REU Site - Frontier Physics and Astronomy Research with Technical Presentations

该奖项支持加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）物理天文学系的REU网站。加州大学洛杉矶分校REU前沿物理学和天文学研究与技术演示的主要目标是鼓励学生，包括妇女，代表性不足的少数民族，以及来自研究设施有限的机构的学生，追求物理学，天体物理学和一般科学的职业生涯。该方案针对的是地理和文化多样的群体，因此在全国范围内招收学生，并特别努力针对四年制院校、历史上的黑人学院和传统女子学院。该计划的核心活动包括一个为期10周的研究项目的监督下，加州大学洛杉矶分校的教员。 这些项目跨越了该部门所代表的各个领域，如等离子体物理学，凝聚态物理学，宇宙射线物理学，高能物理学，天体物理学和生物物理学。 这些研究经验得到了其他辅助培训的补充，如机械车间车间，科学计算车间，物理GRE预备课程和每周教师研讨会系列。 社会活动补充学术活动，努力培养群体之间和部门内的社区意识。此外，学生住在校园宿舍沿着与所有其他部门的暑期研究学生（共约100住在一起），以进一步促进社会互动。拟议的REU计划的重点是向学生参与者传达研究过程中涉及的全部活动。 整个范围包括以现实的方式仔细定义项目，实际开展计划的研究活动（数据采集，数据分析，理论探索和最终解释的混合），以书面和口头形式介绍最终结果。 每个学生都必须提交一份以专业格式撰写的论文，并必须在我们的课程结束研讨会上进行20分钟的幻灯片演示。 该计划旨在为参与者提供1）只能来自参与正在进行的前沿水平研究的物理学技能的获取，2）对研究意味着什么的清晰愿景，并成为研究人员社区的一员，以及3）他们有信心能够为研究计划做出有意义的贡献。

This award supports an REU site at the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The main objective of the UCLA REU Frontier Physics and Astronomy Research with Technical Presentations is to encourage students, including women, underrepresented minorities, and students from institutions with limited research facilities to pursue careers in physics, astrophysics and science in general. The program is aimed at a geographically and culturally diverse group and thus students are recruited nationally and special effort is made to target 4-year institutions, historically black colleges and traditional womens colleges. The core of the programs activities consist of a 10-week research project under the supervision of a UCLA faculty member. The projects span the various fields represented in the department, such as plasma physics, condensed matter physics, cosmic ray physics, high energy physics, astrophysics, and biophysics. These research experiences have been supplemented by other auxiliary training such as a machine shop workshop, a scientific computing workshop, a physics GRE prep course and a weekly faculty seminar series. Social activities supplement the academic activities in an effort to foster a sense of community among the group and within the department. Furthermore, students are housed in the dormitories on campus along with all other summer research students from other departments (altogether about 100 live together) to further facilitate social interaction. The focus of the proposed REU program is to convey to the student participants the full range of activities involved in the research process. The full gamut includes carefully defining the project in a realistic way to actually carrying out the planned research activities (a mix of data acquisition, data analysis, theoretical exploration, and final interpretations) to the written and oral presentation of the final results. Each of the students is required to submit a paper written in a professional format and must present a 20-minute power point presentation at our end-of-program symposium. This program seeks to provide the participants with 1) acquisition of skills in physics which can only come from participation in ongoing frontier level research, 2) a clear vision of what it means to do research, and to be a member of a community of researchers, and 3) some confidence that they are capable of meaningful contributions to a research program.