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Special Tutorial Session

Sunday, September 19, 2010

A tradition at the conference has been a half-day Tutorial session held on Sunday afternoon. The Tutorial is intended for students and scientists new to the area of plutonium research, and is intended to provide some background material on topics of relevance for the conference. At Keystone, we have arranged the following Tutorial.

1:00-2:00 A. David Rossin (Former Assistant Secretary of Energy and Former American Nuclear Society President, Retired) - "Intended Consequences of President Carter's Comprehensive Policy to Stop Proliferation"
2:00-3:00 Gordon Jarvinen (Los Alamos National Laboratory) - "Nuclear Fuel Cycles"
3:00-4:00 Brian Boyer (Los Alamos National Laboratory) - "The Challenges of International Safeguard Efforts to Verify the Peaceful Uses of Plutonium"
4:00-5:00 Nik Kaltsoyannis (University College London) - "Electronic Structure Theory for Heavy Elements"

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