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!
Ph.D. Student and DoD SMART Fellow Emily H. Kwapis has published her second paper titled “Spectroscopic signatures and oxidation characteristics of nanosecond laser–induced cerium plasmas” in the journal Spectrochimica Acta: Part B Atomic Spectroscopy. This paper was co-authored by SRNL… Read More
OSN Group Undergraduate Research Assistant Thiago Arnaud was participated in a comprehensive radiological search and response exercise hosted by at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) where he go the opportunity to be a part of simulated U.S. Military units… Read More
Ph.D. candidates Kyle Latty and Emily Kwapis, both DoD SMART Fellows, each presented an invited talk in the “Nuclear” session at the annual SciX conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kyle’s talk was titled “Laser Ablation Spectroscopy for Radioactive Plume Detection” and… Read More
The OSN group hosted Prof. Jonathan Merten from Arkansas State University at UF in the OSN laboratory to conduct laser absorption spectroscopy measurements as part of an NSF sponsored RUI award.