REU Site: Laser-Matter Interactions on Atomic and Nanoscales

该奖项支持堪萨斯州立大学的一个REU站点，专注于激光与原子和纳米尺度物质的相互作用。为期十周的课程将涉及12名本科生，其中大部分将来自没有这一水平研究的机构。参与者将在夏季从事重要的研究项目和相关经验。在该计划的核心是研究项目与导师从我们的教师。参与者将研究原子和分子在强烈和超快的光学和X射线脉冲中的行为，散射激光如何揭示纳米颗粒结晶和凝胶形成的结构，光如何在光纤中非线性相互作用;他们将开发用于计算玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中原子相互作用的计算机代码，以及用于模拟从超晶格到凝胶的纳米颗粒自组装的代码。这一经验将通过一系列讲座来补充，以提供学生项目，学生演讲和科学道德行为的讨论的背景。该奖项由物理和材料研究部门共同资助。

This award supports an REU site at Kansas State University to focus on interactions of laser light with matter at atomic and nanoscales. The ten-week program will involve twelve undergraduate students, most of whom will come from institutions where research at this level is not available.The participants will engage in significant research projects and related experiences during the summer. At the core of the program are the research projects with mentors from our faculty. Participants will do research on how atoms and molecules behave in intense and ultra-fast optical and X-ray pulses, how scattered laser light reveals the structure of nanoparticle crystallization and gel formation, how light interacts non-linearly in optical fibers; they will develop computer codes for calculations of atomic interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates and codes for modeling nanoparticle self-assembly from superlattices to gels. This experience will be supplemented by a lecture series to provide the background to the student projects, student presentations, and discussion of ethical behavior in science. This award is co-funded by the Divisions of Physics and Materials Research.