REU Site at Nevis Labs, Columbia University

哥伦比亚大学尼维斯实验室 REU 站点

• 批准号: 1062183
• 负责人: John Parsons
• 金额: $ 26.6万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1062183&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Nevis; Labs; Columbia

This award supports the renewal of the Physics REU site at Nevis Labs, the laboratory for high energy physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics at Columbia University. The main focus of the program is student participation in original, cutting-edge physics research, working with a faculty mentor. The students spend 10 weeks during the summer participating in the broad Nevis high energy physics and particle astrophysics research program, which seeks to address the most pressing issues of these fields, including the origin of mass, the question of neutrino oscillations, and the search for Dark Matter. Answers to these questions will have profound implications for our understanding of the fundamental structure and evolution of the universe. The REU program provides the opportunity for undergraduates to join in the excitement of these pursuits, as well as to participate in the development of the technological and computational tools required. Through an extensive series of lectures and lab visits, the students are also exposed to the most exciting problems in many other fields of physics. As the variety of experiments are at different stages in their development, Nevis provides the opportunity for students to gain experience in all aspects of the experiments, from initial detector design, hardware development and construction, to software development and data analysis.

该奖项支持Nevis Labs的物理REU站点的续签，哥伦比亚大学的高能量物理，核物理和天体物理学实验室。 该计划的主要重点是学生参与与教师导师合作的原始，尖端的物理研究。学生在夏季花费10周的时间参加了广泛的尼维斯高能量物理和粒子天体物理学研究计划，该计划旨在解决这些领域最紧迫的问题，包括弥撒的起源，中微子振荡的问题以及寻找寻找的问题暗物质。这些问题的答案将对我们对宇宙的基本结构和演变的理解产生深远的影响。 REU计划为大学生提供了机会，可以加入这些追求的兴奋，并参与所需的技术和计算工具的开发。通过一系列大量的讲座和实验室访问，学生们还面临许多其他物理领域中最令人兴奋的问题。 由于各种实验在开发的不同阶段，尼维斯为学生提供了在实验各个方面的经验，从初始检测器设计，硬件开发和构造到软件开发和数据分析。