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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Technical Session|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Tuesday, April 29, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Lawrence B
Session Chair:
Valeria Raffuzzi (Univ. Cambridge)
Alternate Chair:
Paul Cosgrove (Univ. Cambridge)
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Polygonal Functional Expansion Tallies Using Transformed Zernike Polynomials
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Joseph F. Specht IV (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April J. Novak (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Using Moment-Based Functional-Expansion Tallies to Construct the Linear Discontinuous Finite-Element Flux in Tetrahedral-Mesh Monte Carlo Simulations
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Pablo A. Vaquer (LANL), Michael E. Rising (LANL), Joel A. Kulesza (LANL), Colin A. Weaver (LANL), Simon R. Bolding (LANL)
Working with Bézier Curves as Nonorthogonal Bases for Functional Expansion Tallies
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Micah D. Gale (INL), Patrick Shriwise (ANL), Paul Wilson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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Does Inherent Randomness in Monte Carlo Transport Calculations Mitigate the Effect of Poor Random Number Generators?
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Gibson D. Prall (Y-12 National Security), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico)
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