Modern Optics in the City of Light, a Collaborative REU Site in Paris

该奖项支持由密歇根大学超快光学科学中心(CUOS)主办的一个新的国际REU站点，该站点有机会在理工学院、国家技术进步学院(ENSTA)和法国帕莱索的Optique研究所进行研究。这些学生将被分成研究小组，其中包括两名学生，一名密歇根大学的教职员工和一名巴黎大学的教职员工。学生们将在安娜堡呆一周，然后在巴黎呆九周。每名学生将保持每周一次的在线研究日记，以便在每周一次的视频电话会议中与每一小组进行讨论。一名CUOS研究科学家将陪同学生前往巴黎，并停留两周，以确保学生有一个良好的开端。这些学生将住在安娜堡的当地宿舍和巴黎的城市大学。所有项目的研究都将涉及利用超快激光在广泛的领域发现非常先进的现象，包括相对论光学、等离子体物理、材料光谱、纳米加工、艺术修复与保护、图案化生物细胞模板、高功率光纤激光器、等离子体x射线源、纳米磁性材料的动力学、太赫兹成像、成形脉冲的生物医学成像、材料的疲劳寿命研究等。

This award supports a new international REU site hosted at the University of Michigan's Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences (CUOS) with research opportunities at Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), and the Institut d'Optique in Palaiseau, France. The students will be put into research teams that include 2 students, a faculty member at UM and a faculty member in one of the Parisian institutions. The students will spend one week in Ann Arbor, followed by 9 weeks in Paris. Each student will keep weekly on-line research diaries for discussion in weekly video teleconferences with each full group. A CUOS research scientist will accompany the students to Paris and stay for two weeks to ensure that the students get a good start. The students will be housed in a local dormitory in Ann Arbor and at the Cité Universitaire in Paris. The research in all projects will all involve the use of ultrafast lasers to discover very current, state-of-the art phenomena in a wide range of fields including; relativistic optics, plasma physics, materials spectroscopy, nanomachining, art restoration and conservation, patterned biological cell templating, high power fiber lasers, plasma x-ray sources, dynamics of nano-magnetic materials, terahertz imaging, biomedical imaging with shaped pulses, fatigue life studies of materials, etc. This award is co-funded by the Physics Division and the Office of International Science and Engineering.