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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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An open letter to Chris Wright
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Dear Secretary Wright:
On behalf of the U.S. nuclear professional community, I offer our sincere congratulations to you on your becoming the secretary of energy.
By now, I’m sure you have figured out that “Department of Energy” is a misnomer. If the Department of Government Efficiency ever requires truth in advertising, the DOE should be renamed the “Department of Nuclear Weapons, Security, Cleanup, and Sundry Energy and Science Programs.” That’s because more than 60 percent of the DOE’s budget is dedicated to “atomic energy defense activities”—making sure our nuclear bombs work, our aircraft carriers and submarines sail, and our Cold War messes get cleaned up.
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Richard Vasques (The Ohio State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Thomas Folk (Univ. of Michigan)
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Theory and Generation Methods for N-ary Stochastic Mixtures with Markovian Mixing Statistics
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Aaron Olson (Sandia), Shawn Pautz (Sandia), Dan Bolintineanu (Sandia), Emily Vu (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
Benchmark Comparisons of Monte Carlo Algorithms for One-Dimensional N-ary Stochastic Media
1:45–2:10PM EDT
Emily H. Vu (Univ. of Michigan), Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia), Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. of Michigan)
Amnesia Radius Versions of Conditional Point Sampling for Radiation Transport in 1D Stochastic Media
2:10–2:35PM EDT
Emily H. Vu (Univ. of Michigan), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia)
Markovian Binary Mixtures: Benchmarks for the Albedo Problem
2:35–3:00PM EDT
Coline Larmier (CEA), Eugene d'Eon (NVIDIA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
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