Auton Lab seminar on Wednesday November 5th, NSH 3305 at 1:30pm, with Kai Vetter

[Artur Dubrawski]

Title:
New Concepts in Nuclear Radiation Detection Relevant for Research and 
Security -- Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Systems and 
Multi-Sensor Fusion

Speaker:
Kai Vetter
Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Applied Nuclear Physics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Abstract:
Recent developments in the detector fabrication, signal readout, and 
data processing enable new concepts in radiation detection that are 
relevant for applications ranging from fundamental physics to medicine 
and nuclear security.
I will review some examples of recent efforts in our Berkeley Applied 
Nuclear Physics program on these technical developments and how they are 
mapped to questions in basic sciences, biomedical imaging, and nuclear 
security.
The presentation will focus on the opportunities and challenges in 
fusing nuclear radiation with contextual and environmental data. 
Examples for applications include contamination assessment and mapping 
in Fukushima in Japan, emergency response and consequence management, 
detection, as well monitoring, for example of nuclear processes inside 
facilities. Not only need the sensitivity for nuclear signatures be 
increased, they need to be correlated with contextual and environmental 
information to enable the sensitivity and information needed to act or 
to plan and guide operations, sometimes in realtime.

Host: Artur Dubrawski (awd at cs.cmu.edu)
Appointments: Karen Widmaier (krw at andrew.cmu.edu)

Place and time: NSH 3305, 1:30pm Wednesday, November 5th.
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