ICTT-29 Detailed Program
Final program.
The oral program is organized as a single-track meeting with thematic half-day sessions.
Poster lightning talks are scheduled on Tuesday morning, followed by the poster session later that day.
Monday
Transport Theory, Spectra, Stochastic Media, and Deterministic Foundations
Monday Morning: Mathematical and Stochastic Transport Foundations
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00–8:30 | Registration | |
| 8:00–9:00 | Conference Opening | |
| 9:00–9:25 | Jim E. Morel | A Fractional Differential Operator Arising From Henyey-Greenstein Scattering in the Forward-Peaked Limit |
| 9:25–9:50 | Richard Sanchez | A statistical Analysis of the Double Heterogeneity Problem. |
| 9:50–10:15 | William Bennett | Nested quadratures for error estimation and solution acceleration in discrete ordinates calculations |
| 10:15–10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40–11:10 | Axel Fauvel | On the spectrum of the critical formulation of the linear transport operator |
| 11:10–11:35 | Benjamin Dechenaux | A Field-Theoretic Perspective on Neutron Noise and Critical Phenomena in Nuclear Reactors |
| 11:35–12:00 | John Kuczek | A New Generalized Advection Implementation for Photon Transport |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch |
Monday Afternoon: Deterministic Formulations, Angular Methods, and Acceleration
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30–13:55 | Wyatt Smith | Conservative, positivity preserving and asymptotic preserving approximation of the transport equation |
| 13:55–14:20 | Charles Bienvenue | A Sweepable PN Method for Multidimensional Radiation Transport Enabled by Restricted-Angle Spherical Harmonics |
| 14:20–14:45 | Dean Wang | On an S2-Based Nonlinear Acceleration Scheme |
| 14:45–15:10 | Emiliano Masiello | Positive Semidefinite Transport Correction to Prevent Negative PN Scattering Source Contributions in Discrete-Ordinates Simulations |
| 15:10–15:40 | Coffee break | |
| 15:40–16:05 | Kacim François-Élie | High Order Moc Scheme Accelerated By DPN |
| 16:05–16:30 | Liliane Basso Barichello | A Study on the Asymptotic Convergence of the Angular and Spatial Discretizations of the Two-Dimensional Particle Transport Equation |
| 16:30–16:55 | Atharva Deshpande | Lattice Boltzmann Framework For Multidimensional Coupled Neutron Transport With Ray-Effects Mitigation |
| 17:00 | Adjourn |
Tuesday
Radiative Transfer, Complex Media, Posters, and Data-Driven Methods
Tuesday Morning: Radiative Transfer and Complex Random Media
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00–8:20 | Welcome and announcements | |
| 8:20–8:45 | Ansar Calloo | Towards Deterministic Numerical Solutions Of Radiative Heat Transfer For Some Non-Beerian Porous Media |
| 8:45–9:10 | Christophe Gomez | Radiative transfer for random media with long-range correlations |
| 9:10–9:35 | Eugene d’Eon | High precision benchmarks for n-ary Markov stochastic rods |
| 9:35–10:00 | Wojciech Jarosz | A Unified Transport Model for Correlated Disorder: Microfacets, volumes, porous materials, and beyond |
| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30–11:00 | Poster lightning talks, block 1 | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Poster lightning talks, block 2 | |
| 11:30–12:00 | Poster lightning talks, block 3 | |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch |
Tuesday Afternoon: Learning, Adjoints, Optimization, and Hybrid Transport
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30–13:55 | Daniel Messenger | A weak form equation learning framework for thermal radiation transport in optically thin media |
| 13:55–14:20 | Bogdan Stepanovic | Transport in heterogeneous random media using machine learning |
| 14:20–14:45 | Michael Pozulp | Progress Towards a Hybrid Monte Carlo-Deterministic Method for Gray Thermal Radiative Transfer with Fully-Implicit Emission-Absorption Physics |
| 14:45–15:15 | Coffee break | |
| 15:15–15:40 | Paul Rovel | A Variance Decomposition Formula for Direct and Adjoint Transport Problems |
| 15:40–16:05 | Farzad Rahnema | New Spatial Expansion Method For Coarse Mesh Coupled Neutron-Photon Transport Code |
| 16:05–16:30 | Ariel Marquez | A Shape-Derivative Framework for Spatial Optimization in Neutron Transport |
Tuesday Evening: Poster Session (18:00–20:00)
| Presenter | Title |
|---|---|
| Alexander Davis | Uncertainty quantification and propagation in point-kinetics modeling of reactivity insertion events |
| Atharva Deshpande | The H-Theorem And Entropy Maximization: Stationary Distributions For Different Carrier Transport Systems |
| Atharva Deshpande | Spectrum-Informed Lattice Quadrature Weights For Different Particle Transport |
| Bowen Cui | An Optimized Discrete Ordinates Solution For Fast Reactor Cores |
| Brassart Amélie | A POD and Greedy Reduced Order Method for the stationary Neutron Diffusion Equation – Application to Nuclear Core computation in APOLLO3® |
| C. Oliver Adams | Comparison of Anisotropic Scattering Models within Coupled Neutron and Gamma-Ray Photon Nuclear Reactor Physics Simulations |
| Alain Hebert | Setup of LFR Full-Core Calculations with DRAGON/DONJON v5.1 |
| Jambrina Ana | A Stochastic Matrix-Exponential Framework Applied to Burnup Simulations |
| Jean C. Ragusa | OpenSn: An Open-Source, Massively Parallel Discrete-Ordinates Transport Code for Arbitrary Polyhedral Meshes |
| Jim E. Morel | Minimally-Invasive Discontinuous Angular Discretizations for the 1-D Spherical-Geometry Sn Equations |
| Joanna Piper Morgan | Second Moment Acceleration for Incident Fluxes on Cell Surfaces |
| Kenley Brown | Features Of The Solution To The Neutron Transport Equation In Assembly Calculations And Convergence Of The Scalar Flux |
| Maor Mizrachi | A Scalable RDMA Scheme for MCRT Communication in Distributed-Memory Simulations |
| Mario De Florio | Physics-Informed Machine Learning meets the extreme benchmark challenge of the CATS nuclear reactor point kinetics equations |
| O’Brien, Matt | Acceleration Of 3d Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations Via Cylindrical Projection |
| Pablo Vaquer | A Linear-Discontinuous Finite-Element Reconstruction Based On Monte Carlo Surface-Flux Estimates |
| Raphaël Guasch | New Functionalities For Bwr Fuel Assembly Calculations In The Dragon5 Lattice Code |
| Ricardo C. Barros | A Response Matrix-Constant Nodal Method for Coarse-Mesh Solutions of One-Speed, Discrete Ordinates Neutral Particle Transport Problems in Three-Dimensional Cartesian Geometry |
| Roberto David Martinez Garcia | Revisiting Mark’s Three-Region Problem In Spherical Geometry |
| Sami Machach | High-Fidelity 2D Full-Core Transport Calculations with depletion for Large PWR Reflector Parameter Characterization using ALAMOS and APOLLO3® |
| William Bennett | Weak-DMD: Noise resilient time-eigenvalue estimates for neutron transport |
Wednesday
Radiative Transfer, Time-Dependent Transport, and Transient Dynamics
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:15–8:40 | Ramot Tal | Generalized Self-Similar Solutions of Subsonic Marshak Waves |
| 8:40–9:05 | Yuval Kochavi | Modeling Supersonic Marshak Wave Experiments |
| 9:05–9:30 | Frisch Hélène | Radiative transfer with partially frequency coherent scattering |
| 9:30–9:55 | Elad Steinberg | Implicit Compton Scattering for Deterministic Methods |
| 9:55–10:25 | Coffee break | |
| 10:25–10:50 | Tristan Lagache | Recent progress in full non–LTE radiation transfer in astrophysics |
| 10:50–11:15 | Dmitriy Anistratov | Asymptotic Equilibrium Diffusion Limit of Space-Time Discretization Schemes with Reconstruction for the Radiative Transfer Equation |
| 11:15–11:40 | Giorgio Valocchi | Effect of Projection Methods on Kinetic Eigenvalues: Insights from a transient and on their connection to physical degrees of freedom |
Wednesday afternoon
Social Networking Event: Cassis
Thursday
Transport-Equation Models, Spatial Discretization, and Spectral Transport
Thursday Morning: Fokker-Planck, Coupled Transport, Plasmas, and Charged-Particle Models
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30–8:55 | B.D. Ganapol | Solution to the Fokker-Planck Equation by Lagrange Interpolation |
| 8:55–9:20 | Fabien Richard | Decay Estimates For Linearised Thick Spray Models |
| 9:20–9:45 | Olivier Soulard | Charged-Particle Stopping in Non-Markovian Random Media |
| 9:45–10:10 | Jan Bartsch | Faster-than-adiabatic cooling of non-neutral plasmas |
| 10:10–10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Giovanni Nastasi | Modeling and simulation of graphene-based electronic devices through the Boltzmann transport equation |
| 11:05–11:30 | Orazio Muscato | Electron decoherence in a semiconductor due to electron-phonon scattering |
| 11:30–11:55 | Vittorio Romano | High order Schrödinger equation for ballistic charge transport in a Resonant Tunneling Diode |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch |
Thursday Afternoon: High-Order, Geometry-Conforming, and Spectral Deterministic Methods
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30–13:55 | Ciaran Jones | A Discontinuous Bubnov-Galerkin NURBS-Enhanced Spectral Element Method for the Spatial Discretisation of the Multi-group Neutron Transport Equation |
| 13:55–14:20 | Jimmy van de Worp | Three-Dimensional Discontinuous Bubnov-Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis Discrete Ordinate Methods for the First-Order Form of the Neutron Transport Equation with Anisotropic Dispersion and Dissipation Analysis |
| 14:20–14:45 | Daniel Beer | Control Volume Isogeometric Analysis Spatial Discretization Methods for the Steady-State Multi-group Neutron Diffusion Equation |
| 14:45–15:10 | Theodore Jeremy Macklin | CAD-Conforming Virtual Element Discretizations for Elliptic and First-Order Formulations of the Neutron Transport Equation |
| 15:10 | Adjourn |
Thursday Evening
Conference Banquet
Friday
Monte Carlo, Random Rays, Tallies, and Nonlinear Search
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30–8:55 | Matthew Jessee | Investigation of Anisotropic Scattering Matrix Tallying Methods in the Shift Monte Carlo Transport Code |
| 8:55–9:20 | Esmae Woods | Convergence Of Monte Carlo ζ-Eigenvalue Formulations |
| 9:20–9:45 | Lucy Bland | Fourier Analysis of The Random Ray Method for k-eigenvalue Problems |
| 9:45–10:10 | Ana Jambrina | A Backward Monte Carlo Method for Fast and Efficient Neutron Transport Simulations |
| 10:10–10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Martin Skretteberg | Multi-dimensional Extension of Monte Carlo Functional Expansion Tallies and the Histogram Approximation |
| 11:05–11:30 | Joseph Farmer | Generative Monte Carlo Sampling for Constant-Cost Particle Transport |
| 11:30–11:55 | Valeria Raffuzzi | Design-oriented non-linear searches for Monte Carlo fixed source problems |
| 11:55–12:15 | Closing remarks | |
| 12:15 | Adjourn |