User:Tom Laub

I work at Sandia National Laboratories. My formal training is in Nuclear Engineering. I have a PhD in NucE from Texas A&M University. All of my work experience has been in computational simulation. From my first internship experience with Gulf States Utilities working at the River Bend Nuclear Station (a Boiling Water Reactor located near St. Francisville, LA) I have been using computers and programs to simulate the physical world. During my internship it was simulating the reactions in the core of the BWR. At Sandia my experience has included radiation safety, radiation transport (meaning simulation of particle interactions with matter), radiation sensor simulation and development, and radiation shielding applications. I am both a developer and user of simulation software. I use any programming language that suits my purpose. I have programmed in Fortran, C/C++, Java, Perl, Visual Basic, Unix shell scripts, and a little bit of python. Fortran was my first love and is still my main stay. Currently, I work on a Monte Carlo method radiation transport code called ITS. I also work on and use deterministic radiation transport codes. In the end I think programming is fun. Weird, I know.