REU Site: Physics/JILA

该奖项支持在科罗拉多/JILA的大学本科生（REU）网站的研究经验的更新。 该REU计划的智力重点是物理学，本科生与杰出的教师配对，在物理学的许多领域进行前沿研究，包括原子，分子和光学物理，生物物理，凝聚态，高能物理，等离子体物理和物理教育研究。 潜在的REU项目的例子包括原子与超短激光脉冲相互作用的理论模拟，氨分子的微波光谱学，制造图案化的膜微谐振器，用原子力显微镜成像生物结构，使用光镊操纵和研究细菌细胞间通信，建立一个用于测量高温超导体超导临界温度的磁电阻计，开发和测试μ介子探测器原型，表征静电尘埃加速器的性能，研究教学策略的有效性。而夏季的主要重点是集中在每个学生？在一个单独的研究实验室里，学生们被期望至少掌握一个大任务的一部分，在这个项目中还有其他各种各样的活动。其中包括伦理学、电子学和机械加工课程，为期一天的“进入格拉德学校”计划，以及针对本科生的实验室图尔斯参观和科学研讨会。该计划的高潮是由每个REU学生给出的一天的演讲。 该奖项由美国国家科学基金会物理学部和材料研究部支持。

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Colorado/JILA. The intellectual focus of this REU program is physics, and undergraduate students are paired up with preeminent faculty to do cutting-edge research in many fields of physics, including atomic, molecular, and optical physics, biophysics, condensed matter, high energy physics, plasma physics, and physics education research. Examples of potential REU projects include theoretical simulation of the interaction of an atom with ultrashort laser pulses, performing microwave spectroscopy of ammonia molecules, fabricating patterned membrane microresonators, imaging biological structures with atomic force microscopy, using optical tweezers to manipulate and study bacteria cell-to-cell communications, building a magnetic susceptometer for measurements of the superconducting critical temperature of high temperature superconductors, developing and testing of prototype muon detectors, characterizing performance of an electrostatic dust accelerator, and researching the effectiveness of teaching strategies. While the main emphasis of the summer is centered on each student?s individual research lab, where the students are expected to master at least a part of a large task, a variety of other activities take place during the program. These include ethics, electronics, and machining classes, a one-day "Getting Into Grad School" program, as well as lab tours and science seminars aimed at undergraduate students. The program culminates with a day of presentations given by each of the REU students. This award is supported by the Division of Physics and the Division of Materials Research within the National Science Foundation.