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.
OSN PhD Candidate Kyle Latty presented his research on standoff detection of dry aerosol using laser ablation spectroscopy (including laser filaments) at the semi-annual LIBS 2022 Conference in Bari, Italy on Sept. 5th. His talk was extremely well received and… Read More
Kyle Latty successfully defended his Dissertation Proposal on Tuesday Aug. 23rd and advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy. His committee consisted of Prof. Hartig (Chair), Prof. Baciak, Prof. Watson, Prof. Ray (Physics), and Dr. Calvin Shipbaugh from DTRA (special external member).… Read More
Maya Hewitt a visiting undergraduate research scholar from the University of Rochester completed her DTRA supported research experience for military cadets in the OSN group at UF Thursday August 11th 2022. Maya worked in the the OSN group alongside PI… Read More
Emily Kwapis, a Ph.D. student in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded a Second Place prize in the Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Fuel and… Read More