REU Site: Summer Research Projects in Contemporary Physics

该奖项为芝加哥大学物理系的本科生研究经验（REU）网站提供资金。该网站将支持12名学生每年在芝加哥大学进行为期10周的夏季研究。该计划的核心为每个学生是一个明确的为期10周的夏季研究项目的监督下，芝加哥大学的教员。 学生将通过提交书面报告和口头报告来学习科学交流。在申请中，学生会被问及他们最感兴趣的研究领域。 然后，他们被安排与教师导师谁在这些专业工作。 这些领域包括高能物理、宇宙射线物理、天体物理、广义相对论、凝聚态物理、非线性动力学、生物物理、流体力学和拓扑物理。该计划为学生提供了接触到物理学的许多领域的广泛主题。这一任务是通过一个双周一次的系列讲座由教师介绍一些最重要的研究课题，目前在该部门进行。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This award funds the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site in the Physics Department at the University of Chicago. The site will support twelve students for ten weeks of summer research at the University of Chicago each year. The program's core for each student is a well-defined 10- week summer research project under the supervision of a University of Chicago faculty member. The students will learn to communicate science by submitting a written report and making an oral presentation on their work.In their applications, the students are asked about which areas of research they are most interested in pursuing. They are then placed with faculty mentors who work in those specialties. These areas include high-energy physics, cosmic-ray physics, astrophysics, general relativity, condensed-matter physics, non-linear dynamics, biophysics, fluid mechanics, and topological physics. The program provides students with exposure to a broad set of topics across many areas of physics. This task is accomplished by a bi-weekly series of talks presented by faculty introducing some of the most important research topics currently pursued in the Department.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.