REU Site: Multidisciplinary Physics at Purdue University

该奖项支持普渡大学物理学本科生研究经验（REU）和教师研究经验（RET）网站的更新。在过去的23年里，该项目为300名本科生和42名教师提供了第一手的研究经验。在新的资助期内，每年夏天，该项目将为来自全国各地的12名物理学专业的本科生提供为期10周的个人研究项目，重点是与普渡大学物理与天文学系各学科的教师进行一对一的指导。与科学家社区的互动强调了独特的跨学科科学“披萨研讨会”系列，两次关于他们研究的公开演讲，研究摘要，参观普渡大学的科学设施，包括独特的砖纳米技术中心，实地考察国家设施在费米实验室和阿贡，REU奥林匹克在圣母大学，加上野餐，球类运动，独木舟旅行和其他由REU计划和全校范围的SROP计划安排的社会活动。每周的“披萨研讨会”系列将物理REU参与者与普渡大学其他暑期项目的学生（REU在生物，化学，工程等方面的冲浪）结合起来，强调跨学科的机会和学生在许多领域之间的互动。类似的目标为两位RET参与者设计，他们的研究活动将反映在他们随后的课堂教学中，激励他们自己的学生从事研究工作。该REU项目的参与者将与他们的导师和其他研究人员合作，推进物理学的各种最新领域，例如：降维导体中电子的纳米物理学、蛋白质的动力学行为、光合作用的量子机制、单分子/蛋白质动态成像、宇宙生成核在地球科学中作为计时器的使用、肿瘤的相干成像、提高硬度和分辨率的粒子探测器、TeV辐射探测器、暗物质的研究、核探测器在传感危险物质方面的新应用、石墨烯的性质、生物膜在地震测量中的应用，核衰变的基本性质，射电天文学的增强长基线成像，地质结构中的地震传播，鸟类磁接收的量子性质，欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机收集的数据分析，以及其他当前重要的主题。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site in Physics at Purdue University. For the past 23 years, the program has provided first-hand research experience to 300 undergraduate students and 42 teachers. During the new funding period, each summer the program will provide 12 undergraduate physics majors from across the country with individual ten-week-long research projects emphasizing one-to-one mentoring with faculty from a wide range of disciplines within the Purdue University Department of Physics and Astronomy. Interactions with the community of scientists is emphasized with a unique interdisciplinary science “pizza seminar” series, two required public talks on their research, an abstract on the research, tours of Purdue scientific facilities, including the unique Brick Nanotechnology Center, field trips to national facilities at Fermilab and Argonne, REU Olympics at Notre Dame University, plus picnics, ball games, canoe trips and other social activities arranged by this REU program and the university-wide SROP program. The weekly “pizza seminar” series combines Physics REU participants with students from other Purdue summer sites (REU & SURF at Biology, Chemistry, Engineering etc.) to emphasize interdisciplinary opportunities and interactions among students across many fields. Similar objectives are designed for two RET participants, whose research activities will be reflected in their subsequent classroom teaching, inspiring their own students about careers in research. The participants in this REU program will collaborate with their mentors and other researchers to advance the diverse state-of-the-art areas of physics, such as: nanophysics of electrons in reduced dimensional conductors, the dynamical behavior in proteins, the quantum mechanisms of photosynthesis, single molecule/protein dynamic imaging, the use of cosmogenic nuclei as chronometers in geoscience, coherent imaging of tumor, particle detectors with improved hardness and resolution, detectors for TeV radiation, investigation of dark matter, novel application of nuclear detectors for sensing hazardous materials, properties of graphene, application of biofilms in seismic measurements, the fundamental nature of nuclear decay, enhanced long-baseline imaging for radio astronomy, seismic propagation in structures of geologic interest, the quantum nature of bird magnetoreception, analysis of data collected by at Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and other current topics of importance.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.