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

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