====== Nuclear Science Seminar Speaker Schedule Sign Up  ======

[[public:Current Schedule]]

**Speaker = [[https://frib.msu.edu/users/news/alumni-spotlight-spring-2024|Dr. Jaclyn Schmitt]] of [[https://www.ida.org/|Institute for Defense Analyses]]** 

Host = Joseph Chung-Jung [[jungj@frib.msu.edu]]

When = 2024-11-13 Wednesday 16:10

Where = FRIB 1300

Please feel free to sign up below, but note that some slots may need to be re-assigned to accommodate those with a specific need to meet the speaker. If this happens, the Admin or Speaker Host will reach out to you via email.

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^ Start Time ^ End Time ^ Name ^ Building ^ Room ^
| 09:25 | 09:25 | arrive at FRIB  | FRIB | Lobby | 
| 09:30 | 10:15 |Remco Zegers   | FRIB  | 3131  | 
| 10:15 | 11:00 | Joseph Chung-Jung  | FRIB | 1005 | 
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Alex Brown  | FRIB | 2043 | 
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Hiro Iwasaki  | FRIB  | 1012 | 
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch with Graduate Students | FRIB | 2311 | 
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Brooke Rickey | FRIB | 3203 | 
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Break  | FRIB | 3203 | 
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Lexie Weghorn  | FRIB | 3203 | 
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Jaideep Singh | FRIB | 2016 | 
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Speaker Prep time | FRIB | 1300 | 
| 16:00 | 17:00 | Seminar | FRIB | 1300 | 
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===== Context =====

Title = Informing the Nation’s Leaders: How Physicists Can Inform National Security and Science Policy Decisions

Abstract
<blockquote>
Federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) are a special type of research institution that arose out of the federal government’s efforts to recruit scientific and engineering talent during and after WWII. Today, FFRDCs provide capabilities that the government does not have in-house and that contractors cannot provide. The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a private, nonprofit corporation that manages three FFRDCs. This talk will generally describe the side of IDA’s work for the Department of Defense that is related to nuclear deterrence, including the study of nuclear policy, nuclear force structure, and nuclear enterprise data management and decision-making. This talk will also cover what working at IDA is like and how physicists’ experience and skills are relevant and important to accomplishing IDA’s mission.
</blockquote>

Relevant background:
  * Advertising Statement = In a world of rising geopolitical tensions and advancing technologies, United States leaders face increasingly difficult and unprecedented challenges. This talk will generally describe how the work done at the Institute for Defense Analyses informs senior leaders as they confront these challenges, and it will also cover how physicists’ experience and skills are important to this work.
  * [[https://doi.org/doi:10.25335/99ym-kn72|Probing spin-isospin excitations in proton-rich nuclei via the 11C(p, n)11N reaction]] by Jaclyn M. Schmitt (MSU Ph.D. 2022)
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Defense_Analyses|Wikipedia: Institute for Defense Analyses]]
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federally_funded_research_and_development_centers|Wikipedia: Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs)]]
  * [[https://www.ida.org/|IDA’s website: https://www.ida.org/]]
  * [[https://phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/careers/v2/jobSearch?act=redirectCwsV2&cws=39&org=INSTITUTEDA|IDA jobs posted here]]. Postdocs and students graduating with a Ph.D. will likely be interested “Research Analyst” or “Research Staff Member” positions. Students graduating with a Masters will likely be interested in “Research Associate” positions. Each job description should state whether or not it requires U.S. citizenship (but pretty much all of them do).
  * [[https://phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=INSTITUTEDA&cws=39&rid=3219|IDA Summer Associate Program application here (U.S. citizenship required)]] 
  * [[https://ncses.nsf.gov/resource/master-gov-lists-ffrdc|NSF’s summary list of FFRDCs]] 
  * [[https://dsb.cto.mil/members/bio_hutton/|Dr. Rhiannon
(Meharchand) Hutton]]
  * [[https://www.amazon.com/Blazing-Trail-Essays-Leading-Science/dp/1482709430|Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science (Amazon)]]
  * [[https://doi.org/doi:10.25335/4yd4-zv71|Spectroscopy of 12Be using the (7Li, 7Be) reaction in inverse kinematics]] by Rhiannon Meharchand (MSU Ph.D. 2011)