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州洛斯阿拉莫斯大学(UNM)和洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室(LANL)的赞助下，在新墨西哥州洛斯阿拉莫斯为本科生举办的为期十周的暑期课程。该学院的主要目标是让学生接触到物理学的前沿研究，并为他们在物理及相关领域的职业追求提供培训和鼓励。大约20名参与者是根据他们对网络申请表的回复、他们的大学成绩单和两封推荐信从申请者池中挑选出来的。在这些学生中，大约有10名学生得到了国家科学基金会的资助，10名学生得到了能源部/LANL的资助。给每个学生一笔津贴，用于支付生活、交通费用和一门特殊的UNM研究生课程的学费，基本上是学生的项目，学分为3个学期，学生自动进入该课程。来自UNM和LANL的专家以及杰出的参观者将向学生讲授物理学和应用物理学前沿领域的主题，包括生物物理和量子计算。他们还参加为期一周的关于天体物理和超级计算等主题的研讨会。学生们的大部分时间都花在个人研究项目上，导师来自LANL和UNM的高级科学人员，致力于共同感兴趣的主题。学生们关于他们暑期研究项目的最终报告由LANL在LA-UR报告中发布。注重让体验尽可能地愉快，学生们分享了一些课外活动。

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.