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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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CFS working with NVIDIA, Siemens on SPARC digital twin
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a fusion firm headquartered in Devens, Mass., is collaborating with California-based computing infrastructure company NVIDIA and Germany-based technology conglomerate Siemens to develop a digital twin of its SPARC fusion machine. The cooperative work among the companies will focus on applying artificial intelligence and data- and project-management tools as the SPARC digital twin is developed.
Technical Session|Radiative Transfer Methods
Monday, April 28, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Alex R. Long (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Nick Gentile (LLNL)
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Accurate Reduced Floating-Point Precision Implicit Monte Carlo
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Simon Butson (Oregon State), Mathew Cleveland (LANL), Alex Long (LANL), Todd Palmer (Oregon State)
Paper
Reduced Memory Discretization Scheme for Time-Dependent Thermal Radiative Transfer Problems
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Rylan C. Paye (NCSU), Joseph M. Coale (LANL), James S. Warsa (LANL), Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NCSU), Connor A. Woodsford (LANL), Jim E. Morel (TAMU)
Implicit Opacities in Thermal Radiative Transfer
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Samuel Olivier (LANL), Quincy A. Huhn (TAMU), James S. Warsa (LANL)
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Deterministic Particle Transport for Reducing Noise in Thermal Radiative Transfer
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Benjamin L. Estrada (Oregon State), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State), Nicholas A. Gentile (LLNL)
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