Florida Local Section March Dinner March 17, 2015
Please join us on March 17, 2015 in Rhines Hall room 125 from 6-8 pm for our second local section dinner meeting of 2015. Food will be catered by Four-Rivers BBQ. Dinner will be free of charge for student members and $11 for members. Please RSVP by noon, March 15, to klgoluoglu@mse.ufl.edu.
The Florida Local Section Presents:
John Erinc, Principal Engineer DC&IS Platform & Standards
Westinghouse Electric Company
Title: Why Probabilistic Risk Analysis is Necessary?
Mr. Erinc is a Principal Engineer for Westinghouse Electric Company, specializing in reliability engineering for nuclear automation. His primary expertise in providing analysis on nuclear automation hardware and software using the various tools available for reliability, and facilitating people and organizations from standards to implementation of analysis techniques. This discussion will review the benefits of PRA and how lessons learned will benefit the AP-1000.
Mr. Erinc is currently a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), ASQ Pittsburgh Section. He is an active participant in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) working groups on reliability for hardware and software. He specifically contributes to Working Group 3.3 (IEEE Guide for General Principles of Reliability Analysis of Nuclear Power Generating Station Safety Systems) and Working Group 6.4 (IEEE Standard Criteria for Programmable Digital Devices in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Generating Station.)
Florida Local Section March Dinner March 17, 2015
Florida Local Section January Dinner Jan. 14, 2015
The ANS FL local section is happy to announce our first section dinner meeting of 2015. Our speaker for this dinner will be Dr. Cemil Kocar from Hacettepe University in Turkey. Catering for this dinner will be provided by Four Rivers Bar-B-Q, with a cost per attendee of $11.00. Dinner will be provided at no cost to students. Details for the event are below:
Date: January 14, 2014
Location: 125 Rhines Hall, University of Florida
Time: 6-8 pm
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to kgoluoglu@mse.ufl.edu
National Nuclear Science Week - HPS Oct. 24, 2014
The next meeting of the Florida AAPM and HPS will be held in Gainesville on Friday, October 24th at the University of Florida Hilton. To celebrate National Nuclear Science week, the ANS-FL local section will be hosting a session from 4:00 to 5:30 pm showcasing career options surrounding nuclear science. High school students and teachers are welcome and encouraged to attend! At 5:30 there will be a meet-and-greet session for high school students. Food and drink will be provided.
For any questions about this event please contact Katherin Goluoglu at klgoluoglu@mse.ufl.edu, and for more information on National Nuclear Science Week, visit www.nuclearscienceweek.org
Pandora’s Promise Private Showing
ANS FL Section is hosting a private showing of Pandora’s Promise, a documentary on nuclear power debate by director Robert Stone. I’m sure all of us need no convincing on the merits of nuclear power but we can all benefit from a relaxing movie and dinner night out!
We will provide dinner before the movie from 4Rivers Smokehouse and there will be a Q&A and discussion session after the movie amongst faculty, professionals, and students. Attendance is not limited to UF or nuclear affiliation. Everyone who is interested is welcome to join us.
Details as follows:
Where: Tioga Town Center Clubhouse, 105 SW 128th Street, Tioga, Florida
When: October 25th at 6:30 pm
Attendance cost: $10 (Register and pay at: http://goo.gl/H6RRbw)
The invitation is also attached. We ask that you sign up before Monday at 12 pm so that we can arrange catering.
Please help us spread the word and distribute this invitation to those you think might be interested and/or might benefit from learning more about nuclear power!
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Second Dinner Meeting
It is time for our next dinner meeting. We are very honored to have Dr. Nils Diaz as our next guest speaker. Nils J. Diaz is a former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He is also a former nuclear engineering professor at the University of Florida as well as a UF alumnus. He brings a wide breadth of experience and knowledge, ranging from education to regulatory issues.
So please join us at this special event. The details are as follows:
Friday, June 7th, 2013
CRAVE Restaurant
4158 Conroy Rd, Orlando, FL 32839
6:30 pm social mixer
7:00 pm dinner and program
Cost: $30 for regular attendees, $10 for students.
The invitation is attached and registration is now open at: http://goo.gl/a0IBs
We hope to see you there!
Kickoff Dinner Meeting
The American Nuclear Society (ANS) Florida Local Section would like to invite you to a kickoff dinner meeting. The ANS Florida Local Section is undergoing a revitalization effort with support from ANS National, and we are delighted to have an exciting dinner meeting lined up for our first event
We are honored to have Dr. Peter Lyons as the special guest speaker. Dr. Lyons is currently the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy. As Assistant Secretary, Dr. Lyons is responsible for all programs and activities of the Office of Nuclear Energy under the Department of Energy. Dr. Lyons has many years of technical, policy and regulatory experience in the nuclear field and is a strong and consistent proponent of STEM education.
This dinner meeting will coincide with the semi – annual meeting of Integrated Research Project (IRP) Fuel Aging in Storage and Transportation (FAST), and will provide an opportunity to meet with this research team. The semi-annual meeting includes six university partners with multiple investigators from each university, as well as supporting advisors from Savanna River National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with Korea, Spain and potentially EDF (France) sending observers.
In addition to this technical program and networking opportunity, the ANS Florida has invited Ms. Simona de Silvestro to attend the dinner. Ms. Silvestro is known for being an IndyCar driver, but more importantly, she is the spokesperson for the Nuclear Clean Air Energy campaign. Among the many goals of the Nuclear Clean Air Energy campaign is to generate visibility for the nuclear clean air energy message through national educational outreach efforts as well as through individual and organizational professional activities. Ms. Silvestro is also a strong proponent of STEM education and outreach among high school and college students.
We are very honored to be able to offer such a strong technical and networking program for this first dinner meeting of the new Florida section, and to have two strong proponents of STEM education with such diverse backgrounds. As our section is in revitalization, we are in the midst of reaching out to previous members as well as inviting new members to the section; please forward this meeting announcement to anyone you believe would be interested in the section. We hope that you will join us at this special event!
