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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|Sponsored by MCD
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
David P. Griesheimer
Alternate Chair:
Madicken Munk
Session Organizer:
Brian C. Kiedrowski
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (American Nuclear Society)
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Recent Memory Versions of Conditional Point Sampling for Transport in 1D Stochastic Media
Emily H. Vu (University of Michigan), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia National Laboratories)
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Arbitrary-Order Finite Element Discretization of the Radiation Diffusion Equation on Polygonal Grids
Michael W. Hackemack (Naval Nuclear Laboratory - KAPL)
Legendre Polynomial Expansion for Axial Transport Approximations
Nicholas F. Herring (University of Michigan), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Thomas J. Downar (University of Michigan)
The Analytic Basis Function method for solving the Sn Transport Equation
Zhipeng Li (CAEP Software Centre for High Performance Numerical Simulatio), Tangpei Cheng (CAEP Software Centre for High Performance Numerical Simulation), Shengcheng Zhou (CAEP Software Centre for High Performance Numerical Simulation)
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