Emily Kwapis represented the MTV Consortium and the OSN Group through an oral presentation at the annual NNSA University Program Review Meeting held this year at UC Berkeley. Congrats Emily!
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PhD Candidate Emily Kwapis Presents Research in Vienna
Emily Kwapis presented her research at the Joint INMM & ESARDA Annual Meeting next door to the IAEA in Vienna, Austria. Congrats Emily.
Prof. Hartig Receives INMM Early Career Award
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
Emily Kwapis Publishes Fourth Paper!
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
Thiago Arnaud Awarded DOE University Nuclear Leadership Scholarship
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
Thiago Arnaud Selected for Prestigious MIT Lincoln Laboratory Internship
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!
PhD Student Justin Borrero Awarded DoD SMART Fellowship
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!
Ph.D. Student Justin Borrero Selected for LLNL Seaborg Graduate Internship
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
Emily Kwapis Wins Best Journal Article Award at MTV Workshop
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
Emily H. Kwapis has published her third paper!
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