Modern Optics in the City of Light, a Collaborative REU Site in Paris

该奖项支持在密歇根大学超快光学科学中心（CUOS）托管的一个新的国际REU站点，并提供在法国帕莱索的Ecole Polytechnique，Ecole Nationale de Techniques Avancées（ENSTA）和Institut d 'Optique的研究机会。 学生将被放入研究团队，其中包括2名学生，UM的一名教师和巴黎机构之一的一名教师。学生们将在安阿伯度过一周，然后在巴黎度过9周。每个学生将保持每周的在线研究日记，在每周的视频电话会议与每个完整的组进行讨论。CUOS的一位研究科学家将陪同学生前往巴黎，并停留两周，以确保学生有一个良好的开端。这些学生将被安置在安阿伯当地的宿舍和巴黎的城市大学。所有项目的研究都将涉及使用超快激光来发现广泛领域中的最新，最先进的现象，包括;相对论光学、等离子体物理学、材料光谱学、纳米机械加工、艺术品修复和保护、图案化生物细胞模板、高功率光纤激光器、等离子体X射线源、纳米磁性材料的动力学、太赫兹成像、具有成形脉冲的生物医学成像、材料的疲劳寿命研究等。 该奖项由物理学部和国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

This award supports a new international REU site hosted at the University of Michigan's Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences (CUOS) with research opportunities at Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), and the Institut d'Optique in Palaiseau, France. The students will be put into research teams that include 2 students, a faculty member at UM and a faculty member in one of the Parisian institutions. The students will spend one week in Ann Arbor, followed by 9 weeks in Paris. Each student will keep weekly on-line research diaries for discussion in weekly video teleconferences with each full group. A CUOS research scientist will accompany the students to Paris and stay for two weeks to ensure that the students get a good start. The students will be housed in a local dormitory in Ann Arbor and at the Cité Universitaire in Paris. The research in all projects will all involve the use of ultrafast lasers to discover very current, state-of-the art phenomena in a wide range of fields including; relativistic optics, plasma physics, materials spectroscopy, nanomachining, art restoration and conservation, patterned biological cell templating, high power fiber lasers, plasma x-ray sources, dynamics of nano-magnetic materials, terahertz imaging, biomedical imaging with shaped pulses, fatigue life studies of materials, etc. This award is co-funded by the Physics Division and the Office of International Science and Engineering.