REU Site in Physics at Indiana University

该奖项支持印第安纳大学物理学REU网站。REU网站将为物理学各个领域的本科生提供研究项目，包括加速器物理、生物物理、凝聚态物理、基本粒子物理、材料物理、医学物理和核物理的实验和理论研究。研究经验将在印第安纳大学物理系，印第安纳大学回旋加速器设施（IUCF）和核理论中心进行。来自美国各地学校的优秀学生将被招募，优先考虑中西部的机构以及本科生研究机会有限的小型机构。学生参与者将在教师和高级科学人员的监督下，作为正在进行的研究项目的组成部分，获得直接的研究经验。学生将通过研讨会和同伴互动了解广泛的当前研究领域。REU的经验还将包括介绍会、当前物理学研究的每周研讨会、专业发展的讨论、每周的进展报告，以及使用学生机器车间和科学计算的迷你课程。在项目结束时，学生们将提交研究论文，并在闭幕研讨会上发表他们的研究成果。REU的学生将被邀请参加外展活动，以发现将科学带给更广泛的受众的回报。该REU项目还通过将博士后和研究生作为REU学生的共同导师来促进各级指导，这使年轻的学者有机会了解教学的回报。特别鼓励女性，代表性不足的少数民族和小型学院的学生申请这个REU网站。

This award supports an REU site in Physics at Indiana University. The REU site will have research projects for undergraduates in a variety of areas in Physics, including experimental and theoretical research in accelerator physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, elementary particle physics, materials physics, medical physics, and nuclear physics. The research experience will take place in the IU Physics Department, the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF), and the Nuclear Theory Center. Excellent students from schools throughout the U.S. will be recruited, with preference to institutions in the Midwest as well as small institutions where research opportunities for undergraduates may be limited. The student participants will gain direct research experience by working as integral parts of ongoing research programs under the supervision of faculty members and senior scientific staff. Students will learn about a broad range of current research areas through seminars and peer interactions.The REU experience will also include orientation sessions, weekly seminars on current research in physics, discussions of professional development, weekly progress presentations, and mini-courses in use of the student machine shops and scientific computation. At the conclusion of the program, students will submit research papers and present their results in talks at a closing symposium. REU students will be invited to engage in outreach activities to discover the rewards of bringing science to a wider audience. This REU program also promotes mentoring at all levels by including postdocs and graduate students as co-mentors of the REU students, which gives younger scholars the opportunity to learn about the rewards of teaching. Women, underrepresented minorities, and students from small colleges are especially encouraged to apply for this REU site.