day 2 | |
| 15:30 | Depart for optional University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Laboratory Tours | Cooley Building, 2355 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
| 15:45 | Optional lab tours | North Campus |
Posters
| # | Title | Presenter Name | ||
| 1 | Identification of Thermal Imagery Comparing Machine Learning Classifiers for Real Time Monitoring of Solvent Extraction | Kelly Truax, MTV Graduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi | ||
| 2 | Gamma-ray Spectroscopy using an Opaque Water-based Liquid Scintillator | Andrew Wilhelm, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 3 | Verification of Upcoming Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) Features for Estimating Nuclear Data Sensitivities in Fixed Source Simulations | Juliann Lamproe, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 4 | Gamma-ray Multiplicity and Spectra from Neutron Induced Fission of 235U | James Baker Jr., MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 5 | Novel Measurement of Sm-146 Half-Life Utilizing Microcalorimetry | Alexander Kavner, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 6 | Fast Emulation of the Neutron Diffusion Equation using the Reduced Basis Method (RBM) | Patrick Myers, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 7 | Verification and Validation of Dual Particle Imaging Simulations | Katie Ballard, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 8 | Simultaneous Gamma-Ray Coincidence and Pinhole Imaging | Alexander Rice, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 9 | Generating Diverse Bacterial Strain Collections for Identifying Genetic Markers of Radiation Exposure | Anne Shen, MTV Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| 10 | Probabilistic Sequencing for Compton Imaging Using the Polarized Klein-Nishina Formula | Prabhjot Kaur, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 11 | Update on the Design of a Low-Cost Radiation Weather Station (RWS-lite) | Ryan Kim, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 12 | Attritable Sensor Data Collection on Ocean Platforms | George (Wyatt) Burkley, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi | ||
| 13 | Implementation of a Nonplayer Character (NPC) as a Versatile Learning and Assessment Tool for a Virtual Reality (VR) Radiation Protection Game/Improved User Interface and Radiation Physics Implementation in a Fully Immersive Virtual Reality Educational Experience | Jackson Eggerd and Ernesto Enriquez, MTV Undergraduate Students, University of Michigan | ||
| 14 | Nuclear Radiation Source 3D Localization from Angular Particle Imagers | Dhruv Garg, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 15 | Assessing the Impact of Nuclear Contamination on Soil Microbial Communities | Heather MacGregor, MTV Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley | ||
| 16 | Sensitivity of the Antineutrino Source Term on Nuclear Reactor Simulations of Varying Levels of Complexity | Douglas Woodward, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 17 | Obtaining a Remote Pilot Certificate for the Safe and Legal Operation of an Intelligent Radiation Awareness Drone (iRAD)/ Personnel Safety Considerations for Initial Testing of a Small Homemade Drone | Meredith Doan and Jordyn Vermut, MTV Undergraduate Students, University of Michigan | ||
| 18 | Improving Environmental Contamination Monitoring Through Microbial Genomics with Machine Learning and Mechanistic Knowledge | Han Zhang, MTV Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley | ||
| 19 | Rossi-Alpha Experiments with Highly Enriched Uranium using Organic Scintillators | Flynn Darby, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 20 | The calibration of CeBr3 Scintillators for Gamma-ray spectroscopy in a Zero-power Reactor | Andrew Lucas, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 21 | Rapid Repair of an Intelligent Radiation Awareness Drone (iRAD) Using Additive Manufacturing/ Protecting iRAD-Lite: Damage-Reducing Approaches for a Customized Drone Designed for High School Outreach | Kabir Khwaja and Siddharth Gupta, MTV Undergraduate Students, University of Michigan | ||
| 22 | Correlations Between Fission Fragment Properties and γ-Ray Emission | Nathan Giha, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 23 | Remote Observation of Nuclear Reactors: Neutrio Arrival Directions | John Learned, MTV Faculty, University of Hawaiʻi | ||
| 24 | Microbial Biosensors for Detecting Nuclear Fuel Cycle Activities in the Environment | Kurt Ash, MTV Postdoc, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | ||
| 25 | Using Organic Scintillators to Characterize a Reactor Fast Neutron Beam for Nonproliferation Applications | Nicholas Stubblefield, MTV Graduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 26 | DoseBusters: A Virtual Reality Game for Radiation Detection and Protection Education and Outreach | Liam O’Driscoll, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 27 | Efficient Exploration Strategies for Source Localization in an Intelligent Radiation Awareness Drone (iRAD) | Christopher Davis, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 28 | Integration of an Advanced Data Logger into a Professional Radiation Weather Station (RWSpro) | Enrique Orozco, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 29 | Approximating Resonance Parameter Sensitivities Using the Multipole Formalism | Matthew Lazaric, MTV Graduate Student, University of New Mexico | ||
| 30 | Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization Radioactive Noble Gas Monitoring System Data for Nuclear Detonation Characterization | Brice Turner, MTV Graduate Student, University of Florida | ||
| 31 | Enhancement of a Fully-Immersive Virtual Reality Environment for Teaching Radiation Detection and Protection/ Educational Posters Illustrating Radiation Physics in the Tutorial Room of a Fully Immersive 3D Virtual Learning Environment | Hadi Elghoul and Isabella De Sousa, MTV Undergraduate Students, University of Michigan | ||
| 32 | The Influence of Time Temperature Profiles on the Minimum Detectable Dose of LiF:Mg,Ti Thermoluminescent Dosimeters | Katie Olivas, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 33 | Extensive Evaluation of a Consumer-Grade Temporal Radon Monitor | Carly Evans, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan | ||
| 34 | Preliminary Performance Testing of Ukrainian SBM-20 Geiger-Muller Tubes | Andrew Andrade and Evan Sirianni, MTV Undergraduate Students, University of Michigan | ||
| 35 | Temporal and Spectral Comparisons of Explosions recorded on Smartphones and Infrasound Microphones | Samuel “Kei” Takazawa, MTV Graduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi | ||
| 36 | Nuclear explosion monitoring in the MT range: Hunga Tonga case study | Shirin Wyckoff, MTV Graduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi | ||
| 37 | Deterministic Computation of Neutron Multiplicity Counting Moments in PARallel, TIme-Dependent SN (PARTISN) | Jawad Moussa, MTV Graduate Student, University of New Mexico | ||
| 38 | Simulated State Accounting Data for Development of Advanced and Automated State-level Safeguards Analysis | Kathryn Mummah, MTV Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin | ||
| 39 | Integration of a Customizable, Modular Payload into a Pixhawk-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle/ Preliminary Design of a WiFi-Sensing Payload for an Intelligent Radiation Awareness Drone (iRAD) | Hythem Beydoun and Meredith Doan, MTV Undergraduate Students, University of Michigan | ||
| 40 | Comparison of Two Laser Systems Used in a Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Method to Detect physiological changes in Azolla filiculoides due to lead exposure | Haley Currier, MTV Undergraduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi | ||