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，分子和光学物理学，生物物理学，凝聚态物理学，高能物理学，核物理学，等离子体物理学和物理教育研究。潜在的REU项目的例子包括：发展超快光脉冲序列的共振泵浦的声子在相关的物质;研究尘埃粒子沉浸在等离子体和紫外线辐射;建立饱和吸收光谱和二极管激光频率稳定;合成材料和基本的电气和热力学特性;研究简单冷分子的碰撞和反应，开发新的基于激光的方法来驱动或测量AFM杠杆，用于生物分子问题的研究;制造，驱动和传感微和纳米机械振荡器的技术;极性分子通过偶极相互作用相互作用的内转动自由度的理论研究;设计、建造和测试用于连续加载、测量和操纵激光冷却原子的新型光学腔几何形状。虽然夏季的主要重点是集中在每个学生的个人研究实验室，在那里学生预计将掌握至少一个大任务的一部分，各种其他活动发生在节目。其中包括伦理学、电子学和机械加工课程，一个关于“进入格拉德学校”的项目，以及实验室图尔斯参观和每周一次的针对学生的科学研讨会系列。该计划的高潮是由每个REU学生给出的一天的演讲。 作出了特别的努力，使妇女和少数民族以及来自没有那么多研究机会的较小机构的学生大量参与。该计划符合NSF发展多元化和具有国际竞争力的科学和工程劳动力的目标。积极的研究经验是吸引有才华的本科生并留住他们从事科学和工程职业的最有效方法之一。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 physics, high energy physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics, and physics education research. Examples of potential REU projects include: Development of an ultrafast optical pulse train for resonant pumping of phonons in correlated matter; Studies of dust particles immersed in plasmas and UV radiation; Setting up saturated absorption spectroscopy and diode laser frequency stabilization; Synthesis of materials and the basic electrical and thermodynamic characterizations; Studies of collisions and reactions of simple cold molecules, Development of new laser-based methods to actuate or measure AFM cantilevers with light for studies of biomolecular problems; Techniques for fabricating, actuating, and sensing micro and nanomechanical oscillators; Theoretical studies of internal rotational degrees of freedom of polar molecules interacting via dipolar interactions; Designing, building, and testing novel optical cavity geometries for continuously loading, measuring, and manipulating laser-cooled atoms. 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 program on "Getting Into Grad School," as well as lab tours and a weekly science seminar series aimed at the students. The program culminates with a day of presentations given by each of the REU students. Special efforts are made to include significant participation levels from women and minorities, as well as from students coming from smaller institutions that do not have as many research opportunities. This program fits in with the NSF goal of developing a diverse and internationally competitive scientific and engineering workforce. Active research experience is one of the most effective ways to attract talented undergraduates and retain them in careers in science and engineering. This award is supported by the Division of Physics and the Division of Materials Research within the National Science Foundation.