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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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ANS’s Mentor Match applications open
Applications are now open for the American Nuclear Society’s newly redesigned mentoring program. Mentor Match is a unique opportunity available only to ANS members that offers year-round mentorship and networking opportunities to Society members at any point in their education.
The deadline to apply for membership in the inaugural summer cohort, which will take place July 1–August 31, is June 20. The application form can be found here.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RRSD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Chicago Ballroom G
Session Chair:
Adam J. Carroll
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Young Soo Park
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Multi-Purpose Canister Cell Identification and Indication System
8:00–8:20AM CDT
James Dubay (Constellation Energy), Ryan Pullara (Constellation Energy), James Peretz (Constellation Energy), Max Berkowitz (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Salvador Chavarria (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Ari Ebdon (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Mercedes Gregerson (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Caton Huynh (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Beck Krebs (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Sujit Lakshmikanth (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Benjamin Lee (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Zoe Smith (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Robert Stanley (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Charles Renz (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), David P. Wen (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Y Z (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
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Bilateral Robotic Control for Remote Contact Tooling Tasks in Hazardous Environments
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Jared Rosenbaum (ANL), Hyeonseok Choi (KAIST), Young S. Park (ANL)
Elbow Exoskeleton Evaluation for Glovebox Applications
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Rodrigo Ramon (Savannah River National Laboratory), Kaida Wu (Florida International University)
An Overview of the Hand and Glove Segmentation Dataset
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Selma Wanna (Univ. Texas, Austin), Shivansh Sharma (The University of Texas at Austin), Christina Petlowany (Univ. Texas, Austin), Juston Moore (LANL), Mitch W. Pryor (Univ. Texas, Austin)
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