REU Site: Solar Physics Program at Montana State University

在接下来的三年里，博兹曼的蒙大拿州立大学将进行为期十周的暑期项目。该方案包括与教师导师一起开展的独立研究项目、关于太阳物理的系列讲座、访问学者的讲座、IDL(交互数据语言)入门课程、精选的社会活动以及在网上发布期末报告。该项目每年夏天将接受六名参与者，目标是物理、数学和计算机科学专业的本科生，它特别鼓励女性和少数族裔参与。这一努力将与NSF在固态物理方面的类似REU计划以及为美洲原住民高中学生和教师提供的美国印第安人研究机会(AIRO)计划同时进行。由于教授太阳物理的院校相对较少，这个项目具有强大的空间天气成分，对社会有双重好处，既增加了我们对该学科的理解，又培养了潜在的未来研究人员。

A ten-week summer program will be conducted for the next three years at the Montana State University in Bozeman. The program consists of independent research projects carried out with a faculty mentor, a lecture series on solar physics, lectures by visiting scholars, an IDL (Interactive Data Language) primer course, a selection of social activities, and web-publication of final reports. The program will accept six participants each summer, targeting undergraduates based in physics, mathematics and computer science, and it specifically encourages the participation of women and minorities. This effort will run in parallel with a similar NSF REU program in solid state physics, and the American Indian Research Opportunities (AIRO) program for Native American high school students and teachers. Since solar physics is being taught at relatively few colleges and universities, this program, with its strong Space Weather component, has the double benefit to society of adding to our understanding of the subject while training potential future researchers.