Graduate Research Traineeships in Optical Science

将建立一个新的超快光学科学研究生培训计划。五个实习生的具体重点将是密歇根大学新成立的超快光学科学中心(CUOS)，这是一个NSF科学和技术中心，旨在提高美国在高速光子学和脉冲激光光学方面的竞争力。在这一领域，对训练有素的人员的需求是有据可查的，这些人员将领导蓬勃发展的光学科学和技术革命。CUOS在范围上本质上是跨学科的，并利用了几个系的教师和资源：应用物理、电气工程、物理和化学。通过共同强调将高峰值功率激光用于基础科学的新领域，以及利用超快光脉冲的特殊特性的技术应用，这些多学科组件被整合在一起。这一全面和创新的方案解决了研究生教育中的几个关键需求：它的目标是增加在国家重要领域继续攻读博士学位的美国本科生的数量，它通过由大学匹配基金资助的一项新的外联倡议，积极参与和培养在该中心研究中代表不足的群体，它还通过提供入学前暑期研究实习来解决留住学生和获得学位的时间等重要问题。

A new Graduate Traineeship Program in Ultrafast Optical Sciences will be established. The specific focus of the five traineeships will be on the University of Michigan's newly created Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS), an NSF Science and Technology Center created to enhance the nation's competitiveness in high-speed photonics and pulsed laser optics. This is a field where a well-documented demand exists for highly trained personnel who will lead the burgeoning revolution in optical science and technology. CUOS is inherently interdisciplinary in scope and draws on faculty and resources in several departments: Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry. These multidisciplinary components are integrated via a common emphasis on the utilization of high peak power lasers for new areas of fundamental science, and for technological applications that exploit the special characteristics of ultrafast light pulses. This comprehensive and innovative program addresses several crucial needs in graduate education: it aims to increase the number of American undergraduates going on to PhD studies in areas of national importance, it actively engages and nurtures underrepresented groups in the research of the Center, via a novel outreach initiative funded by University matching funds, and it addresses important issues of retention and time-to- degree by providing pre-enrollment summer research internships.