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From 5e8fa83e5bb7dab4e2992b83a975739c78ec73cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Phillips <47334284+DanielRPhillips@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:24:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Revise team member details in team_members.yml Updated team member information for Filomena Nunes, Matt Pratola, and Frederi Viens. --- _data/team_members.yml | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/_data/team_members.yml b/_data/team_members.yml index 0916ae2..96c0d7c 100644 --- a/_data/team_members.yml +++ b/_data/team_members.yml @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ - name: Filomena Nunes photo: nunes.png - info: Professor of Physics and FRIB Theory Alliance Managing Director, Michigan State University + info: Professor of Physics, Michigan State University email: nunes@frib.msu.edu number_educ: 0 education1: @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ - name: Matt Pratola photo: matt_pratola.jpg - info: Associate Professor of Statistics,
The Ohio State University - email: mpratola@stat.osu.edu + info: Professor of Statistics,
Indiana University + email: mpratola@iu.edu number_educ: 0 education1: bio: > @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ - name: Frederi Viens photo: frederi-viens.2018.3960medres_cropped.jpg info: Professor of Statistics & Probability,
Michigan State University; Professor of Statistics,
Rice University. - email: viens@msu.edu viens@rice.edu + email: viens@rice.edu number_educ: 0 education1: bio: > From 67238b9c8e281cd03e0c082d3fb4175a0c80568b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Phillips <47334284+DanielRPhillips@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:27:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Add news entry for Samuel Sullivan's arXiv paper Added a new news entry about Samuel Sullivan's paper on Bayesian calibration and its publication on arXiv. --- _data/news.yml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/_data/news.yml b/_data/news.yml index fd571f0..1c0b5fb 100644 --- a/_data/news.yml +++ b/_data/news.yml @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +- date: September 19, 2026 + headline: > + Congratulations to BAND Fellow, Samuel Sullivan and his collaborators both inside and outside BAND: their paper "Bayesian calibration of a regional optical potential and uncertainty-quantified predictions for compound nucleus reactions +" was posted to the arXiv this week. Sullivan, together with his BAND co-authors Kyle Beyer and Filomena Nunes, as well as co-authors from the University of Surrey and AWE Nuclear Security Technologies, +propose a regional approach to the optical potential, suited for a specific region of the nuclear landscape. The goal is to calibrate the potential along isotopic chains to enable both strong data coverage and improved extrapolative power. + - date: May 2, 2026 headline: > Nuclear reaction dynamics is often modeled using a large set of coupled equations. To enable further Bayesian analysis of nuclear reactions, BAND members Manuel Catacora-Rios, Kyle Beyer, Pablo Giuliani, Kyle Godbey, Dick Furnstahl, and Filomena Nunes developed a reduced-basis coupled-channel emulator (CC-RBM) that precisely reproduces the full coupled-channel solution at substantially lower computational cost. Their article on this work was an Editors' suggestion in the April issue of Physical Review C. From b750821275209e7c914e490a6cf4b815700815b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Phillips <47334284+DanielRPhillips@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:28:26 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Fix formatting --- _data/news.yml | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/_data/news.yml b/_data/news.yml index 1c0b5fb..5e9f953 100644 --- a/_data/news.yml +++ b/_data/news.yml @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ - date: September 19, 2026 headline: > - Congratulations to BAND Fellow, Samuel Sullivan and his collaborators both inside and outside BAND: their paper "Bayesian calibration of a regional optical potential and uncertainty-quantified predictions for compound nucleus reactions -" was posted to the arXiv this week. Sullivan, together with his BAND co-authors Kyle Beyer and Filomena Nunes, as well as co-authors from the University of Surrey and AWE Nuclear Security Technologies, -propose a regional approach to the optical potential, suited for a specific region of the nuclear landscape. The goal is to calibrate the potential along isotopic chains to enable both strong data coverage and improved extrapolative power. - + Congratulations to BAND Fellow, Samuel Sullivan and his collaborators both inside and outside BAND: their paper "Bayesian calibration of a regional optical potential and uncertainty-quantified predictions for compound nucleus reactions was posted to the arXiv this week. Sullivan, together with his BAND co-authors Kyle Beyer and Filomena Nunes, as well as co-authors from the University of Surrey and AWE Nuclear Security Technologies, propose a regional approach to the optical potential, suited for a specific region of the nuclear landscape. The goal is to calibrate the potential along isotopic chains to enable both strong data coverage and improved extrapolative power. + - date: May 2, 2026 headline: > Nuclear reaction dynamics is often modeled using a large set of coupled equations. To enable further Bayesian analysis of nuclear reactions, BAND members Manuel Catacora-Rios, Kyle Beyer, Pablo Giuliani, Kyle Godbey, Dick Furnstahl, and Filomena Nunes developed a reduced-basis coupled-channel emulator (CC-RBM) that precisely reproduces the full coupled-channel solution at substantially lower computational cost. Their article on this work was an Editors' suggestion in the April issue of Physical Review C.