Joey visited Waikoloa Hawaii for the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC). While there he presented his poster “Heavy Ion Transport in SiC-Based Power Devices”.

On July 6, Jaron Senecal successfully defended his dissertation titled, “Efficient Coupling Algorithms and Reduced-Order Methods for High-Fidelity Multiphysics Simulations of Nuclear Reactors.” In September, Jaron will begin working as a Boiling Water Reactor neutronics engineer at Framatome in R

Several members of the NuCoMP research group attended the 2018 American Nuclear Society Annual meeting in Philadelphia. They attended numerous technical talks as well as several panel discussions about the future of the nuclear industry.

Kurt Dominesey was recently awarded the Rickover Fellowship in Nuclear Engineering, sponsored by the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Naval Reactors Division and Naval Nuclear Laboratory.

Congratulations to Professor Wei Ji for winning the 2018 Education Innovation Award presented by the RPI School of Engineering.

On May 23, Mathieu Dupont presented his research on the “Development and Characterization of Coupled Physics Critical Experiments for Multi-Physics Simulation Benchmarks” to his doctoral committee and passed his candidacy exam.

Members of the NuCoMP group attended the PHYSOR 2018 conference in Cancun, Mexico last week. Mathieu Dupont presented his paper, “Development of Critical Experiments to Provide Validation Data for Multiphysics Coupling Codes”.

Peter Kowal passed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission examination to become a Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) at the Walthousen Reactor Critical Facility (RCF).

Members of the R-NEAMS research group attended the ANS Winter Meeting this week in Washington, D.C. Matthew Eklund presented his research “Neutronics Simulations of the RPI Walthousen Reactor Critical Facility (RCF) Using Proteus-SN”.

Several R-NEAMS group members were recognized at Rensselaer’s 24th annual Honors Convocation. The event was held in the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) on October 28, 2017 during Family Weekend.