REU Site: Nevis Labs, Columbia University for Summers 2020-2022

REU 站点：哥伦比亚大学尼维斯实验室 2020-2022 年夏季课程

• 批准号: 1950431
• 负责人: John Parsons
• 金额: $ 32.66万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950431&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Nevis; Labs; Columbia

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site in experimental high energy physics and astrophysics at Nevis Labs, Columbia University. The site will support ten undergraduate students per year in original, cutting-edge physics research, working with a faculty mentor. Two students per year will spend the summer conducting research at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland at the Large Hadron Collider. The REU program provides the opportunity for undergraduates to join in the excitement of cutting-edge research, as well as to participate in the development of the technological and computational tools required for the projects. Through an extensive series of lectures and lab visits, the students are also exposed to the most exciting problems in many other fields of physics.The students spend ten weeks during the summer participating in the broad Nevis high energy physics, nuclear physics, and particle astrophysics research program, which seeks to address the most pressing issues of these fields, including the origin of mass, the question of neutrino oscillations, and the search for Dark Matter. Answers to these questions will have profound implications for our understanding of the fundamental structure and evolution of the universe. The strength of the Nevis research program, coupled with the Nevis infrastructure of world class electronics design and mechanical construction, forms a unique environment with opportunities for training of students. As the variety of experiments are at different stages in their development, Nevis provides the opportunity for students to gain experience in all aspects of the experiments, from initial detector design, hardware development and construction, to software development and data analysis.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.

该奖项支持哥伦比亚大学Nevis Labs实验性高能物理和天体物理学的本科生研究经验的更新。该网站将每年为原始的，尖端的物理学研究提供每年的十个本科生，并与教师导师合作。每年有两名学生将在夏季在瑞士大型强子对撞机的欧洲核研究组织进行研究。 REU计划为大学生提供了机会，可以加入尖端研究的兴奋，并参与项目所需的技术和计算工具的开发。通过大量的讲座和实验室访问，学生还面临许多其他物理学领域中最令人兴奋的问题。学生在夏季花费了十个星期，参加了广泛的尼维斯高能量物理，核物理学和粒子天体物理学研究计划，该计划旨在解决这些领域最紧迫的问题，包括群众的质疑，包括群众的问题，搜索中心群问题，以及搜索范围的问题，以及这些领域的问题，以及这些领域的问题，以及该领域的问题，以及探索的核对核心和探索。这些问题的答案将对我们对宇宙的基本结构和演变的理解产生深远的影响。尼维斯研究计划的实力，再加上世界一流电子设计和机械构建的尼维斯基础设施，形成了一个独特的环境，并有机会培训学生。由于各种实验在开发中处于不同阶段，因此，尼维斯为学生提供了在实验各个方面的经验，从初始探测器设计，硬件开发和构造到软件开发和数据分析。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。