The Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification (MTV) will be hosting the 2024 MTV Workshop on March 26-27 at the Michigan League in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This event highlights the consortium research over the past year supporting the NNSA nuclear nonproliferation mission.
Workshop activities begin on Monday, March 25 with a Welcome Dinner at the Jack Roth Stadium Club at Michigan Stadium, home of the 2023 College Football National Champions! The welcome event will also include a tour of the stadium, including the locker room and field.
This year’s MTV Workshop will feature 26 technical talks, 37 poster presentations, two national laboratory “Meet-and-Greet” luncheons, 2 panel discussions (“Women in Nuclear” and “Transitions to National Laboratory Careers”), and MTV student awards.
Registration is by invitation only. Please contact Courtney Wagoner at [email protected] for further details.
The 2024 MTV 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 research by MTV graduate and undergraduate student presenters at the MTV Workshop through the following awards: MTV Oral Presentation Award, MTV Poster Presentation Award, and MTV Student Publication Award! All awards have graduate and undergraduate categories and come with a 500$ Visa gift card for each awardee. Award winners will be announced at the conclusion of the workshop on Wednesday, March 27!
Details of the awards and selection process can be found here.
MTV Workshop Meeting Logistics
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 in the Maynard Parking Structure, Uber and Lyft are great options to get to the University of Michigan campus!
Preliminary agenda at a glance:
Workshop Day 1 (bios and materials linked)
| 08:00 | Breakfast, registration and poster set-up | 2nd Floor, Michigan League |
| 09:00 | Welcome and Logistics | Shaun Clarke, MTV Associate Director, and Sara Pozzi, MTV Director, University of Michigan |
| 09:10 | NNSA Goals for MTV | Jon Baker, Deputy, Office of Proliferation Detection Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D NNSA |
| 09:25 | MTV Accomplishments | Sara Pozzi, MTV Director, University of Michigan |
| 09:40 | Ex fission ad astra: extending nuclear phenomenology to the fission fragment region | Kyle Beyer, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2020) |
| 09:55 | Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Antineutrino-based Safeguards | Matthew Dunbrack, MTV Graduate Associate, Georgia Institute of Technology (Program Start: 2020) |
| 10:10 | Measurement of 9Be(ɑ,n) Cross Section for Safeguards Applications | Colton Graham, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2021) |
| 10:25 | Break (20 minutes) | |
| 10:45 | LASE characterizations of neutrino detector media optical properties | Emily Gunger, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Florida (Program Start: 2023) |
| 11:00 | Subcritical Prompt Neutron Decay Constant Estimates in CROCUS | Flynn Darby, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2020) |
| 11:15 | PSD Performance using CLYC Scintillation Detector for Special Nuclear Materials Measurement | Cathleen Barker, MTV Graduate Associate, University of Florida (Program Start: 2022) |
| 11:30 | Leakage Multiplication and Spontaneous Fission Source Strength Estimation Using Non-Point Model Factorial Moments | Jawad Moussa, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of New Mexico (Program Start: 2018) |
| 11:45 | Group Photo | Michigan League |
| 12:00 | Consortia students and national laboratory scientist meet-and-greet luncheon | Michigan and Kalamazoo Rooms, Michigan League |
| 13:15 | Transition to National Lab Careers, Moderated by Shaun Clarke | Panelists: Steven Demers, Savannah River National Laboratory; Michael Hamel, Sandia National Laboratory; Marc Ruch, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Oskar Searfus, University of Michigan; Sarah Thomas, Nevada National Security Site |
| 14:10 | Characterizing Early Organic Glass Scintillator Beta Cell Prototypes for Radioxenon Monitoring | Tessa Maurer, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2022) |
| 14:25 | Explosion Detection using Ensemble Learning | Sam Takazawa, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Hawaiʻi (Program Start: 2019) |
| 14:40 | Elucidation of Plutonium Combustion Chemistry and Laser-Particle Interactions from Laser Produced Plasmas for Nonproliferation and Nuclear Forensic Missions | Justin Borrero, MTV Graduate Associate, University of Florida (Program Start: 2022) |
| 14:55 | Break (20 minutes) | |
| 15:15 | Trade-off between statistics and systematics for a PROSPECT-I absolute flux measurement | Paige Kunkle, MTV Graduate Fellow, Boston University (Program Start: 2020) |
| 15:30 | Event Topological Reconstruction using an Opaque Water-based Liquid Scintillator | Andrew Wilhelm, MTV Graduate Associate, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2021) |
| 15:45 | HITMAN: Bridging Analytic and Deep Learning Inference Techniques for Optical Neutrino Detectors | Garrett Wendel, MTV Graduate Fellow, Penn State University (Program Start: 2021) |
| 16:00 | Understanding Early Reactor Programs: Nuclear Archaeology of the Heisenberg Reactor | Patrick Park, MTV Graduate Associate, Princeton University (Program Start: 2023) |
| 16:15 | Neutron Signatures for Nondestructive Assay in Thorium Fuel Cycles | Oskar Searfus, MTV Graduate Associate, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2020) |
| 16:30 | Poster Overview Presentations (1-minute each) | Odd-numbered poster presenters |
| 16:50 | Poster Reception: Session A (odd-numbered posters) | Hussey and Vandenberg Rooms, Michigan League |
| 17:50 | Adjourn Day 1 |
Workshop Day 2 (bios and materials linked)
| 08:00 | Breakfast | Concourse, Michigan League |
| 09:00 | Application of the Cohn-α Method on Bare Highly Enriched Uranium Using Organic Scintillators | Schuyler Tyler, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2023) |
| 09:15 | Design of a Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis Experiment for Nuclear Forensic Characterization | Brad Nethercutt, MTV Graduate Fellow, Penn State University (Program Start: 2021) |
| 09:30 | Gamma Background Suppression and Custom Algorithmic Development for a Portable Neutron-Resonance Transmission Analysis Device | Shayaan Subzwari, MTV Graduate Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Program Start: 2023) |
| 09:45 | Comparing Timing Resolution Improvements using the Tapered-Sinc Interpolation Algorithm for Various Readout Methods | Kim Meagher, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2023) |
| 10:00 | Break (20 minutes) | |
| 10:20 | Women in Nuclear Panel, Moderated by Jill Rahon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Panelist: Sara Pozzi, University of Michigan; Ciara Sivels, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Kelly Truax, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Amy Waters, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Jessica White-Horton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 11:15 | Characterization and restoration of Mini-Muon Tracker imaging system | Jesus Valencia, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of New Mexico (Program Start: 2019) |
| 11:30 | First observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering on germanium by COHERENT | Ryan Bouabid, MTV Graduate Fellow, Duke University (Program Start: 2020) |
| 11:45 | Preliminary Findings from RIMS Analysis of Spent Fuel | Henry Burns, MTV Graduate Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology (Program Start: 2019) |
| 12:00 | Poster Overview Presentations (1-minute each) |
Even-numbered poster presenters |
| 12:20 | Consortia students and national laboratory scientist meet-and-greet luncheon | Michigan and Kalamazoo Rooms, Michigan League |
| 13:35 | Poster Reception: Session B (even-numbered posters) | Hussey and Vandenberg Rooms, Michigan League |
| 14:35 | The First Search for Neutrino-Induced Nuclear Fission | Tyler Johnson, MTV Graduate Fellow, Duke University (Program Start: 2018) |
| 14:50 | Visualizing Particle Imaging using the HoloLens 2 | Ricardo Lopez, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2021) |
| 15:05 | Pushing the Bounds of Minimal-Access Robotic Inspections with Privacy-Preserving Absence Confirmation | Eric Lepowsky, MTV Graduate Fellow, Princeton University (Program Start: 2019) |
| 15:20 | Closing Remarks and Student Awards | Sara Pozzi, MTV Director, University of Michigan |
| 16:00 | Adjourn Day 2 |
Posters
| #1 | Probabilistic Sequencing for Compton Imaging Using the General Klein-Nishina Cross-Section | Prabhjot Kaur, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2019) |
| #2 | Development of a Novel Random Coded Aperture Mask | Alexander Rice, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2019) |
| #3 | 2D Cylindrical Time-Encoded Imager Design | John Kuchta, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2019) |
| #4 | Measurement of 254 eV Nuclear Recoils in High Purity Germanium Detector | Alex Kavner, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2019) |
| #5 | Measurement of D-T Neutron Source Flux by Self-Neutron Activation Analysis with a LaBr3 Detector | Caryanne Wilson, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2023) |
| #6 | Fiber-optic fluorescence measurements for PALOECCENE | Keegan Walkup, MTV Graduate Fellow, Virginia Tech (Program Start: 2023) |
| #7 | Windowed Multipole Cross sections in MCNP | Matthew Lazaric, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of New Mexico (Program Start: 2019) |
| #8 | Development of a High-Energy Two-Component Gamma Calibration Source | Junwoo Bae, MTV Postdoctoral Associate, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2021) |
| #9 | Measuring spin-energy correlations in fission with Gammasphere | Nathan Giha, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2019) |
| #10 | Improved Time Behavior and Inventory Management to Support Nuclear Material Accounting in Cyclus | Katie Mummah, MTV Graduate Associate, University of Wisconsin (Program Start: 2017) |
| #11 | Validation of Neutron Simulation Framework for Scintillator-based Imaging Systems | Katie Ballard, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2020) |
| #12 | Characterizing filament-induced breakdown spectroscopy through highly scattering media | Leandro Frigerio, MTV Graduate Associate, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2022) |
| #13 | Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis in a Field Portable System | Jill Rahon, MTV Graduate Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Program Start: 2021) |
| #14 | Reactor Neutrino Calculations with CONFLUX | Anosh Irani, MTV Graduate Fellow, Illinois Institute of Technology (Program Start: 2020) |
| #15 | Assessing the Impact of Nuclear Contamination on Soil Microbial Communities | Heather MacGregor, University of California Berkeley (Program Start: 2020) |
| #16 | How Well Do You Know Your Neutron Source? Neutron Yield of Thermo Scientific P385 D-T Neutron Generator vs. Current and Voltage | Jihye Jeon, MTV Graduate Associate, Princeton University (Program Start: 2019) |
| #17 | Identifying genetic markers of radiation exposure through microbial genome-wide association study (mGWAS) | Anne Shen, MTV Graduate Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Program Start: 2020) |
| #18 | Potential Applications of Microbial Genomics in Nuclear Non-Proliferation | Isis Fukai, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Tennessee Knoxville (Program Start: 2019) |
| #19 | Chlorophyll extract measurements using Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) of moss (Thuidium plicatile) in response to copper contamination | Ciara Bongolan-Aquino, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Hawaiʻi (Program Start: 2020) |
| #20 | Atmospheric properties influence on propagating Lamb waves from Tonga eruption | Shirin Wyckoff, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Hawaiʻi (Program Start: 2022) |
| #21 | Resource-Efficient Particle Filter Localization Algorithm for Radioactive Source Localization | Abhishek Dahad, MTV Undergraduate Associate, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2023) |
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Caleb Bush, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2020) |
| #23 | Preventing Radiation Drone Crashes: Avoiding Collisions and Following Terrain | Meredith Doan, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2021) |
| #24 | A WiFi-based Radiation Emulation System Designed for Testing Intelligent Radiation Surveying | Hythem Beydoun, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2022) |
| #25 | Computer Vision-Guided Reinforcement Learning Approach to Source Localization | Christopher Davis, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2021) |
| #26 | Fused Filament Fabrication in a Radiation Detection and Protection Makerspace | Callissa Clarkson, MTV Undergraduate Associate, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2023) |
| #27 | Basic Radiation Physics Preparation for Beginning Players of the DoseBusters Virtual Reality Radiation Detection Game | Jackson Eggerd, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2022) |
| #28 | Aerial Mapping of Ionizing and Non-Ionizing Radiation Using Open-Source Software | Clay Hudson, MTV Undergrad Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2022) |
| #29 | Final Design and Testing of a Low-Cost Radiation Weather Station | Ryan Kim, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2020) |
| #30 | Preliminary Design of a 3D-Printed Airframe for an Intelligent Radiation Awareness Drone | Kabir Khwaja, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan Program Start: 2023) |
| #31 | Achieving and Maintaining Airborne: Avionics for an Affordable Student-Designed Radiation Detection Drone | Liam O’Driscoll, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2021) |
| #32 | Reconstruction of Mock Fuel Pins in a Fast Neutron Emission Tomography Imager for Spent Nuclear Fuel Verification | Mairead Montague, MTV Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2024) |
| #33 | Assessing Age Effects on Pulse Shape Discrimination Capabilities of Organic Glass Scintillators | Ethan Schneider, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2023) |
| #34 | Propagation of Acoustic Waves from the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule during Re-entry | Sarah Popenhagen, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Hawaiʻi (Program Start: 2020) |
| #35 | Characterizing Activated Materials for Free Release at a Low-Energy Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facility | Jordan Noey, MTV Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2020) |
| #36 | Three-Dimensional Printing for Radiation Applications using Tungsten-filled Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol | Yehansa Dissanayake, MTV Undergraduate Fellow, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2023) |
| #37 | The effect of Laser Pulse Width on the Behavior of UF6 Plasma in LISA-UE |
Londrea Garrett, MTV Graduate Associate, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2020) |
| #38 | Nuclear Forensics Sample Identification with Magnetic Microcalorimeters |
Ryan Wood, MTV Graduate Associate, University of Michigan (Program Start: 2020) |