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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
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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