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Robotics & Remote Systems
The Mission of the Robotics and Remote Systems Division is to promote the development and application of immersive simulation, robotics, and remote systems for hazardous environments for the purpose of reducing hazardous exposure to individuals, reducing environmental hazards and reducing the cost of performing work.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Technical Session
Tuesday, October 5, 2021|3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
Erin Davis (LANL)
Session Organizers:
Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NC State Univ.)
Frank R. Graziani (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Cole Tagasuki (NC State Univ.)
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Exploring Compton Scattering Options for Thermal Radiative Transfer
3:30–3:55PM EDT
Andrew Till (LANL)
Paper
BICS: Full Boltzmann Implicit Compton Solve
3:55–4:20PM EDT
Carolyn McGraw (LANL), Andrew Till (LANL), James Warsa (LANL)
Nonlinear Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration of Thermal Radiative Transfer
4:20–4:45PM EDT
Milan Holec (LLNL), Ben S. Southworth (LANL), Terry S. Haut (LLNL), Ben C. Yee (LLNL)
A New Scheme for Solving High-Order DG Discretizations of Thermal Radiative Transfer Using the Variable Eddington Factor Method
4:45–5:10PM EDT
Ben C. Yee (LLNL), Samuel S. Olivier (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Ben S. Southworth (LANL), Milan Holec (LLNL), Terry S. Haut (LLNL)
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