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Sara NormanOctober 30, 2023

Meet the professors with dry appointments at NERS

Portrait of Mark Kushner, Rebecca K. Lindsey, Martha Matuszak, and Louise Willingale.

Mark Kushner, Rebecca K. Lindsey, Martha Matuszak, and Louise Willingale offer substainial expertise in plasma science, chemical physics, radiation oncology, and intense laser-plasma interactions.

Sara NormanOctober 30, 2023

John Lee teaches course at Seoul National University

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NERS Professor Emeritus John Lee taught a course in nuclear fuel cycle at his alma mater.

Sara NormanOctober 26, 2023

Mackenzie Warwick shines at the NEA Global Forum Rising Stars Workshop

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The NERS PhD student presented her research into testing creep behavior with ion irradiation. 

Sara NormanOctober 25, 2023

Carolyn Kuranz honored with the Faculty Achievement Award

Carolyn Kuranz Portrait

This esteemed recognition acknowledges Kuranz’s exceptional contributions to research, teaching, mentorship, and service.

Sara NormanOctober 17, 2023

Todd Allen will support Midwest hydrogen hub

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The Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen will produce hydrogen by using nuclear energy.

Sara NormanOctober 13, 2023

Exploring the World and Expanding Horizons

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Jeanie Qi’s Study Abroad Journey and Engineering Physics Pursuit

Sara NormanSeptember 25, 2023

Hidden variables and neural networks for complex plasma physics

A single step in the training loop is illustrated. A batch of physical parameters is chosen. (Bottom) Those parameters are then fed to a kinetic simulator and an observable is calculated. (Top) The same parameters are fed to the differentiable fluid simulator that includes the machine learned hidden variable. This system is evolved in time over the same duration as the kinetic simulation. The observables from each simulation are used for calculating the loss function. The loss, and more importantly, the gradient of the loss with respect to the weights of the function approximator is computed. That gradient is used by an optimization algorithm to update the weights of the hidden variable model. The updated weights are used in the next batch of simulations. In practice, we precalculate the reference simulations.

Research by Archis Joglekar and Alexander Thomas published in Machine Learning: Science and Technology.

Sara NormanSeptember 19, 2023

Michigan Engineering honors NERS alumnus Eric Esarey with Department Merit Award

graphic depicting eric Esarey, the BELLA laser, and the Phoenix Project building

Esarey is the Director of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Sara NormanSeptember 13, 2023

NERS collaborates with INL and industry partners to advance innovative heat exchanger technology for harsh environments

Schematics illustrating the proposed manufacturing technique to make refractory alloy compact heat exchangers (CHX). (a) AM of sacrificial channels; (b) AJP of sensors; (c) powder consolidation using EFAS; (d) sintered CHX; (e) removal of sacrificial channels; and (f) final CHX with customized channels.

Professor Stephen Raiman will head the research efforts for NERS in the DOE-funded project.

Sara NormanSeptember 11, 2023

$1.2 million for laser target research laboratory

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The Michigan Target Research and Fabrication Laboratory will design targets and a soft robot for high-intensity laser experiments.

Sara NormanAugust 28, 2023

Stephen Raiman given NRC Distinguished Faculty Development Award

Stephen Raiman Portrait

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission award will support a new junior faculty member.

Sara NormanAugust 17, 2023

PhD student Peter Hotvedt co-authored paper published in Frontiers in Physiology 

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The paper examines the intricacies of asthma and its impact on lung ventilation.

Sara NormanJuly 21, 2023

Kevin Field and Stephen Raiman named new directors of NERS materials labs

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The founder and original director of the three labs, Gary Was, stepped down on July 1.

Sara NormanJuly 6, 2023

Majdi Radaideh wins DOE Distinguished Early Career Award

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RAD’s research seeks to develop new algorithms for optimizing and controlling advanced nuclear reactors.

Sara NormanJune 26, 2023

NERS faculty receive $6.5M in DOE funding awards

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $56 million in funding for 68 nuclear energy projects The U-M Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS) has received $6.5 million in funding to lead five projects to advance nuclear technology. Grand Challenge to Accelerated Deployment of Advanced Reactors – A Predictive Pathway for Rapid […]

Sara NormanJune 19, 2023

NERS Students Geneve Magnan, Julia Marshall, Roxanne Walker, and Isabella Wood win ANS Scholarships

Geneve Magnan, Julia Marshall, Roxanne Walker, and Isabella Wood headshots

American Nuclear Society scholarship recipients are chosen for their academic, service, and leadership excellence.

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