REU Site: Physics and Astronomy Research at Brigham Young University

杨百翰大学的本科生研究体验(REU)网站将为来自不同本科院校的学生提供令人难忘的物理和天文研究经验，以巩固他们在科学领域进一步学习和职业的承诺。领导人将指导参与者进行简短但紧张的研究项目，这些项目是杨百翰大学许多活跃的物理和天文学研究领域之一。除了一对一的教师指导外，从最初的研究说明书到最终报告和中间演示文稿，整个队列都得到了指导。专业准备和技能发展与促进社会凝聚力和联网的非正式活动相辅相成。个别参与者的项目通过在教师导师的直接监督下的实践活动来探索目前尚未解决的广泛问题，为参与者提供显著和持久的教育和智力利益。由于参与者的项目被整合到目前活跃的研究小组的研究计划中，他们很可能有助于知识的进步，并产生可以在专业会议上发表和/或展示的结果。参与者沉浸在以合作和科学实践为中心的密集合作实验中，这是他们教育发展的重要时刻。通过聚集一大群来自不同行业但对物理有共同目的和兴趣的不同参与者，该计划旨在创建终身联系和资源网络，这将使所有参与者、他们的科学生产力和职业轨迹受益。该计划的一个特殊方面是包括两名RET参与者，通常是一名当地参与者。REU和RET参与者有相同的研究期望，两组都从这种联系中受益。该计划在物理学的各个子领域提供实验、计算和理论项目。尽管每个学生的项目都是独一无二的，但参与者表示，他们通过REU队列从更广泛的物理接触中受益。涵盖的领域包括：量子信息与动力学，半导体与太阳能纳米材料，棕矮星与系外行星大气，相干透镜成像与光学，电子显微镜与纳米制造，银河系天文学深度成像，量子材料的局部结构，材料结构，性质与对称性，复杂系统建模，纳米磁学，非线性声学，数值相对论，观测天文学，粒子理论，物理与天文学教育，脉动恒星天文学，水下声学，空间观测材料物理，科学教学中的3D打印，活动星系核，计算生物物理学，系外行星和太阳系小型天体的轨道，声学与振动。该奖项由数学和物理科学局内的物理部、材料研究部和天文科学部支持。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 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Brigham Young University will provide students from a diverse pool of undergraduate institutions with a memorable and formative experience in physics and astronomy research to solidify their commitment to further study and careers in scientific fields. The leaders will guide participants in short but intense research projects in one of the many active research areas in physics and astronomy at Brigham Young University. The whole cohort is mentored from initial research prospectus to final report and intermediate presentations in addition to the one-on-one faculty mentoring. Professional preparation and skill development are complemented with informal activities for social cohesion and networking. The individual participants' projects explore a broad spectrum of currently unsolved problems through hands-on activities under a faculty mentor's direct supervision to provide significant and lasting educational and intellectual benefits to the participants. As the participants' projects are integrated into the current research program of active research groups, they are likely to contribute to the advance of knowledge and produce results that can be published and/or presented at professional meetings. Participants are immersed in an intense collaborative experiment centered around collegiality and scientific practice at a significant time in their educational development. By assembling a vast group of diverse participants from different walks of life but with a common purpose and interest in physics, the program intends to create lifelong connections and a resource network that will benefit all participants, their scientific productivity, and professional trajectory. A particular aspect of the program is the inclusion of two RET participants, typically one local. There are identical research expectations for REU and RET participants, and both groups benefit from the association.The program offers experimental, computational, and theoretical projects in a wide variety of sub fields of physics. Although each student's project is unique, participants indicate that they benefit from the broader exposure to physics through the REU cohort. The areas covered include: Quantum Information and Dynamics, Semiconductor and Solar Energy Nanomaterials, Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanet Atmospheres, Coherent Lenses Imaging and Optics, Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication, Galactic Astronomy Deep Imaging, Local Structure of Quantum Materials, Materials Structure, Properties and Symmetries, Modeling Complex Systems, Nanomagnetism, Nonlinear Acoustics, Numerical Relativity, Observational Astronomy, Particle Theory, Physics and Astronomy Education, Pulsating Star Astronomy, and Underwater Acoustics, Material Physics for Space Observation, 3D printing in Science Teaching, Active Galactic Nuclei, Computational Biophysics, Orbits of Exoplanets and Solar System Small Bodies, Acoustics and Vibration. This award is supported by the Division of Physics, the Division of Materials Research, and the Division of Astronomical Sciences within the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.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.