DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) (http://www.ne.doe.gov) and Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (http://www.sc.doe.gov/Program_Offices/ASCR.htm) are co-sponsoring a workshop to identify the research opportunities and priorities for advancing the use of simulation and modeling in the research and development of advanced nuclear energy systems. The meeting will be by invitation and will include international representatives.

Parallel working groups are planned at the workshop, the details of which are still under development.  It is anticipated that the workshop will begin with a half day of plenary talks that will provide a detailed description of key computational challenges faced in the development of advanced nuclear energy systems, followed by 1.5 days of working group sessions that will engage experts from the applied mathematics, computer science, and computational science communities with research leaders from nuclear science and engineering. Topics such as multiscale methods and algorithms, uncertainty analysis, first principles-based simulation, software engineering and frameworks, data management and visualization, use of petascale computing platforms for breakthrough-level simulations, and all aspects of simulation-based integrated engineering design and analysis will be addressed. The third day will be set aside for breakout co-chairs and leads to work on sections for the report.