Professor

Anthony Scopatz is currently an Assistant Professor

Education & Employment


The University of South Carolina

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department

Columbia, SC, 2015 - present
  • Cyclus: An agent-based, discrete time nuclear fuel cycle simulator.
  • PyNE: The Nuclear Engineering Toolkit.
  • Website: http://www.ergs.sc.edu/

solar system

ongoing

land, mostly, 2008 - present

CNERG, The University of Wisconsin-Madison

Associate Scientist, Engineering Physics Department

Madison, WI, 2013 - 2015
  • Cyclus: An agent-based, discrete time nuclear fuel cycle simulator.
  • PyNE: The Nuclear Engineering Toolkit.
  • Website: https://cnerg.github.io/

The FLASH Center, The University of Chicago

Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Scholar

Chicago, IL, 2011 - 2013
  • NIF: Simulation of magnetic field generation from neutral plasmas using FLASH.
  • CosmoB: Simulation of magnetic field generation from neutral plasmas using FLASH.
  • FLASH4: High-energy density physics capabilities and utilities.
  • Simulated Diagnostics: Schlieren, shadowgraphy, Langmuir probes, etc. from FLASH.
  • OpacPlot: HDF5-based equation of state and opacity file format.
  • Website: http://flash.uchicago.edu/site/

The University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program

Austin, TX, 2008 - 2011
  • Adviser: Erich A. Schneider
  • Dissertation: Essential Physics for Fuel Cycle Modeling & Analysis

The University of Texas at Austin

M.S.E. Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program

Austin, TX, 2006 - 2007
  • Adviser: Erich A. Schneider
  • Thesis: Recyclable Uranium Options under the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

University of California, Santa Barbara

B.S. Physics

Santa Barbara, CA, 2002 - 2006
  • Graduated with a Major in Physics and a Minor in Mathematics

Awards, Grants, & Contracts

Omega Laser User's Group Travel Award

$1,100.00 in 2013

NIF User's Group Travel Award

$1,150.00 in 2013

Service

National Steering Committee

12 2021

International Steering Committee

3 2020

Projects


Cyclus


Agent-Based Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulator
  • Project Lead: June 2013 - July 2015

Publications

[Download bibtex]

  1. Meurer, Aaron, and Anthony Scopatz. "SymPy: Symbolic computing in Python". PeerJ Computer Science . 4 p. e103 Tbd 2017 download doi
  2. Meurer, Aaron, Smith, Christopher P, Paprocki, Mateusz, {\v{C}}ert{\'\i}k, Ond{\v{r}}ej, Rocklin, Matthew, Kumar, AMiT, Ivanov, Sergiu, Moore, Jason K, Singh, Sartaj, Rathnayake, Thilina, Sean Vig, Brian E Granger, Richard P Muller, Francesco Bonazzi, Harsh Gupta, Shivam Vats, Fredrik Johansson, Fabian Pedregosa, Matthew J Curry, Ashutosh Saboo, Isuru Fernando, Sumith Kulal, Robert Cimrman, and Anthony Scopatz. "SymPy: Symbolic computing in Python". PeerJ Computer Science . 4 p. e103 Jan 2017 doi

Teaching Experience


EMCH 552: Intro to Nuclear Engineering

University of South Carolina

professor, August 2017
This course is an introduction to nuclear physics. [Syllabus]

EMCH 558/758: Reactor Power Systems

University of South Carolina

professor, January 2017
This course covers conventional reactors. [Syllabus]

Memberships


Python Software Foundation

Fellow, 2013 - present

American Nuclear Society

Member, 2006 - present

Skills


Programming Languages

  • Expert: Python, Cython