REU Site: Physics/JILA

REU 网站：物理/JILA

• 批准号: 1262882
• 负责人: Daniel Dessau
• 金额: $ 30.9万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262882&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Physics; JILA

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Colorado/JILA. The intellectual focus of this REU program is physics, and undergraduate students are paired up with preeminent faculty to do cutting-edge research in many fields of physics, including atomic, molecular, and optical physics, biophysics, condensed matter, high energy physics, plasma physics, and physics education research. Examples of potential REU projects include theoretical simulation of the interaction of an atom with ultrashort laser pulses, performing microwave spectroscopy of ammonia molecules, fabricating patterned membrane microresonators, imaging biological structures with atomic force microscopy, using optical tweezers to manipulate and study bacteria cell-to-cell communications, building a magnetic susceptometer for measurements of the superconducting critical temperature of high temperature superconductors, developing and testing of prototype muon detectors, characterizing performance of an electrostatic dust accelerator, and researching the effectiveness of teaching strategies. While the main emphasis of the summer is centered on each student?s individual research lab, where the students are expected to master at least a part of a large task, a variety of other activities take place during the program. These include ethics, electronics, and machining classes, a one-day "Getting Into Grad School" program, as well as lab tours and science seminars aimed at undergraduate students. The program culminates with a day of presentations given by each of the REU students. This award is supported by the Division of Physics and the Division of Materials Research within the National Science Foundation.

该奖项支持科罗拉多大学/吉拉大学本科生（REU）网站的研究经验的更新。 该REU计划的智力重点是物理学，本科生与杰出的教师配对，以在许多物理领域进行尖端研究，包括原子，分子和光学物理学，生物物理学，冷凝物，高能量物理学，等离子体，血浆，等质量物理和物理教育研究。 潜在REU项目的实例包括理论模拟原子与超短激光脉冲的相互作用，进行氨分子的微波光谱，制造图案化的膜微孔剂，使用光学镊子对原子力显微镜进行成像，并使用光学镊子来操纵和研究细菌细胞细胞细胞和研究。 - 通信，建立磁启动仪，用于测量高温超导体的超导临界温度，开发和测试原型MUON探测器，表征静电粉尘加速器的性能，并研究教学策略的有效性。虽然夏天的主要重点集中在每个学生的个人研究实验室，但希望学生至少掌握一项艰巨的一部分，但该计划期间发生了各种其他活动。其中包括道德，电子和加工课程，为期一天的“进入研究生学校”计划，以及针对本科生的实验室旅行和科学研讨会。该计划以每位REU学生的演讲为最终。 该奖项得到了国家科学基金会内物理和材料研究部的支持。