REU Site: Solar Physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

首席研究员（PI）将在哈佛-史密森天体物理中心（CfA）创建本科生研究体验（REU）计划，学生将在CfA高级科学家的监督下在夏季进行为期十周的太阳物理学个人研究项目。PI还将在这个REU培训计划中包括伦理部分，他承诺将邀请一个庞大的高素质导师库，包括女性和少数民族导师。大多数学生研究项目将涉及CfA太阳能研究小组积极参与的航天器任务的数据分析，如SOHO，TRACE，Hinode和SDO。PI将针对天文学，物理学，数学，地球科学和计算机科学专业的本科生。PI已经在波兹曼的蒙大拿州立大学指导了一个类似的非常成功的项目五年，CfA的高级人员拥有本科研究和推广的相关经验。PI将在第一年与六名学生启动REU计划，此后每年扩大两名学生。通过正在进行的CfA国际合作，PI的团队将邀请少量的国际学生和访问科学家进行讲座。PI计划通过与少数民族学院和大学进行专业联系来鼓励少数民族学生申请，并将在计划的REU学生活动的同时提供访问教师计划。PI希望学生项目经常会与他们的CfA导师联合发表专业出版物或演讲，为本科生提供宝贵的动力和职业发展经验。由于太阳物理学在相对较少的美国学院和大学教授，PI还认为该计划将为太阳物理学社区提供重要服务。凭借其强大的空间天气组成部分，他断言，该计划将通过增加我们对潜在空间天气危害的理解而造福社会。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。

The Principal Investigator (PI) will create an Reseach Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), in which students will carry out individual research projects in solar physics under the supervision of CfA senior staff scientists for ten weeks during the summer. The PI will also include an ethics component in this REU training program, and he pledges to involve a large and highly qualified mentor pool, including female and minority mentors.Most of the student research projects will involve data analysis from spacecraft missions in which the CfA solar research group is actively involved, such as SOHO, TRACE, Hinode, and SDO. The PI will target undergraduates majoring in Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics, Earth Sciences, and Computer Sciences. The PI has directed a similar, highly successful program at Montana State University in Bozeman for five years, and CfA senior personnel possess relevant experience with undergraduate research and outreach. The PI will initiate this REU program with six students in the first year, and expand by two students per year thereafter. Through ongoing CfA international collaborations, the PI's team will invite a small number of international students and visiting scientists for lectures. The PI plans to encourage minority student applications by making professional contacts at minority colleges and universities, and a program for visiting teachers will be offered simultaneously with the planned REU student activities. The PI expects that student projects will frequently result in joint professional publications or presentations with their CfA mentor(s), providing undergraduates with valuable motivation and career development experiences. Since solar physics is being taught at relatively few U.S. colleges and universities, the PI also believes that this program will provide an important service to the solar physics community. With its strong space weather component, he asserts that this program will benefit society by adding to our understanding of potential space weather hazards. This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).