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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Report spotlights energy sector’s growing nuclear investment
As part of a broader series on the future of global energy markets, S&P Global has released a report on examining the growing interest in nuclear power as the solution to many of the problems the energy sector faces.
To read the full details and conclusions of the report, click here.
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10:00–11:40AM MDT
Lawrence A|Deterministic Transport Methods and Applications
Session Chair: Brendan Kochunas|Alternate Chair: Ben Collins
Lawrence B|Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
Session Chair: David Griesheimer|Alternate Chair: John Tramm
Horace Tabor|Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification
Session Chair: Yousry Azmy|Alternate Chair: Ben Murphy
E.P. Ensley B|Special Session on Stochastic Geometry and Particle Branching Processes
Session Chair: Steven P. Hamilton|Alternate Chair: Paul K. Romano
E.P. Ensley A|Verification, Validation, and Benchmark Experiment Design
Session Chair: Gray S. Chang|Alternate Chair: Paul K. Romano
1:00–2:40PM MDT
Session Chair: Andrew Till|Alternate Chair: Brendan Kochunas
Session Chair: Elliott Biondo|Alternate Chair: David Griesheimer
Panel|Molly Brown|Nuclear Data Needs for Advanced Modeling and Simulation
Session Chair: Lee A. Bernstein|Alternate Chair: Christopher M. Perfetti
Session Chair: Ugur Mertyurek|Alternate Chair: Kevin Clarno
3:15–4:55PM MDT
Panel|Molly Brown|Best Practices and Cautionary Tales for AI/ML
Session Chair: Tara M. Pandya|Alternate Chair: Madicken Munk
Session Chair: Jae Chang|Alternate Chair: Mathew Cleveland
Session Chair: Ben Forget|Alternate Chair: Paul Cosgrove
E.P. Ensley A|Radiative Transfer Methods
Session Chair: Alex R. Long|Alternate Chair: Nick Gentile
Session Chair: Kevin Clarno|Alternate Chair: Ugur Mertyurek
8:00–9:40AM MDT
Session Chair: Farzad Rahnema|Alternate Chair: Thomas Saller
E.P. Ensley B|High-Performance Computing
Session Chair: Tara M. Pandya|Alternate Chair: Steven Hamilton
Panel|Molly Brown|Modeling and Simulation for Fusion Neutronics
Session Chair: Helen M. Brooks|Alternate Chair: Paul K. Romano
Session Chair: April Novak|Alternate Chair: Valeria Raffuzzi
Session Chair: Nick Gentile|Alternate Chair: Mathew Cleveland
Session Chair: Colin Weaver|Alternate Chair: Yousry Azmy
Session Chair: Thomas Saller|Alternate Chair: Andrew Till
Session Chair: Michael Rising|Alternate Chair: Ben Forget
Panel|Molly Brown|Performance VS Portability
Session Chair: Kendra P. Long|Alternate Chair: Steven P. Hamilton
Session Chair: Ben Murphy|Alternate Chair: Colin Weaver
Session Chair: Steven P. Hamilton|Alternate Chair: Gray S. Chang
Panel|Molly Brown|Challenges in Software Development for Nuclear Applications
Session Chair: Paul K. Romano|Alternate Chair: Steven P. Hamilton
Session Chair: Kyle Beling|Alternate Chair: Jae Chang
Horace Tabor|Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Session Chair: Majdi Radaideh|Alternate Chair: Benjamin Whewell
Session Chair: Valeria Raffuzzi|Alternate Chair: Paul Cosgrove
E.P. Ensley B|Nuclear Data and Nuclear Data Evaluations
E.P. Ensley A|Special Session on GPU Computing
Session Chair: Tim Burke|Alternate Chair: Tara Pandya
Panel|Molly Brown|MCD Career Retrospectives: Compiling a Successful Career in MCD
Session Chair: Christopher M. Perfetti|Alternate Chair: Forrest B. Brown
E.P. Ensley A|Special Session on Random Ray Transport
E.P. Ensley B|Advanced Reactor Design and Analysis - Circulating-Fuel Reactors
Molly Brown|Depletion Analysis Methods
E.P. Ensley A|Multi-Scale, Multi-Physics Simulations
E.P. Ensley B|Advanced Reactor Design and Analysis
Lawrence B|Special Session on Research Activities of the Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport (CEMeNT)
Horace Tabor|Computational Fluid Dynamics and Thermal Hydraulics
Lawrence A|Depletion Analysis Methods - Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis
Lawrence A|Depletion Analysis Methods
Horace Tabor|Special Session on Adjoint Methods
Session Chair: Steven P. Hamilton|Alternate Chairs: Paul K. Romano, Paul Romano
