Physics Research Experience for Undergraduates

该奖项支持威廉与玛丽学院本科生研究体验网站的更新。REU计划是一个为期十周的物理研究计划，面向低年级本科生，根据成绩和推荐信进行选择。威廉和玛丽大学物理系和应用科学系的大约30名成员，以及杰斐逊实验室和NASA-LARC的几位杰出科学家已经同意担任导师。该计划还涉及苏丹市地下实验室中微子物理项目的两名教师。潜在导师代表的领域包括：激光物理，包括与JLab自由电子激光的工作，激光原子相互作用，用激光研究的凝聚态物理，核磁共振，以及各种其他技术，中微子物理，核和粒子物理，太赫兹光谱，聚合物物理，表面物理，超音速，无损检测，BEC芯片，超短激光脉冲，等离子体物理，非线性动力学，量子计算，信息与光学，生物信息学，天体物理/宇宙学。所有这些领域的研究项目过去都曾出现在威廉和玛丽的物理REU计划中，该计划自1987年以来一直在运行。RET计划自2005年开始运作，将教师带入世界上最先进的设施之一的中微子研究。该奖项由物理司和数学和物理科学局多学科活动办公室共同资助。

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experience for Undergraduates site at the College of William and Mary. The REU program is a ten-week program of physics research for junior-level undergraduates, selected on the basis of grades and letters of recommendation. About 30 members of the Physics and Applied Science Departments at William and Mary, as well as several distinguished scientists at Jefferson Lab and NASA-LaRC have agreed to serve as mentors. This program also involves two teachers in the neutrino physics program at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Fields represented by the potential mentors are: laser physics including work with theJLab FEL, laser atom interactions, condensed matter physics studied with lasers, NMR, and a variety of other techniques, neutrino physics, nuclear and particle physics, THz spectroscopy, polymer physics, surface physics, ultra-sonics, NDE, BEC on a chip, ultra-short laser pulses, plasma physics, non-linear dynamics, quantum computing, information and optics, bio-informatics, and astrophysics/cosmology. Research projects in all these fields have been represented in the past in William and Mary's Physics REU Program, which has run continuously since 1987. The RET program, which has been in operation since 2005, brings teachers into neutrino research at one of the foremost facilities in the world. This award is co-funded by the Division of Physics and by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.