Frontier Physics and Astronomy Research with Technical Presentations

加州大学洛杉矶分校物理与天文学系将举办一个为期10周的夏季REU项目，每年为参与的本科生提供丰富的研究经验。该系培养本科生的历史悠久。未来的REU导师是设计了明确定义的研究项目的教师导师，他们将启动和监督参与者的进展。四个物理领域的目标：等离子体物理，固体物理，天体物理和高能物理。该REU计划的目的是向学生参与者传达研究过程中涉及的全方位活动。这包括以现实的方式仔细定义项目，实际执行计划的研究活动（数据采集，数据分析，理论探索和最终解释的混合）以及最终结果的书面和口头陈述。在这个REU中，一些强调的是技术和口头陈述，因为我们坚信，写和说自己的数据和结果是研究中一个关键的、经常被忽视的组成部分，这在任何研究环境中都是如此，无论是大学、政府还是行业。个人的研究计划将被团体活动所加强，如每周的研讨会、实验室参观、博物馆参观、沙漠望远镜体验和其他社会活动。该计划针对地理和文化多样化的高年级（初级）物理科学本科学生。

The UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a 10-week summer REU program providing a rich experience in research for participating undergraduates each year. The department has a long history of training undergraduate students. Prospective REU mentors are faculty mentors who have devised well-defined research projects of appropriate scope and who will initiate and oversee the participants' progress. Four areas of physics are targeted: plasma physics, solid-state physics, astrophysics and high-energy physics. The aim of this REU program is to convey to the student participants the full range of activities involved in the research process. This includes carefully defining the project in a realistic way, actually carrying out the planned research activities (a mix of data acquisition, data analysis, theoretical explorations, and final interpretations) and the written and oral presentation of the final results. Some emphasis is given to the technical and oral presentations in this REU because of a strong belief that writing and speaking about ones' data and results are a critical, oft-ignored component of research, and that this is true in any research environment be it university, government, or industry. The individual research programs will be augmented with group activities such as weekly seminars, lab tours, museum tours, a desert telescope experience and other social events. The program is aimed at a geographically and culturally diverse group of upper-division (junior level) undergraduate students in the physical sciences.