Research Experience for Undergraduates: The Los Alamos Summer School REU Site

洛斯阿拉莫斯暑期学校是在新墨西哥大学 (UNM) 和洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室 (LANL) 的支持下，在新墨西哥州洛斯阿拉莫斯为物理学本科生举办的为期十周的暑期课程。 学院的主要目标是让学生接触物理学的前沿研究，并为他们追求物理学和相关领域的职业提供培训和鼓励。 根据申请人对网络申请表的回复、大学成绩单和两封推荐信，从申请人池中选出约 20 名参与者。 其中，大约 10 名学生获得 NSF 资助，10 名学生获得 DoE/LANL 资助。 每位学生都会获得津贴，用于支付新墨西哥大学特殊研究生课程的生活费、交通费和学费，该课程基本上是学生的项目，学分为 3 个学期，学生将自动注册该课程。 来自 UNM 和 LANL 的专家以及尊贵的访客为学生们举办了关于物理学和应用物理学前沿领域（包括生物物理学和量子计算）的讲座。 他们还参加为期一周的天体物理学和超级计算等主题的研讨会。学生的大部分时间都花在与 LANL 和 UNM 高级科学人员的导师一起进行个人研究项目上，研究共同感兴趣的主题。 学生夏季研究项目的最终报告由 LANL 在 LA-UR 报告中发布。 我们注重让体验尽可能愉快，学生们共同参与许多课外活动。

The Los Alamos Summer School is a ten-week summer program for undergraduate physics students held in Los Alamos, New Mexico under the auspices of the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The School's principal aims are to expose the students to frontier research in physics and to provide training and encouragement to them in their pursuit of careers in physics and related areas. About 20 participants are selected from a pool of applicants based on their responses to a web-based application form, their college transcripts, and two letters of recommendation. Of these, approximately 10 students are supported by NSF and 10 by DoE/LANL. A stipend is given to each student to cover cost of living, transportation, and tuition for a special UNM graduate course, basically the student's project, with credit of 3 semester hours, into which the student is automatically enrolled. The students are given lectures by experts from UNM and LANL as well as by distinguished visitors, on topics in frontier areas of physics and applied physics including biophysics and quantum computing. They also participate in weeklong symposia on such subjects as astrophysics and supercomputing. Most of the students' time is spent on individual research projects with mentors from the senior scientific staffs of LANL and UNM, working on topics of mutual interest. Final reports by the students on their summer research projects are published by LANL in a LA-UR report. Attention is paid to making the experience as enjoyable as possible, and the students share a number of extracurricular activities.