SEMINARS
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2026 NuMat, The Nuclear Materials Conference,
September 21-24, 2026, Halifax, Investigating the UN using QHA within DFT. 2026 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, April 26–May
1st, 2026, Honolulu, Hawaii, Symposium: EN07: Materials Design for Nuclear
Energy Applications—Experiments and Modelling. DFT studies of the effect of magnetic ordering and Hubbard U in
Dudarev’s formulation on the properties of UN. Pacifichem 2025, Dec. 15-20, 2025, Honolulu,
Hawaii. Session: Inorganic Materials
with Multiple Components for Energy and Environmental Applications, DFT studies of the effect of magnetic
ordering and Hubbard U on the properties of UN. International Congress on Advanced Materials
Sciences and Engineering-2025 (AMSE-2025) July 29-31, 2025, Krakow, Poland, DFT Investigation of Thermal and
Mechanical Properties of Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel. 2025 CAP Congress, 9-13 June, Saskatoon, Canada, DFT studies of the effect of magnetic
ordering and Hubbard U on the properties of UN. 2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Symposium:
Seaborg Institutes: Emerging Topics in Actinide Sciences, Las Vegas, March
23-27, TMS 2025 154th Annual Meeting
& Exhibition, DFT studies of
electronic properties and swelling of selected high density fuels. Progress meeting on the development of UN fuel, Nov. 18-19, 2024, Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, DFT Studies of Electronic
Properties and Effect of He and Xe Incorporation in UN and Other, Selected Metallic
Fuels. invited International Experts Summit on Renewable and Sustainable Energy
(IESRSE2024), August 05-07, 2024, Lugano, Switzerland, moved to September
17-18, online, Szpunar B., DFT
evaluation of selected metallic fuels to enhance safety of nuclear reactors
, invited. COSIRES 2024,The 16th Conference of COmputer Simulation
of IRradiation Effects in Solids, Kingstone, June 16-21, 2024, Szpunar B, Ranasinghe
J.I., Szpunar J.A, DFT studies of
selected metallic fuels: from electronic properties to swelling. CNS,
43rd Annual Conference from June 16 to 19, 2024, Saskatoon, Ranasinghe
J.I., Szpunar B., Szpunar J.A., Thermal
conductivity of molybdenum and molybdenum-doped U3O8 fuels Materials
Modelling and Simulation for Nuclear Fuels (MMSNF) Workshop, Hamilton, Nov.
28-30, 2023, ., Szpunar J.A, Ranasinghe J.I., Szpunar B., Novel Microstructural Design of Nuclear Fuels for
Future Gen IV and Small Modular Reactors The
21st International Conference on Environmental Degradation of
Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors, St. John’s,
Newfoundland, Canada, August 6-10, 2023, Ranasinghe J.I., Szpunar B., Szpunar
J.A., Urania fuel degradation to U3O8
and point defects and fission products studies. 11th
International Conference on Isotopes (11ICI), July 23-27, Saskatoon, Canada,
2023, Szpunar B., Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuels and Isotopes'
Usage (Invited) UN
Summer Meeting, Organised by Westiinghouse, July 20-26, 2023 Online, Szpunar
B., First-principles investigation of
the electronic-thermal transport of ThN, UN and ThC (Invited) TopFuel2023, 18-21 July 2023, Xi’an, China , Szpunar B.,THN’s LATTICE-ASSISTED THERMAL
CONDUCTIVITY REVISITED. 2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego,
March 19-23 (2023), Symposium:
Seaborg Institutes: Emerging Topics in Actinide
Materials and Science,
Szpunar B., Ranasinghe J.I., Szpunar
J.A.,, Comparison
of the electronic transport of UN and ThN versus ThC. PEP
Research Informa0on Session & Student-Faculty Mixer – Tuesday November
29, 2022: Advanced Materials for
SMRs Departmental
Physics and Engineering Physics Seminar, USASK, 2022, September 20, Saskatoon, Enhanced
Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuels and Small Modular Reactor for Saskatchewan. The
CNS’s 15th International Conference on CANDU Fuel, 2022, August 21-24, Ajax, Canada, SMR, Canadian, T6-2, DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES
OF UN, THN, AND THC. The
International Chemical Congress of
Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, 2021, December 16-21, Frontiers in Actinide
Chemistry: From Fundamental Systems to Practical Applications, ThN versus ThC comparison. EPW Virtual Summer School
2021, June 14-18, Szpunar B., First
principles investigation of thermal transport of uranium mononitride.,
poster. The
6th Nuclear Materials Conference 26-30 October 2020 , Online
Event, Szpunar B., Ranasinghe J.I.,
Malakkal L., Szpunar J.A., 2020, First
principles investigation of thermal transport of uranium mononitride., poster. 2020 TMS Annual Meeting
& Exhibition, San Diego, February 25 (2020), Symposium:
Thermal Transport in Crystalline and Non-crystalline Solids: Theory and
Experiments, Session: Electron
Mediated Transport and Thermoelectrics, Szpunar B., Malakkal L., Ranasinghe J.I., Szpunar J.A.,, Investigations of the thermal conductivity of UN, (invited). PRISM,
Int. Conf. on Materials Science and Engineering, September 16-18, 2019.
Pullman Melbourne Albert Park, Australia, CONNECTING
WOMEN IN MATERIALS SCIENCE THROUGH MATERIALS OCEANIA CONFERENCE, COMPARISON OF STRUCTURAL STABILITY OF
β SILCON CARBIDE AND THORIA (invited) 14th
International Conference on CANDU Fuel, “Powering a Greener Future with
Advanced Fuel Cycles”, Hilton Meadowvale, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada 2019
July 21-24, Structural Stability of
SiC. APE’19: International Conference on Innovative
Applied Energy, Oxford, UK, March 14-15, 2019, Application of State-of-the-Art Calculations in Design of Accident
Tolerant Fuel for Safe Nuclear Energy (keynote). Joint TOPATF-EGATFL Meeting, OECD/NEA Headquarters,
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo, Boulogne-Billancourt, 4 March 2019, Exploring Enhanced Safety of Nuclear
Reactors via Experiential Learning about ATF. 2018-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
&Exhibition, 4th Intl. Symposium on New and Advanced Materials and
Technologies in Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development, 4-7 Nov., 2018,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Application of
State-of-the-Art Calculations in Design of Accident Tolerant Nuclear Materials (keynote). 8th International Conference on
Simulation Methods in Nuclear Science and Engineering, October 9-11, 2018,
Ottawa, Canada, ENHANCED ACCIDENT
TOLERANCE OF THORIA-BASED NUCLEAR FUELS. 38th Annual
Conference of the Canadian Nuclear Society, Saskatoon, Canada, June 3-6, 2018, MECHANICAL
PROPERTIES OF THORIA, URANIA AND THEIR MIXTURE. The EMN Meeting on Computation and Theory, November
6-10, 2017, Dubai, Application of
Density Functional Theory in designing accident tolerant nuclear fuels,
(invited). Workshop on Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuel,
University of Saskatchewan, October 1st, 2017, Thoria and other alternatives to urania. New course about ATF, (co-organiser) Los Alamos. August 4th, 2017, Application of Density Functional Theory
in designing accident tolerant nuclear fuels. The International Conference on Composite Material,
Polymer Science and Engineering, June 24-25, 2017, Toyama, Japan, ACCIDENT TOLERANT COMPOSITE NUCLEAR FUELS,
(invited, plenary) Materials for Nuclear Energy, 2017 TMS Annual
Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego,
March 2 (2017) First Principles
Investigations of Alternative Nuclear Fuels. EMN Meeting on texture and microstructure,
Hong Kong, December 18 to 22 (2016) The
effect of texture and temperature on Young’s and share moduli of thoria.(invited). City University, Department of
Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Hong Kong, December 16th
(2016) Multidisciplinary Reactor Safety
Analysis and Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuels. 13th International
Conference on CANDU Fuel, Kingston, August 15-18 (2016), First Principles Studies of Thermal Conductivity of Nuclear Fuel
Materials. The fifth annual Women in Physics
Canada (WIPC) conference, Canada, Saskatoon, July 27-29, 2016 at the
University of Saskatchewan, Women In
Nuclear:Why are there so few?, note Maria Curie Sklodowska named most influential women
in history by BBC (invited). Joint UOIT-IAEA Course on Science
and Technology of Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactors , UOIT, 2016, July 6th,
Session VIII: Nuclear Fuels, Multiscale Simulations of Accident Tolerant
Nuclear Fuel (Lecture is included as a pdf file, invited). 36th Annual Conference
of the Canadian Nuclear Society, Toronto, Canada, W3B, June 19-22 (2016), First Principles Molecular Dynamics
Studies of Oxygen Sub-Lattice Melting in Thoria. Meeting at CANDU Energy Inc.,
Mississauga, June 21st, 2016,
Multi-scale Simulations of Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuel. The 2015 International Chemical
Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,
December 15-20 (2015) Conf. Proc., Symposium on Experimental and Theoretical
Actinide Chemistry: From Fundamental Systems to Practical Applications (#42)
[4A], Theoretical investigation of
λ-type pre-melting transition in thoria. The 2015 International Chemical
Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,
December 15-20 (2015) Conf. Proc., Symposium on Isotope Production -
Providing Important Materials for Research and Applications (#363) [1A], Production of medical isotopes by
photo-neutron reaction. 14th International Conference on
Clean Energy 2015, September 27th – October 1st, 2015, Saskatoon, Canada, Safer
Nuclear Reactors with Enhanced Thermal Conductivity for Clean Energy University of Saskatchewan,
Computational Workshop, August 31st, 2015, Multi-scale Simulations. (organizer). 3rd International
Conference on Manufacturing Engineering and Technology for Manufacturing
Growth, August 1-2, 2015, in Vancouver, Canada, Multi-scale Simulation of Thoria-SiC Composites. 3rd World Congress on
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, TMS, May 31st-June 4th, 2015,
Colorado Springs, An Interface to
Quantum ESPRESSO. University of Saskatchewan, Int.
Workshop of Laser Compton Scattering Gamma Rays at Electron Storage Rings, November 7-11, 2014, http://physics.usask.ca/~physdept/LCS2014/archives/index.html, Estimate
of Production of Medical Isotopes and Transmutation of Nuclear Waste by
Photo-Neutron Reaction at the Canadian Light Source (invited). 3rd NuMat Meeting, Clearwater
Beach, Florida, October 27-30, 2014, Thermo-mechanical
properties of thoria: Department of Physics &
Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan , 7th October, 2014, University of Saskatchewan, http://physics.usask.ca/~physdept/seminars/october7th.pdf, Nuclear Reactor
Safety and Accident Tolerant Fuel (invited). 19th Pacific Basin Nuclear
Conference, Vancouver, 24-28th August, 2014, Thoria versus urania comparison. Materials, Methods &
Technologies, 16th Int. Conf., Elenite Holiday Village, Bulgaria, 11–15 June
2014, Thermal conductivity in
improvement of safety of nuclear fuel. 26th Canadian Materials Science
Conference, University of Saskatchewan, 1-4 June 2014, Evaluation of High Temperature Properties of Thoria from First
Principles. Elenite Holiday Village, BulgariaUniversity
of Saskatchewan, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Saskatoon,
September 19, 2013, A
Multidisciplinary Look at the Safety of Nuclear Reactor. 1st Annual International
Conference on Physics & Chemistry, 22-25 July 2013, Athens, Greece
(invited), Multidisciplinary
Reactor Safety Studies: Application of First Principles Calculation. University of Saskatchewan, the 24th
Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, June 2-6, 2013, Application
of Density Functional Theory in Assessing Elastic Properties of Thoria. University of Saskatchewan, LCS@CLS workshop, January 18&19, 2013, http://physics.usask.ca/~physdept/lcscls/ (invited), Simulations
of Transmutations Induced by a Beamline at the Canadian Light Source in
Conjunction with a CO2 Laser System. University of Saskatchewan,
Symposium in memory of Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk: Innovation in Nuclear Medicine in
Saskatchewan, January 15, 2013, http://pegasusask.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/SF_symposium_jan15_13.pdf Conventional
and alternative methods for production of medical isotopes explored by
simulations. University of Saskatchewan,
Hitachi Japan SMR, Saskatoon, December 6th, 2012, Multi-scale
Modeling of Materials Characteristics for Performance and Advancement in
Research on Medical Isotopes The second FLUKA advanced course
and workshop, Triumf, Vancouver, September 15-20, 2012, http://www.fluka.org/fluka.php?id=course&sub=program&navig=2&which=triumf2012, A Simple Estimate of
Production of Medical Isotopes by Photo-Neutron Reaction at the Canadian
Light Source. 33rd
Annual Conference of the Canadian Nuclear Society, Saskatoon, Canada, 3A/138,
June 10-13, 2012, A Simple
Estimate of Production of Medical isotopes by Photo-neutron Reaction at the
Canadian Light Source 33rd
Annual Conference of the Canadian Nuclear Society, Saskatoon, Canada, 2D/131,
June 10-13, 2012, Properties
of Recycled Fuels; Density Functional Theory Study Canada - India
Symposium on Materials for Clean Energy January 22-25, 2012, Saskatoon (invited), Ceria
versus urania; first principles calculation. Polish-Canadian
Scientific Society of Saskatoon, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, April
5, 2011, Transmutations - medical isotopes and nuclear waste. International
Conference on ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR MATERIALS (ANM-2011) February 9-11, 2011,
Mumbai, India, The
Application of Density Functional Theory in Assessing Properties of Thoria
and Recycled Fuels. 1st ISTP GITA
Indo-Canadian Workshop, Goa, India, January 14-16, 2011 (invited), An AB
INITIO Study of Properties of Nuclear Materials. The 2010
International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem),
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2010, Alternative solution for treatment of long-lived
radioactive isotope sin nuclear waste University of
Saskatchewan, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Saskatoon,
September 9, 2010, Simulation of photon-nuclear interaction in production of
medical isotopes and transmutation of nuclear waste. GEH, Wilmington, NC, October 21st,
2010, Current
activities in fundamental simulations of the interaction and transport of
particles in matter and modeling of properties of nuclear materials. The first FLUKA advanced course
and workshop, Ericeira, Portugal, October 4-8, 2010, http://www.fluka.org/fluka.php?id=course&sub=program&navig=2&which=portugal2010, Simulation
of photon-nuclear interaction in production of medical isotopes and
transmutation of nuclear waste. 11th International Conference on
CANDU Fuel, Niagara Falls, Canada, October 17-20, 2010, Structural
and Mechanical Properties of Urania Oxidized to U3O8. 3rd International
Conference on Uranium, 40th Annual Hydrometallurgy Meeting, Uranium,
Saskatoon, Canada, August 15-18, 2010, Theoretical
Investigation of Structural and Mechanical Properties of Uranium Oxides. The 4th Yamada
Symposium on Advanced Photons and Science Evolution 2010, June 14-18, 2010,
Osaka Japan, XV (invited), Simulation of photon-nuclear interaction
in production of medical isotopes and transmutation of nuclear waste (Listed
on http://www.yamadazaidan.jp/ys/apse2010 as: The present and perspectives of CLS and
nuclear transmutation). 31st Annual
Conference of the Canadian Nuclear Society, Montreal, Canada, T16, May 24-27,
2010, Photo
Production of Isotopes for Medical and Industrial Usages. Canadian Light
Source (CLS) Saskatoon, Canada, April 21-23, 2010, invited talk at Laser
Electron Scatter Photons at Light Sources for Nuclear & Allied Research
Workshop Monte Carlo simulations of artificial
transmutation for nuclear waste management, medical isotope production and
photo fission. University of
Saskatchewan, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Saskatoon,
November 12, 2009, Multi-scale nuclear fuel modeling. 30th
Annual Conference of the Canadian Nuclear Society, Calgary, Canada, T3, May 31 - June 3, 2009, The Crystal structure and Elastic Properties of Pure and Dy Doped
Urania 30th
Annual Conference of the Canadian Nuclear Society, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
T3, May 31 - June 3, 2009, Onset of the
Local Magnetic Moment on Nb in Zirconia. Queen's
University, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Kingston,
February 17, 2009, Small scale CANDU fuel modeling. 10th
International Conference on CANDU Fuel, Ottawa, October 5-8, 2008, Fuel
oxidation in steam-rich gas mixtures. SP, AECL, Meeting
on Fuel Oxidation in Advanced CANDU Reactors, June 16, 2008, FOXSIMF
3.6.2. F*A*C*T
Conference, Montreal, May 14, 2008, Binding
Energies, Crystal Structure and Stability of Doped Zirconia. ELESTRES User’s
Group Meeting, SP, AECL, November 8, 2006, FOXSIMF,
Recent Activities at AECL. SOURCE IST, User’s
Group Meeting, COG, Toronto, June 15, 2006, Highlights
on EXACT modification for ELESTRES – SOURCE data transfer. F*A*C*T
Conference, Montreal, May 17, 2006, The
Crystal Structure of Pure and Doped Uranium 9th International
Conference on CANDU Fuel; CANDU Fuel, Belleville, September 18-21, 2005, Atomistic
simulations of Zr-O-H systems. ELESTRES IST
User’s Group Meeting, AECL SP, December 14, 2004, Martin’s
model for thermal expansion? CNS Sixth
International Conference on Simulation Methods in Nuclear Engineering,
Montreal, Quebec, October 12-15, 2004, The
Crystal Structure of Pure and Doped Urania. 3rd Workshop on
Fuel Oxidation Behaviour, RMC, Kingston, August 26-27, 2004,
ELESTRES IST
User’s Group Meeting, AECL SP, June 23, 2004, SOURCE IST 2.0 α–9f VERCORS 04 Validation Exercise: ELESTRES-IST 1.0
versus Canflex 1.1 SOURCE IST User’s
Group Meeting, AECL SP, June 21, 2004, Fuel
Oxidation Model. UOIT, February 2,
2004, Small Scale Modeling of CANDU
Fuel. 8th International
Conference on CANDU Fuel; CANDU Fuel, Honey Harbour, September 21-24, 2003, Oxygen and
Hydrogen Diffusion in Zirconia. ELESTRES User’s
Group Meeting, AECL SP, June 3, 2003, Data Transfer from ELESTRES to SOURCE AECL, Chalk River
laboratories, December 9, 2002, Computer
Simulations for CANDU Fuel Rods During Accidents. Queen's
University, November 15, 2002, Computer
Simulations for CANDU Fuel Rods During Severe Accidents. Seoul National
University, School of Materials and Engineering, July 2, 2002, Computer
Simulations of Materials Failure for CANDU Fuel Rods During Severe Accidents. CAMECO, October
5, 2001, Modeling
CANDU Fuel Rods During Accidents.
Seventh
International Conference on CANDU Fuel; CANDU Fuel for the Future, Kingston,
September 23-27, 2001:
University of
Western Ontario, Applied Mathematics, Western Science Centre, July 6, 2001, Modeling
CANDU Fuel Rods During Accidents. RMC, SOURCE-2 Gap
Transport Meeting, Kingston, August 17, 2000:
Queen's
University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, March 18, 1999, Modeling
Properties of Advanced Engineering Materials. Queen's
University, Physics Department, 4th June 1998, Modeling
Properties of New Engineering Materials.
IBM Almaden
Research Center, San Jose, September 19, 1997, Modeling
Magnetic Properties of Advanced Materials. APS March
Meeting, St. Louis, 18-22 March, 1996, Modeling
of the Magnetic and Elastic Properties
of Nanocrystals. CIM 33rd Annual
Conference of Metallurgists, August 23, 1994, Toronto, The
Molecular Dynamics and the Local Spin Density Approximation Modeling of the
Structural Disorder and the Magnetic Properties of Grain Boundaries. University of
Northern British Columbia, March 21, 1994, Molecular-Dynamics
and Local-Spin Density Calculations of Structural Disorder and
Electronic Structure in Nanocrystals. OCMR Annual
Networking Meeting, Nottawasaga Inn, Alliston, Ontario, October 1, 1993, Modeling
of Structural Disorder in Crystalline and Amorphous Nickel. Laurentian
University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sudbury, 13th April, 1992, Electronic
Structure Studies of Solid C60
-Rb and other High Temperature Superconductors. VI International
School on Magnetism, Bialowieza, June 21-30, 1992, Magnetism
Within the Limitations of the LDA Band Structure Calculations. NSERC-CAP Summer
Institute in Theoretical Physics. Workshop on Density Functional Theory: Methods and
Applications, Kingston, July 5-11, 1992, Limitations
of the LDA in the Context of Band-Structure Calculations. University of
Calgary, Department of Physics and Astronomy, September 21, 1992, Are
Buckyballs and High Tc
Superconductors Related? University of
Regina, Department of Physics and Astronomy, September 28, 1992, Are
Buckyballs and High Tc
Superconductors Related? Max Planck
Institute für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany,May 8, 1991, The C60 Compounds. Royal Military
College of Canada, Kingston, 16th October, 1991, Electronic
Structure Studies of Solid C60
-Rb and other High Temperature Superconductors. Queen's
University, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Kingston, 28th November, 1991, What Can
We Learn from Electronic Structure Studies about Doped C60 and other High Temperature Superconductors. Queen's
University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, January 11, 1990, The
Electronic Structure of High Tc
Superconductors. University of
Guelph, Physics Department, April 25, 1990, The
Electronic Structure Calculations for High Tc Superconductors. Xerox Research
Centre, May 24, 1990, The
Electronic Structure of High Tc Superconductors. University of
Waterloo, Physics Department, September 13, 1990, What can
we learn about high Tc superconductors from band structure calculations?
University of
Ottawa, Physics Department, September 17, 1990, What Can
we Learn About High Tc
Superconductors from Band Structure Calculations?
University of
Alberta, Physics Department, November 2, 1990, What can
we learn about high Tc
superconductors from band structure calculations?
Queen's
University, Physics Department, January 24, 1989, Recent Progress
and Band Structure Calculations for the New High Tc Superconductors. Simon Fraser
University, Physics Department, January 27, 1989, LMTO-ASA
Electronic Structure Calculations for High Tc Superconductors. Fourth
International Conference on Supercomputing and Third World Supercomputer Exhibition, Santa Clara April 30-May 5,
1989, Supercomputing
and High - Temperature Superconductivity. International
Conference on the Physics of Highly Correlated Electron Systems, Santa Fe (September 11-15, 1989), Antiferromagnetism
and Semiconductivity. National Research
Council, Division of Physics, April 12, 1988, Electronic
Structure and Magnetic Instabilities in High Tc Superconductors. Seminar on
Applications of High Temperature Superconductivity, November 14, 1988, McGill
University, Electronic
Structure of High Tc
Superconductors. Queen's
University, Physics Department, November 4, 1987, Electronic
Properties and Magnetism in High Tc Superconductors. |