Month: August 2017

NSSC Fellow and Affiliate presenting at Southwest INMM

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NSSC was well represented at the Novel Technologies, Techniques and Methods for Safeguards and Arms Control Verification Workshop in August, 2017. NSSC Fellow, Rebecca Krentz-Wee presented on “Sensitivity studies of CONFIDANTE (CONfirmation using a Fast-neutron Imaging Detector with Anti-image Null-positive Time Encoding)”. NSSC Affiliate, Austin Wright presented on “Canaries in a Nuclear Mine.” Attendees of … Read more

NSSC Affiliate, Austin Wright wins 2017 DOE DNN R&D Network Science and Nuclear Nonproliferation Challenge

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Congratulations to NSSC Affiliate, Austin Wright for winning this year’s Network Science and Nuclear Nonproliferation Challenge Prize. The challenge asked participants to write a paper on  applications of network science to nuclear nonproliferation. Austin’s winning entry described a set of methods to infer facility operations by computationally inducing stochastic state space models and then applying deep recurrent neural networks … Read more