The Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification (MTV) will host the 2025 MTV Virtual Workshop on February 25-27. This annual workshop highlights the consortium research over the past year supporting the NNSA nuclear nonproliferation mission.
Registration is by invitation only. Contact Courtney Wagoner at [email protected] for further details.
The 2025 MTV Workshop Agenda pdf can be found here.
Preliminary Agenda
Day 1, February 25, 2025 (ET)
Abstracts linked:
| 13:00 | Welcome & Logistics | Shaun Clarke, MTV Associate Director, Sara Pozzi, MTV Director, University of Michigan |
| 13:10 | NNSA Goals for MTV | COL Jon Baker, Deputy Director, Office of Proliferation Detection, NNSA |
| 13:25 | MTV Accomplishments | Sara Pozzi, Faculty, MTV Director, University of Michigan |
| 13:40 | Londrea Garrett, University of Michigan | |
| 13:55 |
Neutron Measurements and MCNP Benchmarking of HALEU Blocks at PPPL |
Jihye Jeon, Princeton University |
| 14:10 |
Developing a Novel Opaque Organic Liquid Scintillation Detector |
Sander Katz, University of Michigan |
| 14:25 | Emily Gunger, University of Florida | |
| 14:40 | National Lab/MTV Student Roundtables | |
| 15:10 |
3-D Gamma-Ray Imaging using a CZT Compton-Scattering Imager and Two IMUs |
Prabhjot Kaur, University of Michigan |
| 15:25 |
Modeling of the VENDETA Array for Spontaneous Fission Measurements of Pu-240 |
Ethan Schneider, University of Michigan |
| 15:40 | Jesus Valencia, University of New Mexico | |
| 15:55 | Dhruv Garg, University of Michigan | |
| 16:10 | Cat Barker, University of Florida | |
| 16:25 | Poster Session 1-Minute Overviews | Main Virtual Room |
| 16:40 | Poster Session (Poster List Below) | Breakout Rooms |
| 17:10 | Adjourn Day 1 |
Posters
Abstracts Linked:
| 1 |
Analysis of Seismograms from the Largest Atmospheric Nuclear Tests |
Jocely Lopez Luna, Columbia University |
| 2 | Caryanne Wilson, University of Michigan | |
| 3 | Alex Tuckey, University of Michigan | |
| 4 |
Ultrafast laser filamentation-based remote sensing through highly scattering media |
Leandro Frigerio, University of Michigan |
| 5 |
Feynman-Y Measurements of Cm-244 and Cf-252 Sources with Organic Scintillators |
Oscar Stennes, University of Michigan |
| 6 | Tiffany Zhou, University of Michigan | |
| 7 | Juliann Lamproe, University of Michigan | |
| 8 | Flynn Darby, University of Michigan | |
| 9 | Annamaria McHugh, University of Michigan | |
| 10 |
Electromagnetic interactions across very large energy differences |
Ryan Kim, University of Michigan |
| 11 | Katie Mummah, University of Wisconsin | |
| 12 | Jackson Eggerd, University of Michigan | |
| 13 |
Assessing the Impact of Nuclear Contamination on Soil Microbial Communities |
Heather MacGregor, University of California, Berkeley |
| 14 | Anne Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Day 2, February 26, 2025 (ET)
Abstracts linked:
| 13:00 | Isis Fukai, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | |
| 13:15 |
MCNP Analysis of Detector Array Configurations for Handheld Neutron Imaging Systems |
Will Heriot, University of Michigan |
| 13:30 |
Improving Reactor Antineutrino Directional Sensitivity in Segmented Inverse Beta Decay Detectors |
Brian Crow, University of Hawaiʻi |
| 13:45 | National Lab/MTV Student Roundtables | Breakout Rooms |
| 14:15 | Enrique Medici, University of Florida | |
| 14:30 |
Implementation of a Widowed Multipole Cross Section Capability into MCNP6.3 |
Matthew Lazaric, University of New Mexico |
| 14:45 |
Beyond Discovery: Applications of CEvNS to Low Energy Neutrino Detection |
Ryan Bouabid, Duke University |
| 15:00 | Panel #1: Consortia Impact | Panelist: Cat Barker (UF) PhD Student; Eric Lepowsky (Princeton) at MIT Lincoln Lab; Jill Rahon (MIT) at U.S. Army/West Point Moderator: Michael Febbraro (U-M) at AFIT |
| 15:45 | Sarah Popenhagen, University of Hawaiʻi | |
| 16:00 | Caleb Bush, University of Michigan | |
| 16:15 |
Antineutrino Calculations with CONFLUX |
Anosh Irani, Illinois Institute of Technology |
| 16:30 | Schuyler Tyler, University of Michigan | |
| 16:45 | Adjourn Day 2 |
Day 3, February 27, 2025 (ET)
Abstracts linked:
| 13:00 | Patrick Park, Princeton University | |
| 13:15 |
Design of a Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis Simulation Tool for Nuclear Forensic Characterization |
Brad Nethercutt, Penn State University |
| 13:30 | Sai Kiran Kokkiligadda, University of Florida | |
| 13:45 | Shayaan Subzwari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 14:00 | National Lab/MTV Student Roundtables | Breakout Rooms |
| 14:30 |
Application of a Water-Based Liquid Scintillator in Active Interrogation Imaging and Spectroscopy |
Colton Graham, University of Michigan |
| 14:45 | Erin Neely, University of Michigan | |
| 15:00 |
Heating Rate Optimization for Enhanced Precision in Thermoluminescent Dosimetry |
Jordan Noey, University of Michigan |
| 15:15 |
A Simulation Pipeline for Fast Neutron Imaging and Spectroscopy Using Quantified Detector Attributes |
Ricardo Lopez, University of Michigan |
| 15:30 | Panel #2: National Laboratory Transitions | Panelist: Sean Martinson (TAMU) at ANL; Kris Ogren (U-M) at LANL; Felicia Sutanto (U-M) at LLNL; Kelly Truax (UH) at PNNL Moderator: Meghan McGarry (UW) at LLNL |
| 16:15 |
Awards and Closing Remarks |
Jon Baker, Deputy Director, Office of Proliferation Detection, NNSA and Sara Pozzi, Faculty, MTV Director, University of Michigan |
| 16:30 | Adjourn Day 3 |