REU Site: Summer Research in Physics at the University of Arkansas

非技术部分：物理REU（本科生研究经验）在阿肯色州的大学将集中在纳米材料和凝聚态，软物质和生物物理，光子学，激光和量子光学的实验和理论项目。 它建立在该部门的教育环境之上，该环境高度支持本科研究，其专业在全国竞争性研究奖项和高排名研究生项目中的成功就证明了这一点。 从包括妇女和少数民族在内的不同群体中选出的REU参与者将体验到一些对本科物理教育至关重要的基本概念，发现自己的创造力，并获得解决科学问题所必需的技能和实践。 他们还将参加各种专业发展活动，包括：每周讲座和研讨会，图书馆使用，通信和科学写作技能，一个小时的科学道德课程培训，以及与其他REU团体和卡弗计划在大学少数民族的社会/文化活动。 这将帮助他们提高沟通技巧，培养在协作环境中工作的技能，并认识到不同观点的价值。技术部分：REU参与者将致力于精心挑选的研究项目，这些项目涉及当前感兴趣的主题，如纳米材料的特性，扭曲双层石墨烯的STM，用于检测DNA的固态纳米孔制造，光驱动光子泵，光-物质相互作用、等离子体纳米结构、激光和量子光学、极端微生物和大脑的统计和非线性物理。 该部门在这些领域和基础设施的每一个强大的研究活动，以支持研究生和本科生的研究和教育。 通过参与他们的研究项目十周，参与者将离开经历了科学研究中涉及的创造性过程，从问题的形成到解决方案，起起唐斯，以及新发现的最终兴奋。 这种经验将点燃创造力和热情的火花追求研究生教育和/或科学和技术的职业生涯。

NON-TECHNICAL PART: Physics REU (research experience for undergraduates) at the University of Arkansas will be focused on experimental and theoretical projects in nano-materials and condensed matter, soft matter and biophysics, photonics, lasers and quantum optics. It builds upon the department's educational environment, which is highly supportive of undergraduate research as evidenced by the success of its majors in nationally competitive research-based awards and highly ranked graduate programs. REU participants, selected from diverse groups including women and minorities, will experience some of the basic concepts central to undergraduate physics education come alive, discover their own creativity, and acquire skills and practices essential to scientific problem solving. They will also participate in a variety of professional development activities, including: weekly lectures and seminars, training on library usage, communications and scientific writing skills, a one-hour scientific ethics course, and social/cultural activities with other REU groups and the Carver program for minorities at the University. These will help them improve their communication skills, develop skills for working in a collaborative environment, and recognize the value of different points of view.TECHNICAL PART: REU participants will work on carefully chosen research projects on topics of current interest such as properties of nano-materials, STM of twisted bilayer graphene, solid-state nano-pore fabrication for detection of DNA, light driven photon pumps, light-matter interaction, plasmonic nanostructures, lasers and quantum optics, and statistical and nonlinear physics of extremophiles and the brain. The department has strong research activities in each of these areas and infrastructure to support graduate and undergraduate research and education. Through engagement with their research projects for ten weeks, the participants will leave having experienced the creative process involved in scientific research starting from the formulation of a problem to its solution, the ups and downs, and the eventual thrill of a new discovery. This experience will ignite a spark of creativity and enthusiasm for pursuing graduate education and/or careers in science and technology.