Name: US National Nuclear Data Week 2015 (CSEWG-NDAC-USNDP-NDAG)
Start: 2015-11-02T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2015-11-06T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Berkner

US National Nuclear Data Week 2015 (CSEWG-NDAC-USNDP-NDAG)

from Monday, 2 November 2015 (09:00) to Friday, 6 November 2015 (17:00)

Monday, 2 November 2015
09:00 (I)
(I)
09:00 - 12:00
Room: B
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Mark Chadwick (Lanl) Mike Herman (BNL)

09:10 Evaluation of ENDF/B-VIII Cross Sections - Mark Chadwick (Lanl)

09:50 IAEA Evaluation within CIELO: 238U, 235U, thermal constants - Andrej Trkov (International Atomic Energy Agency) Roberto Capote (IAEA NDS)

10:40 56Fe Advances at BNL - Andrej Trkov (International Atomic Energy Agency) Gustavo Nobre (BNL) Mike Herman (BNL)

11:10 Longer range B-VIII Objectives - Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:30 Overview of B-VIII Library, Cleanups and 86Kr - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Cafeteria
13:00 (II)
(II)
13:00 - 14:00
Room: B
Contributions

13:00 Concerns about the 7.8 -11 eV 235U cross section integral - Allan Carlson (NIST)

13:15 ORNL/IRSN resonance evaluations of O, Ca, Fe, W, a and actinide isotopes - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

13:45 SAMMY Modernization - Goran Arbanas (ORNL)
14:00 Validation Committee
Validation Committee
14:00 - 17:00
Room: B
Contributions

14:00 ADVANCE update - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:20 Benchmark Testing of CIELO Nuclides at the IAEA - Andrej Trkov (International Atomic Energy Agency)

14:40 ICSBEP Benchmark Testing of CIELO Nuclides at LANL - Skip Kahler (LANL)

15:00 Nuclear Data Testing and Evaluation at CNL (Canada) and CAB (Argentina) - Danila Roubtsov (Chalk River Laboratories, AECL)

15:40 Comparisons of ENDF/B-VII.1, JEFF-3.1.2 and JENDL-4.0 Hafnium Evaluated Data Files - Timothy Trumbull (BMPC - KAPL)

16:00 Issues with ENDF/B-VII.1 Radioactive Decay Data - Jesse Holmes (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory)

16:20 Latest Benchmark Contributions to the 2015 Edition of the ICSBEP Handbook - Andrew Hummel (Idaho National Laboratory)

16:40 Re-Analysis of the Rossendorfer Ringzonen-Reaktor/Schnelles Einsatz-Gitter Experiments - Andrew Hummel (Idaho National Laboratory)
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
09:00 Measurement Committee
Measurement Committee
09:00 - 12:00
Room: B
Contributions

09:00 Nuclear Data Experiments at LANSCE: Brief Highlights 2015 - Robert Haight (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:30 New Directions on Nuclear Data Activity at LANSCE - Hye Young Lee (LANL)

10:00 ORNL activity for the NCSP - Klaus Guber (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:40 Update on Nuclear Data Research at RPI - Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

11:10 NIST Measurements and Standards including Related Work at Other Facilities - Allan Carlson (NIST)

11:40 The current state of the EXFOR library - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)
12:00 Executive lunch (Chadwick, Carlson, Barnes, Kahler, Dunn, Danon, Don Smith, Brown, Kawano)
Executive lunch (Chadwick, Carlson, Barnes, Kahler, Dunn, Danon, Don Smith, Brown, Kawano)
12:00 - 14:00
Room: A

Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
Room: Cafeteria
14:00 Formats and Processing Committee
Formats and Processing Committee
14:00 - 17:00
Room: B
Contributions

14:00 ENDF Formats Manual Updates - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:15 Status Report on WPEC SG38 Format Development - Caleb Mattoon (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

14:35 NJOY Status Report - Skip Kahler (LANL)

15:10 AMPX Status Report - Dorothea Wiarda (ORNL)

15:30 FUDGE Status Report - Bret Beck (LLNL)
Wednesday, 4 November 2015
09:00 Covariances Committee
Covariances Committee
09:00 - 12:25
Room: B
Contributions

09:00 UMC: Unfinished Business - Donald Smith (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:20 Sensitivity study of 252Cf observables to FREYA inputs - Ramona Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis)

09:40 Uncertainty Quantification in (α,n) Neutron Source Calculations in an Oxide Matrix - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

10:00 FPY Covariance matrices in the thermal and fission spectrum energy range - Marco Pigni (ORNL)

10:20 PFNS Covariances - Denise Neudecker (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division) Morgan White (LANL)

10:50 Buffer
XUNDL Working Group
XUNDL Working Group
09:00 - 10:00
Room: C
Contributions

09:00 Brief Status of XUNDL - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

09:10 Development of proceedures, policy and guidelines - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL) Shamsuzzoha Basunia (LBNL)

09:30 Efforts and commitment - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL)

09:40 Discussion
10:00 Horizontal Evaluations and other Related Activities
Horizontal Evaluations and other Related Activities
10:00 - 12:25
Room: C
Contributions

10:00 Introduction to NDS JAVA - Jun Chen (NSCL/MSU)

10:30 Status of Delayed Neutron Emission Probabilities-IAEA CRP - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

10:40 Horizontal Evaluations: Status of AME and NuBase - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:50 Horizontal Evaluations: K-isomer evaluation s and fission hindrances - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:20 Atlas of Nuclear Isomers - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

11:30 B(E2) evaluation for first 2+ states in all the even even nuclei - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

11:40 Horizontal evaluation of beta-delayed proton emitting - Jon Batchelder (University of California Berkeley)

11:50 IAEA report - Paraskevi Dimitriou (International Atomic Energy Agency)
12:25 Lunch
Lunch
12:25 - 14:15
Room: Cafeteria
14:15
14:15 - 18:00
Room: C
Contributions

14:15 Opening Remarks - Skip Kahler (LANL)

14:20 Agenda

14:25 A Multi-Program Nuclear Data Working Group - Catherine Romano (ORNL)

14:45 Thermal Kernel Work - Ayman Hawari (North Carolina State University) David Heinrichs (LLNL) Goran Arbanas (ORNL) Michael Zerkle (Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory) Yaron Danon (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

16:15 5-Year Plan, Appendix B Review - Skip Kahler (LANL)

17:15 Other Business

17:30 FY2016 NCSP Calendar - Skip Kahler (LANL)

17:50 Next NDAG Meeting - Skip Kahler (LANL)

17:55 Summary - Skip Kahler (LANL)
Reporting session
Reporting session
14:15 - 18:00
Room: B
Contributions

14:15 USNDP Overview of Response to DOE Review - Elizabeth McCutchan (BNL) Mike Herman (BNL)

16:15 NNDC report - Mike Herman (BNL)

16:45 ND compilation: NSR and EXFOR - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

17:05 ND compilation: XUNDL - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

17:30 ND dissemination - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)
Thursday, 5 November 2015
09:00 Session I
Session I
09:00 - 12:15
Room: B
Contributions

09:00 Roundtable discussion of transparency and inclusivity of the budget process - except NNDC All

10:00 Summary of Berkeley Workshop - Lee Bernstein (LLNL/UCB)

11:00 Nuclear Structure Physics - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory) John Kelley (NCSU & TUNL)

11:30 Nuclear Reaction Physics - Brown David (NNDC, Brookhaven National Laboratory) Toshihiko Kawano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 14:00
Room: Cafeteria

12:15 - 14:00
Room: C
14:00 Workforce issues and plans to address them
Workforce issues and plans to address them
14:00 - 15:00
Room: B
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Mike Herman (BNL)

14:15 Discussion - All
15:00 Discuss report (NDAC only)
Discuss report (NDAC only)
15:00 - 16:30
Room: C
Developing a strategy for comparison of NDS JAVA with NDS-Pub: as time permits
Developing a strategy for comparison of NDS JAVA with NDS-Pub: as time permits
15:00 - 16:30
Room: B
Contributions

15:00 Developing a strategy for comparison of NDS JAVA with NDS-Pub - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory) Jagdish Tuli (NNDC) Jun Chen (NSCL/MSU)

15:20 Discussion - All
16:30 Close-out Session
Close-out Session
16:30 - 17:00
Room: B
Friday, 6 November 2015
08:40 Session I: ENSDF Technical Discussions
Session I: ENSDF Technical Discussions
08:40 - 12:50
Room: B
Contributions

08:40 IAEA report - Paraskevi Dimitriou (International Atomic Energy Agency)

09:00 Brief Summary of ENSDF Status - Jagdish Tuli (NNDC)

09:10 Discussion on Effort, workforce and commitments

09:30 Discussion on Status of evaluation codes: including the following list - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL) Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory) Jagdish Tuli (NNDC) Tim Johnson (NNDC)

09:35 Java-Gamut - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

09:40 log ft - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

09:45 special case conversion coefficients - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

09:50 Ruler - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:55 General Discussion - consideration of altering agenda to extend codes discussion, and discussion on a codes workshop in the spring.

10:30 Format of delayed particle emissions - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

10:45 Discussion on XML Format - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory) Jagdish Tuli (NNDC)

11:05 Actinide Half-life issues raised at ASTM meeting - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)

11:15 Review of 2015 NSDD recommendations - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

11:30 Status of the NSR reference database with interface to pdf documents - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

11:50 Brief status of NuDat - Alejandro Sonzogni (NNDC - BNL)

11:55 General Discussion

12:10 UC Berkeley Activities - Lee Bernstein (LLNL/UCB)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Cafeteria
14:00 Technical discussions - continued
Technical discussions - continued
14:00 - 14:30
Room: B
Contributions

14:00 Discussion of figure display in web output - Balraj Singh (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

14:20 ENSDF to NDS: PN record - Shamsuzzoha Basunia (LBNL)
14:30 Curiosities, meanderings and sundry encounters
Curiosities, meanderings and sundry encounters
14:30 - 16:30
Room: B
Contributions

14:30 Decay Data for Medical Applications - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:40 What’s the story on 1991Re02, 1995ReZZ and 2008ReZZ - John Kelley (NCSU & TUNL)

14:50 New 209Po half-life - Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

15:00 14C Half-life - John Kelley (NCSU & TUNL)

15:10 Fractional authorship in nuclear physics - Boris Pritychenko (NNDC, BNL)

15:20 NA-22 Leveraged funding - Lee Bernstein (LLNL/UCB)

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