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Ed Morse (PI)

Prof. Morse teaches the department's three one-semester courses relating to nuclear fusion science and fusion reactor technology: NE 180, Introduction to Controlled Fusion, NE 280, Fusion Reactor Engineering, and NE 281, Fully Ionized Plasmas. These courses cover many aspects of the physics and technology of proposed fusion reactors as well as current experiments in nuclear fusion, of both the magnetic confinement and the inertial confinement approaches. Prof. Morse also teaches the laboratory course Nuclear Engineering 104B, Nuclear Engineering Laboratory, which includes experiments relevant to reactor thermal hydraulics and nuclear materials as well as nuclear fusion. Prof. Morse also teaches course EECS 100 in the Electrical Engineering Department, Electronic Circuits for Engineering. This course is the basic non-major course in electrical engineering in the College of Engineering.

Dorit Hochbaum (Co PI)

Dorit S. Hochbaum is a full professor at UC Berkeley. She is a professor of Business Administration and of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR). Professor Hochbaum holds a Ph.D from the Wharton school of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 1981, Profeesor Hochbaum held a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon university's GSIA. Her research interests are in areas of approximation algorithms, supply chain management, efficient utilization of resources, design and analysis of computer algorithms and discrete and continuous optimization. Her recent applications work is on problems related to customer segmentation, prediction, ranking, group decision making and data mining. Recent theoretical work focuses on efficient techniques for network flow related problems and inverse problems, with applications varying from medical prognosis, error correction, financial risk assessment and prediction.

Rick Norman (Co PI)

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Jim Siegrist (Co PI)

Professor Siegrist received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1979. After completing his degree, he visited the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland for two years while working on the UA2 experiment. He came to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Division Fellow at the end of 1983 to work on the Collider Detector at Fermilab experiment in Fermilab. He joined the UCB faculty as an associate professor in 1988. During the 1990-93 academic years, he was on leave at the former Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Dallas, Texas. He returned to UCB before the 1994 academic year. Recent awards include Fellow of the American Physical Society. Head, Physics Division, LBNL, 1996 - present.

Brian Wirth (Co PI)

Brian D. Wirth teaches the nuclear engineering laboratory (NE104B) and courses in nuclear materials dealing with irradiation effects in metals. His research interests involve developing improved understanding and predictive performance models of the effect of neutron and high energy particle irradiation on the microstructure, properties and performance of structural materials in current and future nuclear energy technologies. More specifically, his research is involved in investigating the long-time evolution of the primary defects produced in displacement cascades and the consequences of this evolution on the underlying microstructure, mechanical properties and performance. His research involves combining multiscale computational materials science techniques of molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations with microstructural characterization of microstructure, involving positron annihilation spectroscopy and small angleneutron scattering.

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Ariel Zeballos

Grad Student in IEOR at UC Berkeley.