Research Experiences in Physics for Undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校的物理系将在2003-2005年的夏季扩大其由NSF资助的物理专业本科生REU站点计划。教师研究体验(RET)部分将与REU计划相结合。除了正式的研究活动外，REU/RET实习生还将接受教员关于当前普遍感兴趣的研究主题的讲座、经典力学的迷你课程以及对GE Medical和位于斯托顿的威斯康星光源(同步加速器)的实地访问。参与REU的实验工作领域包括：光学、光学光谱和激光物理，包括在尖端生物物理和医学研究中的应用；利用各种实验技术研究凝聚态结构和表面结构，包括低能电子衍射(LEED)、红外光谱、分子束外延和真空沉积、X射线散射和其他X射线光谱技术，以及紫外线和X射线光电子发射。还有一些小组专门研究高温超导体中的电子显微镜和声传播。理论工作领域包括从电子和X射线探测器提取材料的几何和电子结构的计算技术、超导和电子结构、相对论天体物理以及激光干涉仪引力波天文台(LIGO)的数据分析。以前的REU学生已经成功地参与了所有这些领域的工作。应当指出，新闻部积极参与了LIGO项目，这是当代物理学中最大和最令人兴奋的合作项目之一：探测引力波，广义相对论预测了引力波，但尚未观测到。与LIGO小组合作的学生将全面参与该小组的工作，并有机会会见来自其他机构的合作者。

The Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will expand its NSF-funded REU site program for undergraduate physics majors during the summers of 2003 - 2005. A Research Experience for Teachers (RET) component will be combined with the REU program. As well as formal research activities, REU/RET interns are offered lectures from faculty about current research topics of general interest, a mini-course in classical mechanics, and site visits to GE Medical and the Wisconsin Light Source (Synchrotron) at Stoughton. Fields of experimental work for REU involvement include: optics, optical spectroscopy, and laser physics, including applications to cutting-edge biophysical and medical research; studies of condensed matter structure and surface structure, using a wide range of experimental techniques including Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED), infrared spectroscopy, molecular beam epitaxy and vacuum deposition, X-ray scattering and other X-ray spectroscopic techniques, and UV and X-ray photoemission. There are also groups working specifically with electron microscopy and acoustic propagation in high temperature superconductors. Fields of theoretical work include computational techniques for the extraction of the geometrical and electronic structure of materials from electron and X-ray probes, superconductivity and electronic structure, relativistic astrophysics, and the analysis of data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO). Previous REU students have been successfully involved in all of these fields. It should be noted that the Department is heavily involved with the LIGO project, one of the biggest and most exciting collaborative projects in contemporary physics: the detection of gravitational waves, which are predicted by General Relativity but which have not yet been observed. Students who work with the LIGO group will be fully involved in the group's work, and have the opportunity to meet collaborators from other institutions.