REU Site: Applying the Tools of Physics to Explore the Macroscopic, Microscopic, and Quantum Worlds

该奖项支持更新伊利诺伊大学香槟分校(UIUC)的本科生研究经验(REU)网站。每年，12名本科生将从事亲身实践的尖端物理研究。这些学生将与资深教师合作，开展多个物理子学科的前沿研究项目，主题从绘制奇异超导体的相图，到确定DNA折纸物体的原子尺度结构，再到为大型强子对撞机的ATLAS实验设计抗辐射热量计部件。除了学习先进的研究方法和获得物理洞察力外，REU的学生还将接受技术沟通、团队合作和领导技能的培训，并接受研究生和职业指导。REU的学生将被纳入高级教员领导的研究小组，并为正在进行的各种物理领域的研究项目做出贡献。UIUC的REU项目既不是“食谱”练习，也不是简单的体力劳动。学生将有机会编写随后在真实实验中使用的代码，模拟和测试真实仪器的组件，构建和表征新型设备，扩大用于原始研究的样本，并分析真实数据。他们将受到负责任的研究和数据管理和保存原则的影响。他们将接受专业技术沟通技能以及实践领导力和团队合作技能的指导，这些技能对于他们作为未来科学家和工程师的成功至关重要。他们将体验一个全面的计划，不仅教会他们如何进行物理研究，而且教会他们如何成为成功的物理学家。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。这一奖项反映了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 renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Each year, 12 undergraduate students will engage in hands-on, cutting-edge physics research. These students will work with senior faculty on forefront research projects in a variety of physics subdisciplines, with topics ranging from mapping the phase diagram of exotic superconductors, to determining the atomic-scale structure of DNA origami objects, to designing radiation-hard calorimeter components for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. In addition to learning advanced research methods and gaining physics insight, the REU students will receive training in technical communications, teamwork, and leadership skills and receive graduate-school and career guidance.The REU students will be integrated into senior-faculty-led research groups and contribute to on-going research projects in a variety of physics areas. The REU projects at UIUC are neither "cookbook" exercises nor simple manual labor. Students will have opportunities to write code that is subsequently used in real experiments, simulate and test components for real instruments, build and characterize novel devices, grow samples that are used in original research, and analyze real data. They will be exposed to principles of the responsible conduct of research and data management and preservation. They will receive instruction in professional technical communication skills and practice leadership and teamwork skills essential to their success as future scientists and engineers. They will experience a holistic program that teaches them not only how to do physics research, but also how to be successful physicists. This site is supported 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.