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+- date: September 19, 2026
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+   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 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20120">posted to the arXiv</a> 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.
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 - 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. <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/tgf9-f2st">Their article on this work</a> was an Editors' suggestion in the April issue of Physical Review C.

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 - 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
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 - name: Matt Pratola
   photo: matt_pratola.jpg
-  info: Associate Professor of Statistics, <br> The Ohio State University
-  email: mpratola@stat.osu.edu
+  info: Professor of Statistics, <br> Indiana University
+  email: mpratola@iu.edu
   number_educ: 0
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 - name: Frederi Viens
   photo: frederi-viens.2018.3960medres_cropped.jpg
   info: Professor  of Statistics &amp; Probability, <br> Michigan State University; Professor of Statistics, <br> Rice University.
-  email: viens@msu.edu  viens@rice.edu
+  email: viens@rice.edu
   number_educ: 0
   education1:
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