ACCA CHEMISTRY COURSE - SEMINAR
Nuclear Chemistry
Fall 2008
September 16-November 18, 2008
The course is being held at Benedictine University, Birck Hall of Science, room 112 from 7:00-9:00 PM on Tuesday evenings
Typically the first hour is background information. This is followed by a 10-15 minute break and then the 2nd half is a more in-depth research topic.
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All seminars are on Tuesday night from 7-9 pm at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL http://www.ben.edu/about/directions.asp
and we will be in the Birck Hall of Science (Building 3) http://www.ben.edu/images/campus_map_pdf.pdf
Who is ACCA
The ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF THE CHICAGO AREA (ACCA) is a consortium of 16 private liberal arts colleges that was formed in 1966 with Mark Trumbo, Dean of Aurora College, as the chairperson. Jerry Baird of Argonne National Laboratory brought much of the energy and vision to the consortium until his retirement in the early 1990's. ACCA's primary objective is to promote collegiate education in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, psychology, sociology/anthropology, and business/economics by stimulating and regularizing cooperative arrangements between the member colleges and universities and government laboratories and other educational institutions in the use of staff and facilities. The first divisions to take advantage of the ACCA consortium were biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics. The social science divisions of psychology and sociology/ anthropology became part of ACCA in 1986. The Business/ Economics division was added in 1990.
NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY--GRADUATE CREDIT
Once
again during the fall semester (2008), Olivet Nazarene University is offering
graduate credit to students taking the CHEM 646 course. This year, the course
consists of a series of ten lectures on various aspects of nuclear chemistry,
presented by experts in the field, again sponsored by the Associated Colleges
of the Chicago Area (ACCA). Students may receive graduate credit by attending
any eight of the lectures, and writing a summary of each of the ones attended.
The lectures will take place at 7:00 to 9:00 PM on ten consecutive Tuesday
nights, Sept. 16 through Nov. 18, in Room 112, Birck
Hall of Science, Benedictine University. Although it
is not necessary to apply for graduate credit to attend the lectures, those
wanting graduate credit (and those who may need additional information) should
contact Dr. Douglas Armstrong, darmstrg@olivet.edu
or by phone at: 815-939-5393.
Coordinated by Professor Paul Brandt
North Central College
Naperville,
IL 60540
630-637-5193
Schedule
Lecture 1 - 9/16 Adam Levin (Exelon) adam.levin@exeloncorp.com
Lecture 2 - 9/23 Nuclear Energy: Principles, Present Status, and Future Prospects- Yoon Chang (Argonne National Laboratory) YChang@anl.gov
Lecture 3 - 9/30 Decommissioning - What happens at the end of the nuclear mission – Rock Aker (DOE – New Brunswick Laboratory) Rock.Aker@ch.doe.gov
www.stfrancis.edu\ns\diab\acca\Nuclear\BU preso 093008.pdf
Lecture 4 - 10/7 Recycling Used Nuclear Fuel - Candido Pereira (Argonne National Laboratory) pereira@anl.gov
Lecture 5 - Radioactive Tracers in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy – Michael Welch (Washington University, St. Louis, MO.) welchm@mir.wustl.edu
ACS Summer School in Nuclear and Radiochemistry: http://www.cofc.edu/~nuclear/nukess.html
Lecture 6 - 10/21 Radiation Safety Principles: An Overview And Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism: What You Should Know – George Mosho (Argonne National Laboratory) mosho@anl.gov
PPT presentations: Part I - Part II
Lecture 7 - 10/28 Nuclear Chemistry - Studying the Behavior of Microscopic Droplets - Romualdo de Souza (Indiana University) desouza@indiana.edu
PPT presentations: Part I - Part II
Lecture 8 - 11/4 The Origin of the Elements by Nuclear Processes in Stars – Jim Truran (University of Chicago) truran@nova.uchicago.edu
Lecture 9 - 11/11 Comparative solutions of Actinides and Lanthanides – Mark Jensen (Argonne National Laboratory) mjensen@anl.gov
Lecture 10 - 11/18 Waste Management Systems Analysis - Mark Nutt (Argonne National Laboratory) wnutt@anl.gov