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  1. James L. Sweeney : An Oral History

    Sweeney, James L.
    Stanford (Calif.) : Stanford Historical Society, February 4, 2021 - 2021-02-18

    Professor James L. Sweeney shares memories of his path to Stanford, the departmental mergers that led to the formation of the Management Science and Engineering Department, and his research and policy work on energy economics and energy efficiency, including his work in the Federal Energy Administration and the creation of the Precourt Center for Energy Efficiency. Sweeney also describes the work of the Stanford Campus Residential Leaseholders (SCRL), an organization in which he has played a leadership role for many years, and ruminates on the relationship between SCRL, the university, and Santa Clara County.

  2. James L. Sweeney : An Oral History

    Sweeney, James L.
    Stanford (Calif.) : Stanford Historical Society, February 4, 2021 - 2021-02-18

    Professor James L. Sweeney shares memories of his path to Stanford, the departmental mergers that led to the formation of the Management Science and Engineering Department, and his research and policy work on energy economics and energy efficiency, including his work in the Federal Energy Administration and the creation of the Precourt Center for Energy Efficiency. Sweeney also describes the work of the Stanford Campus Residential Leaseholders (SCRL), an organization in which he has played a leadership role for many years, and ruminates on the relationship between SCRL, the university, and Santa Clara County.

  3. Siegfried S. Hecker : An Oral History

    Hecker, Siegfried S.
    Stanford (Calif.) : Stanford Historical Society, December 9, 2019 - 2019-12-10

    Siegfried S. Hecker (Department of Management Science and Engineering and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies--Center for International Security and Cooperation) describes his early life and education, his research in plutonium science and international nuclear security, and his career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, including his service as the laboratory’s director from 1986 to 1997. Of special interest are his descriptions of teaching about nuclear and international security issues at Stanford and his comments on scientific diplomacy, including accounts of his trip to Russia in 1992 to meet with Yulii Khariton and other nuclear scientists and his visits to North Korea’s nuclear facilities.Early life in Rottenmann, Austria, including family’s experience of World War II • Immigrating to the United States in 1956 • Teenage years in Cleveland, Ohio, and attending Addison Junior High School and East High School • Affinity for science and math • Decision to attend college at Case Institute of Technology • Reflections on how growing up in an immigrant community enabled him relate to people from all walks of life • Historical context of post-WWII, the Cold War, and the space race • Gratitude for how the United States embraced him as an immigrant • Memories of undergraduate years at Case Institute of Technology, including quality of interactions with professors • Switching his major from nuclear physics to metallurgy and materials • Introduction to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as a graduate student and a post-doc • Working on plutonium and plasticity theory at Los Alamos • Experience at General Motors Research Laboratories and research on deformation of metals and sheet metal forming • Returning to Los Alamos in 1973 and transitioning to research on nuclear materials • Nuclear batteries/space batteries • Combining applied and fundamental science • Challenges related to sheet metal forming for auto bodies in the 1970s • Use of nuclear batteries in pacemakers • Description of Los Alamos living environment and laboratory culture and organization • Interdisciplinary nature of the national laboratories • “Competitive collaboration” between Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore laboratories • SLAC as fundamental research laboratory • Management roles at and appointment as director of Los Alamos National Laboratory effective January 1986 • Challenges facing laboratory in mid- 1980s • Thoughts on managing a large organization, working with the public, and more • A typical day as director • Working with government officials, including testifying before Congress • Least favorite part of being the director • Staff at Los Alamos • Decision to step down as director in November 1997 • Returning to research on plutonium aging • Decision of the Department of Energy to recompete the contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2005; speaking out against the decision in concert with his retirement from Los Alamos • Connections to Stanford professors Bill Nix and Oleg Sherby through materials research • Involvement in the Five Nations Project, a track-two diplomacy effort coordinated by John Lewis and Scott Sagan • Connection with Michael May, former director of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, at CISAC • Offer to come to CISAC in 2005 • Appointment as professor (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and as senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute and CISAC • Colleague Bill Perry • Teaching MS&E 93Q All Things Nuclear and MS&E 193/293 The Role of Technology in National Security • Policy paper assignment • PoliSci 114S, another important course related to CISAC • Department of Management Science & Engineering culture and assignments • Hecker’s research program on international nuclear issues, especially the Nuclear Risk Reduction Project • Working with Russian nuclear scientists to reduce risks, including efforts to improve the security of nuclear materials through materials, protection, control, and accounting (MPC&A) systems and visit to Russia in 1992 • Communicating across language barriers • Reflections on scientific diplomacy • Efforts to document the successes of scientific diplomacy with the Russians in the book Doomed to Cooperate • Visiting North Korea nuclear facilities beginning in 2004 • Research project on charting North Korea’s nuclear history • Reflections on support from Carnegie Corporation and MacArthur Foundation and thoughts on the opportunities afforded by Stanford for his research • The place of the university in the science and technology infrastructure of the United States

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