From Wednesday July 19th, 2017 though Friday July 21st, 2017, the second annual Technical Workshop on Fuel Cycle Simulation will be held at the University of South Carolina, hosted by ERGS. This workshop will broadly cover nuclear fuel cycle simulators, with tracks to be announced soon. There is no registration fee for TWoFCS. All are welcome to attend.
| Model Development & Fidelity |
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| Fuel Cycle Scenarios |
| Validation, Verification, & Uncertainty Quantification |
| General |
March 3rd, 2017 |
Call for Abstracts |
May 3rd, 2017 |
Final Submission deadline for abstracts |
May 5th, 2017 |
Notification of abstract status |
May 10th, 2017 |
Announcement of conference schedules |
July 19th - 21st, 2017 |
Workshop Dates |
These are the people responsible for the workshop.
Anthony Scopatz is currently an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Nuclear Engineering program in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is a computational physicist and long time Python developer. Anthony holds his BS in Physics from UC, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Mechanical / Nuclear Engineering from UT Austin. A former Enthought employee, he spent his post-doctoral studies at the FLASH Center at the University of Chicago in the Astrophysics Department. Then he became a Staff Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Maidson in Engineering Physics. Anthony’s research interests revolve around essential physics modeling of the nuclear fuel cycle, and information theory & entropy. Anthony is proudly a fellow of the Python Software Foundation and has published and spoken at numerous conferences on a variety of science & software development topics.
Dr. Kathryn D. Huff is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering and and a Blue Waters Assistant Professor with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow with both the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at the University of California - Berkeley.
Robert Flanagan is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of South Carolina in the Nuclear Engineering program. Robert holds a BS in Physics from University of Buffalo. Before pursuing higher education, Robert worked in risk assessment and radiation protection for the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station. He then went on to earned a Masters and Ph.D. from the Mechanical / Nuclear Engineering department of University of Texas Austin. Robert spent most of his graduate career studying fuel cycle modeling, reactor simulation, and user interface design. His current research involves continuing to develop his reactor simulation software and researching advanced nuclear fuel cycles.
Paul Wilson is the Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the University of Wisconsin-Madison‘s Department of Engineering Physics, and Faculty Director of the Advanced Computing Initiative. His research interests focus on developing improved tools for computational modeling of complex nuclear energy systems, with applications in radiation shielding, nuclear waste management, nuclear non-proliferation and energy policy. Paul joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor in August 2001 as part of the Energy Systems and Policy Hiring Initiative. Paul currently serves on the Program Committee of the Energy Analysis and Policy Graduate Certificate , the Executive Committee of the Wisconsin Energy Institute and the Governance Committee of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Baptiste Mouginot received his PhD from the University of Paris Sud-XI in 2011. During his PhD, he studied nuclear structure. He joined the Experimental Research on Data Reactors and Energy (ERDRE) group of Subatech Laboratory (CNRS/IN2P3, University of Nantes, Ecoles des Mines de Nantes) in 2012 as a postdoc, then as a research scientist. He was involved in the study on Accelerator Driven System. He started and led the development of a fuel cycle tool for the CNRS, called CLASS. He initiate the development of fuel fabrication model and cross section predictor for the CLASS tool, and has been a key developer of the polynomial regression and neural network methods for fuel fabrication models in CLASS. Mouginot joined the Cyclus development team at UW-Madison in October 2015.
Ryan Hodge is an undergraduate Computer Science student at the University of South Carolina, originally hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a member of the South Carolina Honors College, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of USC's satirical newspaper. He joined the ERGS team in 2015 as an Research Assistant, and is currently working on code generation for the HDF5 backend of Cyclus. During his time at USC, Ryan has also been awarded a research internship with the Open Orbiter program at the University of North Dakota, where he developed the concept and simulation of an agent-based cybersecurity system for spacecraft.