* Dinner Meeting Announcement *
Baltimore Washington Chapter of
the Health Physics Society
Presents:
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Mark Wrobel, Ph.D., CHP
DHS Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
Transformational and Applied Research Directorate
“Advances in Radiation Detection Materials”
Location
Clyde’s of Tysons Corner
8332 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182
(703) 734-1900
http://www.clydes.com/tysons
Agenda
6:00 pm:
7:00 pm:
8:00 pm:
Social hour, cash bar
Dinner
Speaker: Mark Wrobel
Cost: $35.00
Menu: Seasonal Salad, Choice of Roast Chicken or Seasonal Fish, Cheesecake, Cash Bar, Soda, Iced
Tea, Coffee
RSVP Deadline: 6 p.m. on September 4, 2015
Speaker: Dr. Mark Wrobel is a senior health physicist and engineer with 27 years of experience in
radiation protection, radiation measurements, and program management. He currently serves as a lead
program manager within the Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
where he manages research in advanced nuclear and radiological threat detection technology. Dr.
Wrobel orchestrates DNDO’s long-range research portfolio executed through the Academic Research
Initiative and Exploratory Research Programs. These programs together include over 60 projects in new
scintillator and semiconductor detection materials, gamma-ray spectroscopy and imaging systems,
neutron detection approaches, non-destructive inspection technologies and advanced detector signal
processing, algorithms and modeling. Dr. Wrobel came to the DNDO from the DoD’s Defense Threat
Reduction Agency (DTRA) where he led the radiation detection technologies branch supporting 20
research efforts. Prior to DTRA, he served 21 years with the U.S. Air Force, retiring with the rank of Lt
Col. During his military tenure, Dr. Wrobel served as the senior consultant to U.S. Air Force Surgeon
for health physics, led management of the USAF Master Materials License from the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, and was the career field manager for 45 health and medical physicists in the Service. His
other assignments included consultant positions in operational and medical health physics, nuclear and
radiological consequence management, non-ionizing radiation protection, and environmental
remediation. Mark received his doctorate in environmental health sciences (health physics) through the
University of Michigan, and his B.S. and M.Eng. in nuclear engineering through Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. He is a member of the Health Physics Society, and has been certified for 24 years by the
American Board of Health Physics.
Description: This presentation will discuss recent and on-going investigations into advanced materials
utilized for gamma-ray and neutron radiation sensing, to include those employed in radiographic and
active detection technologies. The presentation will emphasize solid-state materials to include new and
novel scintillators such as Cs2LiYCl6, Gd-Y-garnets and room-temperature or near-room temperature
semiconductor materials such as TlBr and Tl6SeI4, and LiInSe2. It will also include the latest
innovations in photodetection and photon conversion required for scintillator detector applications.
Related topics, to include current research in new scintillator and semiconductor materials discovery,
materials modeling and simulations and continuing challenges in detection materials research, will also
be presented.
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RSVP Contact: Stephen Luke at stpt2003@yahoo.com (email preferred), or 202-254-7619. If you must
cancel your reservation, please notify Stephen Luke by the RSVP deadline.
NOTE: Please consider personally inviting a friend or colleague that either is not a member (or perhaps
a not-so-active member) to join us for this meeting. Thanks!
PARKING: Parking is available at the restaurant.
METRO: The Greensboro station (Silver Line) is approximately 2 blocks from the restaurant.
FUTURE MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS:
October 6, 2015:
Monthly Meeting, Dan Blumenthal, DOE/NNSA Consequence Management
Program Manager, “Supporting the new Radiological Operation Support
Specialist (ROSS) position”, Location TBD.
November 13, 2015: Monthly Meeting, Bob Cherry, HPS President-Elect, “NRC License for Depleted
Uranium in Davy Crockett Cartridge, 20mm Spotting M101”, Location TBD.
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