REU Site: Frontier Physics and Astronomy Research with Technical Presentations

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项支持REU在加州-洛杉矶大学的网站。 该计划的主要目标是鼓励学生，包括妇女，代表性不足的少数民族，以及来自研究设施有限的机构的学生，追求物理学，天体物理学和一般科学的职业生涯。该方案的目标群体是地理和文化多样的群体，因此在全国范围内招收学生，并特别努力以四年制院校、传统黑人学院和传统女子学院为目标。该计划的活动包括在加州大学洛杉矶分校教员的监督下进行为期10周的研究项目。该项目跨越在部门代表的各个领域（包括等离子体物理，凝聚态物理，加速器物理，高能物理，核物理，天体物理，天体粒子物理和生物物理），并从不同的教师志愿者他们的时间每年都有所不同。该计划的智力价值植根于学生与教师的密切互动，因为他们共同致力于丰富的尖端项目之一。这些研究经验已通过其他辅助培训，如机械车间车间，道德讲习班，物理GRE预备课程，每周教师研讨会系列补充。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports the REU site at the University of California - Los Angeles. The main objective of the program 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 women's colleges. The program's activities include at its core a 10-week research project under the supervision of a UCLA faculty member. The projects span the various fields represented in the department (including plasma physics, condensed matter physics, accelerator physics, high energy physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, astroparticle physics, and biophysics), and vary from year to year as different faculty members volunteer their time. The intellectual merit of this program is rooted in the close student-faculty interactions as they work together on one of a rich selection of cutting-edge projects. These research experiences have been supplemented by other auxiliary training such as a machine shop workshop, an ethics workshop, a Physics GRE prep course, and a weekly faculty seminar series.