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举办的为期十周的本科物理学生暑期课程。学院的主要目标是让学生接触到物理学的前沿研究，并为他们在物理学和相关领域的职业发展提供培训和鼓励。根据申请者对网上申请表格的回复、大学成绩单和两封推荐信，将从申请者中选出约20名参与者。其中，大约10名学生由NSF资助，10名由DoE/LANL资助。每个学生都有一笔津贴，用于支付生活费、交通费和新墨西哥大学特殊研究生课程的学费，该课程基本上是学生的项目，有3个学期的学分，学生自动注册。学生们将由新墨西哥大学和兰纳尔大学的专家以及著名的客座教授讲授物理学和应用物理学的前沿领域，包括生物物理学和量子计算。他们还参加为期一周的专题讨论会，主题包括天体物理学和超级计算机。学生的大部分时间都花在个人研究项目上，导师来自兰大和新墨西哥大学的资深科研人员，研究共同感兴趣的话题。学生的暑期研究项目的最终报告由LANL在LA-UR报告中发布。注重使体验尽可能愉快，学生们分享一些课外活动。

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.