ICTT-29 Detailed Program
Preliminary program. Speaker order and session titles may be adjusted before the final program is published.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30–9:00 | Registration and welcome | |
| 9:00–9:25 | Anil K. Prinja | STOCHASTIC THEORY OF NEUTRON TRANSPORT IN NON-MARKOVIAN MEDIA WITH AGE-DEPENDENT FREE FLIGHTS |
| 9:25–9:50 | Eugene d’Eon | High precision benchmarks for n-ary Markov stochastic rods |
| 9:50–10:15 | Richard Sanchez | A statistical Analysis of the Double Heterogeneity Problem. Part II. |
| 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 | JEAN-LUC GUERMOND | 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 | William Bennett | Nested quadratures for error estimation and solution acceleration in discrete ordinates calculations |
| 15:10–15:40 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00–16:25 | Kacim François-Élie | HIGH ORDER MOC SCHEME ACCELERATED BY DPN |
| 16:25–16:50 | Liliane Basso Barichello | A Study on the Asymptotic Convergence of the Angular and Spatial Discretizations of the Two-Dimensional Particle Transport Equation |
| 16:50–17:15 | Atharva Deshpande | LATTICE BOLTZMANN FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIDIMENSIONAL COUPLED NEUTRON TRANSPORT WITH RAY-EFFECTS MITIGATION |
| 17:15 | Adjourn |
Tuesday
Radiative Transfer, Complex Media, Posters, and Data-Driven Methods
Tuesday Morning: Radiative Transfer in Complex 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 | Jim E. Morel | A Fractional Differential Operator Arising From Henyey-Greenstein Scattering in the Forward-Peaked Limit |
| 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 | |
| 11:00–11:25 | Poster lightning talks, block 2 | |
| 11:25–11:50 | Poster lightning talks, block 3 | |
| 11:50–13:30 | 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 |
| 14:45–15:10 | Paul ROVEL | A Variance Decomposition Formula for Direct and Adjoint Transport Problems |
| 15:10–15:40 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00–16:25 | Ariel Marquez | A Shape-Derivative Framework for Spatial Optimization in Neutron Transport |
| 16:25–16:50 | Farzad Rahnema | NEW SPATIAL EXPANSION METHOD FOR COARSE MESH COUPLED NEUTRON-PHOTON TRANSPORT CODE |
Wednesday
Radiative Transfer, Marshak Waves, Scattering, and Applications
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30–8:55 | Menahem Krief | Generalized Self-Similar Solutions of Subsonic Marshak Waves |
| 8:55–9:20 | Shay I. Heizler | Modeling Supersonic Marshak Wave Experiments |
| 9:20–9:45 | Frisch Hélène | Radiative transfer with partially frequency coherent scattering |
| 9:45–10:10 | Elad Steinberg | Implicit Compton Scattering for Deterministic Methods |
| 10:10–10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Tristan Lagache | Recent progress in full non–LTE radiation transfer in astrophysics |
| 11:05–11:30 | Dmitriy Anistratov | Space-Time Discretization Schemes with Reconstruction for the Radiative Transfer Equation |
| 11:30–11:55 | Fabien RICHARD | DECAY ESTIMATES FOR LINEARISED THICK SPRAY MODELS |
Thursday
Spatial Discretization, Spectral Transport, Deterministic Methods, and Monte Carlo
Thursday Morning: High-Order, Geometry-Conforming, and Spectral Deterministic Methods
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30–9:00 | Morning announcements | |
| 9:00–9:25 | Ciaran Jones | A Discontinuous Bubnov-Galerkin NURBS-Enhanced Spectral Element Method for the Spatial Discretisation of the Multi-group Neutron Transport Equation |
| 9:25–9:50 | 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 |
| 9:50–10:15 | Daniel Beer | Control Volume Isogeometric Analysis Spatial Discretization Methods for the Steady-State Multi-group Neutron Diffusion Equation |
| 10:15–10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40–11:10 | Theodore Jeremy Macklin | CAD-Conforming Virtual Element Discretizations for Elliptic and First-Order Formulations of the Neutron Transport Equation |
| 11:10–11:35 | Nicolò Abrate | On the Complex Spectrum of the Streaming Eigenvalue in Neutron Transport |
| 11:35–12:00 | Erez Gilad | Spectral factorization and quasi-static approximation for time-dependent neutron transport |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch |
Thursday Afternoon: Monte Carlo, Random Rays, Tallies, and Nonlinear Search
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30–13:55 | B.D. Ganapol | Solution to the Fokker-Planck Equation by Lagrange Interpolation |
| 13:55–14:20 | Esmae Woods | CONVERGENCE OF MONTE CARLO ζ-EIGENVALUE FORMULATIONS |
| 14:20–14:45 | Lucy Bland | Fourier Analysis of The Random Ray Method for k-eigenvalue Problems |
| 14:45–15:10 | Ana Jambrina | A Backward Monte Carlo Method for Fast and Efficient Neutron Transport Simulations |
| 15:10–15:40 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00–16:25 | Martin Skretteberg | Multi-dimensional Extension of Monte Carlo Functional Expansion Tallies and the Histogram Approximation |
| 16:25–16:50 | Joseph Farmer | Generative Monte Carlo Sampling for Constant-Cost Particle Transport |
| 16:50–17:15 | Valeria Raffuzzi | Design-oriented non-linear searches for Monte Carlo fixed source problems |
| 17:15 | Adjourn |
Friday
Kinetic Transport, Charged Particles, Semiconductors, and Plasmas
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30–8:55 | Giorgio Valocchi | Effect of Projection Methods on Kinetic Eigenvalues: Insights from a transient and on their connection to physical degrees of freedom |
| 8:55–9:20 | Giovanni Nastasi | Modeling and simulation of graphene-based electronic devices through the Boltzmann transport equation |
| 9:20–9:45 | Jan Bartsch | Faster-than-adiabatic cooling of non-neutral plasmas |
| 9:45–10:10 | Olivier Soulard | Charged-Particle Stopping in Non-Markovian Random Media |
| 10:10–10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40–11:05 | Orazio Muscato | Electron decoherence in a semiconductor due to electron-phonon scattering |
| 11:05–11:30 | Vito Dario Camiola | Hydrodynamical model for a GaAs Resonant Tunneling Diode |
| 11:30–11:55 | Vittorio Romano | High order Schrödinger equation for ballistic charge transport in a Resonant Tunneling Diode |
| 11:55–12:15 | Closing remarks | |
| 12:15 | Adjourn |