REU Site: Research In Neutrino Astrophysics at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls

该奖项支持在威斯康星州-河流瀑布的大学本科生（REU）网站的新的研究经验，提供六名本科生每年十周的暑期研究经验的项目与国际冰立方中微子天文台的数据。为了促进发现和理解，同时促进教学，培训和学习，学生将被纳入一个研究合作，打开了中微子天文学领域，并在一个部门工作，学习和参与研究本科生是优先事项。 学生将获得广泛的研究技能，将学会欣赏基础科学对社会的价值，并将在提供有效的科学演示和交流科学方面得到指导。学生将为IceCube实验做出贡献，这将有助于促进中微子天文学领域的理解和知识。冰立方是一个独特的望远镜位于南极。（但是，学生不会前往南极）。 与传统的光学望远镜不同，IceCube通过称为中微子的粒子观察宇宙。《物理世界》认为冰立方对地外中微子的观测开启了中微子天文学时代，是2013年物理学的重大突破。通过访问IceCube数据，高性能计算资源和人员，学生将做出真实的贡献，同时获得可转移到科学，技术和工程许多领域的研究技能。在具有多年成功指导本科研究经验的指导教师的指导下，学生将有助于解决粒子天体物理学中一些最大的难题：高能宇宙射线的起源，中微子振荡的性质以及暗物质的组成。

This award supports a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls to provide six undergraduates with ten-week summer research experiences annually on projects with data from the international IceCube Neutrino Observatory. To advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning, students will be integrated into a research collaboration that opened the field of neutrino astronomy, and work in a department where learning and involving undergraduates in research are priorities. Students will acquire a broad range of research skills, will learn to appreciate the value of fundamental science to society and will be mentored on giving effective scientific presentations and in communicating science.Students will make contributions to the IceCube experiment that will help advance understanding and knowledge in the field of neutrino astronomy. IceCube is a unique telescope located at the South Pole. (However, students will not travel to the South Pole). Unlike traditional optical telescopes, IceCube looks at the universe via particles called neutrinos. Physics World deemed IceCube's observation of extraterrestrial neutrinos, a result that ushered in the era of neutrino astronomy, the physics breakthrough of the year 2013. With access to IceCube data, high performance computing resources, and personnel, the students will make real contributions while acquiring research skills that are transferrable to many fields of science, technology, and engineering. Under the guidance of faculty advisors who have many years of experience successfully supervising undergraduate research, students will contribute to resolving some of the biggest puzzles in particle astrophysics: the origin of high-energy cosmic rays, the nature of neutrino oscillations, and the composition of dark matter.