Event Listings
16th Annual Modeling, Experimentation, and Validation (MeV) Summer School
Deadline for applications: March 28, 2025
The Modeling, Experimentation, and Validation (MeV) Summer School is an intensive two-week on-site program for early career researchers and scientists. This year’s topic will focus on “Tackling Materials Challenges for the Next Generation of Nuclear.”
July 23 SSURF Roundtable
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
1:00 - 2:00pm ET
Virtual Roundtable
Discover the Hidden Impact of Your User Facility
Through Data-Driven Insights
Join us for an interactive roundtable exploring compelling case studies about how tracking publications, grants, and patents connected to your facility can uncover where former users end up, how they stay connected to research networks, and how their work continues to influence science long after leaving your facility.
Our panel will have examples of how facilities are using analysis to:
- reconnect with scattered users
- quantify lasting research ripples from tools developed at their sites
- demonstrate the broader influence of their discoveries
We'll demonstrate how the Digital Science Dimensions platform can enable bibliometric analysis, for example, to locate scattered users after their time at a given facility, to understand the extent of field expertise that has utilized your tools, and how those users' legacy has impacted future research.
These stories of downstream impact can be the key to demonstrate the important part user facilities play in our country's research ecosystem and building future leaders of the scientific community.
The Roundtable will be led by Maura Diamond and
The panelists will provide brief presentations about ways they have shown impact that goes beyond basic bibliometrics:
- Neil Byers - Data Scientist, Joint Genome Institute
- Aaron Stein - Chief of Staff from Center for Functional Nanomaterials
- Shirley Han - Head of Research Analytics at Digital Science, former Program Director at NSF and Asst Director at Institute for Defense Analysis
Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) 2025
Deadline to submit: Feb. 14, 2025
Physical Sciences Symposia: P01 - Advanced
Characterization of Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Recent developments in advanced microstructure characterization, micro-scale
testing, and in-situ techniques are increasingly being applied to the
evaluation of nuclear fuels and structural materials. These modern techniques
now enable us to attain greater insights into the atomic and subatomic
structure of irradiation-induced defects, chemical segregation, mass and
thermal transport, and other structure-property phenomena at conditions closely
representative of in-service nuclear reactor environments. This symposium
highlights these state-of-the-art characterization, imaging, and testing
techniques (including but not limited to STEM, 4D-STEM, FIB, SEM, APT,
nano/pico-indentation, tomography, in-situ testing, etc.) and their application
to nuclear fuels and materials.
If you have any questions or need further information, please email [email protected].
About Us
The Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) is the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy's only designated nuclear energy user facility. Through peer-reviewed proposal processes, the NSUF provides researchers access to neutron, ion, and gamma irradiations, post-irradiation examination and beamline capabilities at Idaho National Laboratory and a diverse mix of university, national laboratory and industry partner institutions.
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