REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Atomic, Molecular, and Laser Physics

SRI国际的分子物理实验室（MPL）为美国国家科学基金会的本科生研究经验（REU）计划提供了一个网站。MPL因其在原子、分子和激光物理方面的基础和应用研究而享誉全球。在过去的八年中，81名本科生参加了MPL的REU项目（74名获得了NSF的支持），与MPL的博士导师合作，在这些领域进行了广泛的实验和理论研究问题。我们建议重新招收高素质的本科生；与他们一起确定学生、导师和研究项目的最佳匹配；并提供一个暑期研究项目。我们将继续为每个学生提供正式和非正式的机会，让他们进行令人兴奋的研究，讨论他们的工作，展示项目成果，并与SRI的员工导师一起探索科学职业的可能性。我们期待REU项目继续产生学生/导师合著的报告和出版物，本科生对研究机构的博士物理学家的工作有更好的认识，以及被年轻科学家的能量和新观点所更新的研究人员。

Molecular Physics Laboratory (MPL) of SRI International supports a site for the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program. The MPL has a worldwide reputation for its fundamental and applied research in atomic, molecular, and laser physics. During the past eight years, 81 undergraduate students have participated in MPL's REU program (74 with NSF support), collaborating with Ph.D. mentors on the MPL staff on a wide variety of experimental and theoretical research problems in these areas. We propose to again recruit highly qualified undergraduate students; to work with them to identify the best match of student, mentor, and research project; and to provide a summer research program. We will continue to provide each student with opportunities both formal and informal to perform exciting research, discuss their work, present project results, and explore science career possibilities with SRI staff mentors. We expect this REU program to continue to produce student/mentor co-authored presentations and publications, undergraduates who have a better sense of the work of Ph.D. physicists at a research institute, and a research staff renewed by the energy and fresh perspective of young scientists.