Speaker = Dr. Jaclyn Schmitt of Institute for Defense Analyses
Host = Joseph Chung-Jung jungj@frib.msu.edu
When = 2024-11-13 Wednesday 16:10
Where = FRIB 1300
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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 |
Title = Informing the Nation’s Leaders: How Physicists Can Inform National Security and Science Policy Decisions
Abstract
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.
Relevant background: