Congratulations to Nathan Porter and Yang Liu, two NC State Nuclear Engineering graduate students, for 1^st and 2^nd place best student paper awards. Dr. Maria Avramova serves as faculty adviser to Mr. Porter while Dr. Nam Dinh serves as faculty adviser to Mr. Liu. Both students are supported by the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL).

1. Porter, V. Mousseau, M. Avramova, “Quantified Validation with Uncertainty Analysis for Turbulent Single Phase Friction Model”
2. Liu, N.Dinh, Y.Sato, amd B. Niceno, “Validation and Uncertainty Quantification of DNB Closures in MCFD Solver Using Inverse Bayesian Inference Method”

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