REU Site: Modern Optics in the City of Light, A Collaborative REU Site in Paris

该奖项支持由密歇根大学主办的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。国际REU网站，光之城的现代光学，每年夏天将带着八名本科生来到巴黎，与密歇根大学超快光学科学中心(CUOS)和几家巴黎研究机构的教职员工合作开展研究，这些研究机构包括巴黎萨克利大学、巴黎理工学院、法国国立技术学院(ENSTA)、光学研究生院、巴黎南11大学和卡尚北方男科大学。这些学生将被安排在研究团队中，其中包括这名学生、密歇根大学的一名教员和巴黎一所大学的一名教员。学生们将在安娜堡呆一周，然后在巴黎呆九周。每名学生将保持每周在线研究日记，以帮助与每个完整的小组进行交流。一名CUOS教职员工或研究科学家将陪同学生前往巴黎，并停留一周，以确保学生有一个良好的开端。这些学生将住在安娜堡的一家当地酒店和巴黎的CitéUniversity。将进行的研究将包括CUOS与法国机构之间正在进行的合作项目和新的合作项目。所有项目的研究都将涉及使用超快激光在广泛的领域发现非常当前的、最先进的现象，包括相对论光学、等离子体物理、材料光谱、纳米加工、图案化生物细胞模板、高功率光纤激光器、等离子体x射线源、纳米磁性材料的动力学、太赫兹成像、成形脉冲的生物医学成像、材料的疲劳寿命研究以及其他课题。该网站得到了物理REU计划和国防部与NSF REU计划的合作支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site in Physics hosted at the University of Michigan. This international REU site, Modern Optics in the City of Light, will bring eight undergraduates to Paris each summer to conduct research, collaboratively, with faculty at the University of Michigan's Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences (CUOS) and several Parisian research institutions: the University of Paris-Sacley, Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), the Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Université Paris-Sud 11, and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. The students will be in research teams that include the student, a faculty member at UM and a faculty member in one of the Parisian institutions. The students will spend one week in Ann Arbor, followed by nine weeks in Paris. Each student will keep weekly on-line research diaries to aid in communication with each full group. A CUOS faculty member or research scientist will accompany the students to Paris and stay for one week to ensure that the students get a good start. The students will be housed in a local hotel in Ann Arbor and at the Cité Universitaire in Paris. The research that will be conducted will include both on-going collaborative projects between CUOS and the French institutions and new collaborative projects. The research in all projects will all involve the use of ultrafast lasers to discover very current, state-of-the art phenomena in a wide range of fields including  relativistic optics, plasma physics, materials spectroscopy, nano-machining, patterned biological cell templating, high power fiber lasers, plasma x-ray sources, dynamics of nano-magnetic materials, terahertz imaging, biomedical imaging with shaped pulses, and the fatigue life studies of materials , as well as other topics. This site is supported by the Physics REU program and by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.