REU Site at Nevis Labs, Columbia University

该奖项旨在支持尼维斯实验室本科生研究经验（REU）项目的更新，尼维斯实验室是哥伦比亚大学高能物理、核物理和天体物理实验室。该计划的主要重点是学生参与原创的，前沿的物理研究，与教师导师一起工作。学生们将在夏季花10周的时间参与广泛的尼维斯高能物理和粒子天体物理学研究项目，该项目旨在解决这些领域最紧迫的问题，包括质量的起源、中微子振荡问题和暗物质的寻找。这些问题的答案将对我们理解宇宙的基本结构和进化产生深远的影响。REU计划为本科生提供了加入这些追求的机会，以及参与所需技术和计算工具的开发。通过一系列广泛的讲座和实验室参观，学生们也接触到许多其他物理领域中最令人兴奋的问题。REU项目提供的教育经验与在纽约市度过一个夏天的社会经验相辅相成。

This award is to support the renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program at Nevis Labs, the laboratory for high energy physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics at Columbia University. The main focus of the program is student participation in original, cutting-edge physics research, working with a faculty mentor. The students will spend 10 weeks during the summer participating in the broad Nevis high energy physics and particle astrophysics research program, which seeks to address the most pressing issues of these fields, including the origin of mass, the question of neutrino oscillations, and the search for Dark Matter. Answers to these questions will have profound implications for our understanding of the fundamental structure and evolution of the universe. The REU program provides the opportunity for undergraduates to join in the excitement of these pursuits, as well as to participate in the development of the technological and computational tools required. Through an extensive series of lectures and lab visits, the students are also exposed to the most exciting problems in many other fields of physics. The educational experience offered by the REU program is complemented by the social experience of spending a summer in New York City.