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Detection of Nuclear Proliferation

Network Science Idea Challenge

 

Prize: $2,000

 

Deadline: July 15, 2015

(Winners will be announced on August 15, 2015)

 

Sponsored by the United States Department of Energy

 Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D

Nuclear nonproliferation encompasses many networks: power-generation reactors to mining, transport, conversion, enrichment, and storage networks. Financial, industrial, communications, sensor, knowledge, and accountancy networks all tie in. So do political, social, and professional networks. Multiple networks with multiple interdependencies. The idea challenge is to formulate a problem in nonproliferation, proliferation detection, or treaty monitoring and verification that could (possibly) be solved with a network science approach. The problem should be one that would be otherwise difficult to approach.

Submit a 3-5 page white paper describing your idea and submit it in PDF format to James Kornell (korneljm@nv.doe.gov) by the deadline.

For more information, see the attached guidelines.

Eligibility:

• Undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs at UCSB, the Middlebury (Monterey) Institute of International Studies, and NSSC academic institutions (UCB, UCD, UCI, UNLV, MSU, WUSTL) are eligible to apply.
• No citizenship restriction
• Teamwork is encouraged; submit only one white paper per team

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The WATCHMAN research program was recently featured in The Economist. The WATCHMAN collaboration is led by UC Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and includes a number of NSSC students and faculty working with scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to demonstrate the feasibility of remote monitoring of nuclear reactors for nonproliferation using only gadolinium-doped water as a target.

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