Participants included students and faculty from University of Michigan, University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Purdue University. Cadets and active duty officers from the U.S. Army, Naval and Air Force Academies presented their research. Multiple U.S. National Laboratories presented significant ongoing research in the field of Nonproliferation.

Dr. Sara Kutchesfahani and Dr. Hector Santos-Villalobos opened and closed the conference as keynote speakers. Technical sessions explored radiation measurements, nuclear security/terrorism, and nuclear policy.

Nuclear Engineering sponsored four awards:

Best Undergrad Talk
Andrew Reinhart from the US Naval Academy for “US Naval Academy Directional Radiation Detector Capstone Team”

Best Graduate Talk
Timothy Wolfe from Purdue Electrical Engineering for “Application of Ab Initio Modeling Techniques to Radiation Detector Materials (4H-SiC) toward Relevant Multi-Scale Models”

Best Undergraduate Poster
Marshall Foster from US Air Force Academy for “A Review of Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Weapons Capabilities”

Best Graduate Poster
Yeni Li from Purdue Nuclear Engineering for “Effectiveness of Model-based Defenses for Digitally-Controlled Industrial Systems: Nuclear Reactor Case Study”