NSF-REU Site for for Research in Physics

*贝克圣何塞州立大学是加州州立大学的校区，是一所现代化的城市综合性大学，要求教职员工进行研究。有一个庞大的物理系，有18名教员，大约有35名初中和高中物理专业的本科生，其中大约有15名学生是女性或代表人数不足的少数民族成员。SJSU物理系自1989年以来一直运行的REU站点将继续运行。该REU网站的一个创新部分包括为产学合作的学生提供支持：四个团队由一名物理学教师、一名来自行业或政府实验室的物理学家以及一名NSF-REU的学生参与者组成。大多数项目都在光学、凝聚态物质和计算物理领域。所有这些项目都是对物理系正式认可的“激光和光学中的浓度”、“凝聚态中的浓度”和“计算物理中的浓度”的补充。这三个领域代表了围绕这所大学的高科技“硅谷”的主要科学焦点。这些正在进行的研究项目将为物理学本科生提供实验和理论研究经验。本科生被安排在14个项目中，从二氧化碳中稳定同位素的实验二极管激光光谱学，到量子井半导体的电学和光学性质的理论工作室，再到稀土光谱学。拟议中的项目的主要目标是让本科生，特别是少数族裔学生，参与研究，否则他们可能没有机会。***

*** Becker San Jose State University, a campus of the California State University, is a modern urban comprehensive university in which faculty are required to do research. There is a large 18-faculty Department of Physics with approximately 35 undergraduate Physics majors in their Junior and Senior years, including approximately fifteen students who are female or members of under-represented minorities. The REU Site that has been in operation since 1989 in the SJSU Physics Department will be continued. An innovative component of this REU Site includes support for students in industry-university collaborations: Four teams consist of a Physics faculty member, a physicist from an industry or government laboratory, and an NSF-REU student participant. Most of the projects are in the areas of optics, condensed matter, and computational physics. All these projects complement the Physics Department's officially recognized "Concentration in Lasers and Optics", "Concentration in Condensed Matter", and the "Concentration in Computational Physics". These three areas represent the major scientific focus in the hightech "Silicon Valley" surrounding this University. These on-going research projects will provide both experimental and theoretical research experience for undergraduates in physics. Undergraduate students are placed in fourteen projects which range from experimental diode laser spectroscopy of stable isotopes in carbon dioxide to theoretical studios of electrical and optical properties of quantum well semiconductors, to rare-earth spectroscopy. The proposed program's major goal is to involve undergraduate students, especially minorities, in research who might not otherwise have the opportunity. ***