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

该项目旨在支持本科生参加将于2012年10月14日至18日在纽约州罗切斯特市举行的第二十八届激光科学大会上举行的本科生研究研讨会。研讨会将于大会星期一举行。前几年的课程在http://www.aps.org/units/dls/meetings/symposium/index.cfm.上这个项目的智力价值在于展示和传播参与者的研究工作成果，这些参与者大多来自NSF支持的REU项目，并可能发起他们之间的合作。更广泛的影响是为这些年轻学生提供机会，参加这样一个级别的全国会议，并进行他们的第一次公开演讲。第二个好处是，他们之间的合作往往是在这些会议期间产生的，因为不同大学的学生经常参与类似的项目。第三个影响是开启这些学生之间的网络，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前进。

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.