Abstract
Nuclear security and nonproliferation continue to be of principal focus both domestically and internationally. This focus has resulted in novel detection technologies being the foundation of the verification structure applied to past and future international agreements and treaties. Due to the continuous improvement and expansion of laser components and techniques, the next generation of novel detection technologies will likely include optically based techniques. This talk will focus on the detection of nuclear materials using optical techniques and the future application of optical techniques in nuclear nonproliferation and security.

Bio
Dr. Kyle C. Hartig is an Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida (UF). Before coming to UF, he spent a year as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at PNNL contributing to remote sensing research in support of two multi-lab NNSA DNN R&D ventures. Dr. Hartig earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) where he was advised by Prof. Igor Jovanovic who is now in the NERS Department at UM. His Ph.D. research was funded in part by the Nuclear Forensics Graduate Fellowship Program and the NNSA Consortium for Verification Technology (CVT) led by UM. His areas of specialization include remote sensing, nuclear nonproliferation/counterproliferation, nuclear forensics, and nuclear policy.