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TMS 2023 conference, (March 19–23, 2023) San Diego Convention Center & Hilton San Diego Bayfront | San Diego, California, USA.

ANS Annual Meeting 2023 (June 11–14, 2023) Marriott Indianapolis Downtown, Indianapolis, IN, USA.



Lab News:-

Nov 7, 2022:
Congratulations to Mehadi for his successful Ph.D. defense. His thesis focused on the characterization of materials properties in Additively Manufactured AISI-420 martensitic steel deposited by Laser engineered net shaping. 
From left to right: Dr. Shen, Dr. Osman, Mehadi, Dr. Tariq, Dr. Pankaj



July 14, 2022:
Congratulations to Brandon for his successful MS defense. His thesis was focused on the Joining of Candidate Materials for Lead-Cooke Fast Reactors.

Congratulation Aidana Bauyrzhan and Daria Bolgova for their MS degree from the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UNM.

May 23, 2022:
Congratulations to Brandon for getting a summer Intern in MST-8 group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Congratulations to Jared for getting a summer Intern and fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

April 27, 2022:
Congratulation to Khaled Talaat for publishing a journal paper in Nuclear Science and Engineering Journal.
"Lagrangian Investigation of Convective Mass Transfer of Dissolved Elements at Specimen Boundaries in a Flowing Molten Lead Loop"
 Please feel free to […]


March 23, 2022:
Congratulations to Khaled Talaat for his successful Ph.D. defense passed with Distinction. His thesis was focused on the "Computational methods, investigations, and codes to support corrosion experiments in molten lead and transfer to reactor conditions"




March 01, 2022:
Mehadi gave a talk on 'The Effect of Preheating Substrate on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties in Laser Deposited Martensitic Steel' Symposium on Additive Manufacturing: Additive Manufacturing of Large-scale Metallic Components, TMS 2022 Annual Meeting.

Brandon gave a talk on 'Joining of FeCrAl Based Alloys for Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Applications' Symposium on Corrosion: Environmental Degradation of Multiple Principal Component Materials, TMS 2022 Annual Meeting.

Feb 01, 2022:
Congratulations to Mehadi for the GRA position (year-round Intern) in MST-8 group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Congratulations to Cemal for the full-time position as Nuclear Engineer at Curio LV.  


December 03, 2021:
Jake Noltensmeyer presented his work at ANS 2021 Winter Meeting and Technology Expo conference. "Examination of Lead-Bismuth Corrosion of SS309 at High Velocities at 500C"



December 02, 2021:
Brandon presented his work at ANS 2021 Winter Meeting and Technology Expo conference. "Joining of FeCrAl Based Alloys for Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Applications"


November 10, 2021:

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2021) ( Nov 1- 4, 2021)

Oct 29, 2021:
Congratulation to Khaled for publishing a journal paper in the Nuclear Engineering and Design
"Design of specimen holders for flow accelerated corrosion experiments in molten lead with numerical evaluation of pressure losses" Please feel free to […]


Oct 28, 2021:

Congratulation to Khaled for publishing a paper in the Corrosion in Heavy Liquid Metals for Energy Systems.
"Leveraging Neutronics to Monitor Mass Transfer Corrosion in Lead and Lead-Bismuth Cooled Reactors" Please feel free to […]


September 28, 2021:
Congratulation to Dr. Madhavan for publishing a paper in the Journal of Nuclear Materials
"Layer dissolution in accumulative roll bonded bulk Zr/Nb multilayers under heavy-ion irradiation" Please feel free to […]



August 27, 2021:
 Dr. Madhavan’s
going away breakfast party.



August 1, 2021:
Daria Bolgova, Aidana Bauyrzhan, XiaTong Yang,
Graduate students joined our group. Welcome, Daria, Aidana and Yang !


July 19, 2021:
Congratulation to Dr. Madhavan for publishing a paper in the Additive Manufacturing Journal
"
Microstructures and Properties of Ti/TiC Composites Fabricated by Laser-Directed Energy Deposition" This is an open-access journal article. Please feel free to […]


June 1, 2021:
Jake Noltensmeyer,
Graduate student joined our group. Welcome, Jake!


May 20, 2021:
Congratulation to Cemal and Shuprio! They won a very prestigious Year-round  Internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory! Congratulations!


April 20, 2021:
Congratulation to Dr. Madhavan for publishing a paper in the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance.
"Joining of Nanostructured Ferritic 14YWT Alloys by Spark Plasma Technique" This is an open-access journal article. Please feel free to […]


March 29, 2021:
XMAT Research Featured on Major News Outlets
Imperial.ac.uk News "COVID-19 research: sneeze guards may make flights safer"


March 16, 2021:
Congratulation to Khaled for publishing a paper in AIP Physics of Fluids
"Simulation of aerosol transmission on a Boeing 737 airplane with intervention measures for COVID-19 mitigation" This is an open-access journal article. Please feel free to […]


February 22, 2021:
UNM nuclear engineers part of $25 million Department of Energy consortium
UNM’s share of the project is $1.25 million. The team will focus on materials synthesis and additive manufacturing, and modeling radiation transport in strongly stochastic environments to conduct research in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) mission-critical areas...

XMAT Research Featured on Major News Outlets (Oct 20, 2020)
CNN News 
"Simulation suggests open windows and glass barriers might help reduce Covid-19 spread in classrooms."
Business Insider 
"A simulation of coronavirus spread in a classroom found kids in the back corners were safest. Here's why."
ZME Science 
"To keep COVID-19 at bay in classrooms, open windows and use glass screens in front of desks."
Reuters "COVID-19 complication rates far higher than for flu; open windows, partitions advised for classrooms."
Folha De S. Paulo "Research proves efficiency of glass or acrylic screens against Covid in classrooms."
Yahoo! News 
"How coronavirus spreads in classrooms (and where to sit to avoid infection)."

 
Congratulation to Khaled for publishing a paper in AIP  Physics of Fluids (October 20, 2021)
"Numerical investigation of aerosol transport in a classroom with relevance to COVID-19" This is an open-access journal article. Please feel free to […]


Congratulation to Khaled for publishing a paper in AIP Journal of Applied Physics (October 05, 2021)
"Method of information entropy for convergence assessment of molecular dynamics simulations" This is an open-access journal article. Please feel free to […]


Khaled
passed his Ph.D. comprehensive exam. (September 05, 2021)
Congratulations Khaled!


Brandon Bohanon,
newest member of our group. Brandon will be involved in Pb loop activities as well as irradiation damage studies on advanced alloys. (August 26, 2020)


Junior Faculty Research Excellence (May 13, 2020)
Professor Osman Anderoglu was awarded Junior Faculty Research ExcellenceNuclear Engineering, UNM.


Congratulations to our undergraduate student Gemma Irais Strong (Spring 2020)
Congratulations! We are so proud of you.
LoboBITES competition 2019 at Centennial Engineering Center Auditorium, UNM (Nov 8, 2019)
  • Shuprio Ghosh participated in loboBITES competition at the UNM part of the 2019 shared knowledge conference.  
Shuprio Ghosh_LoboBITES competition 2019
2019-2020 ANS Undergraduate Scholarship (Sept 8, 2019)
  • Gemma Irais senior in the Department of Nuclear Engineering has received the 2019-2020 American Nuclear Society Undergraduate Scholarship...

ANS Student Conference-2019, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (April, 4-6,2019)

  • Gemma Irais was presented on the  "Joining for Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloy using Spark Plasma Sintering" at ANS-2019 meet.


TMS 2019 (The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society) Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Antonio, Taxas (March 10-14, 2019)...

  • Prof Osman Anderoglu presented an overview on the irradiation behavior of multilayered metallic systems at the TMS-2019 Annual meet.

  • Zhexian, PhD presented a poster at TMS-2019 meeting and talk about irradiation resistance of ARB processed CuNb nanolayered composities at very high doses and temperatures.



  • Madhavan, PhD presented a technical poster presentation on the 'High-dose heavy-ion irradiation behavior on mechanically processed Zr/Nb multilayers' at the TMS-2019 annual meet.

  • Mehadi presented a poster presentation on the 'Development of advanced ferritic martensitic steels for very high irradiation doses and temperatures' at the TMS-2019 annual meeting.




2019 Spring Seminar Series (Jan 22, 2019): Dr. Zhexian Zhang , UNM
       Irradiation damage in nuclear materials: the microstructure evolution, hardening, and characterization methods

2018 Fall Seminar Series (December 4, 2018): Dr. Osman Anderoglu, UNM
    Establishing a Strong Nuclear Materials Foot Print at UNM



New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation 2018 (October, 12th)

  • Gemma was awarded 3rd place for the poster presentation,"Joining of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys using Spark Plasma Sintering"



ANS Student Conference-2018 (April, 7th)

  • Carly Romnes was awarded for the Best Paper Submission in Materials Science and Technology,"Investigation of Irradiation Resistance of Haynes 230 for Advanced Nuclear Reactors"
  • Another award for her senior design project, Best Paper Submission in Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology, "Development of a Low Enriched Uranium Nuclear Thermal Rocket Inspired by the Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Project"
    Carly_ANS_Prize_Ceremony
  • Deep Patel was awarded for the Top Paper Submission," Effect of processing techniques on electrical and thermal properties of 14YWT"

Experiment at SNL (April, 2nd)

  • James finished his experiments at the I3 TEM Facility at SNL. 

James

UNM's 3rd Annual STEM Research Symposium (Feb, 17th)

  • Mehadi presented a poster at UNM's 3rd Annual STEM Research Symposium.

Poster

  • Deep presented a poster at UNM's 3rd Annual STEM Research Symposium.
    Deep
  • James Pike presented a poster at UNM's 2nd Annual STEM Research Symposium.

  • Carly Romnes presented a poster at UNM's Spring 2017 Shared Knowledge Conference.

Shared knowledge
  • UNM's student chapter of ANS recently received a certificate for 50 years of being a student chapter at UNM.
  • Carly Romnes was recently selected for the Outstanding Junior Award by the faculty of the Nuclear Engineering Department.



Construction license issued for Russia's BREST reactor

‘Safer’ thorium reactor trials could salvage nuclear power

American Nuclear Society News

World Nuclear News

The Generation IV International Forum- "Webinars"



Advanced Fuels Campaign (AFC):

About 80-85 researchers from national laboratories including a few folks from DOE HQ, industry (Areva, GE, Westinghouse) and universities gathered together at UNM for Advanced Fuels Campaign Annual Integration meeting on December 14-16, 2017. The group meets once a year and discusses updates and reports on various projects funded by the campaign. Dean of SOE, Christos Christodoulou, welcomed the group. Some attendees were given NE lab tours by Drs Anderoglu and Lee. Some of our students also attended to selected talks. For more about AFC...