REU Site - Frontier Physics and Astronomy Research with Technical Presentations

该奖项支持加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)物理与天文学系的REU网站。加州大学洛杉矶分校REU前沿物理和天文学研究与技术报告的主要目标是鼓励学生，包括女性、代表性不足的少数群体和研究设施有限的机构的学生在物理学、天体物理学和一般科学领域追求职业生涯。该方案针对的是地理和文化多样化的群体，因此在全国范围内招收学生，并特别努力将目标对准四年制院校、历史悠久的黑人大学和传统的女子学院。该计划的核心活动包括一项为期10周的研究项目，由加州大学洛杉矶分校的一名教员监督。这些项目涵盖了该系代表的各个领域，如等离子体物理、凝聚态物理、宇宙线物理、高能物理、天体物理和生物物理。这些研究经验还得到了其他辅助培训的补充，如机械车间、科学计算车间、物理GRE预备课程和每周一次的教员研讨会系列。社会活动与学术活动相辅相成，努力培养团体之间和部门内部的社区意识。此外，学生与来自其他部门的所有暑期研究学生(总共约100人)一起住在校园的宿舍里，以进一步促进社交。建议的REU项目的重点是向学生参与者传达研究过程中涉及的各种活动。整个范围包括以现实的方式仔细定义项目，以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。每个学生都被要求提交一篇以专业格式撰写的论文，并必须在我们的项目结束研讨会上提交20分钟的POWER POINT演示文稿。该计划旨在为参与者提供1)获取只能通过参与正在进行的前沿水平的研究才能获得的物理技能，2)清楚地了解做研究意味着什么，并成为研究人员社区的一员，3)他们有能力为研究计划做出有意义的贡献的信心。

This award supports an REU site at the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The main objective of the UCLA REU Frontier Physics and Astronomy Research with Technical Presentations is to encourage students, including women, underrepresented minorities, and students from institutions with limited research facilities to pursue careers in physics, astrophysics and science in general. The program is aimed at a geographically and culturally diverse group and thus students are recruited nationally and special effort is made to target 4-year institutions, historically black colleges and traditional womens colleges. The core of the programs activities consist of a 10-week research project under the supervision of a UCLA faculty member. The projects span the various fields represented in the department, such as plasma physics, condensed matter physics, cosmic ray physics, high energy physics, astrophysics, and biophysics. These research experiences have been supplemented by other auxiliary training such as a machine shop workshop, a scientific computing workshop, a physics GRE prep course and a weekly faculty seminar series. Social activities supplement the academic activities in an effort to foster a sense of community among the group and within the department. Furthermore, students are housed in the dormitories on campus along with all other summer research students from other departments (altogether about 100 live together) to further facilitate social interaction. The focus of the proposed REU program is to convey to the student participants the full range of activities involved in the research process. The full gamut includes carefully defining the project in a realistic way to actually carrying out the planned research activities (a mix of data acquisition, data analysis, theoretical exploration, and final interpretations) to the written and oral presentation of the final results. Each of the students is required to submit a paper written in a professional format and must present a 20-minute power point presentation at our end-of-program symposium. This program seeks to provide the participants with 1) acquisition of skills in physics which can only come from participation in ongoing frontier level research, 2) a clear vision of what it means to do research, and to be a member of a community of researchers, and 3) some confidence that they are capable of meaningful contributions to a research program.