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Lucas J. Jacobson
PhD Candidate
ljjacobson@wisc.edu 428 Engineering Research Building
1500 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Research Interests
- Monte Carlo methods
- Radiation transport
- Hybrid activation methods
- High performance computing
- Scientific software development
Projects
- Investigated and implemented new techniques to improve the efficiency of the Multi-Step Consistent Adjoint-Driven Importance Sampling (MS-CADIS) method, a variance reduction technique designed chiefly to speed up shutdown dose rate analysis
- work done with the Radiation Transport group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Implemented a parallel version of the activation analysis code ALARA using OpenMP
- Investigated the viability of using the CAD-based Monte Carlo radiation transport toolkit DAGMC to model spacer grids in light water reactors to gain insight
- Devised a validation and verification and regression testing framework for DAGMC
- Conducted a parametric timing study to compare the computational efficiency of DAG-MCNP5 with that of native MCNP5
Education
- University of Wisconsin–Madison [Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, current]
- University of Wisconsin–Madison [M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, 2014]
- University of Wisconsin–Madison [B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, 2014]
- Oak Creek High School [valedictorian, 2009]
