REU Site: Physics/JILA

该奖项支持科罗拉多大学/JILA本科生研究经验（REU）网站的更新。这个REU项目的智力焦点是物理学，本科生与杰出的教师配对，在物理学的许多领域做前沿研究，包括原子、分子和光学物理学、生物物理学、凝聚态物质、高能物理学、等离子体物理学和物理教育研究。潜在REU项目的例子包括原子与超短激光脉冲相互作用的理论模拟，对氨分子进行微波光谱分析，制造有图案的膜微谐振器，用原子力显微镜成像生物结构，使用光学镊子操纵和研究细菌细胞间的通信，建立用于测量高温超导体超导临界温度的磁化率计，研制和测试介子探测器样机，研究静电粉尘加速器的性能，研究教学策略的有效性。而暑假的重点是集中在每个学生身上？S个人研究实验室，在那里学生被期望掌握至少一部分的大任务，各种各样的其他活动发生在计划期间。这些课程包括伦理学、电子学和机械加工课程，为期一天的“进入研究生院”项目，以及针对本科生的实验室参观和科学研讨会。该计划的高潮是由REU的每个学生做一天的演讲。该奖项由美国国家科学基金会物理部和材料研究部资助。

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Colorado/JILA. The intellectual focus of this REU program is physics, and undergraduate students are paired up with preeminent faculty to do cutting-edge research in many fields of physics, including atomic, molecular, and optical physics, biophysics, condensed matter, high energy physics, plasma physics, and physics education research. Examples of potential REU projects include theoretical simulation of the interaction of an atom with ultrashort laser pulses, performing microwave spectroscopy of ammonia molecules, fabricating patterned membrane microresonators, imaging biological structures with atomic force microscopy, using optical tweezers to manipulate and study bacteria cell-to-cell communications, building a magnetic susceptometer for measurements of the superconducting critical temperature of high temperature superconductors, developing and testing of prototype muon detectors, characterizing performance of an electrostatic dust accelerator, and researching the effectiveness of teaching strategies. While the main emphasis of the summer is centered on each student?s individual research lab, where the students are expected to master at least a part of a large task, a variety of other activities take place during the program. These include ethics, electronics, and machining classes, a one-day "Getting Into Grad School" program, as well as lab tours and science seminars aimed at undergraduate students. The program culminates with a day of presentations given by each of the REU students. This award is supported by the Division of Physics and the Division of Materials Research within the National Science Foundation.