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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Technical Session|Mathematics, Computation, & AI Applications
Friday, April 17, 2026|3:45–4:45PM CDT|RUDR 401
Session Chair:
Kyle Melito
Alternate Chair:
Zach Lassater
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OpenMC to Surrogate: High-Fidelity Modeling for the PUR-1 Digital Twin
3:45–3:55PM CDT
Noah Fillgrove (Purdue Univ.), Vasileios Theos (Purdue Univ.), Jonah Lau (Purdue Univ.), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
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Allan Deviation for Modeling and Quantifying Nuclear Measurement Noise
3:55–4:05PM CDT
Assaf Alassaf (Saudi Standards), Ali Alghadhiyyah (Qassim University), Sherif Shabib (Qassim University), Ramiz Hamid (Saudi Standards), Waleed Alharbi (Saudi Standards), Khalid Aldawood (Saudi Standards)
A New Arbitrary Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach to Radiation Hydrodynamics
4:05–4:15PM CDT
Dylan Weatherred (LANL), HyeongKae Park (LANL), Cassiano R. de Oliveira (Univ. New Mexico)
High-Fidelity 3D Modeling of ISOLDE’s Electrostatic Bender in Xsuite
4:15–4:25PM CDT
Aarav M. Sindhwad (Univ. California, Berkeley)
Large Language Model Agents for Real-Time Monitoring of Lab Facilities
4:25–4:35PM CDT
Abhiram Garimidi (TAMU), Zaid Abulawi (TAMU), Yang Liu (TAMU)
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