Symposium on Undergraduate Research - Rochester, New York on October 14-18, 2012

本项目旨在支持本科生参加并参加将于2012年10月14日至18日在纽约州罗切斯特举行的激光科学XXVIII会议上的本科生研究研讨会。专题讨论会将在会议的星期一举行。前几年的课程在http://www.aps.org/units/dls/meetings/symposium/index.cfm。这个项目的智力价值在于展示和传播参与者的研究成果，这些研究成果大多来自nsf支持的REU项目，并可能在他们之间发起合作。更广泛的影响是为这些年轻学生提供参加这种级别的全国性会议并首次公开演讲的机会。第二个好处是，由于不同大学的学生经常参与类似的项目，因此他们之间的合作经常在这些会议中产生。第三个影响是开创了这些学生之间的关系网，这对他们未来作为专业科学家的职业生涯至关重要，并鼓励他们继续沿着这样的职业道路走下去。

This project is to support undergraduate students attending and participating in the Symposium on Undergraduate Research to be held at the Laser Science XXVIII Conference, October 14 - 18, 2012 in Rochester, NY. The symposium will take place on Monday of the conference. Previous years' programs are at http://www.aps.org/units/dls/meetings/symposium/index.cfm. The intellectual merit of this project is to present and disseminate the results of the research work of the participants, mostly from NSF-supported REU programs, and possibly to initiate collaborations among them. The broader impact is to provide the opportunity for these young students to attend a national meeting of this stature and give their first public talks. A secondary benefit arises because collaborations among them are often born in these sessions since very often students in different universities are involved in similar projects. A third impact is to inaugurate the networking among these students that will be so vital to their future careers as professional scientists, and to encourage them to continue along such a career path.