Archive for August, 2017

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 the event also included many NSSC personnel from our National Lab Partners.

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 to the results.
The challenge is sponsored by Dept. of Energy Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research & Development office.