Rachel Slaybaugh, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley, 10/14
October Dinner Meeting Announcement
Topic: PyNE Collection of Nuclear Engineering Computational Tools
Bio: Dr. Slaybaugh received a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State in 2006 where she served as a licensed nuclear reactor operator. Dr. Slaybaugh went on to the University of Wisconsin – Madison to earn an MS in 2008 and a PhD in 2011 in the same field, as well as a certificate in Energy Analysis and Policy. For her PhD she researched acceleration methods for massively parallel deterministic neutron transport codes. Her focus was on fixed source solvers, eigenvalue solvers, and preconditioners that could efficiently scale to hundreds of thousands of cores. Dr. Slaybaugh then worked with hybrid (deterministic-Monte Carlo) methods for shielding applications at Bettis Laboratory while teaching at the University of Pittsburgh as an adjunct faculty member.
Throughout her career, Dr. Slaybaugh has been engaged in software carpentry education and training. She is continuing and expanding these activities in her new role as an Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, Prof. Slaybaugh is building a research program based in computational methods and applied to existing and advanced nuclear reactors, nuclear non-proliferation and security, and shielding applications.
Presentation Material:
Presentation Slideshow – The PyNE Software Library: Why and How?