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
PhD Student and DoD SMART Fellow Emily Kwapis won the inaugural MTV NNSA Consortium Best Student Journal Article Award for her published article in Spectrochim. Acta B titled “Spectroscopic signatures and oxidation characteristics of nanosecond laser-induced cerium plasmas.” She also… Read More
Ph.D. Student and DoD SMART Fellow Emily H. Kwapis has published her third paper titled “Shock Physics and Shadowgraphic Measurements of Laser-Produced Cerium Plasmas” in the journal Optics Express. This paper was co-authored by Maya Hewitt from University of Rochester… Read More
Ph.D. Student and DoD SMART Fellow Kyle S. Latty has published his second paper titled “Elemental fractionation in aerosol laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy with nanosecond and femtosecond laser ablation” in the journal Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy. Permanent Link to… Read More
The Nuclear Engineering Program at UF has been selected to lead the NNSA Nuclear Forensics Consortium. The 5 year, 25 million dollar program involves 16 Universities and ~30 Co-PIs lead by UF. We will establish the Consortium for Nuclear Forensics… Read More
Ph.D. Student and DoD SMART Fellow Kyle S. Latty has published his first paper titled “Spatiotemporal plasma-particle characterization of dry aerosols using nanosecond, femtosecond, and filament laser-produced plasmas” in the journal Applied Spectroscopy. Permanent Link to Article Congrats Kyle!