CNERG / Members of CNERG Community 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]