REU Site: Multidisciplinary Physics at Purdue University

本科生研究体验(REU)和教师研究体验(RET)网站将为来自全国各地的12名物理专业本科生提供为期十周的真正的研究项目，强调与普渡大学物理系各学科的教师进行一对一的指导。与科学家社区的互动是通过跨学科的科学研讨会系列，两次关于他们的研究的必要的公开演讲，普渡大学本科研究会议的海报，普渡大学科学设施的参观，包括独特的Brick纳米技术中心，对费米拉和阿贡的国家设施的实地考察，圣母大学的REU奥运会，以及各种社会活动。由物理系发起并主办的每周研讨会将物理REU的参与者与普渡大学其他暑期班的学生(生物、化学、工程等的REU和冲浪)结合在一起。强调跨学科的机会和学生之间在许多领域的互动。这一REU和RET计划的参与者将与他们的导师和其他研究人员合作，推进不同的最新物理领域，例如：降维导体中的电子的纳米物理，蛋白质中的动力学行为，光合作用的量子机制，单分子/蛋白质动态成像，将宇宙起源的核用作地球科学的计时器，肿瘤的相干成像，提高硬度和分辨率的粒子探测器，TeV辐射的探测器，暗物质的调查，这些专题包括：核探测器在探测危险材料方面的新应用；石墨烯的性质；生物膜在地震测量中的应用；核衰变的基本性质；射电天文学的增强型长基线成像；具有地质意义的结构中的地震传播；鸟类磁接收的量子性质；欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机的科学家收集的数据的分析，以及其他当前的重要议题。

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site will provide 12 undergraduate physics majors from across the country with a ten-week long genuine research project emphasizing one-to-one mentoring with faculty from a wide range of disciplines within the Purdue University Department of Physics. Interactions with the community of scientists is emphasized with a interdisciplinary science seminar series, two required public talks on their research, a poster at a general Purdue-wide undergraduate research conference, tours of Purdue scientific facilities including the unique Brick nanotechnology center, field trips to national facilities at Fermilab and Argonne, and the REU Olympics at Notre Dame University, plus various social activities. The weekly seminar initiated and hosted by Physics Department combines Physics REU participants with students from other Purdue summer sites (REU & SURF at Biology, Chemistry, Engineering etc.) to emphasize interdisciplinary opportunities and interactions among students across many fields. Similar objectives are desired for two RET participants, whose research activities will be reflected in their subsequent classroom teaching, inspiring their own students about careers in research.The participants in this REU and RET program will collaborate with their mentors and other researchers to advance diverse state-of-the-art areas of physics, such as: nanophysics of electrons in reduced dimensional conductors, the dynamical behavior in proteins, the quantum mechanisms of photosynthesis, single molecule/protein dynamic imaging, the use of cosmogenic nuclei as chronometers in geoscience, coherent imaging of tumors, particle detectors with improved hardness and resolution, detectors for TeV radiation, investigation of dark matter, novel application of nuclear detectors for sensing hazardous materials, properties of graphene, applications of biofilms in seismic measurements, the fundamental nature of nuclear decay, enhanced long-baseline imaging for radio astronomy, seismic propagation in structures of geologic interest, the quantum nature of bird magnetoreception, analysis of data collected by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and other current topics of importance.