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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
Tuesday, October 5, 2021|10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair:
Adam Nelson (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Jeffery D. Densmore (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Student Producer:
Johnny Klemes (NC State Univ.)
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Algorithm for Free Gas Elastic Scattering Without Rejection Sampling
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Elliott Biondo (ORNL), Vladimir Sobes (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Andrew Holcomb (ORNL), Steven Hamilton (ORNL), Thomas Evans (ORNL)
Paper
Conditional Point Sampling Implementation for the GPU
11:05–11:30AM EDT
Luke J. Kersting (Sandia), Aaron Olson (Sandia), Kerry Bossler (Sandia)
Efficient Scoring Algorithm for Local Differential Operator Tallies in Large Models
11:30–11:55AM EDT
David P. Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Gabriel Kooreman (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Probability Distribution Functions of the Number of Scattering Collisions in Electron Slowing Down
11:55AM–12:20PM EDT
Brian C. Franke (Sandia), Anil K. Prinja (Univ. of New Mexico)
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