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UW-Madison: A Midwestern nucleus of fission and fusion
With more than six decades as a top-ranked program in its rearview, the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics (NEEP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is hardly slowing down. In fact, NEEP is continuing to grow and develop its faculty, curriculum, and research.
November 9–13, 2014
Nuclear-The Foundation of Clean Energy
Anaheim, CA|Disneyland Hotel
The Disneyland
General Chair:
Ed Halpin (CNO, PG&E)
Assistant General Chair:
Lynn E. Walter (Station Support Director, Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Pacific Gas & Electric Company)
Program Chair:
Patrick Pinhero (Professor, University of Missouri/Columbia)
Assistant Program Chairs:
John Bess (R&D Nuclear Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory)
Jim Byrne (Byrne and Associates LLC)
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Brian D. Wirth (Governor's Chair Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee)
Program Co-Chairs:
Vincent Chan (Theory and Computational Science Program Leader, General Atomics)
Rajesh Maingi (Head of Boundary & PFC Research, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
