REU Site: Physics/JILA

该奖项支持更新科罗拉多大学/JILA本科生研究经验(REU)网站。该REU项目的智力重点是物理学，本科生与优秀的教师结对在许多物理领域进行尖端研究，包括原子、分子和光学物理、生物物理、凝聚态物理、高能物理、核物理、等离子体物理和物理教育研究。潜在的REU项目的例子包括：开发用于相关物质中声子的共振泵浦的超快光脉冲序列；研究浸没在等离子体中的尘埃颗粒和紫外线辐射；建立饱和吸收光谱和半导体激光稳频；材料的合成和基本的电学和热力学表征；研究简单冷分子的碰撞和反应；为研究生物分子问题开发基于激光的新方法来驱动或测量AFM悬臂；制造、驱动和传感微和纳米机械振荡器的技术；通过偶极相互作用进行极性分子相互作用的内转动自由度的理论研究；设计、建造和测试用于连续加载、测量和操纵激光冷却原子的新型光学腔几何结构。虽然暑假的主要重点是每个学生各自的研究实验室，在那里学生应该至少掌握一项大型任务的一部分，但在项目期间还会有各种各样的其他活动。这些课程包括伦理学、电子学和机械加工课程，以及针对学生的实验室参观和每周一次的科学研讨会系列。该项目以每一位REU学生一天的演讲结束。特别努力包括妇女和少数群体的大量参与，以及来自较小机构的学生，这些机构没有那么多的研究机会。这一计划符合美国国家科学基金会的目标，即培养一支多元化的、具有国际竞争力的科学和工程队伍。积极的研究经验是吸引有才华的本科生并将他们留在科学和工程职业生涯的最有效方式之一。该奖项得到了国家科学基金会物理部和材料研究部的支持。

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 physics, high energy physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics, and physics education research. Examples of potential REU projects include: Development of an ultrafast optical pulse train for resonant pumping of phonons in correlated matter; Studies of dust particles immersed in plasmas and UV radiation; Setting up saturated absorption spectroscopy and diode laser frequency stabilization; Synthesis of materials and the basic electrical and thermodynamic characterizations; Studies of collisions and reactions of simple cold molecules, Development of new laser-based methods to actuate or measure AFM cantilevers with light for studies of biomolecular problems; Techniques for fabricating, actuating, and sensing micro and nanomechanical oscillators; Theoretical studies of internal rotational degrees of freedom of polar molecules interacting via dipolar interactions; Designing, building, and testing novel optical cavity geometries for continuously loading, measuring, and manipulating laser-cooled atoms. 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 program on "Getting Into Grad School," as well as lab tours and a weekly science seminar series aimed at the students. The program culminates with a day of presentations given by each of the REU students. Special efforts are made to include significant participation levels from women and minorities, as well as from students coming from smaller institutions that do not have as many research opportunities. This program fits in with the NSF goal of developing a diverse and internationally competitive scientific and engineering workforce. Active research experience is one of the most effective ways to attract talented undergraduates and retain them in careers in science and engineering. This award is supported by the Division of Physics and the Division of Materials Research within the National Science Foundation.