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Prof. Benoit Robert Yves Forget
Korea Electric Power Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Department Head / Nuclear Science and Engineering
Primary DLC
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
MIT Room:
24-214
(617) 253-1655
bforget@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/forget.html
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Computational Transport Theory
Reactor Physics and Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Research Summary
Professor Ben Forget is the leader of a new generation of researchers who are developing new methods and models for efficient, high-fidelity simulation of nuclear reactor cores on leadership-class computers. He has made original contributions to both stochastic and deterministic methods, and these new approaches are greatly enhancing both the accuracy and the speed of nuclear reactor analysis. Forget’s conceptual innovations and technical implementations have the potential to revolutionize the field of computational reactor physics, and they are already having a major impact on the research community around the world. In 2013 he received the Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award from the American Nuclear Society. Forget is an excellent teacher and an outstanding mentor of MIT students, and he has played a key role in bringing MIT back to the forefront of education and research in nuclear reactor physics -- a field that is of fundamental importance to the future of nuclear energy.
Recent Work
Projects
December 27, 2011
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
SCIENTIFIC COMMONS: Modeling & Simulation
Principal Investigator
Benoit Forget
October 25, 2011
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
MIT Computational Reactor Physics Group
Principal Investigator
Benoit Forget
August 4, 2011
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Monte Carlo Methods
Principal Investigator
Benoit Forget
August 4, 2011
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Advanced Response Matrix Methods
Principal Investigator
Benoit Forget
August 4, 2011
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Energy Expansion
Principal Investigator
Benoit Forget
August 4, 2011
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
MIT Reactor Conversion
Principal Investigator
Benoit Forget
November 5, 2008
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Enhanced Computational Reactor Physics
Principal Investigator
Benoit Forget
Related Faculty
Carl Bunge
Postdoctoral Associate
John Paul Hanson
Graduate Student
Dr. Kangpyo So
Research Scientist