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ANNUAL REPORT September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2016 NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES University of Michigan

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ANNUAL REPORT September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2016

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

University of Michigan

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The Regents of the University of Michigan

Michael J. Behm, Grand Blanc Mark J. Bernstein, Ann Arbor

Shauna Ryder Diggs, Grosse Pointe Denise Illitch, Bingham Farms

Andrea Fischer Newman, Ann Arbor Andrew C. Richner, Grosse Pointe Park

Ron Weiser, Ann Arbor Katherine E. White, Ann Arbor

Mark S. Schlissel, ex officio

Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences 1906 Cooley Building

2355 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2104

(734) 764-4260 Fax: (734) 763-4540

Ronald M. Gilgenbach, Chair

[email protected] www.engin.umich.edu/ners

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Table of Contents SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................................... 4

FACULTY HONORS AND AWARDS .................................................................................................................... 5

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS ................................................................................................................................ 6

CURRICULUM ........................................................................................................................................................... 8

CURRICULUM CHANGES .................................................................................................................................................. 8 COURSES OFFERED ............................................................................................................................................................ 9 COURSE ENROLLMENTS ............................................................................................................................................... 12

STUDENT ACADEMICS, HONORS, AND EMPLOYMENT ........................................................................... 14

DEGREES AWARDED BY ACADEMIC YEAR ............................................................................................................ 20 DOCTORAL THESES TITLES ......................................................................................................................................... 21 FALL ENROLLMENT ........................................................................................................................................................ 27 EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS AND CONTINUING EDUCATION ........................................................................ 29 INTERNSHIPS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 31 EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS OF GRADUATES .......................................................................................................... 33

NERS COLLOQUIA ................................................................................................................................................ 36

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ..................................................................................................................................... 38

FISSION SYSTEMS AND RADIATION TRANSPORT .............................................................................................. 38 MATERIALS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 41 PLASMAS AND FUSION ................................................................................................................................................... 47 RADIATION MEASUREMENTS AND IMAGING ...................................................................................................... 53

FISCAL YEAR 2016 RESEARCH EXPENDITURES ....................................................................................... 57

RESEARCH EXPENDITURES ATTRIBUTED TO AN EXTERNAL SPONSOR ................................................. 57

PUBLICATIONS ..................................................................................................................................................... 68

FISSION SYSTEMS AND RADIATION TRANSPORT .............................................................................................. 68 MATERIALS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 74 PLASMAS AND FUSION ................................................................................................................................................... 82 RADIATION MEASUREMENTS AND IMAGING ...................................................................................................... 89

SERVICE .................................................................................................................................................................. 98

PERSONNEL ......................................................................................................................................................... 112

ADVISORY BOARD ............................................................................................................................................ 122

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Summary of Activities This is the 19th annual Report of the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department. The purpose of this report is to provide a record of teaching, research and service activities of the department. NERS Department faculty offered a total of 66 courses including special topics, independent study and doctoral research. Our undergraduate enrollment is stable at a very high level with 118 students in the NERS and Engineering Physics majors. Some 35 students registered in NERS 250, Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (our introductory sophomore level course) and 29 students in NERS 311, (our junior level course). The NERS department awarded 28 BSE degrees and 10 Engineering Physics degrees. MS and MSE degrees were granted to 28 students. There were 21 Ph.D. graduates from NERS during this reporting period. NERS Department continues to attract the highest quality students. Currently, NERS graduate students have earned some 69 prestigious graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation (9), DoE, NNSA, NRC, DoD, NPSC and DHS. Undergraduate students garnered many prestigious scholarships. NERS undergraduates and graduate students have also received numerous awards. NERS faculty taught a class for the sixth time in China that exposed students to several nuclear reactor construction sites and nuclear facilities. Faculty research expenditures is at a high level of 23 million dollars on some 212 research projects from government and industry. Construction was begun on the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory with a “wall breaking” on September 17, 2015. The building was completed in early 2017. Due to the efforts of our outstanding faculty, students and staff, the future of the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department is on a great trajectory. Go blue! Ron Gilgenbach Chair and Chihiro Kikuchi Collegiate Professor Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department

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Faculty Honors and Awards (January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015) Zhong He

North American Technical Center John M. Palms Outstanding Innovation Award

John C. Lee American Nuclear Society Arthur Holly Compton Award Kimberlee Kearfott Health Physics Society Fellowship Award Brendan Kochunas Annals of Nuclear Energy Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing

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Student Organizations

ALPHA NU SIGMA SOCIETY In 1983, a chapter of the Alpha Nu Sigma Society, the national honor society for nuclear science and engineering, was formed at the University of Michigan. Approximately 130 undergraduate and graduate students have been inducted into the Alpha Chapter of the Alpha Nu Sigma Society at Michigan since 1983. The honor society emphasizes nuclear education by tutoring current students, and providing outreach activities to educate high school students and the community. Since 1993, the chapter has recognized a faculty member for contributions to undergraduate and graduate education.

AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY

Over the past year, the American Nuclear Society UM Student Chapter sought to increase membership and planned events to strengthen undergraduate relationships in the NERS Department. Throughout the academic year, ANS hosted bi-weekly meetings where students could socialize over dinner, discuss emerging news in the field of Nuclear Engineering, and plan conference and outreach events. In the fall semester, the focus was on social events to strengthen the group dynamic and planning for winter conference and power plant visit travel. In the winter semester, the group arranged a tour of the DC Cook power plant, which for some undergraduates was the first time they had visited a nuclear reactor. The student chapter of ANS also sent participating members to both the professional and student ANS conferences. Students had the opportunity to be exposed to current research within the nuclear community as well as different career opportunities.

HEALTH PHYSICS SOCIETY

Formed in 1992, the University of Michigan Student Branch of the Health Physics Society was among the charter groups of student branches. The Health Physics Society is dedicated to the development, dissemination, and application of both the scientific knowledge of and the practical means for radiation protection, with an emphasis on protection of people and the environment from unnecessary exposure to radiation. The student branch has been involved in a number of professional activities, parties, seminars, and public relations activities, including tours, teacher training workshops and visits to high schools for the dissemination of basic information about radiation and radiation health effects.

THE INSTITUE OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT (INMM) The mission of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) is to promote advancement and research in the area of nuclear materials management and to implement high ethical and educational standards for those engaged in the nuclear materials management field. The University of Michigan student chapter promotes the INMM mission by hosting professional speakers, facilitating panels and

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discussions, and providing opportunities to increase awareness and education of the importance of nuclear materials management.

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Curriculum

CURRICULUM CHANGES There were no curriculum changes for the academic year 2015-2016.

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COURSES OFFERED

COURSE NO. COURSE TITLE TERM CREDIT HRS

NERS 211/ENSCEN 211 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

I, II 4

NERS 250 Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

II 4

NERS 290 Special Topics for Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

I, II 1-3

NERS 299 Directed Study in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

All 1-3

NERS 311 Elements of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences I I 3

NERS 312 Elements of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences II

II 3

NERS 315 Nuclear Instrumentation Laboratory II 4

NERS 320 Problems in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences I 4

NERS 344 Fluid Mechanics for Nuclear Engineers II 3

NERS 421 Nuclear Engineering Materials I 3

NERS 425 Applications of Radiation II 4

NERS 441 Nuclear Reactor Theory I I 4

NERS 442 Nuclear Power Reactors II 4

NERS 444 Thermal-hydraulics for Nuclear Systems I 3

NERS 462 Reactor Safety Analysis I 3

NERS 471 Introduction to Plasmas I 3

NERS 472 Fusion Reactor Technology II 3

NERS 481/BIOMEDE 481

Engineering Principles of Radiation Imaging II 2

NERS 484/BIOMEDE 484/ENSCEN 484

Radiological Health Engineering Fundamentals I 4

NERS 490 Special Topics in Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences

I, II 1-4

NERS 499 Research in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences All 1-3

NERS 511 Quantum Mechanics in Neutron-Nuclear Reactions II 3

NERS 512 Interaction of Radiation and Matter II 3

NERS 515 Nuclear Measurements Laboratory I 4

NERS 518 Advanced Radiation Measurements and Imaging I (Alt Yrs) 2

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COURSE NO. COURSE TITLE TERM CREDIT HRS

NERS 521 Radiation Materials Science I I 3

NERS 522 Radiation Materials Science II II (Alt Yrs) 3

NERS 524 Nuclear Fuels II (Alt Yrs) 3

NERS 531/EECS 529/ENSCEN 529

Nuclear Waste Management II (Alt Yrs) 3

NERS 535 Detection Techniques of Nuclear Non-proliferation I 4

NERS 543 Nuclear Reactor Theory II I 3

NERS 544 Monte Carlo Methods I 2

NERS 546 Thermal Fluids for Nuclear Reactor Safety Analysis II 3

NERS 547 Computational Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Applications I 3

NERS 551 Nuclear Reactor Kinetics II 3

NERS 554 Radiation Shielding Design II 4

NERS 561 Nuclear Core Design and Analysis I II 3

NERS 562 Nuclear Core Design and Analysis II IIIA 3

NERS 571 Intermediate Plasma Physics I I 3

NERS 572/Appl Phys 672

Intermediate Plasma Physics II II 3

NERS 573 Plasma Engineering I 3

NERS 574 Introduction to Computational Plasma Physics II 3

NERS 575/EECS 519 Plasma Generation and Diagnostics Laboratory II 4

NERS 576 Charged Particle Accelerators and Beams I (Alt Yrs) 3

NERS 577 Plasma Spectroscopy I (Alt Yrs) 3

NERS 578/EECS 517 Physical Processes in Plasmas II (Even Yrs)

3

NERS 579/EHS 692 Physics of Diagnostic Radiology II, IIIA 3

NERS 580/BIOMEDE 580

Computation Projects in Radiation Imaging II 1

NERS 582/BIOMEDE 582

Medical Radiological Health Engineering II 3

NERS 583/BIOMEDE 683

Applied Radiation Dose Assessment II 4

NERS 585 Transportation of Radioactive Materials I (Alt Yrs) 2

NERS 586 Applied Radiological Measurements II 4

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COURSE NO. COURSE TITLE TERM CREDIT HRS

NERS 587 Internal Radiation Dose Assessment II 3

NERS 588 Radiation Safety and Medical Physics Practicum All 1-12

NERS 590 Special Topics in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences II

All 1-4

NERS 599 Master’s Project I, II, IIIA-B 1-3

NERS 621/EECS 629/MATSCIE 621/ENSCEN 620

Nuclear Waste Forms I (Alt Yrs) 3

NERS 622/ MATSCIE 622/MFG 622

Ion Beam Modification and Analysis of Materials II (Alt Yrs) 3

NERS 644 Transport Theory I 3

NERS 671 Theory of Plasma Confinement in Fusion Systems I I (Alt Yrs) 3

NERS 672 Theory of Plasma Confinement in Fusion Systems II II (Alt Yrs) 3

NERS 673 Electrons and Coherent Radiation II 3

NERS 674/Appl Phys 674

High Intensity Laser-Plasma Interactions I 3

NERS 799 Special Projects All 1-6

NERS 990 Dissertation/Pre-candidate I, II , III IIIA-B

2-8 1-4

NERS 995 Dissertation/Candidate I, II, II, IIIA-B

8 4

*Roman numeral indicates term(s) the course will be offered. Fall term, I; Winter term, II; Spring/Summer terms, III A/B.

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COURSE ENROLLMENTS

COURSE TITLE FA15 WN16 SP/SU16

NERS 211 Introduction to Nuclear Engr and Radiological Sci 58 54 NERS 250 Fundamentals of Nuclear Engr and Radiological

Sci 35

NERS 290 Special Topics for Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences 9

NERS 299 Directed Study in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences 2

NERS 311 Elements of Nuclear Engr and Radiological Sci I 29 NERS 312 Elements of Nuclear Engr and Radiological Sci II 25 NERS 315 Nuclear Instrumentation Laboratory 25 NERS 320 Principles in Nuclear Engineering and

Radiological Sciences 28

NERS 344 Fluid Mechanics for Nuclear Engineers 25 NERS 421 Nuclear Engr Materials 17 NERS 425 Applications of Radiation 4 NERS 441 Nuclear Reactor Theory I 37 NERS 442 Nuclear Power Reactors 10 NERS 444 Thermal-hydraulics for Nuclear Systems 34 NERS 462 Reactor Safety Analysis 9 NERS 471 Introduction to Plasmas 41 NERS 472 Fusion Reactor Technology 6 NERS 481 Engr Principles of Radiation Imaging (BioE 481) 20 NERS 484 Radiological Health Engr Fundamentals (BioE

484) 11

NERS 490 Special Topics in Nuclear Engr and Radiological Sci 12

NERS 499 Research in Nuclear Engr & Radiological Sci 7 12 NERS 515 Nuclear Measurements Laboratory 15 25 NERS 518 Advanced Radiation Measurements and Imaging 5 NERS 521 Radiation Effects in Nuclear Materials 7 NERS 535 Detection Techniques of Nuclear Non-

proliferation 6

NERS 543 Nuclear Reactor Theory II 9 NERS 546 Thermal Fluids for Nuclear Reactor Safety

Analysis 10

NERS 547 CFD for Nuclear Applications 12

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COURSE TITLE FA15 WN16 SP/SU16

NERS 551 Nuclear Reactor Kinetics 14 NERS 554 Radiation Shielding 19 NERS 561 Nuclear Core Design and Analysis I 11 NERS 571 Intermediate Plasma Physics I 15 NERS 572 Intermediate Plasma Physics II 12 NERS 574 Introduction to Computational Plasma Physics 17 NERS 575 Plasma Generation and Diagnostics Lab (EECS

519) 22

NERS 577 Plasma Spectroscopy 7 NERS 578 Physical Processes in Plasmas (EECS 517) 23 NERS 580 Computation Proj in Radiation Imaging (BioM

580) 7

NERS 581 Radiation Therapy Physics 7 NERS 583 Radiation Assessment Response 6 NERS 586 Applied Radiological Measurements 18 NERS 588 Radiation Safety and Medical Physics Practicum 1 NERS 590 Special Topics in Nuclear Engr & Radiological Sci

II 30 27

NERS 599 Master’s Project 5 7 NERS 621 Nuclear Waste Forms 12 NERS 799 Special Projects 18 11 NERS 990 Dissertation-Pre-candidate 10 11 NERS 995 Dissertation-Candidate 61 58 10

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Student Academics, Honors, and Employment

Undergraduate Scholarships for AY 2015-2016

American Nuclear Society Undergraduate Scholarship Award

Zhuoran Han

ANS Joseph R. Dietrich Memorial Scholarship Evan Leppink

Oskar and Elsie R. Loosme Endowed Scholarship

Nicholas Adamowicz Andrew A Kucher Scholarship

Divans Beqi Maria diMayorca Johnathan Klee Evan Leppink Devin Mussell Parker Olson Drew Packard Ashwin Rao Travis Williams Antonia Wuschner

Carlos and Gloria W. Bell Trust Scholraship

Paul Ahnn Carroll J. Haas Endowed Schoalrship

Katherine Schneider

Class of 1931E Scholarship Sylvia Domanico

College of Engineering Scholarship

Alexandra Klein

Donald and Jean Walker Scholarship Fund Natalie Baughan

George H Miller Memorial Scholarship Sana Cao

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James D. Butt Scholarship Andrew Boria Julio Diaz Juan Riquezes Benjamin Van

John S. King Scholarship Fund

Emily King Katherine Schneider

Michigan Engineering Fund

Sana Cao

Special Engineering Schoalrship (Industry) Evan Leppink

William E. Bandemer Scholarship

Ashwin Rao

William Kerr Scholarship Sana Cao

Undergraduate Honors and Awards for 2015-2016 Distinguished Achievement Award (Engineering Physics)

Adrian Sanchez Distinguished Achievement Award (NERS)

Jinpu Lin

Graduate Fellowships for 2015-2016 American Nuclear Society Graduate Awards Mathew Marcath, Daniel Nunez, Marc Ruch ANS Everitt P. Blizard Scholarship Joel Kulesza College of Engineering Dean’s/Named Fellowship Andrew Fitzgerald, Ethan Pacheck College of Engineering MS Fellowship Kenneth Engeling, Sean Gray, Yao Kovach College of Engineering / Sandia Fellowship

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J. Kyle Polack, Michael Hamel Graham Institute for the Dow Masters/Professional Fellowship Selman Mujovic National Academy for Nuclear Training in Nuclear Engineering Fellowship Sean Gray Nuclear Regulatory Commission Bryan Toth, Timothy Grunloh, Michael Rose, Charles Corbin Matthew Neumann, Alexander McSpaden, Sylvia Domanico Rackham Engineering Award Fellowship David Yager-Elorriaga Rackham Engineering Award Fellowship (deferred) Daniel Nunez, Crystal Green Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Award Alexis Poitrasson-Riviere National Science Foundation Fellowship Steven Brown, Timothy Burke, Jeff Fein, Elizabeth Getto, David Goodman William Koehler, Amanda Lietz, Anthony Monterrosa, Michael Streicher Gates Millennium Scholar Adrian Lopez Consortium for Verification Technology Fellowship Kyle Kondrat, Mark Bourne, Charles Sosa, David Goodman, Tony Shin, Joshua Mann Consortium for Nonproliferation Enabling Capabilities Fellowship Jennifer Arthur Rackham Predoctoral Award Zhen "Tony" Zhao U.S. Department of Energy Forensics Fellowship Alexis Trahan, Mateusz Monterial, Bruce Pierson U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Program Michael Jarrett, Stephen Taller, Ben C. Yee, Aaron Graham, Daniel Nunez Gerrit VanCoevering, David Woodley, Aaron Tumulak, Brianne Heisinger U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Nonproliferation International Safeguards

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Mark Norsworthy, Marc Paff, Marc Ruch, Aaron Bevill, Matthew Marcath, Jason Nattress Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation Crystal Green China National Nuclear Corporation Fellowship Mengqiao Zhao Brazilian Navy Fellowship Cesar A. Gomes dos Santos, Ilka Rios Directed Energy Program Scholarship Steven Exelby Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering Neil Arthur, Jeffrey Fein Brazilian Navy Fellowship Ilka Rios Indonesia Endowmenet Fund for Education Ilham Variansyah Korean Military Woongky Son

Publications, Papers, and Other Awards for 2015-2016

2015 1st Place in Innovations in Advanced Fuels Open Competition Stephen Raiman 2015 2nd Place in U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Fuel Cycle Technologies, Innovation in Fuel Cycle Research, winner of open competition in "Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy Matthew Marcath

2015 American Nuclear Sociecty Student Design Competition for Graduates Crystal Green, Brianne Heisinger, Kyle Kondrat, Matthew Krupkale, Jennifer Arthur

2015 COE Symposium Poster Presentations Session Amanda Lietz

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2015 Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize For Outstanding PhD Research Honorable Mention Daniel Walter

2015 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievment Zhen "Tony" Zhao 2015 ASTM International Graduate Scholarship Joel Kulesza

2015 Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Best Student Paper Award, Technical Divisions Marc Ruch

2015 ANS Materials Science and Technology Division Student Literary Award Elizabeth Getto

U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Next Generation Safeguards Initiative's Nuclear Facilities Experience 2016 trip to England Michael Hamel, Marc Paff

2016 1st Place in Innovations in Advanced Fuels Open Competition Elizabeth Getto

2016 2nd Place in U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Fuel Cycle Technologies, Innovation in Fuel Cycle Research, winner of open competition in Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy Marc Ruch

2016 1st Place in U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy, Fuel Cycle Technologies, Innovation in Fuel Cycle Research, winner of open competition in "Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy Marc Paff

2016 2nd Place Omega Laser user Group Poster Competition, April Jeff Fein 2016 1st Place Award US DOE National Nuclear Security Administration University & Industry Technical Interchange (UITI) 2016 Review Meeting Ciara Sivels 2016 Best Poster Award in 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Southeast Michigan Section Humanitarian Technology Conference

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Yao Kovach 2016 Institute Nuclear Materials Management 57th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia 2nd Place J. D. Williams Student Paper Award Aaron Bevill

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DEGREES AWARDED BY ACADEMIC YEAR

September 2015 – August 2016

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DOCTORAL THESES TITLES Degrees Conferred and Employment September 2015 – August 2016

Bourne, Mark Title of Dissertation: Organic Scintillators in Nonproliferation Applications with a Hybridized Double-Pulse Rejection Technique. Chair: Pozzi, Sara Cognate: Schwarz, Thomas Andrew Member: Clarke, Shaun Member: Gueorguiev, Andrey Member: Wehe, David K Employment: University of Michigan Position: Research Fellow, Physics, College of Literature, Science and the Arts Dave, Akshay Title of Dissertation: Interfacial Area Transport Equation Models and Validation against High Resolution Experimental Data for Small and Large Diameter Vertical Pipes. Chair: Manera, Annalisa Cognate: Bajorek, Steve Member: Downar, Thomas J Member: Larsen, Edward W Member: Petrov, Victor Employment: MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory Position: Postdoc Dwaraknath, Shyam Title of Dissertation: Measurements to Elucidate the Mechanism of Thermal and Radiation Enhanced Diffusion of Cesium, Europium, and Strontium in Silicon Carbide. Chair: Was, Gary Cognate: Halloran, John Member: Gao, Fei Member: Petti, David A Member: Wang, Lumin Employment: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA Position: Postdoc Grunloh, Timothy Title of Dissertation: A Novel Multi-Scale Domain Overlapping CFD/STH Coupling Methodology for Multi-Dimensional Flows Relevant to Nuclear Applications. Chair: Manera, Annalisa Cognate: Fidkowski, Krzysztof

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Member: Downar, Thomas J Member: Johnsen, Eric Member: Larsen, Edward Member: Petrov, Victor Employment: Illinois Rocstar Position: Research Scientist Gucker, Sarah Title of Dissertation: Plasma Discharges in Gas Bubbles in Liquid Water: Breakdown Mechanisms and Resultant Chemistry. Chair: Foster, John Edison Cognate: Kushner, Mark Member: Babaeva, Natalia Member: Gilgenbach, Ronald Employment: Lockheed Martin Position: Research Engineer Hall, Andrew Title of Dissertation: Homogenization Methods for Full Core Solution of the Pn Transport Equations with 3-D Cross Sections. Chair: Downar, Thomas J Cognate: Schotland, John Carl Member: Kiedrowski, Brian Member: Larsen, Edward W Member: Xu, Yunlin Employment: Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation (BMPC) Position: Senior Engineer Joglekar, Andrew Title of Dissertation: Kinetic Modeling of Magnetic Field Dynamics and Thermal Energy Transport in Inertial Fusion Energy Plasmas. Chair: Thomas, Alexander George Roy Cognate: Drake, R Paul Member: Holloway, James Paul Member: Krushelnick, Karl Michael Employment: UCLA Position: Postdoc Keady, Kendra Title of Dissertation: Acceleration and Stabilization Methods for Monte Carlo Reactor Core k-Eigenvalue Problems. Chair: Larsen, Edward W Cognate: Schotland, John Carl

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Member: Kiedrowski, Brian Member: Martin, William R Employment: Los Alamos National Laboratory Position: Postdoc Koehler, William Title of Dissertation: Thallium Bromide as an Alternative Material for Room-Temperature Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Imaging. Chair: He, Zhong Cognate: Sun, Kai Member: Flaska, Marek Member: Kearfott, Kimberlee J Employment: Intel Position: Process Engineer Liu, Changyuan Title of Dissertation: Discrete Ordinates Methods for Transport Problems with Curved Spatial Grids. Chair: Larsen, Edward Cognate: Combi, Michael R Member: Downar, Thomas J Member: Martin, William R Employment: Unknown Position: Unknown Patel, Sonal Title of Dissertation: Optical Spectroscopy and Magnetic Field Profile Measurements on the Self Magnetic Pinch Diode. Chair: Gilgenbach, Ronald M Cognate: Willingale, Louise Member: Johnston, Mark D Member: Lau, Yue Ying Employment: Sandia National Laboratories Position: Technical Staff Pierson, Bruce Title of Dissertation: Fission Yield Measurements from Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Produced Neutrons Using Cyclic Neutron Activation Analysis and Coincidence Counting. Co-Chair: Pozzi, Sara A Co-Chair: Flaska, Marek Cognate: Schwarz, Thomas Andrew Member: Foster, John Edison Member: Gao, Fei

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Member: Greenwood, Lawrence R Member: Griffin, Henry C Employment: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Position: Engineer Poitrasson-Riviere, Alexis Title of Dissertation: Development of a Dual-Particle Imaging System for Nonproliferation Applications. Chair: Pozzi, Sara A Cognate: Wentzloff, David D Member: Flaska, Marek Member: He, Zhong Employment: INVIA Medical Imaging Solutions Position: Product Specialist Polack, Kyle John Title of Dissertation: A Maximum-Likelihood Approach for Localizing and Characterizing Special Nuclear Material with a Dual-Particle Imager. Chair: Pozzi, Sara A Cognate: Fessler, Jeffrey A Member: Flaska, Marek Member: Marleau, Peter Employment: Sandia National Laboratories Position: R&D Physicist Saller, Thomas Title of Dissertation: Asymptotic Homogenized SP2 Approximations to the Neutron Transport Equation. Co-Chair: Downar, Thomas J Co-chair: Larsen, Edward W Cognate: Doering, Charles R Member: Martin, William R Employment: Los Alamos National Laboratory Position: Postdoc Simon, David Title of Dissertation: Equilibrium and Stability of Brillouin Flow in Planar, Conventional, and Inverted Magnetrons. Chair: Lau, Yue Ying Cognate: Kushner, Mark Member: Foster, John Edison Member: Gilgenbach, Ronald M Employment: US Air Force Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Position: Postdoc Tian, Wei Title of Dissertation: Modelling Interactions of Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas with Liquids. Chair: Kushner, Mark Cognate: Boyd, Iain D Member: Foster, John Edison Member: Lau, Yue Ying Member: Thomas, Alexander George Roy Employment: Applied Materials Position: Scientist Trahan, Alexis Title of Dissertation: Utilization of the Differential Die-Away Self-Interrogation Technique for Characterization and Verification of Spent Nuclear Fuel. Chair: Pozzi, Sara A Cognate: Aidala, Christine A Member: Flaska, Marek Member: Henzl, Vladimir Member: Martin, William R Employment: Los Alamos National Laboratory Position: Nuclear Engineer Walter, Daniel Title of Dissertation: A High Fidelity Multiphysics Framework for Modeling CRUD Deposition on PWR Fuel Rods. Chair: Manera, Annalisa Cognate: Ozay, Necmiye Member: Downar, Thomas J Member: Kendrick, Brian K Member: Martin, William R Member: Petrov, Victor Employment: TerraPower LLC Position: Innovation Engineer Zhao, Zhen Title of Dissertation: Control of Synchrotron X-ray Emission from Laser Wakefield Accelerators. Chair: Krushelnick, Karl Michael Cognate: Galvanauskas, Almantas Member: Maksimchuk, Anatoly M Member: Nees, John A Member: Thomas, Alexander George Roy Employment: Ford Motor Company

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Position: Research Engineer Zhu, Ang Title of Dissertation: Transient Methods for Pin-Resolved Whole Core Transport. Chair: Downar, Thomas J Cognate: Veerapaneni, Shravan Kumar Member: Kochunas, Brendan Matthew Member: Larsen, Edward W Member: Martin, William R Member: Xu, Yunlin Employment: Ping An Securities Company, China Position: Quantitative Analyst

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FALL ENROLLMENT

Year Undergraduate Engineering Physics Graduate 1981 69 8 75 1982 51 16 84 1983 53 25 90 1984 46 29 78 1985 38 38 81 1986 45 33 89 1987 43 29 98 1988 38 27 103 1989 32 23 93 1990 31 21 97 1991 30 25 84 1992 44 20 94 1993 53 32 88 1994 44 33 82 1995 30 45 79 1996 26 41 78 1997 26 30 86 1998 28 35 79 1999 40 40 75 2000 38 34 75 2001 42 36 71 2002 47 31 61 2003 67 22 78 2004 72 24 84 2005 74 16 78 2006 76 22 77 2007 99 25 82 2008 111 18 100 2009 117 31 108 2010 121 42 124 2011 115 48 135 2012 116 33 116 2013 114 29 117 2014 107 32 124 2015 78 40 123

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EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Place of First Employment of Graduates

September 2015– August 2016

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS EMPLOYER BSE STUDENTS

Department of Defense Meredith Wood Newko Andre Degla Tetra Tech Marcus Quinlan US Navy Aaron Grzegorzewski

Alexander Dawson Thomas Grubish

Johnathan Klee Nathan Redder John Trethewey

UNIVERSITY (CONTINUING MSE or PHD) BSE STUDENTS

University of Tennessee-Knoxville Parker Olson Texas A&M University Jackson Wagner University of Michigan Nicholas Adamowicz

Sana Cao Alexandra Klein Nicholas Kucinski Jinpu Lin Stephanie Miller

Drew Packard Erich Rasch Katherine Schneider Hunter Smith Nikhit Yamani Nathaniel Wirgau

GRADUATE STUDENTS EMPLOYER MS/MSE STUDENTS

Returned Home Chen, Wei-Ting AREVA Domanico, Sylvia AREVA Gray, Sean Returned Home (Millitary) Gomes Dos Santos, Cesar Augusto Americorps City Year Program Janes, Lindsay Bettis Automatic Power Laboratory McCarrol, Kellen Jualo, Indonesia Michell, Marcelline PhD, Texas A&M Sagadevan, Athena Los Alamos National Laboratory Tumulak, Aaron Returned Home Zhao, Mengqiao

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UNIVERSITY (CONTINUING PHD) MS/MSE STUDENTS University of Tennessee-Knoxville Heisinger, Brianne Texas A&M University Sagadevan, Athena University of Michigan Downing, John

Krupcale, Matthew Goodman, David Kulesza, Joel Green, Crystal Nguyen, Tat Nghia Guo, Junjie

Nunez, Daniel Hah, Jungmoo Wong, Patrick Higgins, Michael Yee, Ben Kovach, yao Kondrat, Kyle

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INTERNSHIPS

Undergraduate

STUDENT EMPLOYER LOCATION

Antonia Wuschner Argonne National Lab IL Yicheng Zhang Becoda Company China Emily Marinan Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory PA Mitchell Jacobs Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant CA Hankyeol Lee DTE Energy- Fermi II MI Neal Dev Duke Energy NC Ruby Araj Envision MA Christopher Swenson Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory NY Stuart Daudlin L-3 Communications PA Emily King Lawrence Livermore National Lab MI Evan Leppink Los Alamos National Lab NM Juan Riquezes Princeton Plasma Physics Lab NJ Maria diMayorca Rutgers/Robert Wood Johnson Hospital NJ Jeff Woolstrum Sandia National Lab NM Ashwin Rao Sandia National Lab NM Lauren Green SNERDI China Keenan Harvis SNERDI China Adam Racette SNERDI China Nathan Giha University of Michigan- CVT MI Michael Hua University of Michigan- CVT MI Marc Monahan University of Michigan- CVT MI Kevin Liu University of Michigan-CVT MI John Kuchta University of Michigan- Hospital MI Devin Mussell University of Michigan- Hospital MI James Mohan University of Michigan- Hospital MI Zhuoran Han University of Michigan- NERS MI Kyle Beyer University of Michigan- SURE MI Travis Smith University of Michigan- SURE MI

Graduate

STUDENT EMPLOYER LOCATION Green, Crystal Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Department of

Defense VA

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Kulesza, Joel Los Alamos National Laboratory NM Neumann, Matthew Idaho National Laboratory ID Sivels, Ciara Pacific Northwest National Laboratory WA Sosa, Charles Idaho National Laboratory ID Taller, Stephen Oak Ridge National Laboratory TN

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EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS OF GRADUATES New Graduates: September 2015 – August 2016 BS MS/MSE PhD Federal Government Department of Defense 1 US Airforce US Naval Academy 6 Americorps City Year Program 1 Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory 1 Idaho National Laboratory 1 Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory 1 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore National Laboratory-Berkeley 1 Los Alamos National Laboratory 3 Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 1 Sandia National Laboratory 2 National Nuclear Security Administration National Institute of Standards and Technology U.S. Army Research Laboratory U.S. Naval Research Laboratory U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory 1 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Electrical and Nuclear Utilities AREVA 2 Nuclear Reactor Manufacturers Architecture-Engineering Firms Consulting Firms

Tetra Tech 1 Entrepreneurial Other Industrial and Medical Organizations Applied Materials, Inc 1 Illinois Rocstar LLC 1 Intel 1 Ping An Securities 1 Ford Motor Company 1 Lockheed Martin Foreign Governments Academic Institution: Grad, Post Doc, and Faculty

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New Graduates: September 2015 – August 2016 BS MS/MSE PhD Military 1 Academic Institutions: Grad, Post Doc, and Faculty Postdoc/Research Scientist with NERS 1 Employment other than postdoc University of Michigan, NERS Graduate Program 10 14 3 Continuing for PHD Other Graduate Schools 2 University of Tennessee-Knoxville 1 University of Texas - A&M 1 Architectural School 1 Employment Outside the Profession Pending employment 5 1 Returned to Home Country and Unknown 8 2 1 TOTALS 28 28 21

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46-Year Summary: August 1970 - August 2016 BS MS M ENG PhD Pro Federal Government

Armed Forces 83 23 1 8

Civilian Employees 8 3 17

Department of Commerce 7

Department of Defense 1 1

Department of Energy 16 60 4 139

Department of Transportation 2

Environmental Protection Agency 2

NASA 1

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 9 1 3 1

Waste Management Federal Services 1 Electrical and Nuclear Utilities 92 52 1 9 Nuclear Reactor Manufacturers 46 53 21 1 Architecture-Engineering Firms 21 29 1 5 Consulting Firms 11 7 6 13 Entrepreneurial 2 1 1 Other Industrial and Medical Organizations 41 53 5 74 Foreign Governments and Industry 2 21 3 17 4 Academic Institutions Faculty and Staff 7 11 2 66 Graduate Schools and Post Doctorate Work 567 458 10 69 Employment Outside the Profession 24 11 5 Returned to Home Country, Unknown 149 57 7 36 3 In process 2

Fulbright Award 1

Peace Corps 1 TOTALS 1072 851 43 494 9

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NERS Colloquia

Fall 2015

DATE SPEAKER TITLE

Sept. 18 Ron Gilgenbach University of Michigan, NERS

Department Welcome

Sept. 25 Theodore Bowyer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: How Can a Nuclear Professional Contribute to an International Issue?

Oct. 2 Bill Moses Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Recent Advances in Time-of-Flight PET

Oct. 9 Todd Wareing Varian Medical Systems

Radiation Transport Solvers at Varian

Oct. 30 Andrea Pautz Director, LES Dept, PSI Switzerland

Overview of Research Activities on Molten Salt Reactors in Switzerland

Nov. 6 Bo Chang Electric Power Research Institute

Coated Mo-Alloy Cladding to Enhance Accident Tolerance of LWR Fuel Rods

Nov.13 Rick Kurtz Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Computer Simulation of Radiation Damage in Bulk Tungsten

Nov. 20 Tom Sutton Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory

Recent Research Using MC21

Dec. 4 Col. John Cuellar US Army

Health Physics in the Army

Dec. 11 Mike McDevitt Electric Power Research Institute

The Electric Power Research Institute & Recent Challenges to Material Reliability in Nuclear Power Plants

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Winter 2016

DATE SPEAKER TITLE

Jan. 15 Allen Garner Purdue University

Intense Electromagnetism for Biology: Mechanisms and Applications

Jan. 22 Mark DeHart Idaho National Laboratory

Modeling and Simulation Capability Development for the TREAT Reactor

Jan. 29

Jacopo Buongiorno Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Uncovering the Secrets of Boiling Heat Transfer with Advanced Diagnostics and Nano-Engineered Surfaces

Feb. 5 Tomasz Kozlowski University of Illinois

Inverse Uncertainty Quantification of Thermal-hydraulics physical models

Feb. 12 David Griesheimer Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory

Full-Core Depletion Calculations with Monte Carlo Transport

Feb. 19 Deig Sandoval Oglala Lakota College

Radiation on the Reservation

Mar. 11 Martha Matuszak University of Michigan

Personalized Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning

Mar. 18 Igor Jovanovic University of Michigan

From eV to MeV: Monoenergetic Photons for Active Detection of Nuclear Materials

Mar. 25 Otto Rabe University of California, Davis

Understanding Ionizing Radiation Carcinogenesis

Apr. 1 Brian Wirth University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Richard K. Osborn Lecture: Osbourne Lecture Development of Multiscale Materials Modeling Techniques and Coarse-Graining Strategies for Predicting Materials Degradation in Harsh Nuclear Fission and Fusion Environments

Apr. 8 Jeff Siewerdsen Johns Hopkins University

TBD - Related to Medical Imaging

Apr. 15 Natalia Zaitseva Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

New Organic Scintillators for Wide-Energy Neutron Detection

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Research Activities

FISSION SYSTEMS AND RADIATION TRANSPORT

“PARCS Code Development for LWR” PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Nuclear Regulatory Commission $377,000/2015 “RBWR Physics Methods” PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Hitachi $141,000/2015 “Surrogate Methods for Multiphysics” PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Department of Energy, Nuclear Engineering University Program (NEUP) $180,000/2015 “Numerical Methods” PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory $125,000/2015 “Educational Funds” PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Department of Energy, CASL $40,000/2015 “Transport Methods (RTM)” PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Department of Energy, CASL $385,000/2015 “HTR Analysis”

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PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Idaho National Laboratory $83,000/2015 “Accident Tolerant Fuel” Co-PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Department of Energy, IRP $72,000; 2015 “Inherently Safe LWR” Co-PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Department of Energy, IRP $93,000; 2015 “Modeling and Simulation of TREAT” Co-PI: Thomas Downar Sponsor: Department of Energy, IRP $194,000; 2015 “Numerical Methods” Co-PI: Thomas Downar, John Lee, Annalisa Manera Sponsor: Department of Energy, NEUP $31,000; 2015 “CNEC - Center for Nonproliferation Enabling Capabilities” Co-PI: Bill Martin, Ed Larsen and Brian Kiedrowski Sponsor: NNSA $587,125; 7/2014 – 6/2019 “CASL - Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors” Co-PI: Ed Larsen Sponsor: Department of Energy $200,000; 2015 - 2020 “Realistic Nuclear Plant Safety Analysis Representing System Degradation” PI: John Lee Sponsor: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute $210,000; 3/2012 - 2/2015 $100,000; 3/2015 - 2/2017

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“Integral Inherently Safe LWR” PI: Annalisa Manera; Co-PI: Tom Downar and John Lee Sponsor: Department of Energy $1,085,743; 2/2013 - 9/2016 “Multi-Scale Thermal-Hydraulic Tool for Nuclear Power Plant Safety Analyses” PI: Annalisa Manera Sponsor: Nuclear Regulatory Commission $252,269; 09/2012 – 03/2015 “Model Validation Using Novel CFD-grade Experimental Database for NGNP Reactor Cavity Cooling Systems with Water and Air” PI: Annalisa Manera Sponsor: Department of Energy $407,881; 09/2013 – 1/2017 “Three-Dimensional Fuel Pin Model Validation by Prediction of Hydrogen Distribution in Cladding and Comparison with Experiment” PI: Annalisa Manera Sponsor: Department of Energy $209,500; 9/2013 – 1/2017 "Advanced Two-phase instrumentation: Experimental Support for TRACE Model Development" PI: Annalisa Manera; Co-PI: Victor Petrov, Marek Flaska Sponsor US Nuclear Regulatory Commission $646,463; 10/2014 – 08/2016 “High-resolution time-resolved experiments on mixing and entrainment of buoyant jets in stratified environments” PI: Annalisa Manera; Co-PI: Victor Petrov Sponsor: Department of Energy $799,983: 10/2014 – 09/2017 "Assessment of Trace Interfacial Area Transport Equations Against High Resolution Experiments of Two-Phase Vertical Flows" PI: Annalisa Manera Sponsor: Nuclear Regulatory Commission $193,490; 10/2014 – 08/2016

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“Inherently Safe Light Water Reactors” PI: Annalisa Manera Sponsor: Department of Energy $5,999,784; 09/2012 - 02/2016 “CASL – Energy Innovation Hub for Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation” PI: William Martin, Co-PI: Thomas Downar, Ed Larsen, John Lee, Annalisa Manera, Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy $1,700,000/year; 7/2010 – 6/2020 “Energy Hub in Modeling and Simulation of Nuclear Reactors” PI: William Martin; Co-PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy $625,000; 5 years “NRC Graduate Fellowship Award #3” PI: William Martin Sponsor: Nuclear Regulatory Commission $100,000/year; 9/2013 - 8/2017 “NRC Graduate Fellowship Award #4” PI: William Martin Sponsor: Nuclear Regulatory Commission $100,000/year; 7/2014 - 6/2018 “Computational and Experimental Benchmarking for Transient Fuel Testing” PI: Tom Downar; Co-Pi: William Martin Sponsor: Department of Energy NEUP IRP $120,000/year; 10/2015 - 9/2018 “ITH – task 4: Void-fraction measurements on a 5x5 fuel bundle using gamma tomography” PI: Annalisa Manera; Co-Pi: Victor Petrov Sponsor: US NRC $217,424; 10/2015 - 9/2017

MATERIALS “Properties of atomic-scale flow defects in metallic glasses.” PI: Michael Atzmon

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Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research $500,000; 9/1/2013-8/31/2017 “Computational Capability for Studying Pulse Shape Discrimination of Scintillator Materials” PI: Fei Gao Sponsor: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory $85,525: 10/2014 – 9/2015 “BWR PCMI Assessment of Extend Low Power Operation” PI: Fei Gao Sponsor: EPRI $50,000; 10/2014 – 9/2015 “Science-Driven Candidate Search for New Scintillator Materials” PI: Fei Gao Sponsor: Department of Energy, PNNL $85,525; 9/2014 – 9/2015 $46,853; 10/2015 - 8/2016 “Radionuclide Incorporation and Long Term Performance of Apatite Waste Forms” PI: Fei Gao Sponsor: Louisiana State University $22,446; 9/2014 – 10/2015 “Development of high performance ODS alloys” PI: Fei Gao Sponsor: Texas A&M University $210,000; 19/2014 – 8/2017 “Atomistic- and Meso-Scale Computational Simulations for Developing Multi-Timescale Theory for Radiation Degradation in Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices” PI: Fei Gao Sponsor: Air Force, Department of Defense $320,000; 2015 “Engineer Training Program” PI: Lumin Wang; Co-PI: Tom Downar, Annalisa Manera, and Fei Gao Sponsor: Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute $26,880; 9/2015 - 12/2016

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“Ion-irradiation effects of welding materials of pressure vessels steels” PI: Lumin Wang Sponsor: Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute $231,000; 5/2015 - 12/2016 “Ion-irradiation effects of gray rod materials” PI: Lumin Wang Sponsor: Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute $191,000; 7/2015 - 12/2016 “IASCC of Stainless Steel in PWR” PI: Lumin Wang; Co-PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy, Nuclear Engineering University Program (NEUP) $106,000; 5/2015 - 12/2016 “Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution” PI: Lumin Wang Sponsor: DOE Basic Energy Sciences, Energy Frontier Research Centers $720,000; 10/2014 - 7/ 2018 “Localized Deformation and Intergranular Fracture of Irradiated Alloys under Extreme Environmental Conditions” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences $844,000; 3 years “Cladding and Materials for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: EPRI $600,000; 3 years “Identifying Mechanisms and Mitigation Strategies for Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking of Austenitic Steels in LWR Core Components” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy, EPRI $2,400,000; 5 years “Potential for Atom Probe Tomography in Understanding IASCC” PI: Gary Was, Co-PI: Z. Jiao

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Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) $253,000; 2.5 years “Localized Deformation and IASCC” PI: Gary Was, Co-PI: Zhijie Jiao Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute $280,000; 3 years “Advanced Radiation Resistant Materials – Research Program” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute $640,000; 3 years “Advanced Radiation Resistant Materials – Research Program” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute $433,000; 3 years “Advanced Radiation Resistant Materials” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy $1,072,000; 3 years “Predictive Modeling and Mitigation of Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking of Austenitic Steels in LWR Core Components” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy $3,000,000; 5 years “Predictive Modeling and Mitigation of Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking of Austenitic Steels in LWR Core Components: Development of engineering solutions to predict and manage IASCC” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute $450,000; 3 years “Predictive Modeling and Mitigation of Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking of Austenitic Steels in LWR Core Components: Effects of intermediate to high proton- and neutron irradiation on IASCC” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute

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$450,000; 3 years “Irradiation Accelerated Corrosion” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy, NEUP, MAI $1,600,000; 3 years “Heavy Ion Irradiation of HT9” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: TerraPower $900,000; 3 years “Characterization and Modeling of Grain Boundary” Co-PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy, NEUP $1,000,000; 3 years “Ferritic Martensitic Alloys as Accident Tolerant Fuel Cladding Material for Light Water Reactors” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy, NEUP $5,000,000 ($400,000 at UM); 2 years “Advanced Accident-Tolerant Ceramic Coatings for Zr-Alloy Cladding” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy, NEUP $3,500,000 ($450,000 at UM); 3 years “Engineered Zircaloy Cladding Modifications for Improved Accident Tolerance of LWR Fuel” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy, NEUP $3,500,000 ($330,000 at UM); 3 years “Mitigating IASCC of Reactor Core Internals by Post-Irradiation Annealing” PI: Gary Was; Co-PI Zhijie Jiao, Jeremy Busby Sponsor: Department of Energy, NEUP $877,000; 3 years “Accelerated Irradiations for High Dose Microstructures in Fast Reactor Alloys” PI: Gary Was, Co-PI: Z. Jiao

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Sponsor: Department of Energy, NEUP $791,000; 3 years “Mitigation Strategy for IASCC in Austenitic Stainless Steels”PI: Gary Was, Co-PI: Z. Jiao Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute $402,962; 4/2011 - 9/2015 “Atomic Ordering in Alloy 690 and its Effect on Long-term Structural Stability and Stress Corrosion Cracking Susceptibility” PI: Gary Was Sponsor: Department of Energy, NEUP $531,000; 3 years “High Fidelity Ion Beam Simulation of High Dose Neutron Irradiation” PI: Gary Was; Co-PI: Zhijie Jiao Sponsor: Department of Energy, IRP $4,764,125; 3/2014 - 2/2017 “Heavy Ion Irradiation of HT9 Phase 1: Correlation of Neutron and Heavy Ion Irradiation Behavior” PI: Gary Was; Co-PI: Zhijie Jiao Sponsor: TerraPower $964,739; 7/2011 - 5/2017 “Experimental plan for AREVA shadow corrosion investigation initial testing” PI: Peng Wang Sponsor: AREVA $35,790; 4/2015 - 12/2015 “Assessment of corrosion resistance of candidate alloys for accident tolerant fuel cladding under reactor conditions” PI: Gary Was; Co-PI: Peng Wang Sponsor: NEUP $800,000; 3 years “Advanced fuel cladding coating durability under irradiation in a corrosion environment” PI: Gary Was; Co-PI: Peng Wang, Peng Xu Sponsor: NEUP $500,000; 3 years

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PLASMAS AND FUSION “Microplasma through porous media” PI: John Foster Sponsor: NSF-Department of Energy $100,000; 2015 “Plasma based throughput water purification” PI: John Foster Sponsor: NSF $50,000; 2015 “An investigation of plasma formation in electromechanically driven free bubbles at resonance in water with applications for the treatment of contaminated water” PI: John Foster Sponsor: National Science Foundation $287,669; 9/1/2013 to 8/31/2016 (renewal) “Integrated Energetic Ion Mitigation for High power thruster cathodes” PI: John Foster Sponsor: NASA $40,000; 2015 “Propulsion Technology” PI: John Foster Sponsor: SpaceX $10,000; 2015 “Plasma Science Center on Control of Plasma Kinetics” PI: John Foster Sponsor: Department of Energy $80,000; 2015 “Innovative Inverted Magnetron Experiments and Theory” PI: Ron Gilgenbach; Co-PI: John Foster and Y. Y. Lau Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research $1,685,538.00; 4/1/2010 to 2/28/2015

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“Building Bridges, Creating Community and Wise Mentoring: Building Institutional Capacity to Enhance Diversity in STEM Disciplines” PI: Janet Weiss; Co-PI: John Foster Sponsor: NSF $1,250,000; 9/15/2010 to 8/31/2016 “Michigan/AFRL Center of Excellence in Electric Propulsion (MACEEP)” PI: Alec Gallimore, Co-PI: John Foster Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory $80,000; 2015 “Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Microwave Plasma Streamers: Structures and Control” PI: Natalia Babaeva (EECS), Co-PI: John Foster $583,259; 5/1/2012 – 4/30/2015 “A Fusion Hybrid Reactor for Safe Large Power Production” PI: Terry Kammash, Co-PI: John Foster Sponsor: TransPower Inc $993,839; 9/1/2012 – 8/31/2015 “Time resolved x-ray measurements of laser heated high energy density plasmas” PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory $90,000; 9/2014 - 8/2017 “State-of-the-art High-flux mono-energetic ion sources driven by ultra-intense laser pulses” PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research $400,000; 9/2014 - 8/2017 “High Harmonic Radiation Generation and Attosecond Pulses from Intense Laser-Solid Interactions” PI: Alec Thomas; Co-PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: National Science Foundation $738,492; 9/2012 - 5/2016 “X-ray measurements of laser-driven relativistic magnetic reconnection using OMEGA EP” PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: Department of Energy, NNSA $250,000; 1/2015 - 12/2016

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“Generation of Miniature Hohlraum X-ray Sources Using Intense Lasers” PI: Karl Krushelnick; Co-PI: Alec Thomas Sponsor: Defense Threat Reduction Agency $1,400,000; 8/2012 - 8/2016 “Relativistic laser plasma interactions at the University of Michigan” PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: Department of Energy, NNSA $1,199,952; 9/2013 – 8/2016 “Investigation of Laser-Based Thomson Scattering” Co-PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: ARO $450,000; 1/31/2011 – 2/1/2015 “Compact Laser Plasma Source of Spatially Coherent X-rays” PI: Karl Krushelnick; Co-PI: Alec Thomas Sponsor: Department of-Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Award Period: 06/01/2011-05/31/2015 Award Amount: $4,060,089 “Modern Optics in the City of Light, a Collaborative REU Site in Paris” Co-PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: NSF $365,893; 2/2015 - 1/2018 “High energy electron beam acceleration from underdense plasma using OMEGA EP” Co-PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: DOE/NNSA $280,000; 1/2015 - 12/2016 “Radiation Reaction in Intense Laser Interactions with Relativistic Electrons and Nonlinear Compton Scattering” PI: Alec Thomas; Co-PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: ARO $777,086; 6/2015 - 5/2018 “Laser wakefield acceleration at kHz repetition rate” PI: Alec Thomas; Co-PI: Karl Krushelnick

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Sponsor: NSF $539,509; 9/2015 - 8/2018 “Investigation of Contrast Enhancement for high repetition rate petawatt laser systems for the ELI-ALPS Project” PI: John Nees; Co-PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: ELI-ALPS (Hungary) $99,612; 3/1/2014 - 1/30/2015 “Laser-driven collisionless shock accelerated ion beams” PI: Louise Willingale; Co-PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: NSF/DOE $645,000; 8/2014 - 8/2017 “Multi-spectral high-power magnetrons” PI: Ron Gilgenbach, Co-PI: Y.Y. Lau, and Nick Jordan Sponsor: ONR $600,000; 5/1/2013 – 4/30/2016 “Z-pinch research on radiation, atomic and plasma physics” PI: Ron Gilgenbach, Co-PI: Y.Y. Lau, and Nick Jordan Sponsor: Department of Energy, NNSA $210,000; 1/1/2013 – 12/31/2015 “High power recirculating planar amplifiers” PI: Ron Gilgenbach, Co-PI: Y. Y. Lau, Peng Zhang, and Nick Jordan Sponsor: AFOSR $928,549; 3/2015 – 2/2018 “Mitigation of the magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability” PI: Y. Y. Lau; Co-PI; R. M. Gilgenbach and Nick Jordan Sponsor: Department of Energy $653,000; 8/15/2014 - 8/14/2017 “L-3 Corporation Gift” PI: Ron Gilgenbach; Co-PI: Y.Y. Lau Sponsor: AFOSR $10,000; 2015

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“Innovative study of electrical contact and electron transport” PI: Y. Y. Lau; Co-PI: P. Zhang Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research $1,215,857; 9/15/2014 - 9/14/2017 “Traveling wave amplifier driven by a large diameter annular electron beam in a disk-loaded structure” PI: Y. Y. Lau Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory $99,462; 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2015 “Traveling wave amplifier using a disk-loaded structure” PI: Y. Y. Lau Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory $250,941; 10/2015 - 9/2018 “Vlasov-Fokker-Planck modeling of magnetized plasma” PI: Alec Thomas Sponsor: Department of Energy, NNSA $360,000; 9/2013 – 8/2016 “CAREER: Bright femtosecond x- and y-ray pulse production using ultra intense lasers” PI: Alec Thomas Sponsor: National Science Foundation $450,000; 10/1/2011 – 9/31/2016 “AFOSR Young Investigator Program: Understanding intense laser interactions with solid density plasma” PI: Alec Thomas Sponsor: Department of Defense, Air Force $373,603; 10/1/2012 – 9/31/2017 “High Harmonic Radiation Generation and Attosecond Pulses from Intense Laser-Solid Interactions” PI: Alec Thomas, Co-PI: Karl Krushelnick Sponsor: National Science Foundation and Department of Energy $600,000; 10/1/2012 – 9/31/2015 “Hybrid Vlasov-Fokker-Planck Modeling of Electron Transport and Radiation Generation in Femtosecond Laser Interactions with Solid Density Matter”

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PI: Alec Thomas Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research $798,897; 9/01/14 - 8/31/17 “State-of-the-art High-flux mono-energetic ion sources driven by ultra-intense laser pulses” Co-PI: Alec Thomas Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research $1,200,000; 09/01/14 - 08/31/17 “Ultra High Speed Framing Camera for Dynamics of High Power Microwave Sources” PI: Nick Jordan; Co-PI: Ron Gilgenbach Sponsor: Air Force Office of Scientific Research/DURIP $198,000; 9/2015 - 9/2016 “Harmonic Generation in Compact, High Power RF Magnetron Sources” PI: Ron Gilgenbach; Co-PI: Nick Jordan, Y.Y. Lau Sponsor: Office of Naval Research $674,942; 6/2016 - 6/2019 “Effects of Fabrication Tolerances and Nonuniform Cathode Emission on the Performance of Vacuum Electron Devices” PI: Y.Y. Lau; Co-PI: Peng Zhang Sponsor: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency $480,000; 4/2016-3/2020

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RADIATION MEASUREMENTS AND IMAGING “Near HPGe Resolution Neutron-Sensitive Orion 3-D CZT Gamma Imagers” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: Department of Defense DTRA $3,531,228; 8/2015 - 8/2018 “Advance Integrated Gamma-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy for Directional Isotope ID Using Polaris Systems” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: Department of Energy, NA-22 $499,964; 2/2015 - 9/2017 “Continued research and development on pixellated TlBr detectors” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: DOE Domestic Nuclear Detection Office of Department of Homeland Security $100,001; 9/2015 - 3/2016 “TlBr Detectors for Radiation Pagers” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: DOE Domestic Nuclear Detection Office of Department of Homeland Security $3,531,228; 2015 “Research of Pixellated Thallium Bromide (TlBr) Detectors” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: DOE Domestic Nuclear Detection Office of Department of Homeland Security $40,000; 2015 “A Compact CdZnTe Gamma-Ray Imager for SNM Monitoring and Characterization” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: Department of Energy, NA-22 $750,000; 7/31/2013 – 7/30/2016 “Advance Room-Temperature 3-D Semiconductor Gamma-Ray Imaging Detectors (From Polaris to Orion)” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: Department of Defense, DTRA $3,440,781; 3/1/2012 – 2/28/2015

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“Advanced THM-grown CdZnTe pixelated detectors at CapeSym” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: sub-contract from CapeSym, Inc. $100,000; July 31, 2014 – June 30th, 2016 “Application of 3-D CdZnTe Gamma-Ray Imagers for Safeguard and Treaty Verification – Part of UM led Consortium on Verification Technology” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration, NA-22, $1,000,000; September 1, 2014 – August 31, 2019 “A Compact CdZnTe Gamma-Ray Imager for SNM Monitoring and Characterization” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: Department of Energy NA-22 office $750,000; July 31st, 2013 – July 30th, 2016 “Advance Room-Temperature 3-D Semiconductor Gamma-Ray Imaging Detectors (From Polaris to Orion)” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: Department of Defense DTRA $3,314,446 ; March 1st, 2012 – February 28th, 2015 “Research on Conditioning and Polarization Processes of Pixellated Thallium Bromide (TlBr) Detectors” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: DOE National Nuclear Security Administration $100,000; 7/2014 – 6/2016 “Quantified Understanding of Conditioning and Polarization Processes of Pixellated TlBr Detectors – Continuation II” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: DOE National Nuclear Security Administration $186,709; 1/2014 - 5/2015 “Research on Conditioning and Polarization Processes of Pixellated Thallium Bromide (TlBr) Detectors” PI: Zhong He Sponsor: DOE National Nuclear Security Administration $111,801; 1/2014 - 5/2015

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"Consortium for Verification Technology" (CVT) PI: Sara Pozzi; Co-PI: Kimberlee Kearfott, John Lee, David Wehe Sponsor: U. S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Agency $25,000,000; 9/2014 - 8/2019 "Microdosimetric Cellular and Tissue Modeling for Radiation Therapy and Radiation Dose Assessment" Co-PI: Kimberlee Kearfott Sponsor: University of Michigan M-Cubed Program $60,000; 2015 “Basic Physics Data: Improved Fission Neutron Multiplicity” PI: Sara Pozzi, Co-PI Robert Haight Sponsor: DOE NEUP $954,000; 9/2011 – 9/2015 “New Detectors, Electronics, and Algorithms for Fast Neutron Spectroscopy in a Scalable Measurement Platform” PI: Sara Pozzi Sponsor: Department of Homeland Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, National Science Foundation $2,000,000; 5 years “Digital Waveform Sampling of Neutron and Gamma Ray Signals from Scintillators, Stewardship Science Academic Alliance Program” PI: Sara Pozzi, Co-PI: Marek Flaska, Shaun Clarke Sponsor: Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration $465,000; 3 years “Development of a New Graduate Course in Nuclear Safeguards at the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan” PI: Sara Pozzi Sponsor: Department of Energy $225,000; 7/30/2009 – 12/31/2015 “Developing Accurate Simulations of Correlated Data in Fission Events” PI: Sara Pozzi, Sponsor: Department of Energy, NNSA $280,000; 2/2014 - 3/2017

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“Advanced Plastic Scintillators for Nuclear Non-proliferation Monitoring” PI: Sara Pozzi Sponsor: Department of Energy, Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. $129,962; 8/2013 – 7//2015 “Dual Particle Imager” PI: Sara Pozzi; Co-PIs Marek Flaska, Shaun Clarke Sponsor: DOE-NNSA NA-22 $750,000; 10/2014-10/2017 “Low Dose Tomographic System Based on a Novel Narrowband, Tunable, Multi-meV X-Ray Source” PI: Sara Pozzi Sponsor: National Strategic Research Institute, University of Nebraska, $190,000; 9/13 – 3/16 “Neutron Detection for Cancer Therapy” PI: Sara A. Pozzi, Sponsor: MCubed $60,000; 4/2013 - 4/2015 “Development of a lower-power digital ASIC for compact TIBr gamma-ray spectrometers” PI: Yuefeng Zhu Sponsor: Dept of Homeland security and Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc $110,000; 6/2015

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Fiscal Year 2016 Research Expenditures (July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016)

RESEARCH EXPENDITURES ATTRIBUTED TO AN EXTERNAL SPONSOR

Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures ATZMON,MICHAEL NSF Properties of Atomic-Scale Flow

Defects in Metallic Glasses 117,878

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Collocation-based Surrogate Models for Uncertainty

190,257

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F026076-MNM-Taxable Consortium for Advanced Simulation of

(20,385)

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F026076-VRI-Taxable Consortium For Advanced Simulation Of ...

74,306

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F029451-Consortium For Advanced Simulation Of Light Water

2,671

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F029679-Argonne National Laboratory

(10,000)

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F029451-RTM-PRT Consortium For Advanced Simulation Of Light

0

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F033492-Inherently Safe Light Water Reactors

31,868

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Accident Tolerant Fuels for Light Water Reactors

23,878

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Light Water Reactor Analysis 79,683 DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F039678-RTM-PRT FA 3.7-

Consortium for Advance Simulation 288,355

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Computational and Experimental Benchmarking for Transient Fuel Te?

70,660

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F041161-Computational and Experimental Benchmarking for Trans

5,079

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F041707-Development of a Novel Accelerator for Neutron Transp

689

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Sub of F039837-RTM-PRT-FA 3.70-Consortium for Advanced Simulations o

38,724

DOWNAR,THOMAS J DOE Participation in OECD MHTGR-350 Benchmark (Phase II) and ART?

40,713

DOWNAR,THOMAS J Harbin Engineering University

Numerical Virtual Nuclear Reactor 2,731

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Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures DOWNAR,THOMAS J Hitachi, Ltd. Investigation of Void Reactivity

Coefficient and Linear Heat Rate 12,870

DOWNAR,THOMAS J Hitachi, Ltd. Investigation of Void Reactivity Coefficient and Linear Heat Rate?

144,747

DOWNAR,THOMAS J NRC PARCS Maintenance and Support for Light Water Reactors (LWRs)

8,888

DOWNAR,THOMAS J NRC Contractor Support for the Purdue Advanced Reactor Core Simul?

219,969

DOWNAR,THOMAS J NRC Nuclear Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program at the Univ of MI

23,853

DOWNAR,THOMAS J SNERDI Sub of N021054-SNERDI Technical Training Program

52

FIKSEL,GENNADY DOE Subcontracted Work at the University of Michigan in Support of M?

37,895

FOSTER,JOHN EDISON DOD - Air Force Sub of F023760-Michigan/Afrl Center Of Excellence In Electric Propul

6,646

FOSTER,JOHN EDISON DOE Sub of F023852-Doe Center For Predictive Control Of Plasma Kinetics:

118,878

FOSTER,JOHN EDISON NASA Integrated Energetic Ion Mitigation for High Power Plasma

25,912

FOSTER,JOHN EDISON NSF An Investigation of Plasma Formation in Electromechanically....

134,341

FOSTER,JOHN EDISON NSF Plasma-Based High Throughput Water Purification

50,633

FOSTER,JOHN EDISON NSF Micro-Plasmas Through porous Media

77,092

GAO,FEI DOD - Air Force Atomistic and Meso-Scale Computational Simulations for Developing

93,817

GAO,FEI Electric Power Research Institute

BWR PCMI Assessment of Extend Low Power Operation

(4,398)

GAO,FEI DOE Science-Driven Candidate Search for New Scintillator Materials

37,141

GAO,FEI DOE Development of high performance ODS alloys

125,598

GAO,FEI DOE Radionuclide Incorporation and Long Term Performance

(30,380)

GAO,FEI NRC Sub of F034054 - Nuclear Engineering Faculty Development Program At

28,064

GILGENBACH,RONALD M

NRC High Power Recirculating Planar Amplifiers

338,613

GILGENBACH,RONALD M

DOD - Navy Innovative Multi-spectral magnetrons 215,874

GILGENBACH,RONALD M

DOD - Navy Harmonic Generation in Compact, High Power RF Magnetron Sources

29,188

GILGENBACH,RONALD M

DOE Year 3 Fellowships-Sub of F023439 1,981

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Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures GILGENBACH,RONALD M

DOE Y4 Fellowships-Sub of F023439-Dept Of Nuclear Engineering And Radi

136,921

GILGENBACH,RONALD M

DOE Sub of F023439-YR 5 Dept Of Nuclear Engineering And Radiological Sci

154,783

GILGENBACH,RONALD M

DOE Sub of F023439-Dept of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

50,000

GILGENBACH,RONALD M

DOE Z-pinch research on radiation, atomic and plasma physics

63,848

GILGENBACH,RONALD M

L-3 Communications Support for University Research in Vacuum Electronics

3,130

GILGENBACH,RONALD M

NRC Nuclear Engineering Faculty Development Program at the University

80,825

HAMMIG,MARK DAVID DOD Threat Reduction Agency

Suppression of Interface-induced Noise by the Control of Elect...

89,303

HAMMIG,MARK DAVID DOD Threat Reduction Agency

Full Proposal-Active Detection of Fissile Materials via Laser...

261,368

HAMMIG,MARK DAVID DOD Threat Reduction Agency

Low-cost, Large-Area Fine Radiation Detectioin via Nano...

4,003

HAMMIG,MARK DAVID Department of Homeland Security

Wearable High Resolution Radiation Detection via Flexible, Light?

173,583

HAMMIG,MARK DAVID Department of Homeland Security

Sub of F036803-Y2:Large-Area, Wide-Band Gap SSPM Detector for Large

108,498

HE,ZHONG DOD Threat Reduction Agency

Advance Room-Temperature 3-D Semiconductory-Ray Imaging

670,814

HE,ZHONG DOD Threat Reduction Agency

Sub of M000570-Fab-Advance Room-Temperature 3-D Semiconductory-Ray..

(670,814)

HE,ZHONG DOD Threat Reduction Agency

Near HPGe Resolution Neutron-Sensitive Orion Digital 3-D CZT

629,226

HE,ZHONG DOD Threat Reduction Agency

Fab Sub of F040203-Near HPGe Resolution Neutron-Sensitive Orion Digi

205,000

HE,ZHONG DOE A Compact CdZnTe Gamma-Ray Imager for SNM Monitoring

192,107

HE,ZHONG DOE Sub of F036807-Consortium For Verification Technology

177,778

HE,ZHONG DOE Quantified Understanding of Conditioning and Polarization

(103)

HE,ZHONG DOE Continued Research on Conditioning and Polarization Processes

(402)

HE,ZHONG DOE Advanced THM-grown CdZnTe Pixelated Detectors at CapeSym

92,198

HE,ZHONG DOE Advance Integrated Gamma-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy for Dir

114,515

HE,ZHONG DOE Continued Research and Development on Pixilated TIBr Detectors

32,594

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Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures HE,ZHONG DOE Continued Research and

Development on Pixilated TIBr Detectors

112,156

HE,ZHONG Department of Homeland Security

TIBr Detectors for Radiation Pagers 40,000

JIAO,ZHIJIE Electric Power Research Institute

Mitigation Strategy for IASCC in Austenitic Stainless Steels

940

JIAO,ZHIJIE DOE Accelerated Irradiations for High Dose Microstructures in Fast...

198,112

JORDAN,NICHOLAS MICHAEL CARL

DOD - Air Force Ultra High Speed Framing Camera for Dynamics of High Power

198,000

JORDAN,NICHOLAS MICHAEL CARL

DOD - Air Force Durability Testing of Additively Manufactured High Power Micro?

2,540

JOVANOVIC,IGOR DOE Sub of F036807-Consortium for Verification Technology

34,361

JOVANOVIC,IGOR Department of Homeland Security

Multimodal Imaging of Shielded Special Nuclear Material

41,536

KEARFOTT,KIMBERLEE J

DOE Sub of F036807-Consortium For Verification Technology

170,309

KOCHUNAS,BRENDAN MATTHEW

DOE Sub of F039678-PHI-VCS FA 3.8-Consortium for Advance Simulation

184,405

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

DOD - Air Force State of the Art High-Flux Mono-Energetic Ion Sources Driven by

44,574

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

DOD - Air Force Harnessing Strong-Field Mid-Infrared (IR) Lasers: Designer Beams

398

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

DOD Threat Reduction Agency

Sub of F028724-Generation Of Miniature Hohlraum Xray Sources Using I

(2,918)

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd Sub of N018091-Investigation Of Contrast Enhancement For High Repeti

3,498

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

DOE Relativistic laser plasma interactions at the University of Mich...

127,373

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

DOE Laser-driven collisionless shock accelerated ion beams

10,084

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

DOE X-Ray Measurements of Laser-Driven Relativistic Magnetic Reconn?

75,955

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

DOE High-energy Electron Bream Acceleration from Underdense Plasma?

9,856

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

DOE Sub of F040736-High-energy Electron Bream Acceleration from Underden

2,227

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

DOE Time resolved x-ray measurements of laser heated high energy.....

13,230

KRUSHELNICK,KARL MICHAEL

NSF Laser Wakefield Acceleration at kHz Repetition Rate

5,085

LARSEN,EDWARD W DOE Sub of F029451-RTM-PRT Consortium For Advanced Simulation Of Light W

2,362

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Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures LARSEN,EDWARD W DOE Sub of F039837-Focus Area RTM

HMC FA 3.72 54,364

LARSEN,EDWARD W DOE Sub of F039837-Focus Area RTM PRT FA 3.71

29,498

LAU,YUE YING DOD - Air Force Innovative Study of Electrical Contact and Electron Transport

462,043

LAU,YUE YING DOD - Air Force Traveling Wave Amplifier Driven by a Large Diameter Annular

9,990

LAU,YUE YING DOD - Air Force Sub of F038481-High Power Recirculating Planar Amplifiers

64,898

LAU,YUE YING DOD - Advanced Research Projects Agency-Subcontracts

Integrated Models for Design Optimization and Manufacturing Toler?

4,026

LAU,YUE YING DOE Mitigation of Magneto Rayleigh Taylor Instability

196,243

LEE,JOHN C DOE Sub of F036807-Consortium For Verification Technology

199,426

LEE,JOHN C DOE Sub of F029451-RTM-SUP Consortium For Advanced Simulation Of Light

460

LEE,JOHN C DOE Sub of F033492-Inherently Safe Light Water Reactors

87,215

LEE,JOHN C DOE Sub of F039837-CASL-Lee RTM-SUP FA 3.73

59,533

LEE,JOHN C Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)

Realistic Nuclear Plant Safety Analysis Representing?

62,818

MANERA,ANNALISA DOE Model Validation using CFD-grade experimental database

321,319

MANERA,ANNALISA DOE High-Resolution Time-Resolved Experiments on Mixing and

54,581

MANERA,ANNALISA DOE Sub of F037399-14-6552: High-Resolution Time-Resolved Experiments On

195,788

MANERA,ANNALISA DOE Fab Sub of F037399-14-6552: High-Resolution Time-Resolved Experiment

14,983

MANERA,ANNALISA DOE Sub of F029451-THM Consortium For Advanced Simulation Of Light Wate

1,564

MANERA,ANNALISA DOE Inherently Safe Light Water Reactors 184,888 MANERA,ANNALISA DOE Three-dimensional fuel pin model

validation by prediction of 50,225

MANERA,ANNALISA DOE Fab of F029451-EDU Cluster (29,880) MANERA,ANNALISA DOE Sub of F039678-THM-CFD FA 3.6-

Consortium for Advance Simulation 41,846

MANERA,ANNALISA DOE Sub of F039837-Focus Area THM CLS FA03.61

99,553

MANERA,ANNALISA NRC Multiscale Thermal-Hydraulic Tool for Nuclear Power Plant Safety?

(1,299)

MANERA,ANNALISA NRC Assessment of Trace Interfacial Area Transport Equations Against

97,107

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Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures MANERA,ANNALISA NRC Advanced Two-Phase

Instrumentation: Experimental Support for

270,625

MANERA,ANNALISA NRC Fab Sub of F037428-Advanced Two-Phase Instrumentation: Experimental

62,612

MANERA,ANNALISA NRC Fab Sub of F037428-Advanced Two-Phase Instrumentation: Experimental

60,844

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL)

(454)

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F026076-MNM-Taxable Consortium for Advanced Simulation of

(8,252)

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F026076-University of Wisconsin-Taxable

1,832

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors-Non-Tax

26,925

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F029451- Consortium for Advance Simulation of Light Water

10,155

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F029451-RTM-PRT Consortium For Advanced Simulation Of Light

(16,630)

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F029451-RTM-SUP Consortium For Advanced Simulation Of Light

(52,900)

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Proposal for a Consortium for Nonproliferation Enabling Cap

408,250

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F037011-Participant Support-Proposal for a Consortium for Non

213,557

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F039678-RTM-PRT FA 3.7-Consortium for Advance Simulation

81,505

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F039837-Focus Area-RTM Management FA 3.74

80,137

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F039837-Focus Area - RTM-PRT FA 3.71

129,893

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F039837- EDU-FA 2.53 21,749 MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Proposal for a Consortium for

Nonproliferation Enabling Cap 47,918

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F041161-Computational and Experimental Benchmarking for Trans

34,960

MARTIN,WILLIAM R DOE Sub of F039678-RTM-ZSN FA 3.7 52,056 MARTIN,WILLIAM R National Academy for

Nuclear Training Graduate Fellowships in Nuclear Engineering

15,928

MARTIN,WILLIAM R NRC Nuclear Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program at the University

103,469

MARTIN,WILLIAM R NRC Nuclear Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program at the Univ

102,342

POZZI,SARA A DOE Dual-Particle Imaging System for Standoff Detection of Special

258,920

POZZI,SARA A DOE Consortium for Verification Technology

417,057

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Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-Consortium For

Verification Technology 282,853

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-Consortium For Verification Technology

1,163

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk NCSU) Consortium For Verification Technology

282,664

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk Yale) Consortium For Verification Technology

151,446

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk Princeton)Consortium For Verification Technolog

572,411

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk U of W)Consortium For Verification Technology

191,417

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk Penn State) Consortium For Verification Technol

123,301

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk Columbia)Consortium For Verification Technology

255,913

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk MIT) Consortium For Verification Technology

862,410

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk U of F)Consortium For Verification Technology

178,196

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk Oregon State)Consortium For Verification Techno

193,765

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk U of I)Consortium For Verification Technology

171,353

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk U of Hawaii)Consortium For Verification Technol

287,273

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk Duke)Consortium For Verification Technology

86,815

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F036807-(Subk LANL)Consortium For Verification Technology

138,000

POZZI,SARA A DOE Fab of F036478-Stilbene Array for Imaging Fabrication

3,274

POZZI,SARA A DOE Development of a New Graduate Level Course in Nuclear

10,983

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F023849-Basic Physics Data: Improved Fission Neutron Data...

(6,206)

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sandia Fellowship-Kyle Polack 42,800 POZZI,SARA A DOE Developing Accurate Simulations of

Correlated Data in Fission... 137,674

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Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures POZZI,SARA A DOE Sub of F035412-Advanced Plastic

Scintillators for Nuclear Non-prolif (1,597)

POZZI,SARA A DOE Sandia Fellowship-Michael Hamel 38,487 POZZI,SARA A Department of

Homeland Security Sub of F026265-Y5 New Detectors, Electronics, And Algorithms For Fas

9,653

POZZI,SARA A Department of Homeland Security

Sub of F026265-Y5 New Detectors, Electronics, And Algorithms For Fas

5,748

POZZI,SARA A Department of Homeland Security

Sub of F026265-Fab of AR1 YR 5 Project

(23,976)

POZZI,SARA A Department of Homeland Security

Sub of F036723-Phase III-Low Dose Tomographic System Based on a Nove

4,441

POZZI,SARA A Department of Homeland Security

Sub of F036723-Phase IV-Low Dose Tomographic System Based on a Novel

59,823

POZZI,SARA A Department of Homeland Security

Sub of F036723-Low Dose Tomogaphic System Based on a Novel Narrowban

8,229

THOMAS,ALEXANDER GEORGE ROY

DOD - Air Force AFOSR Yound Investigator Program: Understanding intense...

121,564

THOMAS,ALEXANDER GEORGE ROY

DOE High Harmonic Radiation Generation and Attosecond Pulses...

43,310

THOMAS,ALEXANDER GEORGE ROY

DOE Vlasov-Fokker-Planck modeling of magnetized plasma

164,962

THOMAS,ALEXANDER GEORGE ROY

NSF NSF CAREER Proposal: Bright femtosecond x and gamma-ray

97,144

WANG,LUMIN DOE Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution - EDDE

184,678

WANG,LUMIN SNERDI Ion-Irradiation Effects of Welding Materials of Pressure Vessels?

104,344

WANG,LUMIN SNERDI Ion-Irradiation Effects of Gray Rod Materials

75,888

WANG,LUMIN SNERDI IASCC of Stainless Steel in Pressurized Water

38,173

WANG,LUMIN University of Science and Technology-Beijing (USTB)

University of Science and Technology Beijing (Training Grant)

5,156

WANG,LUMIN Xiamen University School of Energy Research, Xiamen University laboratory usage

6,489

WANG,PENG AREVA Inc. Experimental Plan for AREVA Shadow Corrosion Investigation Init?

32,926

WAS,GARY S Electric Power Research Institute

IASCC of Alloy 718 101,755

WAS,GARY S Electric Power Research Institute

Advanced Radiation Resistant Materials (ARRM) Research Program

113,393

WAS,GARY S Electric Power Research Institute

Advanced Radiation Resistant Materials (ARRM) Irradiation Program

68,119

WAS,GARY S Electric Power Research Institute

Identifying Mechanisms and Mitigation Strategies for Irradiation

(1,125)

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Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures WAS,GARY S Electric Power

Research Institute Sub of N017401-Iascc Of Alloy 718 128,417

WAS,GARY S Electric Power Research Institute

Predictive Modeling and Mitigation of Irradiation Assisted Stress

174,746

WAS,GARY S Electric Power Research Institute

Predictive Modeling and Mitigation of Irradiation Assisted Stress...

185,494

WAS,GARY S Electricite De France (EDF)

Irradiation-Accelerated Corrosion of Reactor Core Materials

12,712

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of N013607-SubK - University of Notre Dame

21,395

WAS,GARY S DOE Effect of Irradiation on the Corrosion of Austenitic Stainless S?

61,451

WAS,GARY S DOE Localized Deformation and Intergranular Fracture of Irradiated....

145,371

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F021533-Localized Deformation and Intergranular Fracture of..

114,109

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F021533-Localized Deformation and Intergranular Fracture of..

116,321

WAS,GARY S DOE High Fidelity Ion Beam Simulation of High Dose Neutron Irradiation

554,780

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F034671-High Fidelity (Subk Penn State)

218,041

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F034671-High Fidelity (SubK U of Tenn)

214,778

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F034671-High Fidelity (Subk U of W-Madison)

130,858

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F034671-High Fidelity (Subk UC-Berkeley)

154,664

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F034671-High Fidelity (Subk UC-Santa Barbara)

61,028

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F034671-High Fidelity (Subk U of SC)

85,805

WAS,GARY S DOE Recharge for Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory-ATR

17,593

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F029451-Consortium For Advanced Simulation Of Light Water Rea

17,419

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F029269-Characterization and Modeling of Grain Boundary Chemi

48,214

WAS,GARY S DOE Mitigating IASCC of Reactor Core Internals by Post-Irradiation

67,534

WAS,GARY S DOE Atomic Ordering in Alloy 690 and its Effect on Long-term Structur

104,766

WAS,GARY S DOE Advanced Accident-Tolerant Ceramic Coatings for Zr-alloy Cladding

70,527

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F033745-Accident Tolerant Fuels for Light Water Reactors

47,692

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Project Director Sponsor Project Title Expenditures WAS,GARY S DOE Assessment of Corrosion Resistance

of Promising Accident Tolerant 107,788

WAS,GARY S DOE Advanced Radiation Resistant Materials (ARRM) Research Program

270,032

WAS,GARY S DOE Predictive Modeling and Mitigation of Irradiation Assisted Stress

273,805

WAS,GARY S DOE Advanced Steels as Accident Tolerant Fuel Cladding for Commercial?

140,592

WAS,GARY S DOE Assessment of Collaborative Opportunities for LWRS Program

15,000

WAS,GARY S DOE Sub of F039837-Focus Area FMC-Corr FA 3.15

44,572

WAS,GARY S NRC Support for the ICG-EAC Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan

10,000

WAS,GARY S Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI)

Sub of N021312-IASCC of Stainless Steel in Pressurized Water

10,433

WAS,GARY S TerraPower Heavy Ion Irradiation of HT9 362,509 WAS,GARY S Various Sponsors Recharge for Michigan Ion Beam

Laboratory 53,392

WEHE,DAVID K Elsevier Science B. V. Editorial Services for Journal "Nuclear Instruments...

11,607

WEHE,DAVID K Energy, Department of

Sub of F036807-Consortium For Verification Technology

151,037

ZHU,YUEFENG Department of Homeland Security

Development of a lower-power digital ASIC for compact TlBr

100,023

ZHU,YUEFENG Department of Homeland Security

Work on Digital 3-D TIBr gamma-ray detector technology that aims?

3,275

NERS Total 20,594,195

External Sponsored Research

Research Class $19,714,961

Outside NERS (within CoE) $791,891

Other Activity $901,875

Internal Research Funding Research Class $1,093,285

GSRA Tuition $426,906

Grand Total $22,928,918

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Publications (January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015)

FISSION SYSTEMS AND RADIATION TRANSPORT

Books and Chapters in Books J. C. Lee, "Nuclear Engineering," Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, W5211, 3rd ed., Wiley (2016). Journal Articles Ward, A. M., Wang, M., Neumann, M. D., Memmott, M., Manera, A., & Downar, T. J. (2015). A simulation of I2S-LWR selected transients. Annals of Nuclear Energy. DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2017.03.016 Boy, G. A., Jani, G., Manera, A., Memmott, M., Petrovic, B., Rayad, Y., ... Suri, N. (2015). Improving collaborative work and project management in a nuclear power plant design team: A human-centered design approach. Annals of Nuclear Energy. DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2015.12.039 Memmott, M. J., & Manera, A. (2015). The use of flashing drums and microchannel heat exchangers to generate steam in large integral light water reactors. Nuclear Technology, 191(3), 199-212. DOI: 10.13182/NT14-103 A. F. Bielajew, F. Tessier, and I. El Gamal. The inverse-square gamma-irradiation anomaly of the Nuclear Enterprises 2575 large-volume ionisation chamber. Ra- diat. Prot. Dosim., 167:385 — 391, 2015. T. Nakatsuka, K. Okei, A. Iyono, and A. F. Bielajew. Simultaneous distribution between the deflection angle and the lateral displacement under the Moli`ere theory of multiple scattering. Eur. Phys. J. A, 51:1–14, 2015. H. Bouchard, J. de Pooter, A. F. Bielajew, and S. Duane. Reference dosimetry in the presence of magnetic fields: Conditions to validate Monte Carlo simulations. Phys. Med. Biol., 60:6639 — 6654, 2015. H. Bouchard and A. F. Bielajew. Lorentz force correction to the Boltzmann radiation transport equation and its implications for Monte Carlo algorithms. Phys. Med. Biol., 60:4963 — 4971, 2015. A. Tsechanski, A. F. Bielajew, J. P. Archambault, and E. Mainegra-Hing. Elec- tron accelerator-based production of Mo-99: bremsstrahlung and photoneutron generation from molybdenum vs. tungsten. Nuclear Instruments and Methods, B366:124 — 139, 2016. Z. Liu, B. Kochunas, B. Collins, T. Downar, Y. Xu, H. Wu, "Model and analysis of performance for the

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method of characteristics direction probabilities with boundary averaging," Progress in Nuclear Energy, 80, pp. 110-118 (2015). A. Wysocki, A. Ward, A. Manera, T. Downar, Y. Xu, J. March-Leuba, C. Thurston, N. Hudson, A. Ireland, The Modeling of Advanced BWR Fuel Designs with the NRC Fuel Depletion Codes PARCS/PATHS, Nuclear Technology, Volume 190 / Number 3 / June 2015 / Pages 323-335 Deokjung Lee, Tomasz Kozlowski, Thomas J. Downar, Multi-group SP3 approximation for simulation of a three-dimensional PWR rod ejection accident, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 77, March 2015, Pages 94–100 Zhouyu Liu, B Collins, Brendan Kochunas, Thomas Downar, Yunlin Xu, Hongchun Wu, Theory and analysis of accuracy for the method of characteristics direction probabilities with boundary averaging, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 77, Mar. 2015, Pages 212-222 M. Hursin, T. Downar, J. Yoon, H. Joo, Assessment of assembly homogenized two-steps core dynamic calculations using direct whole core transport solutions, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 87, Part 2, January 2016, Pages 356-365 Liangzhi Cao, Andrew Gerlach, Yunlin Xu, Thomas Downar, John C. Lee, Neutronics modeling of the SPERT III E-Core critical experiments with MPACT and KENO, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 80, June 2015, Pages 207-218 D. Walter, B. Kendrick, V. Petrov, A. Manera, B. Collins, T. Downar, Proof-of-Principle of high fidelity coupled CRUD deposition and cycle depletion Simulation. Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 85, Nov. 2015, pp 1152-1166. A. Zhu, T. Xu, T. Downar, Stability analysis of the Backward Euler time discretization for the pin-resolved transport transient reactor calculation, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 87, Part 2, January 2016, Pages 252-266 Ang Zhu, Yunlin Xu, Thomas Downar, A Multilevel Quasi-Static Kinetics Method for Pin-Resolved Transport Transient Reactor Analysis, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Volume 182 / Number 4 / April 2016 / Pages 435-451 Andrew M. Ward, Ryan P. Hon, Gabe Kooreman, David Salazar, Fausto Franceschini, Thomas J. Downar, Neutronics Design and Analysis of the I2S Reactor with UO2 and U3Si2 Fuel Part I: Equilibrium Cycle Depletion Analysis, Accepted for Publication, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Nov, 2015. Andrew M. Ward, Mingjun Wang, Matthew D. Neumann, Annalisa Manera, Thomas J. Downar, Simulated Transient Behavior of the I2S Reactor Design, Accepted for Publication, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Nov, 2015. B.C.Kiedrowski, F.B. Brown, J.L. Conlin, J.A. Favorite, A.C. Kahler, A.R. Kersting, D.K. Parsons, J.L. Walker, “Whisper: Sensitivity/Uncertainty-Based Computational Methods and Software for Determining Baseline Upper Subcritical Limits,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., (in press). B.R. Betlzer, B.C. Kiedrowski, F.B. Brown, W.R. Martin, “Calculating infinite-medium eigenvalue spectra

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with Monte Carlo using a transition rate matrix method," Nucl. Eng. Design, 295, 639-644 (2015). B.W. Kelley and E.W. Larsen, “A Consistent 2D/1D Approximation to the 3D Neutron Transport Equation,” Nucl. Eng. & Design, 295, 598 (2015). (invited) T.J. Trahan and E.W. Larsen, “Asymptotic, Multigroup Flux Reconstruction and Consistent Discontinuity Factors,” J. Nucl. Sci. & Technol, 52, 917 (2015). (invited) K.P. Keady and E.W. Larsen, “A Modified Monte Carlo ‘Local Importance Function Transform’ Method,” Nucl. Eng. & Design, 295, 625 (2015). M.J. Marcath, S.D. Clarke, B.M. Wieger, E. Padovani, E.W. Larsen, and S.A. Pozzi, “Implicit Correlation Method for Cross-Correlation Sampling with MCNPX-PoliMi Validation,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., 181, 1 (2015). M. Franck, K. Krycki, E.W. Larsen, and R. Vasques, “The Non-Classical Boltzmann Equation, and Diffusion-Based Approximations to the Boltzmann Equation,” SIAM J. Applied Math., 75, 1329 (2015). N. W. Touran and J. C. Lee, “A Modal Expansion Equilibrium Cycle Perturbation Method for Optimizing Fast Reactors,” Nucl. Sci. Eng. 179, 85 (2015). L. Cao, A. Gerlach, Y. Xu, T. Downar, and J. C. Lee, “Neutronics Modeling of the SPERT III E-Core Critical Experiments with MPACT and KENO,” Ann. Nucl. Energy 80, 207 (2015). A. J. Hoffman and J. C. Lee, “A Time-Dependent Neutron Transport Method of Characteristics Formulation with Time Derivative Propagation,” submitted for publication in J. Comp. Phys. McCarroll, K. R., Lee, J. C., Manera, A., Memmott, M. J., & Ferroni, P. (2015). Preliminary risk assessment of the Integral Inherently-Safe Light Water Reactor. Annals of Nuclear Energy. DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2016.09.019 Y. Liu, W. Martin, K.-S. Kim, and M. Williams, "A Full Core Resonance Self-shielding Method using an Ultrafine Energy Group Quasi-1D Slowing-down Solution that Accounts for Temperature-Dependent Fuel Subregions and Resonance Interference," Nucl. Sci. & Eng., in press (July 2015). Y. Liu, W. Martin, K.-S. Kim, and M. Williams, "A Full Core Resonance Self-shielding Method using an Ultrafine Energy Group Quasi-1D Slowing-down Solution that Accounts for Temperature-Dependent Fuel Subregions and Resonance Interference," Nucl. Sci. & Eng., in press (July 2015). Conference Papers and Presentations Grunloh, T., Manera, A., "Comparison of Overlapping and Separate Domain Coupling Methods for 1D Pump Driven Closed Loop Flow System", Proc. of the 16th Int. Topical Mtg. on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 4 (2015). Wang, M., Manera, A., Memmott, M.J., Lee, J., Qiu, S., "Preliminary Design of the I2S-LWR Contianment System", Proc. of the 16th Int. Topical Mtg. on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 4 (2015).

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Wang, M., Manera, A., Memmott, M.J., Qiu, S., "Passive Decay Heat Removal System Design for the Integral Inherently Safe Light Water Reactor (I2S-LWR)", Proc. of the 16th Int. Topical Mtg. on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 4 (2015). Dave, A., Manera, A., Beyer, M., Lucas, D., Prasser, H.-M., "Uncertainty Analysis of an Interfacial Area Reconstruction Algorithm", Proc. of the 16th Int. Topical Mtg. on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 4 (2015). Dave, A., Manera, A., Beyer, M., Lucas, D., "Evaluating Performance of the Two Group Interfacial Area Transport Equation for Large Diameter Pipes", Proc. of the 16th Int. Topical Mtg. on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 4 (2015). Dave, A., Manera, A., Beyer, M., Lucas, D., Prasser, H.-M., "Uncertainty Analysis of an Interfacial Area Reconstruction Algorithm and its application to Two Group Interfacial Area Transport Equation Validation", Proc. of Japan-U.S. Seminar on Two-phase Flow Dynamics, West Lafayette, IN, USA, May 10 - 15 (2015). Walter, D., Manera, A., "A control theory approach to adaptive stepsize selection for lattice depletion simulations", Proc. of ANS MC2015 - Joint Int. Conf. on Mathematics and Computations (M&C), Supercomputing in Nucl Appl. (SNA) and the MonteCarlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, USA, April 19 - 23 (2015). Walter, D., Manera, A., "CRUD and Boron Layer Modeling requirement using MOC Neutron Transport", Proc. of ANS MC2015 - Joint Int. Conf. on Mathematics and Computations (M&C), Supercomputing Nguyen, T., Petrov, V., Manera, A., "A separate-effect test facility for CFD-grade measurements of the RCCS upper plenum", Proc. of the 16th Int. Topical Mtg. on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 4 (2015). Walter, D., Petrov, V., Manera, Kendrick, B.K., "A control theory approach to adaptive stepsize selection for coupled CFD and CRUD chemistry simulations", Proc. of the 16th Int. Topical Mtg. on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 4 (2015). Petrov. V., Nguyen, T., Nunez, D., Dave, A., Manera, A., "High Resolution Experiments of Velocity and Concentration Fluctuations in a Jet Flow", Proc. of the 16th Int. Topical Mtg. on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH- 16), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 4 (2015). LaFleur, B., Petrov. V., Manera, A., "CFD Analyses of Main Flow Penetration Depth in Isolated Branch Lines", Proc. of the 16th Int. Topical Mtg. on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16), Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 4 (2015). Michael Rose, Xu Wu, Thomas Downar, and Tomasz Kozlowski, “Evaluation of accident tolerant FeCrAl coating for PWR cladding under normal operating conditions with coupled neutron transport and fuel performance” Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Nashville, TN, April 2015. B. Kochunas, B. Collins, Thomas Downar, et al., Validation and Application of the 3D Neutron Transport MPACT within CASL VERA-CS, NURETH-16, Chicago, Ill., Sep. 2015.

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A.Wysocki, J. March-Leuba, C. Thurston, A. Ward, T. Downar, NURETH-16, Depletion Analysis of Advanced BWR Fuel Designs with the U.S. NRC Codes PARCS/PATHS, Chicago, Ill., Sep. 2015. Ang Zhu, Yunlin Xu, T. Saller and T. Downar, The Implementation and Analysis of the MOC and CMFD Adjoint Capabilities in the 2D-1D Code MPACT, ANS MC2015 Joint Intl. Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, April 19-23, 2015. M. Jarrett, B.W. Kelley, B. Kochunas, T. Downar, E. Larsen, Stabilization Methods for CMFD Acceleration, ANS MC2015 Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method • Nashville, TN • April 19-23, 2015. Shane Stimpson, Fausto Franceschini, Benjamin Collins, Andrew Godfrey, Kang Seog Kim, Aaron Graham, and Thomas Downar, Improved Diffusion Coefficients for the SPN Axial Solvers in the MPACT 2D-1D Method Applied to the AP1000® PWR Startup Core Models, ANS MC2015 Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method Nashville, TN, April 19-23, 2015. Shane Stimpson, B. Collins, and Thomas Downar, An Azimuthal Fourier Moment-Based Transverse Leakage Approximation for the MPACT 2D-1D Method, ANS MC2015 Joint Int. Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, April 19-23, 2015. T.P. Burke, B.C. Kiedrowski, W.R. Martin, “Mean Free Path Based Kernel Density Estimators for Capturing Edge Effects in Reactor Physics Problems,” Proc. Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, USA, Apr. 19 - 23 (2015). J.A.Walsh, B. Forget, K.S. Smith, B.C. Kiedrowski , F.B. Brown, “Direct, On-the-Fly Calculation of Unresolved Resonance Region Cross Sections in Monte Carlo Simulations," Proc. Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, USA, Apr. 19 - 23 (2015). T.G. Saller, E.W. Larsen, and T. Downar, “An Asymptotic Scaling Factor for Multigroup Cross Sections,” ANS Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA), and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, April 19-23, 2015. M. Jarrett, B.W. Kelley, B. Kochunas, T. Downar, and E. Larsen, “Stabilization Methods for CMFD Acceleration,” ANS Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA), and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, April 19-23, 2015. B.C. Yee and E.W. Larsen, “A New Multiple Balance Method for Spatially Discretizing the SN Equations,” ANS Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA), and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, April 19-23, 2015. T.J. Trahan and E.W. Larsen, “Variationally-Derived Discontinuity Factors for the Asymptotic, Homogenized Diffusion Equation,” ANS Joint International Conference on Mathematics and

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Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA), and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, April 19-23, 2015. K.P. Keady and E.W. Larsen, “Stability of SN k-Eigenvalue Iterations Using CMFD Acceleration,” ANS Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA), and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, TN, April 19-23, 2015. C. Liu and E.W. Larsen, “Discrete Ordinates Methods with Curved Spatial Grids: an Alternative Method to MOC,” Proc. Reactor Physics Asia 2015 Conference (RPHA15), Jeju, Korea, September 16-18, 2015, on CD-ROM (2015). F. Abdul Rahman, J. C. Lee and F. Franceschini, “Deterministic Methods for PWR Fuel Loading Optimization,” Proc. Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management V Conference (2015). Y. Wang, Z. Zhang, and J. C. Lee, “The Relationship between CDF and LERF in Risk-Informed Regulations,” Proc. PSA-2015, International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (2015). D. A. Fynan, K-I Ahn, and J. C. Lee, “PCT Uncertainty Analysis Using Unscented Transform with Random Orthogonal Matrix,” Proc. Korean Nuclear Society Meeting (May 2015). D. A. Fynan, K-I Ahn, and J. C. Lee, “Limit Surface Approach Defining Success Criteria with Uncertainties in Level 1 PSA,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. 112, 517 (2015). S. A. Pozzi, S. D. Clarke, D. K. Wehe, Z. He, K. Kearfott, J. C. Lee, A. Hero, M. Flaska, A. DiFulvio, R. Lanza, S. Kemp, J. Fischer, A. Danagoulian, A. Glaser, F. von Hippel, P. Richards, J. K. Mattingly, M. Garces, I. Jovanovic, L. Carin, P. Wilson, J. Baciak, A. Enqvist, A. Farsoni, F. D’Errico, and C. J. Sullivan, “Consortium for Verification Technology Research Activities,” Proc. Inst. Nucl. Mat. Management (July 2015). S. A. Pozzi, S. D. Clarke, D. K. Wehe, Z. He, K. Kearfott, J. C. Lee, A. Hero, M. Flaska, A. DiFulvio, R. Lanza, S. Kemp, J. Fischer, A. Danagoulian, A. Glaser, F. von Hippel, P. Richards, J. K. Mattingly, M. Garces, I. Jovanovic, L. Carin, P. Wilson, J. Baciak, A. Enqvist, A. Farsoni, F. D’Errico, and C. J. Sullivan, “Education and Outreach Activities within the Consortium for Verification Technology,” Proc. Inst. Nucl. Mat. Management (July 2015). A. R. Gerlach and J. C. Lee, “Coupling CTF to MPACT for Improved Thermal- Hydraulic Feedback for Transients,” to be presented at the ANS Meeting, June 2016. S. J. Wilderman, F. B. Brown, and W. R. Martin, "Simulation of CASL 3D HFP Fuel Assembly Benchmark Problem with On-the-Fly Doppler Broadening in MCNP6," submitted to Advances in Fuel Management V, Hilton Head, SC (March 2015). T. P. Burke, B. C. Kiedrowski, and W. R. Martin, "Mean Free Path-Based Kernel Density Estimators for Capturing Edge Effects in Reactor Physics Problems," submitted to Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C2015), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19–23, 2015.

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A. M. Bevill and W. R. Martin, "Correlated Sampling Monte Carlo for Critical Boron Search," submitted to Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C2015), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19–23, 2015. Liu, Y. and Martin, W. R., "Is 3-D Resonance Self-shielding Calculation Necessary for the Direct Transport Method in LWR Analysis?," Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. 113, 1125-1127, Washington, D.C. (November 2015). Nelson, A. G. and Martin, W. R., "Improved Monte Carlo Tallying of Multi-Group Scattering Moments Using the NDPP Code," Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. 113, 645-648, Washington, D.C. (November 2015). B. Kochunas, et al., "VERA Core Simulator Methodology for PWR Cycle Depletion," Proc. M&C+SNA+MC 2015, Nashville, TN, USA, Apr. 19-23 (2015). B. Kochunas and T. Downar, "Performance Model Development and Analysis for the 3-D Method of Characteristics," Proc. M&C+SNA+MC 2015, Nashville, TN, USA, Apr. 19-23 (2015). M. Jarrett, B.W. Kelley, B. Kochunas, T. Downar, and E. Larsen, "Stabilization Methods for CMFD Acceleration," Proc. M&C+SNA+MC 2015, Nashville, TN, USA, Apr. 19-23 (2015). K. Clarno, R. Pawlowski, R. Montgomery, R. Salko, T. Evans, B. Collins, B. Kochunas, and D. Gaston, "Benchmarking of Tiamat with Insilico and MPACT Neutronics," Proc. M&C+SNA+MC 2015, Nashville, TN, USA, Apr. 19-23 (2015).

MATERIALS Books and Chapters in Books Chapter 7: Radiation Damage in Metals and Alloys, G. S. Was, in NUCLEAR MATERIALS, Vol. 10B Nuclear Reactor Structural Materials, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, in press. Chapter 6: Overview of Corrosion in Current and Next Generation Nuclear Reactors, G. S. Was and T. Allen, in STRUCTURAL ALLOYS FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS, G. Robert Odette and Steven J. Zinkle, Eds., Elsevier, Netherlands, in press. Chapter 8: Austenitic Stainless Steels, G. S. Was and S. Ukai, in STRUCTURAL ALLOYS FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS, G. Robert Odette and Steven J. Zinkle, Eds., Elsevier, Netherlands, in press. Journal Articles J. D. Ju and M. Atzmon, “Evaluation of approximate measurements of activation-free-energy spectra of shear transformation zones in metallic glasses,” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 643, S8 (2015). D. Dong, F. Gao, Fei, and B. Liu, Bo, ‘Grain Boundary Resistance to Amorphization of Nanocrystalline Silicon Carbide’, Scientific Reports, 5(2015)16602. L. Yang, F. Gao, R. J. Kurtz, X. T. Zu, S. M. Peng, X. G. Long, and X. S. Zhou, ‘Effects of Local Structure on

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Helium Bubble Growth in Bulk and at Grain Boundaries of BCC Iron: A Molecular Dynamics Study’, Acta Materialia, 97(2015)86. L. L. Niu, Y. Zhang, X. L. Shu, S. Jin, H. B. Zhou, F. Gao, and G. H. Lu, ‘Interplay Between Intrinsic Point Defects and Low-angle Grain Boundary in BCC Tungsten: Effects of Local Stress Field’, J. Phys. Cond. Matter., 27(2015)255007. Y. Y. Dai, L. Ao, Q. Q. Sun, Q. Q. L. Yang, J. L. Nie, S. M. Peng, X. G. Long, X. S. Zhou, X. T. Zu, L. Liu, X. Sun, D. Terentyev, and F. Gao, ‘Nucleation of Cr Precipitates in Fe-Cr Alloy Under Irradiation’, Computational Materials Science, 101(2015)293 S, Di, Z. W. Yao, M. R. Daymond, X. T. Zu, S. M. Peng, Shuming, and F. Gao, ‘Dislocation-Accelerated Void Formation Under Irradiation in Zirconium’, Acta Materialia, 82(2015)94. L. Yang, F. Gao, R. J. Kurtz, and X. T. Zu, ‘Atomistic Simulations of Helium Clustering and Grain Boundary Reconstruction in Alpha-iron’, Acta Materialia, 82(2015)275. Y. G. Zhou, H. F. Lu, X. T. Zu, and F. Gao, ‘Evidencing the Existence of Exciting Half-Metallicity in Two-dimensional TiCl3 and VCl3 Sheets’, Scientific Reports, 6(2015)19407. F. Zhou, J. Z. Fang, H. Q. Deng, J. L. Liu, S. F. Xiao, X. L. Shu, F. Gao, and W. Y. Hu, ‘New Interatomic Potentials for Studying the Behavior of Noble Gas Atoms in Tungsten’, J. Nucl. Mater., 467(2015)398. M. P. Prange, L. W. Campbell, D. Wu, F. Gao, S. Kerisit, ‘Calculation of Energy Relaxation Rates of Fast Particles by Phonons in Crystals’, Phys. Rev. B, 91(2015)104305. P. F. Yan, L. Xiao, J. M. Zheng, Y. G. Zhou, Y. He, X. T. Zu, S. X. Mao, J. Xiao, F. Gao, J. G. Zhang, Ji-Guang, and C. M. Wang, ‘Probing the Degradation Mechanism of Li2MnO3 Cathode for Li-Ion Batteries’, Chemistry of Materials, 27(2015)975. P. F. Yan, A. Nie, J. M. Zheng, Y. G. Zhou, D. P. Lu, X. F. Zhang, R. Xu, I. Belharouak, X. T. Zu, J. Xiao, K. Amine, J. Liu, F. Gao, R. Shahbazian-Yassar, J. G. Zhang, and C. M. Wang, ‘Evolution of Lattice Structure and Chemical Composition of the Surface Reconstruction Layer in Li1.2Ni0.2Mn0.6O2 Cathode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries’, Nano Letters, 15(2015)514. J. Z. Chen, D. X. Wu, E. Walter, M. Engelhard, P. Bhattacharya, H. Pan, Y. Shao, F. Gao, J. Xiao, and J. Liu, ‘Molecular-confinement of Polysulfides Within Mesoscale Electrodes for the Practical Application of Lithium Sulfur Batteries’, Nano Energy, 13(2015)267. Y. Yu, X. L. Shu, Y. N. Liu, L. L. Niu, S. Jin, F. Gao, and G. H. Lu ‘Effect of Hydrogen on Grain Boundary Migration in Tungsten’, Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy, 58(2015)5662. D. H. Huang, F. Gao, D. A. Cardimona, C. P. Morath, V. M. Cowan, E. W. Taylor, and D. A. Cardimona, ‘Microscopic Model for Studying Radiation Degradation of Electron Transport and Photodetection Devices’, Nanophotonics and Macrophotonics for Space Environments Proceedings of SPIE, 9616(2015)96160S. D. H. Huang, F. Gao, D.A. Cardimona, C.P. Morath, and V.M. Cowan, ‘Multi-Timescale Microscopic

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Theory for Radiation Degradation of Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices’, American Journal of Space Science, 3(2015)1. F.F. Zhang, X. Wang, J.B. Wierschke, L.M. Wang, Helium bubble evolution in ion irradiated Al/B 4 C metal matrix composite, Scripta Materialia, 109 (2015) 28-33. X. Wang, A.M. Monterrosa, F. Zhang, H. Huang, Q. Yan, Z. Jiao, G.S. Was, L.M. Wang, Void swelling in high dose ion-irradiated reduced activation ferritic–martensitic steels, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 462 (2015) 119-125. Y. Zhang, G.M. Stocks, K. Jin, C. Lu, H. Bei, B.C. Sales, L.M. Wang, L.K. Béland, R.E. Stoller, G.D. Samolyuk, Influence of chemical disorder on energy dissipation and defect evolution in concentrated solid solution alloys, Nature communications, 6 (2015). G. Ran, N. Chen, R. Qiang, L.M. Wang, N. Li, J. Lian, Surface morphological evolution and nanoneedle formation of 18Cr-ODS steel by focused ion beam bombardment, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 356 (2015) 103-107. D.S. Aidhy, C. Lu, K. Jin, H. Bei, Y. Zhang, L.M. Wang, W.J. Weber, Point defect evolution in Ni, NiFe and NiCr alloys from atomistic simulations and irradiation experiments, Acta Materialia, 99 (2015) 69-76. M. D. McMurtrey, B. Cui, I. Robertson, D. Farkas, G. S. Was, “Mechanism of Dislocation Channel-Induced Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Crack Initiation in Austenitic Stainless Steel,” Curr. Opin Sol. Stat. Mater. Sci. 19 (2015) 305-314. X. Wang, Q. Z. Yan, G. S. Was, L. M. Wang, “Void Swelling in Ferritic-Martensitic Steels Under High Dose Ion Irradiation: Exploring Possible Contributions to Swelling Resistance,” Scr. Mater. 112 (2015) 9-14. G. S. Was, “Challenges to the use of Ion Irradiation for Emulating Reactor Irradiation,” J. Mater. Res. 30 No. 9 (2015) 1158-1182. Invited Review E. Getto, Z. Jiao, A. M. Monterrosa, K. Sun, G.S. Was, “The Effect of Irradiation Mode on the Microstructure of Self-ion Irradiated Ferritic-Martensitic Alloys,” J. Nucl. Mater. 465 (2015) 116. W. Kuang, G. S. Was, “The Effects of Strain Rate and Carbon Concentration on the Dynamic Strain Aging of Cold Rolled Ni-based Alloy in High Temperature Water,” Scr. Mater. 107 (2015) 107-110. T. R. Allen, D. Kaoumi, J. P. Wharry, Z. Jiao, C. Topbasi, A. Kohnert, L. Barnard, A. Certain, K. G. Field, G. S. Was, D. L. Morgan, A. T. Motta, B. D. Wirth, Y. Yang, “Characterization of Microstructure and Property Evolution in Advanced Cladding and Duct: Materials Exposed to High Dose and Elevated Temperature,” J. Mater. Res., 30, No. 9 (2015) 1246-1274. E. Getto, Z. Jiao, A.M. Monterrosa, K. Sun, G. S. Was, “Effect of Pre-implanted Helium on Void Swelling Evolution in Self-ion Irradiated HT9,” J. Nucl. Mater. 462 (2015) 458-469. W. Kuang, G. S. Was, “The Effects of Grain Boundary Carbide Density and Strain Rate on the Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior of Cold Rolled Alloy 690,” Corr. Sci. 97 (2015) 107-114.

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P. Wang, G. S. Was, “Oxidation of Zircaloy-4 during in situ Proton Irradiation and Corrosion in PWR Primary Water,” J. Mater. Res. 30 No. 9 (2015) 1335-1348. X. Wang, A. M. Monterrosa, F. Zhang, H. Huang, Q. Yan Z. Jiao, G. S. Was, L. Wang, “Void Swelling in High Dose Ion-Irradiated Reduced Activation Ferritic-Martensitic Steels,” J. Nucl. Mater. 462 (2015) 119-125. A. Lupinacci, K. Chen, Y. Li, M. Kunz, Z. Jiao, G.S. Was, M.D. Abad, A.M. Minor, P. Hosemann, “Characterization of Ion Beam Irradiated 304 Stainless Steel Utilizing Nanoidentation and Laue Microdiffraction,” J. Nucl. Mater. 458 (2015) 70-76. W.J. Kuang, X.Q. Wu, X. Wang, E.H. Han, “A high temperature high pressure window for in-situ optical observation and Raman detection, Corrosion,” 71 (2015) 687-691. Impact Factor: 2.908. C. Xu, G. S. Was, “Proton Irradiation Creep of FM Steel T91,” J. Nucl. Mater. 459 (2015) 183-193. T. Moss, G. S. Was, “Determination of the Nickel/Nickel Oxide Phase Transition and Henry’s Constant in Hydrogenated Subcritical and Supercritical Water,” J. Electrochem Soc. 162 (1) (2015) C35-C41. K. J. Stephenson, G. S. Was, “Comparison of the Microstructure, Deformation and Crack Initiation Behavior of Austenitic Stainless Steel Irradiated In-Reactor or with Protons, J. Nucl. Mater. 456 (2015) 85-98. G. Gulsoy, G. S. Was, “Enhanced Oxygen Diffusion within the Internal Oxidation Zone of Alloy 617 in Controlled Impurity Helium Environments from 1023K to 1123K (750°C- 850°C),” Metall. Mater. Trans. A 46 No. 4 (2015) 1628-1638. G. Gulsoy, G. S. Was, “Mechanism of Internal Oxidation of Alloy 617 in He-CO-CO2 Environments at 1123K (850°C),” Metall. Mater. Trans. A 46 No. 1 (2015) 525-535. G. Gulsoy, G. S. Was, “Surface Oxidation of Alloy 617 in Low Oxygen Partial Pressure He- Co-CO2 Environments at 750-850°C, Corr. Sci. 90 (2015) 529-534. Conference Papers and Presentations M. Atzmon, "Quantitative Atomistic Interpretation of Metallic Glass Mechanical Spectroscopy Data,” International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials, Paris, 15 July, 2015. M. Atzmon, "Relaxation-time spectra of glasses," 2015 TMS Annual Meeting, Symposium: New Horizons for Mechanical Spectroscopy in Materials Science, Orlando, FL, 17 March, 2015. M. Atzmon, “Atomistic interpretation of the dynamic-mechanical behavior of metallic,” 2015 TMS Annual Meeting, Symposium: Bulk Metallic Glasses XII, Orlando, FL, 17 March, 2015. F. Gao, Invited speaker at Materials Research Society 2015 Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA on April 6, 2015 F. Gao, Invited speaker at International workshop on Models and Data for Plasma-Material, IAEA, 2015

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F. Gao, Invited speaker at SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego, August 11, 2015 F. Gao, Invited speaker at 2nd MINOS international Workshop in CEA Cadarache, France, November 4-6, 2015 F. Gao, Invited speaker at 2015 International Symposium on Multi-scale Modeling and Simulation of Materials, Beijing, China, July 5-9, 2015 F. Gao, Invited speaker at 2015 Chinese Materials Conference, Guiyang, China, July 10-14, 2015 G. Was (Invited), “Emulation of Reactor Irradiation Damage with Ions,” Workshop on Ion Irradiation Effects, Oxford, England, September 2015. G. Was (Invited), “Microstructure Evolution in High Dose, Self-Ion Irradiated F-M Alloys,” MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 2015 G. Was (Invited), “Role of Stress Localization in Initiation of Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking,” Plasticity 2015, Montego Bay, Jamaica, January 2015. M. N. Gussev, K. G. Field, J. T. Busby, K. J. Stephenson, G. S. Was, “SEM-EBSD and TEM Analysis of Stress Corrosion Crack Initiation Sites in Neutron-Irradiated Austenitic Stainless Steels,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) P. Ahmedabadi, G. S. Was, “Stress Corrosion Cracking of Proton Irradiated Alloy 33 for Accident Tolerant Fuel Cladding,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) Z. Jiao, J. Hesterbert, G. S. Was, “Effect of Post-Irradiation Annealing on Hardening, Localized Deformation and IASCC of a Proton-Irradiated 304 Stainless Steel,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773- 19-3 (2015) Y. Ashida, S-J Sung, J. Pan, G. S. Was, “Experimental and Finite Element Analysis of Crack Growth in Neutron Irradiated Stainless Steels,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) P. Wang, K. Kanjana, D. Bartels, K. Gutsol, G. S. Was, “In-Situ Irradiation Accelerated Oxidation of Zircaloy-4 Under Proton or Electron Irradiation in PWR Primary Water,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773- 19-3 (2015) M. D. McMurtrey, G. S. Was, “Relation Between Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking and Discontinuous Slip at Grain Boundaries,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation

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of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) K. J. Stephenson, G. S. Was, “Development of a Novel SCC Test for Isolating Crack Initiation in Neutron Irradiated Stainless Steel,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) W. Kuang, C. Miller, M. Kaufman, T. Alam, B. Gwalani, R. Banerjee, G. S. Was, “Effects of Cold Work and Aging Treatments on the Microstructure and Stress Corrosion Cracking Initiation Behavior of Solution Annealed Alloy 690,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) T. Moss, G. S. Was, “Factor of Improvement in Resistance of Stress Corrosion Crack Initiation fo Alloy 690 over Alloy 600,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) P. Ahmedabadi, G. S. Was, “Stress Corrosion Cracking of Proton Irradiated Alloy 33 for Accident Tolerant Fuel Cladding,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) S. S. Raiman, G. S. Was, “Composition and Morphology of the Oxide Film Formed on 316L Stainless Steel During In-situ Proton Irradiation in PWR Conditions,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773- 19-3 (2015) M. Wang, M. Song, D. Woodley, G. S. Was, “Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior of Age Hardened Nickel Based Alloys 625Plus and 725 in Boiling Water Reactor Environment,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) S. S. Hwang, Y. S. Lim, S. W. Kim, M. J. Choi, H. H. Jin, G. S. Was, O. Toader, “IASCC Behavior of Proton-Irradiated Type 316 Stainless Steels in Simulated PWR Water,” 17th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, CN, ISBN: 978-1-926773-19-3 (2015) O. Toader, F. Naab, P. Roy, T. Kubley, A. Flick, Z. Jiao, S. Dwaraknath, E. Getto, A. M. Monterrosa, S. Raiman, S. Taller, P, Wang, G. S. Was, “MIBL: A New Multi-ibeam Facility for High Dose Radiation Damage Studies,” 12th International Topical Meeting on the Nuclear Applications of Accelerators, 10–13 November 2015, Washington, DC. A. M. Monterrosa, Z. Jiao, G. S. Was, “Effect of He Pre-implantation on Void Nucleation and Growth in HT9,” 12th International Topical Meeting on the Nuclear Applications of Accelerators, 10–13 November 2015, Washington, DC.

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E. Getto, Z. Jiao, K. Sun, G. S. Was, “Role of Alloy Variation on Microstructural Evolution of Ferritic Martensitic Steels under Self Ion Irradiation,” 12th International Topical Meeting on the Nuclear Applications of Accelerators, 10–13 November 2015, Washington, DC. S. Taller, S. Dwaraknath, G. S. Was, “Modeling and Measurement of Simultaneous Heavy and Light Ion Beam Injection,” 12th International Topical Meeting on the Nuclear Applications of Accelerators, 10–13 November 2015, Washington, DC. D. Xu, G. VanCoervering, B. D. Wirth, G. S. Was, “On the Possibility of Matching Defect Evolution Across Different Irradiation Conditions,” International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials – 17, October 12-16, 2015, Aachen, Germany. D. Xu, G. VanCoervering, B. D. Wirth, G. S. Was, “On the Possibility of Matching Defect Evolution Across Different Irradiation Conditions,” International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials – 17, October 12-16, 2015, Aachen, Germany. Z. Jiao, E. Getto, S. Taller, D. Kaoumi, G. S. Was, “Self-Ion Irradiation of He-Preimplanted and co-Implanted F-M Alloy T91,” International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials – 17, October 12-16, 2015, Aachen, Germany. G. S. Was, Z. Jiao, E. GEtto, A. M. Moneterrosa, M. Hackett, “Very High Dose Swelling and Phase Stability in Ion Irradiated F-M Alloys,’ International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials – 17, October 12-16, 2015, Aachen, Germany. O. Toader, F. Naab, P. Roy, T. Kubley, A. Flick, Z. Jiao, S. Dwaraknath, E. Getto, A. M. Monterrosa, S. Raiman, S. Taller, P, Wang, G. S. Was, “MIBL: A New Multi-ibeam Facility for High Dose Radiation Damage Studies,” International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials – 17, October 12-16, 2015, Aachen, Germany. B. Kuhr, D. Farkas, D. Johnson, G. S. Was, I. M. Robertson, “Stress Localization due to Dislocation-Grain Boundary Interaction in FCC Polycrystals,” MRS, Fall 2015 meeting, Boston MA. A. M. Monterrosa, E. Getto, Z. Jiao, G. S. Was, “Incubation Dose for Void Swelling in Ferritic-Martensitic Steels, TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. C. Xu, G. S. Was, “Low Dose Proton Irradiation Creep of F-M Steel T91,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. J. P. Wharry, A. M. Monterrosa, G. S. Was, “Radiation-Induced Segregation at High Doses in Self-Ion Irradiated F/M Alloys,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. Z. Jiao, E. Beckett, A. M. Monterrosa, K. Sun, G. S. Was, M. Hackett, “Precipitation of Evolution in HT9 at High Dose,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. J. Hesterbert, Z. Jiao, M. Guesev, Y. Chen, J. Busby, E. Marquis, G. S. Was, “Post- irradiation Annealing of a BWR-irradiated 304L Stainless Steel and Resultant Mitigation of IASCC Susceptibility,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015.

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K. Stephenson, G. S. Was, “The Role of Localized Deformation in IASCC Initiation of Neutron Irradiated Austenitic Stainless Steel,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. E. Getto, Z. Jiao, K. Sun, G. S. Was, “Role of Alloy Variation on Swelling Behavior in Self- Ion Irradiated Ferritic-Martensitic Steel,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. M. McMurtrey, G. Was, D. Farkas, I. Robertson, “The Role of the Interactions of Dislocation Channels with Grain Boundaries in Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking Mechanism,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. P. Wang, G. S. Was, S. Raiman, “Oxidation of Zircaloy-4 in Simulated PWR Environments During In-situ Proton Corrosion Irradiation,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. S. Dwaraknath, G. S. Was, “Irradiation Effects on Fission Product Diffusion in SiC,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. S. Raiman, P. Wang, D. Bartels, G. S. Was, “Corrosion of 316L Stainless Sgeel in Primary Water during In-Situ Proton or Electron Irradiation,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. S. Taller, Z. Jiao, G. S. Was, “Effects of Co-Injected Helium on the Irradiated Microstructure in Ion-Irradiated T91 Steel,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15- 19, 2015. X. Wang, G. S. Was, L. M. Wang, “Void Swelling in High Dose Ion Irradiated RAFM Steels CNS,” TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 15-19, 2015. “An atomistic description of mechanical relaxations in glasses,” Nonlinear Physics Seminar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 20 May, 2015.

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PLASMAS AND FUSION Journal Articles D. S. MONTGOMERY, B. J. ALBRIGHT, D. H. Barnak, P. Y. Chang, J. R. Davies, G. Fiksel, D. H. Froula, J. L. Kline, M. J. MacDonald, A. B. Sefkow, L. YIN, and R. Betti, “Use of external magnetic fields in hohlraum plasmas to improve laser-coupling,” Physics of Plasmas, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 010703, Jan. 2015. G. Fiksel, A. Agliata, D. Barnak, G. Brent, P. Y. Chang, L. Folnsbee, G. Gates, D. Hasset, D. Lonobile, J. Magoon, D. Mastrosimone, M. J. Shoup III, and R. Betti, “Note: Experimental platform for magnetized high-energy-density plasma studies at the omega laser facility,” Review Of Scientific Instruments, vol. 86, no. 1, p. 016105, Jan. 2015. J. R. Davies, R. Betti, P. Y. Chang, and G. Fiksel, “The importance of electrothermal terms in Ohm's law for magnetized spherical implosions,” Physics of Plasmas (1994-present), vol. 22, no. 11, p. 112703, Nov. 2015. A. J. Harvey-Thompson, A. B. Sefkow, T. N. Nagayama, M. S. Wei, E. M. Campbell, G. Fiksel, P. Y. Chang, J. R. Davies, D. H. Barnak, V. Y. Glebov, P. Fitzsimmons, J. Fooks, and B. E. Blue, “Diagnosing laser-preheated magnetized plasmas relevant to magnetizedliner inertial fusion,” pp. 1–13, Dec. 2015. Garcia, M., Gucker, S., and Foster, J.E., “Characterization of self-generated steam bubble discharge,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 48, 1, 2015. Foster, J.E., Gucker, S., and Sommers, B., “The science and emerging technology of plasma-based water purification: vistas of the future,” Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 54, 01AF05, 2015. Gucker, S.N., Foster, J.E., and Garcia, M.C., “ An investigation of an underwater steam plasma discharge as an alternative to air plasmas for water purification, “ Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Vol. 24, 055005,2015. L. Willingale, S. R. Nagel, A. G. R. Thomas, C. Bellei, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, R. Heathcote, M. C. Kaluza, C. Kamperidis, S. Kneip, K. Krushelnick, N. Lopes, S. P. D. Mangles, W. Nazarov, P. M. Nilson and Z. Najmudin. “Characterization of laser-driven proton beams from near-critical density targets using copper activation”, Journal of Plasma Physics 81, 365810102 (2015). Zhaohan He, Bixue Hou, Vivien Lebailly, John Nees, K. Krushelnick, and Alexander Thomas, “Coherent control of plasma dynamics”, Nature Communications 6, 7156 (2015). Di Stefano, C. A., Kuranz, C. C., Seely, J. F., Thomas, A. G. R., Drake, R. P., Keiter, P. A., ... Westover, B. (2015). Measurements of the energy spectrum of electrons emanating from solid materials irradiated by a picosecond laser. Physics of Plasmas, 22(4), [043113]. DOI: 10.1063/1.4917325 G. Sarri Gianluca Sarri, Kristjan Poder, Jason Cole, Will Schumaker, Antonino Di Piazza, Brian Reville, Domenico Doria, Leonida Gizzi, Gabriele Grittani, Christoph Keitel, K. Krushelnick, Stephan Kuschel, Stuart Mangles, Zulfikar Najmudin, Nitin Shukla, Luis Silva, Dan Symes, Alexander Thomas, Mike Vargas,

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Jorge Vieira, M Zepf, and Thomas Dzelzainis “Generation of neutral and high-density electron-positron pair plasmas in the laboratory” Nature Communications 6, 6747 (2015). Zhaohan He, Bixue Hou, Gan Gao, Vivien Lebailly, John A. Nees, Roy Clarke, Karl Krushelnick, and Alexander Thomas "Coherent control of plasma dynamics by feedback-optimized wavefront manipulation” Physics of Plasmas 22, 056704( 2015) (invited paper at APS-DPP 2014). Eric Welch, Peng Zhang, Franklin Dollar, Zhaohan He, Karl Krushelnick, and Alexander Thomas"Time Dependent Doppler Shifts in High-Order Harmonic Generation in Intense Laser Interactions with Solid Density Plasma and Frequency Chirped Pulses." Physics of Plasmas 22, 053104 (2015). T. Batson, J. Nees, B. Hou, A. G. R. Thomas, K. Krushelnick, “High Repetition Rate Relativistic Electron Beam Generation from Intense Laser Solid Interactions”, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons, and Ions III and Medical Applications of Laser-Generated Beams of Particles III, APR 13-15, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic 9514, 95141F. A. Raymond, A. McKelvey, C. Zulick, A. Maksimchuk, A.G.R. Thomas, L.Willingale, V. Chykov, V. Yanovsky, K. Krushelnick, “X-Ray imaging of ultrafast magnetic reconnection driven by relativistic electrons”, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons, and Ions III and Medical Applications of Laser-Generated Beams of Particles III, APR 13-15, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic 9514, 951410. G. Sarri, D. J. Corvan, J. M. Cole, W. Schumaker, A. Di Piazza, H. Ahmed, M. Yeung, Z. Zhao, C. Harvey, C. H. Keitel, K. Krushelnick, S. P. D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin, A. G. R. Thomas, M. Zepf, “Laser- driven Thomson scattering for the generation of ultra-bright multi-MeV gamma-ray beams”, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons, and Ions III and Medical Applications of Laser-Generated Beams of Particles III, APR 13-15, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic 9514, 95140W. D. M. H. Hung, I. M. Rittersdorf, P. Zhang, D. Chernin, Y. Y. Lau, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., J. W. Luginsland, D. H. Simon, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Absolute instability near the band edge of traveling wave amplifiers,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 124801 (2015). M. R. Weis, P. Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, P. F. Schmit, K. J. Peterson, M. Hess, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Coupling of sausage, kink, and magneto- Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in a cylindrical liner,” Phys. Plasmas 22, 032706 (2015). P. Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Analysis of current crowding in thin film contacts from exact field solutions,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 48, 475501 (2015). K. L. Jensen, D. A. Shiffler, I. M. Rittersdorf, J. L. Lebowitz, J. R. Harris, Y. Y. Lau, J. J. Petillo, W. Tang, and J. W. Luginsland, “Discrete space charge affected field emission: Flat and hemisphere emitters,” J. Appl. Phys. 117, 194902 (2015). C. F. Dong, P. Zhang, D. Chernin, Y. Y. Lau, B. W. Hoff, D. H. Simon, P. Wong, G. B. Greening, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Harmonic content in the beam current in a traveling-wave tube,” IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 62, 4285 (2015). D. H. Simon, Y. Y. Lau, G. Greening, P. Wong, B. W. Hoff, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Stability of Brillouin flow

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in planar, conventional, and inverted magnetrons,” Phys. Plasmas 22, 082104 (2015). D. A. Yager-Elorriaga, A. M. Steiner, S. G. Patel, N. M. Jordan, Y. Y. Lau, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Technique for fabrication of ultrathin foils in cylindrical geometry for liner-plasma implosion experiments with sub-megaampere currents,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 86, 113506 (2015). M. A. Franzi, G. B. Greening, N. M. Jordan, R. M. Gilgenbach, D. H. Simon, Y. Y. Lau, B. W. Hoff, and J. W. Luginsland, “Microwave power and phase measurements on a recirculating planar magnetron,” IEEE Trans. Plasma Science 43, 1675 (2015). Zhang, “Scaling for quantum tunneling current in nano- and subnano-scale plasmonic junctions”, Sci. Rep., 5, 9826 (2015). Zhang, and A. G. R. Thomas, “Enhancement of high-order harmonic generation in intense laser interactions with solid density plasma by multiple reflections and harmonic amplification”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 131102 (2015). Peng Zhang, L. K. Ang, and A. Gover, “Enhancement of coherent Smith-Purcell radiation at terahertz frequency by optimized grating, prebunched beams, and open cavity”, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams, 18, 020702 (2015). Y. L. Liu, Peng Zhang, S. H. Chen, and L. K. Ang, “Maximal charge injection of a uniform separated electron pulse train in a drift space”, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams, 18, 123402 (2015). Y. L. Liu, Peng Zhang, S. H. Chen, and L. K. Ang, “Maximal charge injection of consecutive electron pulses with uniform temporal pulse separation”, Phys. Plasmas, 22, 084504 (2015). Peng Zhang, C. P. Ridgers and A. G. R. Thomas, “The effect of nonlinear quantum electrodynamics on relativistic transparency and laser absorption in ultra-relativistic plasmas”, New J. Phys. 17, 043051 (2015). D. H. Simon, D. Chernin, P. Wong, Peng Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, C. F. Dong, B. Hoff, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “How Accurate Is Pierce's Theory of Traveling Wave Tube?”, GO8.00003, 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (November 16–20, 2015, Savannah, Georgia, USA). [Oral] M. Weis, K. Peterson, M. Hess, Y. Y. Lau, Peng Zhang, and R.M. Gilgenbach, “Impact of Inner Surface Perturbations on the Stability of Cylindrical Liner Implosion”, JO6.00005, 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (November 16–20, 2015, Savannah, Georgia, USA). [Oral] P. Y. Wong, B. Hoff, D. H. Simon, D. Chernin, Peng Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Spatial Amplification in a Disk-on-Rod Traveling-Wave Amplifier”, 6th Annual MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium (October 7, 2015, Ann Arbor, MI, USA). [Poster] D. A. Yager-Elorriaga, A.M. Steiner, S. G. Patel, N. M. Jordan, M. R. Weis, Peng Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Ultrathin Liner-Plasma Implosion Experiments on a sub-MA Current Generator”, 6th Annual MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium (October 7, 2015, Ann Arbor, MI, USA). [Poster]

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C. P. Ridgers, J. G. Kirk, T. G. Blackburn, C. S. Brady, Peng Zhang, A. Thomas, and A. R. Bell, “Exploring the QED-Plasma Regime Reached in 10 PW Laser-Matter Interactions”, 24th Annual International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'15, August 21-25, 2015, Shanghai, China). M. R. Weis, Peng Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, R. M. Gilgenbach, P. F. Schmit, K. J. Peterson, M. H. Hess, “Theoretical and Numerical Study of MHD Instabilities in Planar and Cylindrical Pulsed Power”, The Third International Workshop on Radiation from High Energy Density Plasmas (RHEDP2015), June 06-June 12, 2015, South Lake Tahoe, NV, USA. [Oral] Peng Zhang, L. K. Ang, A. Gover, Y. Y. Lau, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Enhancement of Coherent Smith-Purcell radiation at THz frequency”, 16th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (April 2015, Beijing, China). [Oral] Peng Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Comparison of Horizontal and Vertical Thin Film Contact”, 16th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (April 2015, Beijing, China). [Oral] D. Hung, I. M. Rittersdorf, Y. Y. Lau, Peng Zhang, T. A. Antonsen, Jr., D. Chernin, D. H. Simon, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Absolute instability in linear beam traveling wave amplifiers”, 16th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (April 2015, Beijing, China). [Poster] Y. L. Liu, Peng Zhang, S. H. Chen, and L. K. Ang, “Maximal charge injection of consecutive electron pulses with uniform pulse separation”, 16th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (April 2015, Beijing, China). [Poster] Y. Y. Lau, Peng Zhang, and D. Hung, “Modeling of ballistic diode based on asymmetric geometry”, The 2015 EMN East Meeting (Energy Material Nanotechnology) (April 2015, Beijing, China). [Oral] Conference Papers and Presentations Kovach, Y. and Foster, J.E., “The Effect of Anode Material and Secondary Gas Injection on Self-organized Patterns in Atmospheric Pressure Glows,” 68th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference/9th International Conference on Reactive Plasma, 33rd Symposium on Plasma Processing, Vol. 60, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 12-16, 2015. Lai, J., and Foster, J.E., “Active interrogation of plasma-liquid~boundary using 2D plasma-in-liquid apparatus,” 68th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference/9th International Conference on Reactive Plasma, 33rd Symposium on Plasma Processing, Vol. 60, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 12-16, 2015. Mujovic, S., and Foster, J.E., “The Time Evolution of Streamer Discharges in Single and Multiple Bubbles in Water,” 68th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference/9th International Conference on Reactive Plasma, 33rd Symposium on Plasma Processing, Vol. 60, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 12-16, 2015. Arthur, N. and Foster,J.E.,“ Increasing Extracted Beam Current Density in Ion Thrusters through Plasma Potential Modification,” 68th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference/9th International Conference on Reactive Plasma, 33rd Symposium on Plasma Processing, Vol. 60, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 12-16, 2015.

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Foster, J.E., Kovach, Y., Arthur, N., Viges, E., and Davis, C., “Energetic ion production in high current hollow cathodes,” 68th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference/9th International Conference on Reactive Plasma, 33rd Symposium on Plasma Processing, Vol. 60, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 12-16, 2015. Arthur, N.A. and Foster, J.E., “Increasing the Traditional Child-Langmuir Limited Current Density in Ion Thrusters through Plasma Potential Modification,” Proceedings of the 34th International Electric Propulsion Conference and 6th Nano-satellite Symposium, “ IEPC Paper 2015-381, 2015. Foster, J.E., Arthur, N., Patterson, M.J., Young, J.A., and Crofton, M.W., “Characterization of discharge uniformity and performance via stimulated beam extraction of a 65 cm annular ion engine,” Proceedings of the 51st AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference, Orlando Florida,AIAA Paper 2015-3721, 2015. Thomas, R., Patterson, M.J., Crofton, M.W., Young, J.A. and Foster, J.E., “Advancements in the demonstration of high thrust to power ion thruster technology,” Proceedings of the 51st AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference, Orlando Florida, AIAA Paper 2015-3721, 2015. Patterson, M.J., Thomas, R.T., Crofton, M.W., Young, J.A., and Foster, J.E., “High Thrust to Power Annular Engine Technology,” AIAA Paper 2015-3719, Proceedings of the 51st AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference, Orlando Florida, 2015. Garcia, M.C., Gucker, S.N., and Foster, J.E., “Time resolved study of a self generated steam bubble discharge,”Proceedings of the Bioplamas and Plasmas with Liquids Joint conference of COST Actions TD1208, Bertinoro, Italy, 13-16 September, 2015. (invited talk) Foster, J.E., “Understanding the nature of the plasma liquid interface: a pathway to the elucidation of plasma induced effects on living cells,”22nd International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry/ Workshop on plasma mediated effects in biological systems, Antwerp, Belguim, July 5-July 10, 2015. Foster, J.E., “ Initial Results of 2-D bubble study,” DOE PSC Review, College Park MD June 2015. Zhaohan He, Bixue Hou, Gan Gao, Vivien Lebailly, John A. Nees, Roy Clarke, Karl Krushelnick, and Alexander Thomas, “Coherent control of laser-generated plasma wakefield by feedback-optimized wavefront manipulation” (invited); Papers at the American Physical Society annual meeting in Savannah, Georgia, Bulletin of the American Physical Society 2015. F.N. Beg, C. Mcguffey, A. Raymond, T. Batson, J. Kim, R. Hua, C. Krauland, A. Maksimchuk, G. Petrov, V. Yanovsky, A. Thomas, K. Krushelnick, “Acceleration of energetic ions using 40 femtosecond laser pulses and ultrathin targets”. Paul Campbell, P.R. Kordell, M. LeDuc, A. Maksimchuk, K. Krushelnick, L. Willingale, “Tabletop laser driven shock-ion acceleration in near-critical plasmas”. Karl Krushelnick, Thomas Batson, Andrew McKelvey, Anthony Raymond, Alec Thomas, Victor Yanovsky, John Nees, Anatoly Maksimchuk, “Development of short pulse laser driven micro-hohlraums as a source of EUV radiation”.

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Thomas Batson, Anthony Raymond, Karl Krushelnick, Louise Willingale, Phil Nilson, Dustin Froula, Dan Haberberger, Andrew Davies, Wolfgang Theobald, Jackson Williams, Hui Chen, Alex Arefiev, “High Energy Electron Acceleration from Underdense Plasmas with the OMEGA EP Laser”. Peter Kordell, Paul Campbell, Louise Willingale, Anatoly Maksimchuk, Karl Krushelnick, Eleanor Tubman, Nigel Woolsey, “Proton Probing using the T-Cubed Laser”. Zhaohan He, John Nees, Bixue Hou, Karl Krushelnick, Alec Thomas, “Ultrafast probing of transient electric fields from optical field ionized plasmas using picosecond electron deflectometry”. Anthony Raymond, Andrew McKelvey, Calvin Zulick, Dong Chuanfei, Anatoly Maksimchuk, Alexander Thomas, Victor Yanovsky, Karl Krushelnick, Louise Willingale, Vladimir Chykov, Phil Nilson, Hui Chen, Gerald Williams, Amitava Bhattacharjee, Will Fox, “Measurements of Fast Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Relativistic Electrons”. Chuanfei Dong, Alexander Thomas, Paul Cummings, Karl Krushelnick, “Enhanced X-ray radiation from laser wakefield acceleration transition to plasma wakefield acceleration”. Keegan Behm, Tony Zhao, Anatoly Maksimchuk, Victor Yanovsky, John Nees, Stuart Mangles, Karl Krushelnick, Alexander Thomas, “Femtosecond probing around the K-edge of a laser heated plasma using X-rays from betatron oscillations in a laser wakefield accelerator”. Zhen Zhao, Keegan Behm, Anatoly Maksimchuk, John Nees, Victor Yanovsky, Alexander Thomas, Karl Krushelnick, “Characterization of Electrons and X-rays Produced using Asymmetric Laser Pulses in the Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Acceleration Regime”. George Petrov, Christopher McGuffey, Alec Thomas, Karl Krushelnick, Farhat Beg, “Proton acceleration from short pulse lasers interacting with ultrathin foil”. Jungmoo Hah, Zhaohan He, John Nees, Karl Krushelnick, Alexander Thomas, “A high repetition rate laser-heavy water based neutron source”. N. Jordan, G. Greening, S. Exelby, R. Gilgenbach, Y. Lau, B. Hoff, “3-D Printed High Power Microwave Magnetrons”, 15th APS-DPP, Savannah, GA, November 2015. N.M. Jordan, S.G. Patel, D.A. Yager-Elorriaga, A.M. Steiner, Y.Y. Lau and R.M. Gilgenbach, “Z-Pinch Plasma Instability Experiments on the UM Linear Transformer Driver”, ICOPS 2015, Antalya, Turkey, May 2015. S. Exelby, G. Greening, N. Jordan, D. Simon, P. Zhang, Y.Y. Lau, R. Gilgenbach, “Harmonic Generation in the Multifrequency Recirculating Planar Magnetron”, 15th APS-DPP, Savannah, GA, November 2015. N.M. Jordan, S.G. Patel, D.A. Yager-Elorriaga, A.M. Steiner, Y.Y. Lau, R.M. Gilgenbach, P. Zhang, M. Weis, A. Safronova, V. Kantsyrev, I. Shrestha, M.E. Weller, V.V. Shlyaptseva, M. Cooper, “Recent Experiments on the UM Linear Transformer Driver”, Radiation from High Energy Density Plasmas Workshop, South Lake Tahoe, NV, June 2015. [Invited]

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M.Y. Lorance, A. Stafford, A.S. Safronova, V.L. Kantsyreve, I.K. Shrestha, V.V. Shlyaptseva, M. Schmidt-Peterson, M.C. Cooper, A.M. Steiner, D.A. Yager-Elorriaga, N.M. Jordan, R.M. Gilgenbach, “Spectroscopic Modeling of Radiation from Stainless Steel Double Planar Wire Array Experiments on the LTD Generator at U Michigan” Annual Meeting of the Far West Section of the APS, Long Beach, CA, October 2015. I. Shrestha, V.L. Kantsyrev, A.S. Safronova, M.E. Weller, V.V. Shlyaptseva, A. Stafford, M. Cooper, M. Lorance, M. Schmidt-Petersen, S. G. Patel, A. M. Steiner, D.A. Yager-Elorriaga, N.M. Jordan, and R.M. Gilgenbach, “Planar Wire Arrays Experiments on Low Impedance Linear Transformer Driver at University of Michigan”, Radiation from High Energy Density Plasmas Workshop, South Lake Tahoe, NV, June 2015. D.A. Yager-Elorriaga, A.M. Steiner, S.G. Patel, N.M. Jordan, R.M. Gilgenbach, Y.Y. Lau, M.R. Weis, and P. Zhang, “Sausage, Kink, and Magneto Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities on Initially-Solid, Imploding and Exploding Cylindrical Liner Plasmas”, Radiation from High Energy Density Plasmas Workshop, South Lake Tahoe, NV, June 2015. Steiner, A.M., Yager-Elorriaga, D.A., Patel, S.G., Jordan, N.M., Gilgenbach, R.M., Lau, Y.Y., “Experimental Investigation of the Electrothermal Instability on Thin, Metal Liner Ablation”, Radiation from High Energy Density Plasmas Workshop, South Lake Tahoe, NV, June 2015. Radiation from High Energy Density Plasmas Workshop, South Lake Tahoe, NV, June 2015. Steiner, A.M., Patel, S.G., Yager-Elorriaga, D.A., Jordan, N.M., Gilgenbach, R.M., Lau, Y.Y., “Characterization of a MA-Class Linear Transformer Driver for Ablation Plasma and Z-Pinch Experiments”, Pulsed Power Conference, Austin, TX, June 2015. S.C. Exelby, G.B. Greening, N.M. Jordan, D. Simon, P. Zhang, Y.Y. Lau, and R.M. Gilgenbach, “Innovative Recirculating Planar Magnetron Experiments”, Pulsed Power Conference, Austin, TX, June 2015. Greening, G., Jordan, N., Exelby, S., Gilgenbach, R., Simon, D., and Lau, Y.Y., “Experimental Progress on a Prototype Multi-Frequency Recirculating Planar Magnetron”, ICOPS 2015, Antalya, Turkey, May 2015. D.A. Yager-Elorriaga, S.G. Patel, A.M. Steiner, N.M. Jordan, Y.Y. Lau, and R.M. Gilgenbach, “Experimental Investigation of the Effects of an Axial Magnetic Field on the Magneto Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Ablating Planar Foils”, ICOPS 2015, Antalya, Turkey, May 2015. G. B. Greening, N. M. Jordan, S. C. Exelby, R. M. Gilgenbach, D. Simon, and Y. Y. Lau, Experimental Microwave Power Extraction in the “Multi-Frequency Recirculating Planar Magnetron”, IVEC 2015, China, April 2015. Greening, G., Jordan, N., Exelby, S., Gilgenbach, R., Simon, D., and Lau, Y.Y., “Advancements in the Multi-Frequency Recirculating Planar Magnetron”, DEPS Annual Symposium, Anaheim, CA, March 2015. Peng Zhang, “Ultrafast and nanoscale interfacial charge transport and its interaction with electromagnetic waves”, Town Hall Meeting, Frontiers of Plasma Science Workshops, DoE Office of Fusion Energy Science (OFES), Sec. 9, paper No. 9, July 1, 2015, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. [Invited Talk] Peng Zhang, “Modeling of current crowding and contact resistance at interfaces between dissimilar materials”, The 2015 EMN East Meeting (Energy Material Nanotechnology) (April 2015, Beijing, China). [Invited Talk]

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Peng Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, L. K. Ang, D. Shiffler, K. L. Jensen, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “An Exact Formulation of Laser Assisted Electron Emission on a Biased Metal Surface”, GO8.00001, 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (November 16–20, 2015, Savannah, Georgia, USA). [Oral] Y. Y. Lau, Peng Zhang, and R.M. Gilgenbach, “On the Interfacial Tunneling Current in Nanoscale Plasmonic Junctions”, GO8.00002, 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (November 16–20, 2015, Savannah, Georgia, USA). [Oral] Peng Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, J. W. Luginsland, and R.M. Gilgenbach, “Electron Transport and Tunneling Resistance between Carbon Nanotube Fibers”, YP12.00026, 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (November 16–20, 2015, Savannah, Georgia, USA). [Poster] C. F. Dong, Peng Zhang, D. Chernin, Y. Y. Lau, D. H. Simon, P. Wong, G. Greening, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Theory of Harmonic Generation on a Traveling Wave Tube”, GO8.00004, 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (November 16–20, 2015, Savannah, Georgia, USA). [Oral] D. A. Yager-Elorriaga, A. M. Steiner, S. G. Patel, N. M. Jordan, R. M. Gilgenbach, Y. Y. Lau, M. R. Weis, and Peng Zhang, “Magneto Rayleigh-Taylor, Sausage, and Kink Instability Experiments on a MegaAmpere Linear Transformer Driver”, CP12.00154, 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (November 16–20, 2015, Savannah, Georgia, USA). [Poster] J. Lin, and Peng Zhang, “Field Distribution in a Vacuum-nano Diode”, 6th Annual MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium (October 7, 2015, Ann Arbor, MI, USA). [Poster] Peng Zhang, C. F. Dong, D. Chernin, Y. Y. Lau, B. Hoff, D. H. Simon, P. Wong, G. Greening, and R. M. Gilgenbach, “Harmonic Generation in the Beam Current in a Traveling Wave Tube”, 6th Annual MIPSE Graduate Student Symposium (October 7, 2015, Ann Arbor, MI, USA). [Poster] Peng Zhang, M. R. Weis, Y. Y. Lau, R. M. Gilgenbach, P. F. Schmit, K. J. Peterson, M. H. Hess, “Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor, Sausage, and Kink Instabilities in Cylindrical Liners”, PPC-O-14-6, the 20th IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) and the 26th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), May 31-June 4, 2015, Austin, Texas, USA. [Oral] M. R. Weis, Peng Zhang, Y. Y. Lau, R. M. Gilgenbach, K. J. Peterson, M. H. Hess, “Stability of the Fuel/Liner Interface in Magnetized Liner Implosions”, PPC-O-14-5, the 20th IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) and the 26th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), May 31-June 4, 2015, Austin, Texas, USA. [Oral]

RADIATION MEASUREMENTS AND IMAGING Books and Chapters in Books West, W. G., Kearfott, K. J., " Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dosimetry: An Introduction", in Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors and Their Applications, edited by Hardev Singh Virk, Solid State Phenomena Vol. 238, Trans Tech Publications, ISBN-13: 978-3-03835-527-4, pp. 161-173,

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2015. Journal Articles M. McCleskey, W. Kaye, D.S. Mackin, S. Beddar, Z. He, J.C. Polf “Evaluation of a multistage CdZnTe Compton camera for prompt gamma imaging for proton therapy,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 785 (2015) 163 – 169. Christopher G. Wahl, Willy R. Kaye, Weiyi Wang, Feng Zhang, Jason M. Jaworski, Alexis King, Y. Andy Boucher and Zhong He “The Polaris-H Imaging Spectrometer” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 784 (2015) 377 – 381. W. Koehler, Z. He, S. O’Neal, H. Yang, H. Kim, L. Cirignano, K. Shah, “Quantification of the Conditioning Phase in Cooled Pixelated TlBr Detectors“, IEEE Tran. On Nucl. Sci., vol. 62, pp. 1785-1790, 2015. Kearfott, K. J., Whetstone, Z. D., Rafique, M., “Use of Geographic Information System (GIS) for Targeting Radon Screening Programs in South Dakota”, Journal of Radiation Research 56(5): 1- 6, 2015. Kearfott, K. J., Newton, J. P., Rafique, M. K., "Sorting a Large Set of Heavily Used LiF:Mg,Ti Thermoluminescent Detectors into Repeatable Subsets of Similar Response", Applied Radiation and Isotopes 95:180-187, 2015. DOI 10.1016/j.apradiso.2014.10.019 Harvey J. A., Kearfott, K. J., Rafique, M., "Dose Response Linearity and Practical Factors Influencing Minimum Detectable Dose for Various Thermoluminescent Detector Types", Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 303:1711-1718, 2015. DOI 10.1007/s10967-014-3794-6 Lehnert, A. L., Kearfott, K. J., "A Flag-based Algorithm and Associated Neutron Interrogation System for the Detection of Explosives in Sea-land Cargo Containers", Radiation Physics and Chemistry 112: 13-21, 2015. DOI 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.02.026 Whetstone, Z. D., Kearfott, K. J., "A Method for Using Neutron Elastic Scatter to Create a Variable Neutron Beam from a Monoenergetic Neutron Source", Radiation Physics and Chemistry 112: 22-28, 2015. DOI 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.03.002 Kearfott, K. J., Noon, E. P., Rafique, M., "Doses to LiF:Ti,Mg Chips Encapsulated in Plastic Extremity Rings as a Result of Radon Gas Exposure", Journal of Radiological Protection 35(2): 265-270, 2015. DOI 10.1088/0952-4746/35/2/265 Rafique, M., Mirza, N. M., Mirza, S. M., Kearfott, K. J., Abbasi, S. A., Naeem, S. F., "Parametric Study of Time-Dependent Activity Buildup due to 56Mn, 58Co and 60Co in the Primary Coolant Circuit of a Typical Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)", Journal of Chemistry, Volume 2015, Article ID 809672, 10 pp., accepted January 15, 2015. [online only] DOI 10.1155/2015/809672

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Kearfott, K. J., West, W. G., Rafique, M. K., "The Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Properties LiF:Mg,Ti, Li2B4O7:Cu, CaSO4:Tm and CaF2:Mn Thermoluminescent Materials", Applied Radiation and Isotopes 99(3): 155-161, 2015. DOI 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.03.004 Kearfott, K. J., West, W. G., "An Affordable Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeter Reader Utilizing Multiple Excitation Wavelengths", Applied Radiation and Isotopes 104: 87-99, 2015. DOI 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.06.002 Tan, Y., Ishikawa, T., Janik, M., Tokonami, S., Hosoda, M., Sorimachi, A., Kearfott, K. J., “Novel Method for Estimation of the Indoor-to-Outdoor Airborne Radioactivity Ratio Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident”, Science of the Total Environment, 536: 25-30, 2015. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.034 Xie, D., Liao, M., Kearfott, K. J., “Influence of Environmental Factors on Indoor Radon Concentration Levels in the Basement and First Floor of a Building - A Case Study”, Radiation Measurements 82: 52-58, 2015. DOI 10.1016/j.radmeas.2015.08.008 Lehnert, A. L., Kearfott, K. J., “Evaluation of a Flag-Based Explosives Detection Algorithm Based on Active Neutron Interrogation for Use in Sea-Land Cargo Containers”, submitted to Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, published online May 26, 2015. DOI 10.1007/s10967-015-4187-1 Shafique, B., Kearfott, K. J., Tareen, A. D. K., Rafique, M., Aziz, W., Naeem, S. F., "Time Series Analysis and Risk Assessment of Domestic Radon: Data Collected along Fault Line of Dwellings", Indoor and Built Environment, vol 25(2):397-406, 2016. (accepted 2014) DOI 10.1177/1420326X14553999 Tan, Y., Xiao, D., Zhou, Q., Tang, Q., Shan, J., Kearfott, K. J., "A Simple Design Concept for Elimination of the Impact of Humidity on Radon Measurements using Electrostatic Collection", Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, (Short Communication) published online August 25, 2015, 6 pp. DOI 10.1007/s00477-015-1148-8 Lehnert, A. L., Rothman, E. D., Kearfott, K. J., “Improvements to an Explosives Detection Algorithm based on Active Neutron Interrogation using Statistical Modeling”, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, accepted Sept. 3, 2015, published online September 14, 2015. M. M. Bourne, S. D. Clarke, N. Adamowicz, S. A. Pozzi, N. Zaitseva, and L. Carman, “Neutron Detection in a High-Gamma Field Using Solution-Grown Stilbene,” Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 806, pp. 348-355, 2015. A. Di Fulvio, T. H. Shin, M. C. Hamel, S. A. Pozzi, “Digital pulse processing for NaI(Tl) detectors,” Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 806, pp. 169-174, 2015.

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M. Ruch, M. Flaska, and S. A. Pozzi, “Pulse shape discrimination performance of stilbene coupled to low-noise silicon photomultiplier tubes,” Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 793, pp. 1-5, 2015. M. G. Paff, M. L. Ruch, A. Poitrasson-Riviere, A. Sagadevan, S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, “Organic Liquid Scintillation Detectors For On-The-Fly Neutron/Gamma Alarming And Radionuclide Identification In A Pedestrian Radiation Portal Monitor,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 789, pp. 16-27, 2015. S. Banerjee, S. Chen, N. Powers, D. Haden, C. Liu, G. Golovin, J. Zhang, B. Zhao, S. Clarke, S. Pozzi, J. Silano, H. Karwowski, D. Umstadter, “Compact Source of Narrowband and Tunable X-rays for Radiography,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, vol. 350, pp. 106-111, 2015. A. Poitrasson-Rivière, J. K. Polack, M. C. Hamel, D. D. Klemm, K. Ito, A. T. McSpaden, M. Flaska, S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, A. Tomanin, and P. Peerani, “Angular-Resolution and Material-Characterization Measurements for a Dual-Particle Imaging System with Mixed-Oxide Fuel,” Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 797, pp. 278-284, 2015. M. Monterial, P. Marleau, S. Clarke, S.A. Pozzi, “Application of Bayes’ theorem for pulse shape discrimination,” Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 795, pp. 318-324, 2015. M. J. Marcath, S.D. Clarke, B.M. Wieger, E. Padovani, E.W. Larsen, S.A. Pozzi, “An Implicit Correlation Method for Cross-Correlation Sampling, with MCNPX-PoliMi Validation,” Nucl. Sci. Eng., vol. 181, No. 1, 2015. J. K. Polack, M. Flaska, A. Enqvist, C. S. Sosa, C. C. Lawrence, S. A. Pozzi, “An Algorithm for Charge-Integration, Pulse-Shape Discrimination and Estimation of Neutron/Photon Misclassification in Organic Scintillators,” Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 795, pp. 253-267, 2015. B. D. Pierson, H. C. Griffin, M. Flaska, J. A. Katalenich, B. B. Kitchen, S. A. Pozzi, Benchmarking the repeatability of a pneumatic cyclic neutron activation analysis facility using 16O(n,p)16N for nuclear forensics, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, vol. 96, February 2015, Pages 20-26. D. L. Chichester, S. J. Thompson, M. T. Kinlaw, J. T. Johnson, J. L. Dolan, M. Flaska, and S. A. Pozzi, “Statistical Estimation of the Performance of a Fast-Neutron Multiplicity System for Nuclear Material Accountancy”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 784, pp. 448-454, 2015. M. F. Becchetti, M. Flaska, S. D. Clarke, and S. A. Pozzi, “Measurements and Simulations of the Cosmic-Ray-Induced Neutron Background”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 777, pp. 1-5, 2015. M. M. Bourne, J. Whaley, J. L. Dolan, M. Flaska, S. D. Clarke, A. Tomanin, P. Peerani, and S. A. Pozzi, “Cross-Correlation Measurements with the EJ-299-33 Plastic Scintillator”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, vol. 784, pp. 460-464, 2015.

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Conference Papers and Presentations Zhong He (Invited), “H3D Technology as a New ALARA Tool for Nuclear Power Plants”, 2016 North American ISOE ALARA Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, January 11 – 14, 2016. Zhong He, CVT Area Thrust Area #3, “Advanced Safeguard Tools for Accessible Facilities”, UITI workshop (DOE NA-22), June 2 – 4, 2015. Zhong He (Invited), Michael Streicher, Yuefeng Zhu and Scott Kiff “Feasibility Study on Fission Neutron Detection Using 3-D CdZnTe Detectors” annual IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X & Gamma-Ray Detectors, San Diego, California, November 2 – 6, 2015 Baihui Yu, Steven Brown, Zhong He and Jianping Cheng, “Application of Chambolle-Pock Algorithm on Penalized Gamma-ray Energy-Imaging Integrated Spectral Deconvolution”, annual IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X & Gamma-Ray Detectors, San Diego, California, November 2 – 6, 2015 A.M. Conway, A.J. Nelson, L.F. Voss, E.L. Swanberg, R. T. Graff, S.A. Payne, H. Kim, L. Cirignano, K. Shah, S. Oneal, W. Koeler, and Z. He “Enhancing TlBr Gamma Spectrometer Performance and Longevity”, annual IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X & Gamma-Ray Detectors, San Diego, California, November 2 – 6, 2015 Jiyang Chu, Jeffrey A. Fessler, Zhong He, “Weighted Filtered Back-Projection in 4π Compton Imaging with 3D Position Sensitive CdZnTe Detectors”, annual IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X & Gamma-Ray Detectors, San Diego, California, November 2 – 6, 2015 W. Koehler, S. O’Neal, Z. He, H. Kim, L. Cirignano and K. Shah “Quantitative investigation of conditioning phase in pixelated TlBr detectors”, annual IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X & Gamma-Ray Detectors, San Diego, California, November 2 – 6, 2015 Michael Streicher, Yuefeng Zhu, and Zhong He, “CdZnTe Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in High Flux Environments Using Digital Pulse Processing Techniques”, annual IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X & Gamma-Ray Detectors, San Diego, California, November 2 – 6, 2015 Sean O’Neal, William Koehler, Zhong He, Hadong Kim, Leonard Cirignano, Kanai Shah, Adam Conway, Erik Swanberg, Lars Voss, Robert Graff, Art Nelson, and Steve Payne “Improvements in Room Temperature Lifetime of Pixelated TlBr Detectors from Surface Etching”, annual IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X & Gamma-Ray Detectors, San Diego, California, November 2 – 6, 2015 Steven T. Brown, Yuefeng Zhu, Zhong He, “Time-Shifted Coded Aperture Imaging Using a CdZnTe Array” Yuefeng Zhu, Steven Brown and Zhong He “Improvements on Coded Aperture Imaging with sub-pixel position resolution”, annual IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and

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Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X & Gamma-Ray Detectors, San Diego, California, November 2 – 6, 2015 Kearfott, K. J., Jawad, A. H., Frank, S. J., Liu, K., “Practical Application of an Imaging Spectrometer in a University Teaching Environment”, Health Phys 109(1):S29, 2015. Kearfott, K. J., “A Unifying Team Project for Teaching Health Physics: A Hypothetical Radiological Dispersive Device”, Health Phys 109(1):S29, 2015. Abraham, S. A., Jawad, A. H., Liu, K., Boria, A. J, Green, C. A., Frank, S. J., Rafique, M., Kearfott, K. J., “Design of Protocol for a Commercially Available Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimetry System”, Health Phys 109(1):S91, 2015. Liu, K., Jawad, A. H., Boria, A. J., Abraham, S. A., Green, C. A., Frank, S. J., Rafique, M., Kearfott, K. J., “Measurement of the Signal Loss for Repeated Readout of Al2O3:C used as an Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeter”, Health Phys 109(1):S91, 2015. Jawad, A. H., Younge, K. C., Miklos, J. A., Kearfott, K. J., “Unusual Behavior of a Vintage Cs- 137 Beam Calibrator”, Health Phys 109(1):S91-92, 2015. Mitschelen, G. C., Heisinger, B. J., Cipriani, S. J., Miller, C. A., Kearfott, K. J., “The Radioactive Boy Scout: A Retrospective Radiation Safety Case Study for a Health Physics Course”, Health Phys 109(1): S3-S4, 2015. Frank, S. J., Rafique, M., Kearfott, K. J., “A System for Continuous Monitoring of Radon Gas for Earthquake Detection and Landfill Monitoring”, Health Phys 109(1):S4, 2015. Tan, Y., Liu, C., Zhou, Q., Dan, J., Tan, Q., Kearfott, K. J., “A Theoretical Model for the Radon Exhalation Rate of Cavity Walls”, Health Phys 109(1):S9, 2015. Cho, D. K., Kearfott, K. J., “Improvement of the Computational Approach to Neutron Flux Estimation at the Ex-core Neutron Facility in Hanaro”, Health Phys 109(1):S17, 2015. Pozzi, S. A., Clarke, S. D., Wehe, D. K., He, Z., Kearfott, K. J., Lee, J. C., Hero, A., Flaska, M., DiFulvio, A., Lanza, R., Kemp, S., Fischer, J., Danagoulian, A., Glaser, A., von Hippel, F., Richards, P., Mattingly, J. K., Garces, M., Jovanovic, I., Carin, L., Wilson, P., Baciak, J., Enqvist, A., Farsoni, A., D'Errico, F., Sullivan, C. J., "Consortium for Verification Technology Research Activities", Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, 56th Annual Meeting, July 12-16, 2015. Clarke, S. D., Pozzi, S. A., Flaska, M., Wehe, D. K., He, Z., Kearfott, K. J., Lee, J. C., Hero, A., Lanza, R., Kemp, S., Fischer, J., Danagoulian, A., Glaser, A., von Hippel, F., Richards, P., Mattingly, J. K., Garces, M., Jovanovic, I., Carin, L., Wilson, P., Baciak, J., Enqvist, A., Farsoni, A., D'Errico, F., Sullivan, C. J., "Education and Outreach Activities within the Consortium for Verification Technology", Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, 56th Annual Meeting, July 12-16, 2015. Liu, K., Jawad, A.H., Boria, A.J., Abraham, S.A., Green, C.A., Frank, S., Rafique, K.M., Kearfott, K. J., "Measurement of the Signal Loss for Repeated Readout of Al2O3:C used as an OSL", University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Symposium (UROP), April 2015.

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Abraham, S.A., Jawad, A.H., Liu, K., Kearfott, K. J., "Design of a Protocol for a Commercially Available Optically Stimulated Luminescent (OSL) Dosimetry System", University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Symposium (UROP), April 2015. Frank, S., Kearfott, K. J., "A System of Continuous Monitoring of Radon Gas for Earthquake Detection", University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Symposium (UROP), April 2015. Jawad, E. H., Kearfott, K. J., "Preliminary Technical Basis for the Design of Interrogation Protocols for Radiation Dose Measurements using Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeters, Great Lakes American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Young Investigator's Symposium, Troy, MI, June 2015. Kearfott, K. J., Frank, S., Buth, T., "Chain of Custody Detectors", 2015 Consortium for Verification Technology Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, October 16, 2015. Frank, S., Kearfott, K. J., "Novel Applications of a Compton Imaging Spectrometer", 2015 Consortium for Verification Technology Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, October 16, 2015. Kearfott, K. J., "Medical and Health Physics", NERS 290 Special Topics for Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, January 2015. Kearfott, K. J., "Radiological Health Engineering: Responding to Challenges", NERS 250 Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, April 2015. Kearfott, K. J., "Women and Confidence", International Women's Day Panel, U. M. Department of Microbiology, April 2015. M. A. Norsworthy, M. M. Bourne, S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, “Time-of-Flight Neutron Spectrum of 239Pu/9Be Source,” Transactions of the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego, CA USA, available online, 2015. M. J. Marcath, A. Di Fulvio, T. H. Shin, S. D. Clarke, E. W. Larsen, E. Padovani, R. C. Haight, S. A. Pozzi, “Prompt Neutron and Gamma-Ray Correlations from Cf-252 Spontaneous Fission,” Transactions of the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego, CA USA, available online, 2015. M. Monterial, P. Marleau, S. A. Pozzi, “Detection and Characterization of Shielded Highly Enriched Uranium under Active Interrogation Through Time Correlation of Fission Events,” Transactions of the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego, CA USA, available online, 2015. M. L. Ruch, J. Nguyen, M. Flaska, S. A. Pozzi, “Time Resolution of Stilbene Coupled to Silicon Photomultipliers for Use in a Handheld Dual Particle Scatter Camera,” Transactions of the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego, CA USA, available online, 2015. T. H. Shin, M. J. Marcath, A. DiFulvio, S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, “Neutron Cross-Talk Characterization of Liquid Organic Scintillators,” Transactions of the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego, CA USA, available online, 2015.

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S. D. Clarke, M. A. Norsworthy, E. A. Pryser, S. A. Pozzi, R. A. Halg, V. A. Bashkirov, R. W. Schulte, M. Pankuch, “Measurement of Neutrons and Photons Produced During Proton Therapy,” Transactions of the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego, CA USA, available online, 2015. M. C. Hamel, A. Poitrasson-Rivière, J. K. Polack, S. D. Clarke, M. Flaksa, S. A. Pozzi, “Stochastic Image Reconstruction for Non-Proliferation Applications,” Transactions of the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego, CA USA, available online, 2015. A. Di Fulvio, S. D. Clarke, T. Jordan, T. Shin, C. Sosa, M. M. Bourne, D. Chichester, S. Pozzi, “Fast Multiplicity Counter Featuring Stilbene Detectors for Nondestructive Assay of Special Nuclear Material,” Transactions of the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego, CA USA, available online, 2015. S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, M. Flaska, D. K. Wehe, Z. He, K. Kearfott, J. C. Lee, A. Hero, R. Lanza, R. S. Kemp, J. Fisher, A. Danagoulian, A. Glaser, F. von Hippel, P. Richards, J. K. Mattingly, M. Garces, I. Jovanovic, L. Carin, P. Wilson, J. Baciak, A. Enqvist, A. Farsoni, F. D’Errico, and C. J. Sullivan. “Education and Outreach Activities within the Consortium for Verification Technology,” in Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management 56th Annual Meeting, Indian Wells, CA, USA, available online, 2015. S. A. Pozzi, S. D. Clarke, M. Flaska, A. Di Fulvio, D. K. Wehe, Z. He, K. Kearfott, J. C. Lee, A. Hero, R. Lanza, R. S. Kemp, J. Fisher, A. Danagoulian, A. Glaser, F. von Hippel, P. Richards, J. K. Mattingly, M. Garces, I. Jovanovic, L. Carin, P. Wilson, J. Baciak, A. Enqvist, A. Farsoni, F. D’Errico, and C. J. Sullivan. “Consortium for Verification Technology Research Activities,” in Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management 56th Annual Meeting, Indian Wells, CA, USA, available online, 2015. J. K. Polack, M. C. Hamel, A. Poitrasson-Riviere, P. Marleau, M. Flaska, S. D. Clarke, and S. A. Pozzi. “Spectrum Isolation in Multi-Source Image Reconstruction using a Dual-Particle Imager,” in Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management 56th Annual Meeting, Indian Wells, CA, USA, available online, 2015. M. Ruch, M. Paff, A. Poitrasson-Riviere, A. Sagadevan, S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, and P. Peerani. “Large volume organic liquid scintillation detectors as a vehicle radiation portal monitor prototype at the 3rd SCINTILLA benchmark campaign,” in Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management 56th Annual Meeting, Indian Wells, CA, USA, available online, 2015. M. M. Bourne, A. Di Fulvio, S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, N. Zaitseva, and S. Payne. “Scalability of Stilbene for Use in Nuclear Nonproliferation Applications,” in Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management 56th Annual Meeting, Indian Wells, CA, USA, available online, 2015. A. Di Fulvio, S. D. Clarke, M. M. Bourne, T. Jordan, C. Sosa, T. Shin, D. Chichester, and S. A. Pozzi. “Fast Neutron Multiplicity Counter Based on Stilbene and EJ-309 Detectors,” in Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management 56th Annual Meeting, Indian Wells, CA, USA, available online, 2015. D. Wehe, Keynote Speaker, 17th meeting on Reactor Physics in the Nordic Countries (RPNC2015) was held in Gothenburg, May 11-12.

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Zhong He, Lawrence E. Hochreiter Distinguished Lecture “Polaris to Orion 3-D CdZnTe Gamma-Neutron Imaging Spectrometers,” The Pennsylvania State University, October 8, 2015 Zhong He, Colloquium presentation “Orion 3-D CdZnTe Gamma-Neutron Imaging Spectrometers,” Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 29, 2015. Zhong He, Seminar in School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi-An, P.R. China, July 22, 2015 Zhong He, Invited Presentation on Polaris/Orion 3-D CdZnTe Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometers, Department of Safeguard, IAEA, Vienna, Austria, October 19, 2015 Zhong He, Invited Presentation on Polaris/Orion 3-D CdZnTe Gamma-Ray Imaging Spectrometers, Section of Radiation Safety and Monitoring, Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, IAEA, Vienna, Austria, October 23, 2015 Patents S. A. Pozzi, S. D. Clarke, M. Flaska, Scintillator-Based Neutron and Gamma Ray Dosimeter, UM Tracking number 6379, November 25, 2014.

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SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY

Member, NERS Curriculum Committee Atzmon Member, MSE Graduate Committee Atzmon Member, NERS Graduate Committee Atzmon Member, MSE Faculty Search Atzmon Member, NERS Executive Committee Atzmon Member, Academic Freedom Lecture Fund Board of Directors and Investment Committee

Atzmon

Member, UM Faculty Senate Assembly Atzmon Member, MSE Internal Review Committee Atzmon Program Advisor, Engineering Physics Atzmon Member, Doctoral Committee for Kevin Fisher, MSE Atzmon Member, Doctoral Committee for Ellen Sitzmann, MSE Atzmon Member, Doctoral Committee for Yan Dong, MSE Atzmon Director, NERS Undergraduate Program Bielajew Coordinator, ABET for NERS Bielajew Chair, Undergraduate Program Committee Bielajew Member, SACUA Library Committee Bielajew Member, Engineering Faculty Library Advisory Committee Bielajew Member, Faculty Committee on Discipline Bielajew Advisor, NERS Undergraduate Students Bielajew Advisory, INMM Student Chapter Clarke Member, Doctoral Committee for Mark Bourne Clarke Member, Doctoral Committee for Marc Paff Clarke Member, Doctoral Committee for Nark Norsworthy Clarke Member, Doctoral Committee for Kyle Polack Clarke Member, Doctoral Committee for Michael Hamel Clarke Member, Doctoral Committee for Matthew Marcath Clarke Member, Doctoral Committee for Mateusz Monterial Clarke Member, Doctoral Committee for Tony Shin Clarke Member, Doctoral Committee for Charles Sosa Clarke Member, NERS Safety Committee Di Fulvio Member, Doctoral Committee for Ben Yee Di Fulvio Member, Doctoral Committee for Thomas Batson Di Fulvio Chair, NERS Fission Option Downar Member, CoE Scholastic Standing Committee Downar Chair, NERS Safety Committee Foster Co-Chair, NERS Graduate Committee Foster Member, COE Department Safety Committee Foster Chair, NERS Faculty Search Committee Foster

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Member, Applied Physics Executive Committee Foster Member, Rackham AGEP Committee Foster Member, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Foster Panel Member, Rackham AGEP workshop on Race and Gender Foster Faculty liaison, NERS Medical Physics Certificate program Foster Advisor, Faculty-NSBE Foster Member, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Foster Chair, Doctoral Committee, Kapil Sawlani (NERS) Foster Chair, Doctoral Committee, Janis Lai (NERS) Foster Chair, Doctoral Committee, Neil Arthur (NERS) Foster Chair, Doctoral Committee, Adrian Lopez (NERS) Foster Chair, Doctoral Committee, Joseph Groele (NERS) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Kapil Sawlani (NERS) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Jie Zhu (CLASP) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Mathew Weis (NERS) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Brandon Smith (AERO) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Iverson Bell (EECS) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Wei Tian (EECS) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Yiting Zhang (EECS) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Kimberly Trent (AERO) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Horatio Dragnea (AERO) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Maria Chu (AERO) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Chris Durot (AERO) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Shiyang Deng (EECS) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, David Simon (NERS) Foster Member, Doctoral Committee, Adam Steiner (NERS) Foster Member, NERS ABET Committee Foster Member, MIPSE Executive Committee Foster Member, Doctoral Committee for Efrain Hernandez-Rivera (NERS) Gao Member, Doctoral Committee for Jonathan Wierschke (NERS) Gao Member, Doctoral Committee for Shyam Dwaraknath (NERS) Gao Member, Doctoral Committee for Nanjun Chen (NERS) Gao Member, Doctoral Committee for Jesse Bradfield (NERS) Gao Member, Doctoral Committee for Michael Higgins (NERS) Gao Member, NERS Graduate Committee He Member, UM COE Dean Search Committee He Chair, Doctoral Committee for Joshua Mann (NERS) He Chair, Doctoral Committee for Steven Brown (NERS) He Chair, Doctoral Committee for William Koehler (NERS) He Chair, Doctoral Committee for Michael Streicher (NERS) He Chair, Doctoral Committee for Sean O’Neal (NERS) He Chair, Doctoral Committee for Jihang Chu (NERS) He Chair, Doctoral Committee for David Goodman (NERS) He

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Chair, Doctoral Committee for Jiawei Xia (NERS) He Chair, Doctoral Committee for Bennett Williams (NERS) He Chair, Doctoral Committee for Charles Leak (NERS) He Chair, Doctoral Committee for Daniel Shy (NERS) He Member, Doctoral Committee for Elizabeth Getto (NERS) He Member, Doctoral Committee for Jeffrey Fredenburg (EECS) He Member, Doctoral Committee for Kyle Polack (NERS) He Member, Doctoral Committee for Alexis Pierre Valere Poitrasson-Riviere (NERS) He Chair, U. M. Senate Assembly Committee on University Values Kearfott Chair, U. M. Senate Assembly Provost’s Advisory Committee on Budgetary Affairs Kearfott Co-Chair, U.M. Medical Physics Certificate Committee Kearfott Chair, Casebook Committee for Promotion for Shaun Clarke, NERS Kearfott Chair, NERS Search Committee for New Faculty in Nuclear Measurements and Nonproliferation

Kearfott

Member, NERS Committee for Preparation of Doctoral Exams in Nuclear Imaging and Measurements

Kearfott

Member, UM Radiation Policy Committee Kearfott Member, UM Ford Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning Review Committee Kearfott Member, UM Goldwater Scholarship Committee Kearfott Member, UM Advisory Board on Intercollegiate Athletics Kearfott Member, CoE Pool of Grievance Hearing Board Faculty Kearfott Member, NERS Curriculum Committee Kearfott Member, NERS Medical Physics Certificate Committee Kearfott Member, UM COE Undergraduate Admissions Committee Kearfott Advisor, Faculty-oSTEM Kearfott Member, UM Oral Examination Committee for Timothy Grunloh Kearfott Member, UM Oral Examination Committee for Sonal Patel Kearfott Advisor, Faculty-UM NERS Health Physics Society Student Branch Kearfott Designer, CAMPEP - accredited curriculum for doctoral students Kearfott Chair, Doctoral Committee for Zachary Whetstone NERS Kearfott Member, Doctoral Committee for William Koehler NERS Kearfott Advisor, NERS Alpha Nu Sigma Student Chapter Kiedrowski Advisor, NERS American Nuclear Society Student Chapter Kiedrowski Member, Faculty Search Committee Kiedrowski Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Timothy Burke (NERS) Kiedrowski Chair, Doctoral Committee for Brody Bassett (NERS) Kiedrowski Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Kyle Kondrat (NERS) Kiedrowski Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Joel Kulesza (NERS) Kiedrowski Member, Doctoral Committee for Aaron Bevill (NERS) Kiedrowski Member, Doctoral Committee for Andrew Hall (NERS) Kiedrowski Member, Doctoral Committee for Kendra Keady (NERS) Kiedrowski Member, Doctoral Committee for Ang Zhu Kochunas Member, Doctoral Committee for Michael Rose Kochunas

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Member, Doctoral Committee for Michael Jarrett Kochunas Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Andrew Fitzgerald Kochunas Director, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science Krushelnick Chair, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) Executive Committee Krushelnick Member, NERS Executive Committee Krushelnick Member, COE Nominating Committee Krushelnick Chair, Doctoral Committee for Tony Zhao (NERS) Krushelnick Chair, Doctoral Committee for Andrew McKelvey (NERS) Krushelnick Chair, Doctoral Committee for Anthony Raymond (Applied Physics) Krushelnick Chair, Doctoral Committee for Peter Kordell (Physics) Krushelnick Chair, Doctoral Committee for Alex Engelsbe (NERS) Krushelnick Chair, Doctoral Committee for Thomas Batson (NERS) Krushelnick Member, Doctoral Committee for Keegan Behm (NERS) Krushelnick Member, Doctoral Committee for Archis Joglekar (NERS) Krushelnick Member, Doctoral Committee for Jungmoo Hah (NERS) Krushelnick Member, Doctoral Committee for Paul Campbell (Applied Physics) Krushelnick Member, Doctoral Committee for Amina Hussein (Applied Physics) Krushelnick Member, Doctoral Committee for Mike MacDonald (Applied Physics) Krushelnick Member, Doctoral Committee for Tong Zhou (EECS) Krushelnick Co-Chair, NERS Colloquium Committee Larsen Chair, NERS Curriculum Committee Larsen Chair, NERS Faculty Search Committee Larsen Member, COE Curriculum Committee Larsen Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Blake Kelly Larsen Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Thomas Saller Larsen Chair, Doctoral Committee for Chenyang Liu (NERS) Larsen Chair, Doctoral Committee for Kendra Keady Larsen Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Mathew Marcath (NERS) Larsen Chair, Doctoral Committee for Joel Kulesza (NERS) Larsen Chair, Doctoral Committee for Benjamin Yee (NERS) Larsen Member, Doctoral Committee for Akshay Dave (NERS) Larsen Member, Doctoral Committee for Tim Grunloh (NERS) Larsen Member, Doctoral Committee for Andrew Hall (NERS) Larsen Member, Doctoral Committee for Mitchell Young (NERS) Larsen Member, Doctoral Committee for Ang Zhu (NERS) Larsen Member, NERS Curriculum Committee Lau Member, COE Awards Committee Lau Chair, Doctoral Thesis Committee for Mathew Weis Lau Chair, Doctoral Thesis Committee for David Simon Lau Chair, Doctoral Thesis Committee for Adam Steiner Lau Chair, Doctoral Thesis Committee for Patrick Wong Lau Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee for Wei Tian Lau Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee for Sonal Patel Lau

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SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY

Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee for David Yeager-Eloriago Lau Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee for Steven Exelby Lau Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee for Geoff Greening Lau Member, Doctoral Thesis Committee for Alexander Rasmus (AOSS) Lau Member, NERS Executive Committee Lee Member, NERS NRC Fellowship Committee Lee Chair, Doctoral Committee for F. Abdul Rahman Lee Chair, Doctoral Committee for Andrew Gerlach Lee Member, Doctoral Committee for Artem Yankov Lee Member, Doctoral Committee for Aaron Wysocki Lee Member, Doctoral Committee for Aaron Andrew Bielen Lee Member, NERS NRC Fellowship Committee Lee Member, NERS Faculty Search Committee Manera Advisor, COE First-Year Students Advisor Manera Member, COE Speed Networking Session in NextProf Future Faculty Workshop Manera Member, NERS Executive Committee Manera Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Andrew Bielen NERS Manera Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Aaron Wysocki Manera Chair, Doctoral Committee for Tim Grunloh Manera Chair, Doctoral Committee for Dan Walter Manera Chair, Doctoral Committee for Akshay Dave Manera Chair, Doctoral Committee for John Downing Manera Chair, Doctoral Committee for Daniel Nunez Manera Chair, Doctoral Committee for Mingjun Wang Manera Chair, Doctoral Committee for Sunming Quin Manera Chair, Doctoral Committee for Yuqiao Fan Manera Member, Prospectus Committee for Archis Hoglekar Manera Member, Prospectus Committee for Michael Rose Manera Member, COE Executive Committee Martin Convener, ADVANCE Launch Committee for Mosharaf Chowdhury (EECS) Martin Member, COE IT Faculty Committee Martin Representative, COE-Faculty Candidates Martin Chair, Doctoral Committee for Bryan Toth Martin Chair, Doctoral Committee for Mitchell Young Martin Chair, Doctoral Committee for Tim Burke Martin Chair, Doctoral Committee for Aaron Beville Martin Chair, Doctoral Committee for Jipu Wang Martin Chair, Doctoral Committee for Kyle Kondrat Martin Chair, Doctoral Committee for Ethan Pacheck Martin Member, Doctoral Committee for Blake Kelly Martin Member, Doctoral Committee for Tyler Lung (AERO) Martin Member, Doctoral Committee for Alexis Kaplan Martin Member, Doctoral Committee for Dan Walter Martin

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SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY

Member, Doctoral Committee for Fariz Abdul Rahman Martin Member, Doctoral Committee for Thomas Saller Martin Member, Doctoral Committee for Changyuan Liu Martin Member, Doctoral Committee for Kendra Keady Martin Member, Doctoral Committee for Zupan Hu (ME) Martin Chair, NERS Graduate Program (Doctoral) Pozzi Member, UM Advanced Research Computing Advisory Team Pozzi Member, COE International Programs Committee Pozzi Member, COE Research Advisory Committee Pozzi Member, NERS Faculty Search Committee Pozzi Member, Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Advisory Board Pozzi Mentor, Japan-US Advanced Collaborative Education Program, Nagoya University Pozzi Member, Doctoral Committee for Steven Brown Pozzi Member, Doctoral Committee for Michael Streicher Pozzi Member, Doctoral Committee for Zachary Whetstone Pozzi Marshall, 2015 UM Graduation Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Mark Bourne Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Alexis Poitrasson-Rivere Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Alexis Kaplan Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Marc Paff Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Mark Norsworthy Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Kyle Polack Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Bruce Pierson Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Michael Hamel Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Marc Ruch Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Mateusz Monterial Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Charles Sosa Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Tony Shin Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Cameron Miller Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Jennifer Nguyen Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Ciara Sivels Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Crystal Green Pozzi Chair, Doctoral Committee for Tyler Beams Pozzi Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Matthew Marcath Pozzi Director, MIPSE Plasma Video Podcast Thomas Chair, NERS Graduate Committee, Plasma Option Thomas Member, NERS Curriculum Committee Thomas Member, NERS Undergraduate Committee Thomas Member, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science Executive Committee Thomas Member, MIPSE Executive Committee Thomas Chair, Doctoral Committee for Archis Joglekar Thomas Member, Doctoral Committee for Wei Tian Thomas Member, Executive Committee MC2 Wang

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SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY

Member, Search Committee for Staff and Manager of MC2 Wang Member, COE International Program Committee Wang Ambassador, COE International Wang Organizer, UM COE Xiamen Student Summer Exchange Program Wang Organizer, SNERDI Internship Program Wang Chair, Doctoral Committee for Jon Wierschke Wang Chair, Doctoral Committee for Efrain Hernandez-Rivera Wang Chair, Doctoral Committee for Taini Yang Wang Member, Doctoral Committee for Yan Dong (MSE) Wang Representative, COE MSE Faculty Search Wang Member, MMPP Executive Board Was Chair, Doctoral Committee for Shyam Dwaraknath Was Chair, Doctoral Committee for Kale Stephenson Was Member, Doctoral Committee for Brian Kitchen Was Member, Doctoral Committee for Alfred Okello (MSE) Was Member, Doctoral Committee for Andrea Josakarski (MSE) Was Member, Doctoral Committee for Hai Wang (ME) Was Member, COE Faculty Committee on Discipline Wehe Chair, Doctoral Committee for Brian Kitchen Wehe Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Tae Hoon Kang (EECS) Wehe Co-Chair, Doctoral Committee for Inyong Kawn (EECS) Wehe Chair, Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications (SORMA) Wehe Judge, MIPSE Graduate Symposium, Best Paper Competition Zhang

SERVICE TO THE NATION

Member, ANS Honors and Awards Committee Downar Member, US NRC/French International Panel on Nuclear Reactor Safety Codes Downar Member, DOE Fusion Energy Services Advisory Committee (FESAC) Foster Member, Plasma Science Committee Foster Reviewer, Department of Energy Small Business Technology Transfer Foster Reviewer, NASA Space Technology Fellowship Foster Reviewer, DOE NEUP Proposals Gao Reviewer, DOE SBIR Proposals Gao Reviewer, DOE Basic Science Proposals Gao Member, Executive Committee ANS Materials Science Division Jiao Member, SHaRE User Executive Committee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Jiao Member, Nuclear Materials Committee Jiao Member, National Scientific User Facility User’s Group Jiao Reviewer, DOE NEUP Proposals Jiao Reviewer, DOE SBIR Proposals Jiao Reviewer, DOE Basic Science Proposals Jiao Reviewer, DOE ATR NSUV Jiao

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SERVICE TO THE NATION

Reviewer, DOE Jordan Member, DOE Energy Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB) Kearfott Co-Chair, DOE EMAB, Subcommittee on Science and Technology Kearfott Member, Board of Directors, Academic Freedom Fund Lecture Kearfott Member, Michigan Governor’s Panel on Disposal of Low-Activity Radioactive Materials, MDEQ

Kearfott

Reviewer, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Kearfott At-Large Member, ANS National Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Kiedrowski At-Large Member, ANS Michigan-Ohio Local Chapter Kiedrowski Member, Brookhaven National Laboratory External Advisory Panel, Accelerator Science

Krushelnick

Reviewer, Proposals-National Science Foundation Krushelnick Reviewer, Proposals-Department of Energy Krushelnick Reviewer, Proposals-NSERC, Canada Krushelnick Member, National Ignition Facility, LLNL (DOE/NNSA) Discovery Science, Technical Review Committee

Krushelnick

Member, Scheduling committee for Laser MegaJoule, CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique), Bordeaux, France

Krushelnick

Reviewer, Proposals-Department of Energy Lau Reviewer, Proposals-AFOSR Lau Reviewer, Proposals-NSF Lau Member, DoE Review Panel on Joint Program in High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas

Lau

Consultant, Naval Research Laboratory Lau Reviewer, Proposals-NEUP Lee Member, External Advisory Board, Nuclear Engineering Program, University of Florida Lee Member, Advanced Reactor Concepts Technical Review Panel, Office of Nuclear Energy, U. S. Department of Energy

Lee

Invited Speaker, Panel on “Education in nuclear thermal-hydraulics” NURETH-16 Manera Expert Reviewer, DOE-NE’s Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research Manera Member, ANS Board of Directors Martin Member, ANS Honors and Awards Committee Martin Member, Program Committee, M&C Topical Meeting, ANS, Jeju, Korea Martin Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on the Current Status of and Progress toward Eliminating Highly Enriched Uranium Use in Fuel for Civilian Research and Test Reactors

Martin

Member, Engineering Capability Review Committee, Los Alamos Martin Member, Information Science & Technology Capability Review Committee Martin Member, Review Committee, Energy and Global Security Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory

Martin

Reviewer, Department of Energy, NNSA NA-22 projects Pozzi Member, Expert Advisory Group for the European Union FP7 project SCINTILLA Pozzi Member, European Safeguards Association; Nondestructive Assay Working Group Pozzi Member, European Safeguards Association; Novel Approaches / Novel Technologies Pozzi

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SERVICE TO THE NATION

Member, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Basic Research Review Pozzi Vice-Chair, LCLS Proposal Review Panel: Matter Under Extreme Conditions Endstation Thomas Reviewer for U.S. Department of Energy FY 2016 Research Opportunities in High Energy Physics (HEP)

Thomas

Reviewer, Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Thomas Member, ANS International Committee Wang Reviewer, Proposals-NEUP Wang Reviewer, EPSRC (UK) Was Reviewer, NSERC (Canada) Was Reviewer, NEUP Proposals Was Reviewer, DOE Career Award Was Chair, IAEA Coordinated Research Project panel on Ion and Neutron Irradiation Was Reviewer, Proposals-DOE NA-22, DNDO, and DTRA Radiation Detection Projects Wehe Member, DOE Interagency Forensics Panel for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Wehe Reviewer, Proposals DOE Office of High Energy Physics Zhang

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Member, Steering Committee, International Symposium on Metastable, Mechanically Alloyed and Nanocrystalline Materials

Atzmon

Member, Chemistry and Physics of Materials Committee, TMS Atzmon Member, US Advisory Committee, Bulk Metallic Glass International Conference (BMG XI)

Atzmon

Reviewer, National Science Foundation Atzmon Assistant Director, Consortium for Verification Technology Clarke Consultant, ACRS NRC Downar Sessions organizer, Technical Program, PHYSOR-16 Downar Organizer, International Nuclear Engineering Research Initiative with Korea DOE INERI Downar Presenter, Mini-Course at ISPC 2015 22nd International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry

Foster

Session Chair, GEC Plasma Propulsion Foster Organizer, 2015-APS GEC Special Issue Foster Member, Electric Propulsion Technical Committee Foster Member, International Committee for Computer Simulations of Radiation Effects in Solids

Gao

Member, Program Committee for SPIE Hard S-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics

Gao

Co-Organizer, TMS 2015 Symposium on “Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials”

Jiao

Session Chair, Health Physics Society Annual Meeting, External Dosimetry Session and Academic Institutions Session

Kearfott

Member, Great Lakes Health Physics Society Chapter Executive Council Kearfott

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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Session Chair/Reviewer, 2015 Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and the Monte Carlo Method

Kochunas

Member, Laser Acceleration Workshop Program Committee Krushelnick Member, SPIE Conference on High Power Lasers Program Committee Krushelnick Member, Fellowship Committee (APS/ Division of Plasma Physics) Krushelnick Member, Program Committee for Conference Physics and Applications of High Brightness Beams (Havana Cuba)

Krushelnick

Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Imperial College London Krushelnick Member, Technical Review Committee-Mathematics & Computation Division of ANS Larsen Visiting Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology Lee Member, Program Committee, PSA 2015 Conference Lee Member, ANS TH Division Program Committee Manera Member/Session Chair, Technical Program Committee for ANS Topical Mtg on Advances in TH ATH- Conference

Manera

Judge, ANS Young Professional TH Research Competition Manera Member, MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Visiting Committee Martin Member, Department Advisory Committee, Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University

Martin

Member, Review Committee, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M Martin Advisor, UM Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Student Chapter Pozzi Conference Organizer, University – Industry Technical Interface Pozzi Director, Consortium for Verification Technology Pozzi Chair, Honors and Awards Committee of the Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

Pozzi

Reviewer, French National Research Agency, Projet de Recherche Collaborative-International dans le cadre de l'accord bilat\`eral France-Roumanie ANCS (2015)

Thomas

Member, Organizing Committee, Laser and Plasma Accelerator Workshop Thomas Invited speaker Department of Energy Frontiers of Plasma Science Workshops Townhall Meeting on Plasmas, Washington DC

Thomas

Lecturer, HEDSA Summer School Thomas Invited speaker International Conference on Extreme Light (ICEL 2015), Bucherest, Romania

Thomas

Adjunct Chair Professor, Xiamen University, School of Energy Research Wang Chair, International Cooperative Group on Environmentally Assisted Cracking Was Member, TMS Nuclear Materials Committee Was Member, TMS Corrosion and Env. Effects Committee Was Member, MRS, Special Programs Committee Was Member, AFCI/GenIV Materials Working Group, LLNL Was Member, International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Light Water Reactors Organizing Committee

Was

Chair, Materials Review Capability Team, LLNL Was Member, Expert Panel on Primary & Secondary NPP Structural Metals Systems Was Member, EPRI Roadmap for Development of Radiation Resistant Materials Was

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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Member, International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials Organizing Committee

Was

Reviewer, Proposals for Technology Foundation STW, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

Zhang

Reviewer, Proposals for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation

Zhang

Reviewer, Proposals for National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development, FONDECYT 2015 Initiation into Research, Chilean National Science and Technology Commission (CONICYT - Chile)

Zhang

EDITORIAL SERVICES

Academic Editor, American Institute of Physics Advances Gao Editorial Board, Dataset Papers in Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics Gao Editorial Board, Conference Papers in Physics Gao Associate Editor, Physics of Plasmas Gilgenbach Guest Editor, special issue of Journal of Nuclear Materials, “Proceedings of the Symposium on Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials (MPIM)” TMS2015

Jiao

Associate Editor, Journal of Radiation Research Kearfott Associate Editor, Physics of Plasmas Lau Co-editor, “Advanced Integral Type Reactors: Passive Safety Design and Experiment” Special Issue in IJSTNI

Manera

Editorial Board, International Journal for Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations

Manera

Editorial Board, Journal of Nuclear Energy Science & Power Generation Technology Manera Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Physics Martin Advisory Editor, Nuclear Science and Engineering Martin Editorial Board, Transport Theory and Statistical Physics Martin Associate Editor, Progress in Nuclear Energy Pozzi Guest Editor, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Cluster Edition (Laser and Plasma Accelerator Workshop 2015).

Thomas

Editor-in-Chief, Nuclear Materials, Elsevier Was Editorial Board, Metallurgical Transactions A Was Editor, Nuclear Instruments in Physics Research Wehe Editor, Nuclear Energy and Technology Wehe

JOURNAL REVIEW

Reviewer, Acta Materialia Atzmon Reviewer, Journal of Applied Physics Atzmon Reviewer, International Journal of Materials Research Atzmon Reviewer, Journal of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis Atzmon Reviewer, Journal of Physics D Atzmon

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JOURNAL REVIEW

Reviewer, Materials Science and Engineering A Atzmon Reviewer, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions Atzmon Reviewer, Journal of Physical Chemistry Atzmon Reviewer, Nature Communications Atzmon Reviewer, Nano Letters Atzmon Reviewer, Philosophical Magazine Atzmon Reviewer, Scientific Reports (a Nature Journal) Atzmon Reviewer, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A Clarke Reviewer, IEEE Transaction in Nuclear Science Clarke Reviewer, Radiation Protection and Dosimetry Clarke Reviewer, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Clarke Reviewer, Journal of Radiation Research Di Fulvio Reviewer, Physics Letters A Di Fulvio Reviewer, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Di Fulvio Reviewer, Physics in Medicine and Biology Di Fulvio Reviewer, Review of Scientific Instruments Di Fulvio Reviewer, Applied Radiation and Isotopes Di Fulvio Reviewer, Radiation Measurements Di Fulvio Reviewer, American Institute of Physics Downar Reviewer, Nuclear Science and Engineering Downar Reviewer, Nuclear Technology Downar Reviewer, Annals of Nuclear Energy Downar Reviewer, Journal of Propulsion and Power Foster Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science Foster Reviewer, The Physics of Plasmas Foster Reviewer, Plasma Sources Science and Technology Foster Reviewer, Journal of Physics D Foster Reviewer, Plasma Processes and Polymers Foster Reviewer, Journal of Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing Foster Reviewer, Review of Scientific Instruments Foster Reviewer, Journal of Nuclear Materials Gao Reviewer, Nuclear Instrument and Methods B Gao Reviewer, Applied Physics Letters Gao Reviewer, Journal of Applied Physics Gao Reviewer, Physical Review Letter Gao Reviewer, Physical Review B Gao Reviewer, Acta Materialia Gao Reviewer, Physics of Plasmas Gilgenbach Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science Gilgenbach Reviewer, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A He Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Sciences He Reviewer, Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference He Reviewer, Journal of Nuclear Materials Jiao

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JOURNAL REVIEW

Reviewer, Corrosion Science Jiao Reviewer, Physics of Plasmas Jordan Reviewer, Journal of Nuclear Medicine Kearfott Reviewer, Health Physics Kearfott Reviewer, Medical Physics Kearfott Reviewer, Radiation Measurement Kearfott Reviewer, Journal of Radiological Protection Kearfott Reviewer, Nuclear Science and Engineering Kiedrowski Reviewer, Annals of Nuclear Energy Kiedrowski Reviewer, Journal of Computational Physics Kiedrowski Reviewer, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology Kochunas Reviewer, Physical Review Letters Krushelnick Reviewer, Physical Review Special Topics Acceleratros and Beams Krushelnick Reviewer, Physical Review E Krushelnick Reviewer, Nature Physics Krushelnick Reviewer, Nature Communications Krushelnick Reviewer, Physics of Plasmas Krushelnick Reviewer, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Krushelnick Reviewer, Nature Krushelnick Reviewer, New Journal of Physics Krushelnick Reviewer, Applied Physics Letters Krushelnick Reviewer, Optics Express Krushelnick Reviewer, Corrosion Science Kuang Reviewer, Applied Physics Letters Kuang Reviewer, Annals of Nuclear Energy Larsen Reviewer, Journal of Computational Physics Larsen Reviewer, Nuclear Science and Engineering Larsen Reviewer, Transport Theory and Statistical Physics Larsen Reviewer, Appl. Phys. Lett. Lau Reviewer, Phys. Rev. Lett Lau Reviewer, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. Lau Reviewer, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices Lau Reviewer, Phys. Plasmas Lau Reviewer, Electron Device Letters Lau Reviewer, Nuclear Science and Engineering Lee Reviewer, Nuclear Technology Lee Reviewer, Nuclear Engineering and Design Lee Reviewer, Annals of Nuclear Energy Lee Reviewer, Nuclear Engineering and Design Manera Reviewer, Flow Measurement and Instrumentation Manera Reviewer, Nuclear Technology Manera Reviewer, Annals of Nuclear Energy Martin Reviewer, Nuclear Science and Engineering Martin

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JOURNAL REVIEW

Reviewer, Transport Theory and Statistical Physics Martin Reviewer, Progress in Nuclear Energy Martin Reviewer, Nuclear Engineering and Design Petrov Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Pozzi Reviewer, Nuclear Science and Engineering Pozzi Reviewer, Transport Theory and Statistical Physics Pozzi Reviewer, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A and B Pozzi Reviewer, Radiation Measurements Pozzi Reviewer, Journal of Applied Physics Pozzi Reviewer, Nature Communications Pozzi Reviewer, Physical Review Letters Thomas Reviewer, Nature Photonics Thomas Reviewer, Journal of Computational Physics Thomas Reviewer, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Thomas Reviewer, Physics of Plasmas Thomas Reviewer, Scripta Materialia Wang Reviewer, Journal of Nuclear Materials Wang Reviewer, Corrosion Science P Wang Reviewer, Materials Science and Engineering B P Wang Reviewer, Journal of Nuclear Materials P Wang Reviewer, Metallurgical Transactions A Was Reviewer, Journal of Nuclear Materials Was Reviewer, Corrosion Was Reviewer, Corrosion Science Was Reviewer, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics B Was Reviewer, Review of Scientific Instruments Was Reviewer, Journal of Plasticity Was Reviewer, Nature Communications Zhang Reviewer, Physical Review Letters Zhang Reviewer, Physical Review E Zhang Reviewer, Journal of Applied Physics Zhang Reviewer, Physics of Plasmas Zhang Reviewer, IEEE Electron Device Letter Zhang Reviewer, IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society Zhang Reviewer, Physics Letters A Zhang Reviewer, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B Zhang Reviewer, Optics Communications Zhang Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Sciences Zhang Reviewer, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Zhang Reviewer, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters Zhang Reviewer, Nuclear Instruments and Methods Zhu Reviewer, Annals of Nuclear Energy Zhu

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Personnel (September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2016)

FACULTY

Michael Atzmon Professor Also Professor, Materials Science and Engineering PhD, Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1985 Thermodynamics of materials, diffusion of solids, amorphous metal alloys, ion beam modification of materials Alex F. Bielajew Professor PhD, Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, 1982 Theory of electron and photon transport, Monte Carlo theory and development, radiation dosimetry theory, radiotherapy treatment planning algorithms Shaun Clarke Associate Research Scientist PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, 2007 Simulation techniques for active-interrogation systems using high-energy photons. Methods under investigation include photoneutron energy spectra and multiplicity analysis Angela Di Fulvio Assistant Research Scientist PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy, 2011 Spectrometric and dosimetric characterization of both neutron beams for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), within the framework of TRASCO-BNCT project, and photoneutron beams; unfolding algorithms and basic physics of radiation interaction in superheated emulsions Thomas Downar Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984 Computational nuclear reactor physics, nuclear reactor dynamics, and the development of coupled neutronics and thermal-hydraulics methods for power reactor safety analysis. James J. Duderstadt Professor President Emeritus, University of Michigan University Professor of Science and Engineering PhD, Engineering Science and Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1967 Nuclear systems, computer simulation, science policy, higher education

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Gennady Fiksel Research Scientist PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics (Plasma Physics), University of Wisconsin, 1991 John E. Foster Associate Professor PhD, Applied Physics, University of Michigan, 1996 Low-temperature plasma physics including applications in the areas of space propulsion plasmas, environmental plasmas, space and atmospheric plasma phenomena, energy conversion plasmas, and processing plasmas Fei Gao Professor PhD, Materials Science, University of Liverpool, UK, 1995 Ion-solid interaction and radiation effects in ceramics and reactor materials, interfacial and nanostructure evolution of semiconductors, radiation detector materials, and development and application of multi-scale computer simulation for materials modeling Ronald M. Gilgenbach Chair and Chihiro Kikuchi Collegiate Professor Director, Plasma, Pulsed Power, and Microwave Laboratory PhD, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 1978 Plasmas, fusion, electron beams, high power microwave generation, z-pinches, interaction of intense laser and particle beams with plasmas and materials. Mark Hammig Associate Research Scientist PhD, Radiation Measurements, University of Michigan, 2004 Development of miniature sensors that use mechanical rather than electrical signals to detect ionizing radiation Zhong He Professor PhD, Physics, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 1993 Room-temperature semiconductor, gamma-ray detectors, and gamma-ray imaging devices James P. Holloway Professor Vice Provost for Global and Engaged Education PhD, Engineering Physics, University of Virginia, 1989 Neutron and photon transport theory, nuclear reactor physics and control, nonlinear dynamics, inverse problems, plasma kinetic theory, mathematical analysis of engineering problems, computational physics and engineering, primary energy production. Zhijie Jiao Associate Research Scientist PhD, Materials Science Polytechnic University, New York, 2004

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Irradiation effects and environmental degradation of cladding and structural materials for reactor systems Nicholas Jordan Assistant Research Scientist PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2008 Igor Jovanovic Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2001 Radiation detection, lasers and optics Kimberlee J. Kearfott Professor Also Professor, Biomedical Engineering Adjunct Professor, Radiology ScD, Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980 Radiation safety regulation, detection, dosimetry, and dose assessment; environmental radioactivity, explosives detection, medical and radiological imaging Brian Kiedrowski Assistant Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009 General-purpose Monte Carlo radiation transport methods and software development. Specific areas include nuclear criticality, critical experiment design, sensitivity/uncertainty, adjoint and hybrid methods, time-dependent transport, and kinetics Brendan Kochunas Assistant Research Scientist PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2013 Next generation of numerical methods and parallel algorithms for high fidelity computational reactor physics Karl M. Krushelnick Professor Associate Director of the Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences PhD, Plasma Physics, Princeton University, 1994 Plasma physics, ultra-high intensity laser plasma interactions, inertial confinement fusion, compact laser-based particle accelerators and applications Wenjun Kuang Assistant Research Scientist PhD, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2011 Mark Kushner Professor Also Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD, Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1979

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Applied electromagnetics, optics and phototonics, quantum science and engineering, plasma science and engineering, energy and power Edward W. Larsen Professor PhD, Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1971 Analytic and numerical methods for nuclear reactor theory, neutron transport, non-linear radiative transfer, electron and photon transport. Y.Y. Lau Professor PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973 Theory of plasmas: high power microwaves, noise, intermodulation, ultra-intense laser plasma interaction, wire Z-pinch physics, heating phenomenology, nano-diodes John C. Lee Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, 1969 Nuclear reactor theory, reactor core physics and design analysis, reactor kinetics, fuel cycle analysis, reactor safety analysis, power plant simulation and control Yuxuan Liu Assistant Research Scientist PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2014 Annalisa Manera Associate Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, 2003 Experimental single and two-phase flow, computational fluid dynamics, and multiphysics methods for power reactor safety analysis William R. Martin Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, 1976 Computational methods for the solution of problems in neutron transport, reactor core analysis, reactor thermal hydraulics, and nonlinear radiation transport, including algorithms for advanced computer architectures Martha Matuszak Assistant Professor Also Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2007 Treatment planning and optimization for external beam radiotherapy with an emphasis on intensity modulated radiotherapy, volumetric modulated arc therapy, and stereotactic body radiation therapy Victor Petrov Assistant Research Scientist PhD, Systems Analysis, Institute of Engineering Physics and Moscow State Industrial Univ., Russia, 2008

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Experimental and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with main focus on nuclear power plant applications Sara A. Pozzi Associate Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, 2001 Nuclear materials measurements for nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear material control accountability, and national security; Monte Carlo code development for neutron and photon transport Alexander Thomas Associate Professor PhD, Physics, Imperial College of London, UK, 2006 Plasma physics, ultra-high intensity laser-plasma interactions, compact laser-based particle accelerators, particle-in-cell simulation, radiation generation and back-reaction, laser propagation in plasma at high intensity, inertial confinement fusion, Vlasov-Fokker-Planck modeling, non-local transport, magnetized plasmas, electromagnetic and electrothermal instabilities Lumin Wang Professor PhD, Materials Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988 Ion beam modification of materials, transmission electron microscopy, nanocrystalline materials, and nuclear materials Peng Wang Assistant Research Scientist PhD, Materials Science, University of Manchester, UK, 2012 Gary S. Was Professor Also Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Walter J. Weber, Jr. Professor of Sustainable Energy, Environmental, and Earth Systems Engineering Director, Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory ScD, Nuclear Materials Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980 Radiation materials science, materials degradation and design for advanced reactor systems, materials processing with radiation, ion beam modification and analysis of materials, corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, hydrogen embrittlement, materials degradation modes, nuclear fuels and fuel materials David K. Wehe Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, 1984 Gamma ray imaging, neutron physics, radiation spectroscopy, artificial intelligence and robotics applications, power plant reliability Peng Zhang Assistant Research Scientist PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2012 Phenomenology of surface and interface sciences, including electrical and thermal contacts, surface roughness induced heating and field enhancements, surface flashover and discharge, wave-structure

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interaction, ultrafast electron emission, classical and quantum diodes, magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and laser-solid interaction. Yuefeng Zhu Assistant Research Scientist PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2012

EMERITUS FACULTY A. Ziya Akcasu Professor Emeritus PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, 1963 Dynamics Rodney C. Ewing Professor Emeritus Also Professor, Materials Science and Engineering And Professor, Geological Sciences PhD, Mineralogy/Geology, Stanford University 1974 Nuclear waste management, radiation effects in complex ceramics and glasses. Ronald F. Fleming Professor Emeritus PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, 1975 Neutron activation analysis, materials analysis using nuclear techniques, radiation measurements Terry Kammash Stephen S. Attwood Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, 1958 Fusion hybrid reactors for terrestrial and space power and propulsion applications Dietrich H. Vincent Professor Emeritus Dr. Rer. Nat., Physics, Universitaet Goettinen, 1956 Radiation effects in materials, hydrogen (and helium) in metals, ion beam analysis, Mossbauer spectroscopy, positron lifetime spectroscopy

ADJUNCT FACULTY Forrest Brown Adjunct Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, 1981 Research and Development Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Professor, University of New Mexico

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International reputation in Monte Carlo simulation and advanced computing Frederick W. Buckman Adjunct Associate Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970 President, Power Group, the Shaw Group, Inc. Jeremy Busby Adjunct Assistant Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, 2000 Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Irradiation effects in metals for high temperature reactors, fusion reactors, and spacecraft reactors Benjamin Collins Adjunct Assistant Professor PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, 2011 Multiscale Methods for Nuclear Reactor Analysis Michael J. Flynn Adjunct Professor PhD, Nuclear Science, University of Michigan, 1975 Radiation imaging with emphasis on medical applications Mitchell M. Goodsitt Adjunct Professor Also Professor, Radiological Sciences, Department of Radiology PhD, Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982 Diagnostic x-ray and ultrasound imaging and quality control, such as development of a 3-D x-ray and 3-D ultrasound breast imaging system Joseph A. Miklos Adjunct Lecturer Also Coordinator Radiation Safety Service, and Adjunct Lecturer in Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, 2002 Namdoo Moon Adjunct Professor Imre Pazsit Adjunct Professor PhD, Reactor Physics, Roland Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 1975 Roger Stoller Adjunct Professor Oak Ridge National Laboratory PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Ruth F. Weiner Adjunct Professor PhD, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 1962 Sandia National Laboratories Radiation risk analysis, radioactive waste management Yunlin Xu Adjunct Associate Research Scientist PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, 2004

VISITING FACULTY

David Chernin Visiting Research Scientist Naval Research Laboratory Invited by Professor YY Lau Dong-Keun Cho Visiting Research Scientist Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute Invited by Professor Kimberlee Kearfott Shengfeng Guo Visiting Associate Research Scientist Southwest University, China Invited by Professor Michael Atzmon Yifang Ouyang Visiting Research Scientist Guangxi University, China Invited by Professor Fei Gao Yanliang Tan Visiting Research Scientist Hengyang Normal University, China Invited by Professor Kimberlee Kearfott Agust Valfells Visiting Associate Professor Reykjavik University School of Science and Engineering, Iceland Invited by Professor Y.Y. Lau Jianjun Wang Visiting Associate Research Scientist Harbin Engineering University, China Invited by Professor Annalisa Manera

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Peng Zhang Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Taiyuan University of Technology, China Invited by Professor Lumin Wang Jijun Yang Visiting Associate Research Scientist Sichuan University, China Invited by Professor Lumin Wang

POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS

Robert Adams (Assistant Professor Annalisa Manera) Fariz Abdul Rahman (Professor John Lee) Milos Burger (Professor Igor Jovanovic) Akshay Dave (Professor Annalisa Manera) Peng Gong (Professor Gary Was) Andrew Hall (Professor Thomas Downar) Zhaohan He (Associate Professor Alexander Thomas) Tae Hoon Kang (Associate Research Scientist Mark Hammig) Chenyang Lu (Professor Lumin Wang) Kiran Kumar Mandapaka (Professor Gary Was) Manish Sharma (Professor Igor Jovanovic) Miao Song (Professor Gary Was) Lazar Supic (Professor Sara Pozzi) Daniel Walter (Professor Annalisa Manera) Mi Wang (Professor Gary Was) Feifei Zhang (Professor Lumin Wang) Xinquan Zhou (Professor Annalisa Manera)

STAFF

Technical Support James Berry, Mechanical Engineer Edward A. Birdsall, Facilities Infrastructure Manager Robert Blackburn, Facilities Coordinator/Manager Rodney Capps, Web Applications Developer Alex Flick, Research Project Engineer Dan Jabaay, Engineer in Research Intermediate Nicholas Jordan, Research Area Specialist Lead Thomas Kubley, Research Project Engineer

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Fabian Naab, Research Lab Specialist Associate Mark Perreault, Senior Electronics Technician, Plasma Experimental Bay Volkan Seker, Research Area Specialist Lead Ovidiu Toader, Research Area Specialist Lead, Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory Ethan Uberseder, Research Area Specialist Lead Andrew Ward, Research Area Specialist Lead Jeff Weatherup, Desktop Support Specialist (CAEN) Scott Wilderman, Research Computer Specialist

Administrative Support Cherilyn Davis, Administrative Assistant Associate Tawny Dekar, Research Process Coordinator Amber French, Accountant Associate Trisha Fountain, Academic Advisor/Counselor Peggy Jo Gramer, Senior Graduate Program Coordinator Caroline Joaquin, Department Administrator Jennifer Melms, Administrative Assistant Associate Pat Moore, Office and Editorial Assistant Garnette Roberts, Student Administrative Assistant Senior John Rodriquez, Administrative Assistant Senior Shannon Thomas, Research Process Coordinator Steven Winters, Human Resources Generalist

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Advisory Board (September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2016)

Todd Allen Director for Science and Technology Idaho National Laboratory

Jeffrey Bradfute Vice-President, Global Fuel Engineering and Product Management Westinghouse Electric Company

Forrest Brown Adjunct Professor, UM NERS Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Frederick W. Buckman President, N4 Development Adjunct Professor, UM NERS

Keith Cooley CEO Principia, LLC, Detroit, MI

Paul Fessler CNO DTE Energy at Fermi 2

Don Kania CEO and President FEI

Thomas A. Mehlhorn Chair, Superintendent, Plasma Physics Division Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.

Arthur T. Motta Chair and Professor, Nuclear Engineering Program Penn State University, University Park, PA

Charles A. Schrock President and CEO Integrys Energy Group, Chicago, IL

Joseph Schumer Head, Pulsed Power Physics Branch, Plasma Physics Division Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.

Jasmina Vujic Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Geoff West President and Chief Medical Physicist West Physics

Sidney Yip Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Steven J. Zinkle Governor’s Chair Professor The University of Tennessee, Knoxville