Frontier Physics and Astronomy Research with Technical Presentations

加州大学洛杉矶分校物理和天文学系每年将举办为期10周的夏季REU项目，为参与项目的本科生提供丰富的研究经验。该系培养本科生的历史悠久。未来的REU导师是教师导师，他们设计了定义明确的适当范围的研究项目，并将发起和监督参与者的进展。物理的四个领域是有针对性的：等离子体物理、固态物理、天体物理和高能物理。这个REU项目的目的是向学生参与者传达研究过程中涉及的各种活动。这包括以现实的方式仔细定义项目，实际执行计划的研究活动(数据获取、数据分析、理论探索和最终解释的组合)，以及最终结果的书面和口头陈述。REU的技术和口头陈述受到了一定的重视，因为人们坚信，撰写和谈论自己的数据和结果是研究中一个关键的、经常被忽视的组成部分，而且无论是在大学、政府还是行业，任何研究环境都是如此。个人研究计划将通过小组活动来加强，例如每周一次的研讨会、实验室之旅、博物馆之旅、沙漠望远镜体验和其他社交活动。该计划针对的是地理和文化上不同的物理科学专业高年级(初级)本科生群体。

The UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a 10-week summer REU program providing a rich experience in research for participating undergraduates each year. The department has a long history of training undergraduate students. Prospective REU mentors are faculty mentors who have devised well-defined research projects of appropriate scope and who will initiate and oversee the participants' progress. Four areas of physics are targeted: plasma physics, solid-state physics, astrophysics and high-energy physics. The aim of this REU program is to convey to the student participants the full range of activities involved in the research process. This includes carefully defining the project in a realistic way, actually carrying out the planned research activities (a mix of data acquisition, data analysis, theoretical explorations, and final interpretations) and the written and oral presentation of the final results. Some emphasis is given to the technical and oral presentations in this REU because of a strong belief that writing and speaking about ones' data and results are a critical, oft-ignored component of research, and that this is true in any research environment be it university, government, or industry. The individual research programs will be augmented with group activities such as weekly seminars, lab tours, museum tours, a desert telescope experience and other social events. The program is aimed at a geographically and culturally diverse group of upper-division (junior level) undergraduate students in the physical sciences.