The Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification (MTV) held a successful annual workshop on March 9 – 11, 2020 at the University of Michigan.
This year’s workshop welcomed 102 participants in person (85) and online (17). The audience included faculty (24) and students (50) from MTV universities as well as national laboratory affiliates (26) and government officials (2).
On March 9, the workshop with a welcome dinner at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). We welcomed keynote speaker Megan Slinkard, Head of Software Integration at the International Data Centre Division of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, who discussed the topic “Verification of the CTBT”.
The workshop continued on March 10 and March 11 with opening talks by Randy Bell, NNSA, and an MTV overview by Sara Pozzi, MTV Director. The events continued with technical talks (15) and posters (29) which provided overviews of research accomplishments over the first year of the MTV project. MTV students provided 36 of these presentations including 8 of the presented talks. Four students won best presentation awards: Kelly Traux (University of Hawaii, Best Poster), William Steinberger (University of Michigan, Best Poster), Niral Shah (University of Michigan, Best Oral), and Stefano Marin (University of Michigan, Best Oral).
You can learn more about the workshop activities here!