Dr. Abigail A. Bickley, PhD

Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering

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Conferences Invited

Invited Seminars

1. "Proliferation Detection" Talk given at the Air Force Technical Applications Center Women in Science and Engineering Symposium, virtual, October 7, 2021.
2. “Design and Testing of a boron carbide based neutron spectrometer for homeland security applications." Talk given at the Fall 2011 American Chemical Society National Meeting, Denver Co, August 30, 2011.
3.  “Active Target Time Projection Chamber Capabilities.” Talk given at the ATLAS User’s Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, August 8, 2009.
4. “The AT-TPC Scientific Program.” Talk given at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Workshop, Argonne National Laboratory, May 30, 2009.
5. “Active Target Time Projection Chamber Capabilities.” Webinar given to the NSCL Users Community, March 18, 2009.
6. “Active Target Time Projection Chamber." Talk given at GANIL Laboratory, Caen, France, March 10, 2009.
7. “Probing the Density Dependence of the Symmetry Energy.” Seminar given at Tri-University Meson Facility (TRIUMF), Vancouver, Canada, February 12, 2009.
8. “The Thermodynamics of the Nucleus.” Seminar given at Oakland University, October 29, 2008.
9. “What can nuclear collisions tell us about the forces influencing the nucleus?” Seminar given at Texas A&M University, October 9, 2008.
10. “Probing the Density Dependence of the Nuclear Symmetry Energy.” Talk given at the 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 18, 2008.
11. “An Active Target Time Projection Chamber for Nuclear Structure and Reactions Experiments.” Talk given at the 20th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, August 13, 2008.
12. “The Large Hadron Collider." Lecture given at the Physics of Atomic Nuclei Program at NSCL, July 25, 2008.
13. “Probing the Symmetry Energy Using Time Projection Chambers at NSCL and RIKEN.” Talk given at ASY-EOS: Workshop on Nuclear Symmetry Energy at Medium Energies, Catania, Italy, May 29, 2008.
14. “Probing the Isospin Dependence of the Nuclear Equation of State.” Talk given at the 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 9, 2008.
15. “Probing the Nuclear Equation of State at NSCL.” Seminar given at the University of Notre Dame, March 17, 2008.
16. “If Quarkonia Could Talk.” Talk give at the International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, August 9, 2007.
17. “The Physics of the Reaction Plane Detector.” Seminar given at Brookhaven National Laboratory, February 6, 2007.
18. “Future Beam Experiment to Probe the Symmetry Energy.” Talk given at the Division of Nuclear Physics Town Meeting, January 20, 2007.
19. “Energy and μB Dependence of J/Psi Production and Suppression.” Seminar given at the RHIC and AGS Users’ Meeting, June 5, 2006. “The Puzzle Pieces of RHIC.” Seminar given at Michigan State University, March 1, 2006.
20. “RHIC a Recipe for a Perfect Liquid." Seminar given at the University of Maryland, February 17, 2006.
21. “Probing the Medium at RHIC via J/y Production.” Seminar given at Stony Brook University, December 7, 2005.
22. “Probing the Medium at RHIC via J/y Production.” Seminar given at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, November 10, 2005.
23. “Antiparticle to Particle Ratios in d+Au and p+p Collisions & Baryon Transport in Phobos.” Seminar given at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 13, 2004.
24. “The Phobos Experiment.” Lecture given at Brookhaven National Laboratory Nuclear Chemistry Summer School, July 8, 2004.
25. “Centrality Dependence of Charged Antiparticle to Particle Ratios Near Mid-Rapidity in d+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV." Seminar given at Brookhaven National Laboratory, September 22, 2003.
26. “Antiparticle to Particle Ratios at Phobos.” Lecture given at the Nuclear Chemistry Summer School, July 11, 2003.
27. “The Phobos Detector at RHIC and Strangeness Enhancement as a QGP Signal.” Lecture given at the Nuclear Chemistry Summer School, June 26, 2002.

Conference Presentations

1. "Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods to Microscopic Particle Analysis." Talk given at the Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry XII Conference, Kona, HI, April 3-8 2022.
2. “Design optimization of a layered boron based solid state neutron spectrometer.” Talk given at the 2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain, October 23-29, 2011.
3. “Performance evaluation of neutron detectors incorporating intrinsic Gd using a GEANT4 modeling approach.” Talk given at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA., April 25-29, 2011.
4. “Active Target Time Projection Chamber.” Talk given at the Workshop on Experiments with Reaccelerated Beams at NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, August 2, 2008.
5. “Implementing an Active Target Time Projection Chamber at NSCL.” Talk given at the NSCL User’s Meeting, East Lansing, Michigan, June 2, 2008.
6. “Probing the Equation of State with Pions.” Talk given at the TPC Workshop, East Lansing, Michigan, December 7-8, 2007.
7. “TPC Pre-proposal Overview.” Talk given at the TPC Workshop, East Lansing, Michigan, December 7-8, 2007.
8. “TPC Options at the NSCL.” Talk given at the NSCL User’s Meeting, East Lansing, Michigan, August 16, 2007.
9. “J/Psi Production in p+p and Au+Au Collisions from the PHENIX Experiment." Talk given at the American Physical Society Meeting, Jacksonville, Florida, April 14-17, 2007.
10. “Heavy Quarkonia Production in p+p Collisions from the PHENIX Experiment." Talk given at Quark Matter 2006, Shanghai, China, November 14-20, 2006.
11. “Quarkonium Production in PHENIX.” Talk given at the 2nd International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, Asilomar, California, June 9-16, 2006.
12. “J/y →μ+μ- Production in Cu+Cu collisions from the PHENIX Experiment.” Talk given at the 2nd Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the APS and The Physical Society of Japan, Maui, Hawaii, September 18-22, 2005.
13. "Chemistry of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: from the perspective of the Phobos detector." Talk given at the 228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 22-26, 2004.
14. “Centrality Dependence of Charged Antiparticle to Particle Ratios from Phobos.” Talk given at the Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics, Tucson, Arizona, October 30 – November 1, 2003.
15. “Results from the Phobos Experiment at RHIC.” Talk given at the Topics in Heavy Ion Collisions, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 25-28, 2003.