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Areg Danagoulian elected 2024 American Physical Society Fellow
Areg Danagoulian, associate professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Nominated by the American Physical Society Forum on Physics and Society (FPS), Danagoulian was cited, “for seminal technological contributions in the field of arms...
Liam Hines: Aligning economic and regulatory frameworks for today’s nuclear reactor technology
Liam Hines might have moved to Sarasota, Florida only as a highschooler but he’s a Floridian through and through. He jokes that he’s even got a floral shirt, what he calls a “Florida Formal,” for every occasion. Which is why it broke...
COMMENCEMENT 2024
MIT’s commencement ceremony is on May 30th. Forty NSE students graduate this year. Graduating with Doctoral Degrees Jacob Adams PhDPatrick Adrian PhDGustavo Aguiar PhDRachel Bielajew PhDFlorian Chavagnat PhDBenjamin Dacus PhDRichard Ibekwe ScDEthan Klein PhDPeter Lalor PhDChristina Migliore PhDThanh Nguyen PhDMadhumitha Ravichandran PhDEli Sanchez PhDYu-Jou Wang PhD Graduating with...
Thomas Varnish: Studying astrophysically relevant plasma physics
Thomas Varnish loves his hobbies—knitting, baking, pottery, it’s a long list. His latest interest is analog film photography. A picture with his mother and another with his boyfriend are just a few of Varnish’s favorites. “These moments of human connection are the...
Nuclear Science and Engineering Annual Awards 2024
Marco Graffiedi (center), Manson Benedict Award winner, with Prof Matteo Bucci (left) and Prof Jacopo Buongiorno (right). Photo: Peter Brenton Mateo Pisinger (center), Roy Axford Award winner, with Prof Matteo Bucci (left) and Prof Jacopo Buongiorno (right). Photo: Peter Brenton Matthew Hughes...
David Lanning, Course 22 professor emeritus and key contributor to the MIT Reactor, dies at 96
Described as making his point clear while remaining soft-spoken, he would state what he felt was needed, pull his glasses down over his nose, then peer over them. Former students and colleagues termed it the “Lanning Look” and say there was no...
2024 NSE Research Expo
Friday, April 26, 2024. 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM ETKoch Institute, 500 Main Streetfirst floor Main Corridor and Galleries and Auditorium 76-156 The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering hosts its annual Research Expo on April 26, 2024. The event will...
Eli Sanchez: Modeling the threat of nuclear war
It’s a question that occupies significant bandwidth in the world of nuclear arms security: Could hypersonic missiles, which fly at speeds of least five times the speed of sound, increase the likelihood of nuclear war? Eli Sanchez, who completed his doctoral studies...
A first-ever complete map for elastic strain engineering
The “map”, or the phonon stability boundary, a graphical representation that plots the stability regions of a crystal as a function of strain. This map helps scientists and engineers determine the conditions under which a material can exist in a particular phase...
Guoqing Wang : Exploring quantum phenomena through an engineering perspective
Guoqing Wang loves to play the erhu, a Chinese stringed musical instrument, remembering lessons he learned from his father as a young boy. He sees similarities between the music from the bowed instrument and the research subject he works on today: quantum...