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2019 ETI Annual Workshop Agenda

Note that here is the workshop agenda in PDF.

Day 1, November 5, 2019, Tuesday

7:30–8:30 Breakfast and Registration 119B/C
8:30–9:30 Welcome Remarks & Introduction Auditorium
Victoria Franques, NNSA Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D University Portfolio —
ETI 2019 Workshop
James Hudgens, Georgia Tech Research Institute GTRI Overview
Anna Erickson, Georgia Tech, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering ETI Overview
Sheila Cranman, Georgia Tech, Office of Ethics and Compliance Export Control
9:30–10:00 Coffee Break 119B/C
10:00–12:00 Thrust Area 1 Auditorium
Paul Wilson, University of Wisconsin–Madison Overview: Computer & Engineering Sciences for Nonproliferation
Wesley Gillis, Georgia Tech (student *) Deep Learning for Elemental Mass Quantification using Spectral X-Ray Radiography
Pavel Tsvetkov, Texas A&M University Multi-Modal Global Surveillance for Predictive and On-Demand Characterization of Localized Processes Using Cube Satellite Platforms
Paul Whitney, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ETI Data Science Opportunities at PNNL
Milton Garces, University of Hawaii at Manoa Information Frames
David Peters, Sandia National Laboratories Investigating Typical Additive Manufacturing
Defect Geometries using Physical Vapor
Deposition Explosives as a Model System
12:00–13:30 Lunch & Poster/Discussion 119B/C, Hall
13:30–15:00 Thrust Area 2 Auditorium
Steven Biegalski, Georgia Tech Thrust Area 2: Advanced Manufacturing
William Smith, Washington State University (student *) Nuclear Detection Technologies Supported by Computational Chemistry
Dan Thoma, University of Wisconsin–Madison High Throughput Investigation of Physical Signatures in Additive Manufacturing
Rachel Connick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (student *) Measurement of low-dose irradiation effects in PTFE using differential scanning calorimetry
Philip Bingham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL efforts related to thrust areas 1 and 2
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break and Poster/Discussion 119B/C, Hall
15:30–17:00 Thrust Area 3 Auditorium

Anna Erickson (for Raymond Cao), Georgia Tech

Novel sensors and instrumentation are recognized as the key enabling technology for fuel cycle monitoring

Steven Ringel, The Ohio State University

Wide and Ultra-Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices, Sensors & Circuits: Reducing SWaP
Neil Rutger Taylor, The Ohio State University (student *) Aerosol Jet Deposition of Metal Contacts on 4H-SiC for Radiation and Temperature Measurement
Jinsong Huang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Halide Perovskites for Sensitive, Fast Weak Light Detection
Bernard Kippelen (for Oliver Moreno), Georgia Tech Organic photodiodes: towards largearea, low-cost photon counting platforms
Phil Townsend, University of Wisconsin–Madison Biota and remote sensing, Hyperspectral remote sensing
17:00–18:00 Adjourn  
18:00–21:00 Dinner and Reception 119B/C, Hall
 

Day 2, November 6, 2019, Wednesday

7:30–8:30 Breakfast 119B/C
8:30–10:30 Continuation of the Meetings Auditorium
Derek Haas, University of Texas at Austin Brainstorming for Advanced Manufacturing Thrust
Allison Lim, Colorado School of Mines (student *)

Development of PSD Capable Plastic Scintillators

Arith Rajapakse, Georgia Tech (student *) Carbon Nanotubes as an Ionizing Radiation Sensor
David Chichester, Idaho National Laboratory INL and the Consortium for Enabling Technologies & Innovation
Luke Erickson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ETI Workshop & PNNL
Geoffrey Fairchild, Los Alamos National Laboratory ETI & LANL
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break 119B/C, Hall
11:00–12:00 Research Group Discussion (Thrust Area-Specific) Auditorium
12:00–13:00 Lunch & Poster/Discussion 119B/C, Hall
13:00–14:00 Laboratory Internship, Knowledge Transfer Meeting DOE National Laboratory Support to ETI Workshop
Milton Garces, University of Hawaii at Manoa Knowledge Transfer: ETI and DOE National Laboratories
David Williams, Oak Ridge National Laboratory  
Vladimir Mozin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  
Erika Suzuki, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  
Paul Whitney, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  
David Chichester, Idaho National Laboratory  
Geoffrey Fairchild, Los Alamos National Laboratory  
Milind Diwan, Brookhaven National Laboratory  
Alex Plionis, Nevada National Security Site  
Candido Pereira, Argonne National Laboratory  
David Peters, Sandia National Laboratories  
14:00–15:00 Academic Program Discussion Auditorium
  Pavel Tsvetkov, Texas A&M University  
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break 119B/C, Hall
15:30–17:00 Lab Tours GT Campus
Institute of Electronics and Nanotechnology (Yuguo Tao)  
3-D Printing Facilities (Billyde Brown)  
Invention Studio (Amit Jariwala)  
Radiological Science and Engineering Lab (Arith Rajapakse)  
17:00–18:00 Adjourn  

Poster Presentation

Poster # Poster Title and Presenter(s)
1

Thin Single Crystal Perovskites for Unprecedented Low Noise and Large Linear Dynamic Range Photodetectors

Chunxiong Bao, Zhaolai Chen, and Jinsong Huang

Poster Prepared by Nicholas Lauersdorf

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2

Real-time Digital Pulse Processing Using FPGA

Nathan Smith, Praneeth Kandlakunta, and Raymond Cao

The Ohio State University

3

Nuclear Engineering Applications Utilizing Additive Manufacturing

Patrick Snarr, Tim Phillips, Derek Haas, and Joseph Beaman

University of Texas at Austin

4

Deep Learning for Extracting Scaled Distances from Synthetic Explosions

Samuel “Kei” Takazawa, Milton Garces

University of Hawaii at Manoa

5

Radiation Tolerant GaN Electronics

Ashok Dheenan, Shahadat Sohel, Md Wahidur Rahman, Tawfiq Musah, and Siddharth Rajan

The Ohio State University

6

Assessing Nuclear Proliferation Capabilities of Additive Manufacturing

Kevin Le and Steven Biegalski

Georgia Institute of Technology

7

Quality Control Analysis for Beta Cell Operation

Peter Sobel, Michael Foxe, Michael Mayer, and Johnathan Slack

Georgia Institute of Technology

8

Corrosion and Precipitation in Molten Salt Reactors

Nicole Hege, Jenifer Shafer, Jessica Jackson, Amanda Lines, and Samuel Bryan

Colorado School of Mines

9

Developing Plastic Scintillators Capable of Pulse Shape Discrimination

Allison Lim, Adam Mahl, Joseph Latta, Henok A. Yemam, Uwe Greife, and Alan Sellinger

Colorado School of Mines

10

Multi-modal Global Surveillance Science and Technology for Predictive and On-demand Characterization of Localized Processes Using Cube Satellite Platforms

Mario Mendoza and Pavel Tsvetkov, Texas A&M University

Michael Lewis, NanoRacks, LLC

11

Nondestructive High-Resolution Composition Mapping of Additive Manufactured Materials for Nuclear Forensics Analysis, and Processing History Analysis

Pavel Tsvetkov, Lin Shao, Frank Garner, and Miguel Pena, Texas A&M University

Benjamin Cipiti, Sandia National Laboratories

12

Deep Transfer Learning for Pulse Shape Discrimination

David Raji and Anna Erickson

Georgia Institute of Technology

13

Computational Optics and Imaging of Scintillation Events

Cameron Fudeh and Andreas Velten

University of Wisconsin–Madison

14

Stereolithographic Printing of Radioactive Sources

Steven Mellard and Steven Biegalski

Georgia Institute of Technology

15

Organic Photodiodes for the Detection of Ionizing Radiation

Oliver Moreno, Wen-Fang Chou, Victor A. Rodriguez-Toro, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, and Bernard Kippelen

Georgia Institute of Technology

16

Maker Communities – Thrust Area 2: Advanced Manufacturing for Nonproliferation

Kentez Craig, Abigail Gianis, and Amit Jariwala

Georgia Institute of Technology

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