| Atzmon, Michael |
Phase transformation and materials synthesis far from equilibrium. Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations far from equilibrium. Mechanical behavior of metallic glasses and nanocrystalline alloys. Mechanochemistry and materials processing by mechanical attrition. |
| Bielajew, Alex |
Analytic and numerical methods for electron and photon transport processes and their application in radiation dosimetry and radiotherapy cancer treatment. |
| Duderstadt, James J. |
Nuclear reactor theory and design (both fission and fusion), radiation transport theory, kinetic theory and statistical mechanics, interaction of intense laser and particle beams with plasmas, inertial confinement fusion, energy systems analysis, computer simulation and networking. |
| Ewing, Rodney |
Radioactive Waste Management and Radiation effects in complex ceramic materials. |
| Flaska, Marek |
Current research activities include the development of new methods for nuclear materials identification for nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear material control and accountability, and national security programs. The new methods involve the use of organic scintillation detectors and are investigated by means of measurements and Monte Carlo simulations. |
| Fleming, Ronald |
Neutron activation analysis, materials analysis using nuclear techniques, and radiation measurements. |
| Foster, John E. |
Low-temperature plasma science including the areas of propulsion plasmas, environmental plasmas, space and atmospheric plasma phenomena, energy conversion plasmas, and processing plasmas. |
| Gilgenbach, Ronald |
Z-pinches for inertial confinement fusion; high power microwave generation, medical applications of ultrawideband radiation. |
| Hammig, Mark |
Dr. Hammig's scientific work is currently focused in three areas: 1) radiation detector development, 2) stochastic systems' research, and 3) photonic devices. His current projects include: a) the detection of high explosives using neutron interrogation, b) the imaging of background radiation-sources using silicon detectors, c) mitigating the noise in electrical oscillators via active control, d) single-molecule chemical sensing and single-ion radiation sensing via mechanical structures, and e) the study of optical-solid interactions with applications for photonic thrusting. |
| Hartman, Michael R. |
Application of neutron scattering techniques to study the underlying physical properties of matter. Current research focuses on the development of high-capacity, reversible, hydrogen storage materials compatible with vehicular fuel cell applications. Additional areas of interest include nuclear reactor physics, nuclear reactor kinetics, and development of advanced, high-temperature nuclear reactors. |
| He, Zhong |
Development of position-sensitive room-temperature semiconductor radiation spectrometers and imaging devices, as well as gas and scintillation gamma-ray spectrometers. Development of multi-channel low-noise ASIC electronics, and application of gamma-ray imaging techniques. Applications: nuclear non-proliferation and arms control, homeland security, medical imaging, astrophysics, nuclear physics and high energy physics. |
| Holloway, James |
Neutron and photon transport theory, nuclear reactor physics and control, nonlinear dynamics, inverse problems, plasma kinetic theory, mathematical analysis of engineering problems, computational physics and engineering, primary energy production. |
| Jiao, Zhijie |
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| Kearfott, Kimberlee |
Radiation detection (environmental gamma-ray spectroscopy; semiconductor radiation detector systems; integrated monitoring systems), internal dose assessment (medical power reactor, research), radiation dosimetry (criticality dosimeters, thermoluminescent detectors, photoluminescent detectors, novel systems), radiation safety practice and regulation (medical and power reactor health physics), radon gas, low level and high level radioactive waste. |
| Krushelnick, Karl |
My research is in the area of ultra-high intensity laser plasma interactions. At the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) at Michigan we have several state-of-the-art high power short pulse laser systems including the "Hercules" laser - which will soon be operational at 0.5 Petawatts (1015 Watts). One major use of these laser systems is the development of "table-top" accelerators for both relativistic electrons and ions - and the subsequent production of narrow bandwidth x-ray sources. The interaction of intense laser pulses with high density targets is also important for "fast ignition" in inertial confinement fusion experiments. Our work in this area involves measurements of fast electron generation and propagation as well as measurements of the very large (Gigagauss) magnetic fields which can also be produced in these interactions. |
| Larsen, Edward |
I specialize in the development of analytic and numerical methods for nuclear reactor, neutron transport, nonlinear radiative transfer, electron transport, and medical physics problems. My theoretical work involves the derivation of exact, asymptotic, and numerical solutions and the analysis of their mathematical and physical properties. My more applied work involves (a) the development of approximation theories for special types of transport phenomena, (b) the implementation and testing of numerical approxi-mation schemes and iteration methods for deterministic transport problems, and (c) the implementation and testing of variance reduction schemes for Monte Carlo problems. |
| Lau, Yue Ying |
Theory of plasmas: high-power microwaves, ultra-intense laser plasma interaction, wire Z-pinch physics, heating phenomenology, rf discharge, nano-diodes, noise, intermodulation. |
| Lee, John |
Nuclear reactor theory, reactor core physics and design analysis, reactor kinetics, fuel cycle analysis, reactor safety analysis, power plant simulation and control. |
| Martin, William |
The development of computational methods for the solution of problems in neutron transport, reactor core analysis, reactor thermal hydraulics, and nonlinear radiation transport, including algorithms for advanced computer architectures. |
| Pozzi, Sara A. |
My research interests include the development of new methods for nuclear materials identification and characterization for nuclear nonproliferation and homeland security applications. My students and I are interested in the development of accurate and efficient simulation codes used to evaluate the neutron and photon field generated in nuclear and non-nuclear materials, together with the response of radiation detectors. We are also active in performing experimental work, which is used to acquire data for model validation. |
| Teysseyre, Sebastien |
Corrosion, stress corrosion cracking and irradiation stress corrosion cracking in supercritical water; crack propagation rate of austenitic alloys in supercritical water; stress corrosion cracking and irradiation stress corrosion cracking of cast materials. |
| Wang, Lu-Min |
Nuclear fuel cycles including development of new types of reactor fuels and waste management. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study of microstructure evolution of solids under irradiation of energetic particles. Particle beam modification of materials for engineering applications. Particle beam processing of nanostructures. |
| Was, Gary |
Radiation materials science, materials degradation and design for advanced reactor systems, materials processing with radiation, ion beam modification and analysis of materials, corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, hydrogen embrittlement, materials degradation modes, nuclear fuels and fuel materials. |
| Wehe, David |
Radiation detection, measurements, and applications. |
| Zhang, Feng |
My primary research interest is in the field of room-temperature semiconductor radiation detectors, especially in subtopics such as detector modeling and simulation, ASIC readout systems and reconstruction of radiation interaction events. Currently I am working on the development of the next generation 3-D position sensitive CdZnTe detector array systems. |
