Ph.D. Student and DoD SMART Fellow Emily H. Kwapis has published her 5th paper (4 as first author and now 1 as co-author) titled “”Laser-induced Plasmas of Plutonium Dioxide in a Double-Walled Cell” for publication in Applied Spectroscopy” in the… Read More
PhD Candidate Kyle Latty and Undergraduate Research Assistant Thiago Arnaud (Senior Physics, B.S.) have had their paper accepted in the journal Sensors titled “Ultrafast Laser-Excited Optical Emission of Xe under Loose-Focusing Conditions”. The article includes co-authors from University of Michigan… Read More
PhD Candidate Kyle Latty has had his third paper accepted in the journal Optics Express titled “Emission characteristics of bulk aerosols excited by externally focused femtosecond filaments”. The article includes co-authors from University of Michigan Prof. Igor Jovanovic Dr. Milos… Read More
Prof. Hartig, the PI for the Optical Science and Nonproliferation Group at UF, was selected by Savannah River National Laboratory to receive a Joint Appointment with the laboratory. This joint appointment will advacne SNRL’s core competency in sensing, characterizing, assessing… Read More
OSN PI Professor Kyle C. Hartig received the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) Early Career Award at the 2023 Joint INMM & ESARDA Annual Meeting in Vienna Austria. https://inmm.org/page/earlycareeraward Prof. Hartig would like to thank Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering… Read More
Optical Science and Nonproliferation (OSN) Group Ph.D. Student and DoD SMART Fellow Emily H. Kwapis has published her fourth journal article titled “Experimental and Computational Investigation into the Hydrodynamics and Chemical Dynamics of Laser Ablation Aluminum Plasmas” in the high-impact… Read More
Congrats to Thiago Arnaud (Undergraduate OSN Group Research Assistant) who has been awarded one of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) University Nuclear Leadership Program (UNLP) Scholarships. The scholarship will support Thiago through a $10,000 award that will pay for his… Read More
Undergraduate (B.S. Physics 2024) OSN Member Thiago Arnaud has been selected for a prestigous internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory this summer in the Laser Technology and Applications Group. Congrats Thiago!
Congrats to first-year PhD Student Justin Borrero on receiving the DoD SMART Fellowship that will start in Fall 2023. His sponsoring facility will be Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, NM and will be working in their hypersonics directorate. Congrats Justin!
First year Ph.D. Student Justin Borrero will be joining LLNL this summer as part of their prestigous Glenn T. Seaborg Institute as a Seaborg Graduate Intern. He will be working with LLNL Staff Scientist Batikan Koroglu on spectroscopy of explosives… Read More