Prof. Benoit Robert Yves Forget

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.