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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Jaakko Leppanen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Ltd.)
Session Organizer:
Jeffery D. Densmore (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Student Producer:
Nicholas Herring (Univ. of Michigan)
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Solving Eigenvalue Transport Problems With Negative Weights and Regional Cancellation
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Hunter Belanger (CEA Saclay), Davide Mancusi (CEA Saclay), Andrea Zoia (CEA Saclay)
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Weighted Delta Tracking Performance Evaluation in the Presence of Localized Heavy Absorbers
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. of Cambridge), Eugene Shwageraus (Univ. of Cambridge), Lee Morgan (AWE)
Woodcock Delta Tracking With Arbitrary Sampling Parameters in Fission and Fusion Reactor Models
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Impact of Sampling Strategies in the Polynomial Chaos Surrogate Construction for Monte Carlo Transport Applications
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Gianluca Geraci (Sandia), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia)
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