Adam Lam

Email: lamad@oregonstate.edu

Background

I am currently a third year graduate student in Nuclear Engineering at OSU, working with Dr. Todd Palmer as an advisor and project leader. I got my undergraduate degree in Physics and Minor in Mathematics at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). During my time at CSUS, I was a member of Zigma Pi Zigma society in Physics. I joined the team in the Fall of 2016 and have been working in the field of transport and reactor physics since.

I have worked on two different project (stochastic mxing of materials, and multiband cross section generations) during my first two years with Dr. Palmer. I’ve also had the opportunity to intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for two summers (2017 and 2018).

Current projects

• Master’s Thesis
  • I am in the process of finishing my thesis and looking to defend in May/June 2019. The goal of the project is to generate high fidelity nuclear cross sections using the Multigroup Multiband method.
• Dissertation
  • Currently doing literature review and collecting material to write my dissertation proposal

Publications

1. Coline Larmier, Adam Lam, Patrick Brantley, Fausto Malvagi, Todd Palmer, Andrea Zoia, ‘‘Monte Carlo chord length sampling for d-dimensional Markov binary mixtures,’’ J Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 204 (2018), pp. Pages 256-271

2. Adam Lam, Todd Palmer, Jonathan Walsh, ‘‘Demonstration of Multigroup Multiband Cross Section Generation in Monte Carlo Simulations,’’ Journal of Computational and Theoretical Transport Theory (2019).

Research Interests

1. Radiation Transport
2. Nuclear Data
3. Fusion
4. Reactor Physics