by Timothy Phero | Jul 25, 2023 | Pre-2010 News
An MSTD luncheon was held on Wednesday of the 2005 Winter Meeting in Washington, DC. Attendees included: Seated (L to R): Ron Ballinger, Hannah Yount, Doug Crawford, Standing (L to R): Jim Stubbins, Sean McDeavitt, Kenan Unlu, Todd Allen, Travis W. Knight, Ken Geelhood. An awards luncheon will be held at the 2006 Winter Meeting in Albuquerque,...
by Timothy Phero | Jul 25, 2023 | Pre-2010 News
Two sessions are planned for the 2005 Winter Meeting in Washington, DC on Fuels and Materials for Gas Cooled Reactors and Fuel Performance Modeling in Fuels and Materials. Jim Cole will be organizing the sessions on Gas-cooled reactors while Ron Ballinger will be organizing the sessions on fuel...
by Timothy Phero | Jul 25, 2023 | Pre-2010 News
MSTD supported two sessions at the 2004 Winter meeting, titled Advances in Materials Testing and Analysis and Development and Testing of Fuels for Advanced Reactors. Thanks to John Lambert and Robert Hanrahan for organizing the sessions.
by Timothy Phero | Jul 25, 2023 | Pre-2010 News
At the 2004 Winter meeting, MSTD held an Honors & Awards ceremony. Awards were presented for significant accomplishments over the time period 2000-2003. Outstanding achievement Awards were presented to Arden Bement Everett Bloom Jack Carpenter Gary Was for outstanding achievement over their careers. A Special Achievement Award was presented to Ron Klueh for his book with Don Harries on the properties of irradiated ferritic-martensitic steels. For outstanding papers presented at ANS meetings, Significant Contribution Awards were presented to: Ji Hyun Kim Travis Knight Sean McDeavitt Literary Awards were presented to: Todd Allen Jeremy Busby Bob Odette Brian Wirth A student literary award was presented to Alan Bolind for his presentation at an ANS...
by Timothy Phero | Jul 25, 2023 | Pre-2010 News
On July 17th – 29th the NATO sponsored 32nd International School on Solid State Physics was held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily, Italy. The topic of this course was Radiation Effects in Solids, which was last addressed in an international school held at the University of Illinois in 1993. Pictured above: Neal Ham, Julie Tucker, Micah Hackett, Gaurav Gupta, Clay Dickerson, Erin Haney, Gabriel Sawakuchi, and Maria Okuniewski pictured after the school ended. Eight graduate students from the United States were able to attend the course with partial support from the Material Science and Technology Division. Neal Ham, Micah Hackett and Gaurav Gupta from the University of Michigan, Julie Tucker, Clay Dickerson and Erin Haney from the University of Wisconsin, Gabriel Sawakuchi from Oklahoma State University and Maria Okuniewski from the University of Illinois participated. Course participants enjoyed lectures and laboratories with international experts in areas such as fundamentals of radiation damage, characterizing radiation damage using electron microscopy, ion beam irradiation, irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking, molecular dynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo and much...
