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2025 Spring DOECAA Conference

April 15 - April 16

Hybrid Hybrid Event
$100.00 – $175.00

Registration is open for the DOECAA Spring Conference!

Please join us April 15-16 for the 2025 DOECAA Spring Conference at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in beautiful Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Here is a draft Agenda. A final agenda will be distributed closer to the conference date.

Registration and Badging

To register for the conference, purchase tickets below.  Both in-person and virtual options are available. DOECAA will be seeking CLE credit in select states.

For visitors who are U.S. nationals, an expedited badging process will be available when you arrive at the meeting facility.

Foreign nationals will need to start the badging process in advance – the sooner the better, but no later than March 24. Please contact Gibson Smith at smithlg@ornl.gov for next steps.

Tickets are being sold separately for the networking reception on April 15.

ORNL Tours

If you’d like to go on a tour, you must sign up in advance by clicking here. Tours will fill up fast. Please sign up for only one tour.

Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory (APPL): The Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory (APPL) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a cutting-edge research facility at the forefront of decoding, designing, and deploying the crops of tomorrow. Leveraging state-of-the-art imaging technologies, artificial intelligence, and automation, APPL accelerates scientific discoveries that improve crop resilience, increase yields, and support abundant, secure, and affordable domestic energy for the nation. The system offers one of the most diverse suites of imaging capabilities for plant phenotyping in the world, allowing research teams to see beyond the human eye to uncover critical insights into plant genetics and performance.  https://www.ornl.gov/appl

Frontier Supercomputer (OLCF)/Graphite Reactor: This tour will start at OLCF which is home to two of the world’s fastest supercomputers—the Summit IBM AC922 and the Frontier HPE-Cray EX—supported by world-class data management and analysis tools. In May 2022, the OLCF debuted Frontier as the world’s first exascale supercomputer, achieving 1.102 exaflops. That performance was updated in May 2023 to 1.194 exaflops, making it No. 1 on the TOP500 list and faster than the next 4 supercomputers on that list combined. The OLCF’s Summit supercomputer, a 200 petaflops system, debuted in June 2018, and in May 2023 Summit was still in the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world. The tour will continue on to the X-10 Graphite Reactor built in only nine months as part of the Manhattan Project to show that plutonium could be extracted from irradiated uranium slugs. https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/ and https://www.ornl.gov/content/graphite-reactor

Spallation Neutron Source (SNS): SNS produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers short (microsecond) proton pulses to a steel target filled with liquid mercury through a process called spallation. Those neutrons are then directed toward state-of-the-art instruments that provide a variety of capabilities to researchers across a broad range of disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. https://neutrons.ornl.gov/sns

High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR): Completed in 1965 and operating at 85 megawatts, HFIR’s steady-state neutron beam is the strongest reactor-based neutron source in the United States. The thermal and cold neutrons produced by HFIR are used to study physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and biology. The intense neutron flux, constant power density, and constant-length fuel cycles are used by more than 500 researchers each year for neutron scattering research into the fundamental properties of condensed matter. https://neutrons.ornl.gov/hfir

Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF): Guided tour of the United States’ most effective laboratory consortium model for accelerating manufacturing innovation for energy systems. Research currently being conducted include the fields of additive manufacturing, composites, convergent manufacturing platforms, machining and machine tools, novel alloys, renewable and recyclable materials, robots, automation and controls and smart manufacturing. https://www.ornl.gov/facility/mdf

Travel and Lodging Info

The closest airport to ORNL is Knoxville McGhee Tyson (TYS) Airport. It’s about a 40-minute drive from the airport to ORNL.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Guest House 

Located on the ORNL campus within walking distance of the conference location.

A limited number of rooms are being held for DOECAA until April 7. Travelers must call the Guest House at 865-576-8101 and mention the DOECAA Spring Conference to access the reserved block of rooms (no need to call if you have already reserved a room). 

TownPlace Suites by Marriott

300 S. Rutgers Ave. 
Oak Ridge, TN
865-409-5059

Holiday Inn Express & Suites

114 Tulsa Road
Oak Ridge, TN
865-298-1990

Details

Start:
April 15
End:
April 16
Cost:
$100.00 – $175.00

Organizer

DOECAA

Venue

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Bethel Valley Road
Oak Ridge, 37830 United States
View Venue Website

Tickets

The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.
In-Person
$ 175.00
Unlimited
Virtual
$ 100.00
Unlimited