REU Site: Modern Optics in the City of Light, A Collaborative REU Site in Paris

该奖项支持密歇根大学物理学本科生研究经验（REU）网站。这个名为“光之城的现代光学”的国际REU网站每年夏天将带八名本科生到巴黎进行研究，与密歇根大学超快光学科学中心（CUOS）的教师和几家巴黎研究机构合作：巴黎萨克雷大学、巴黎综合理工学院、巴黎国立先进技术学院（ENSTA）、光学研究所研究生院、巴黎第11大学和卡尚高等师范学院。这些学生将组成一个研究小组，其中包括学生、UM的一名教员和巴黎一所大学的一名教员。学生们将在安娜堡度过一周，然后在巴黎度过九周。每个学生将保持每周在线研究日记，以帮助与每个完整小组的交流。我校教师或科研人员将陪同学生前往巴黎，并在巴黎停留一周，以确保学生有一个良好的开端。学生们将被安置在安娜堡当地的一家酒店和巴黎城市大学。将进行的研究将包括中国科学院与法国各机构之间正在进行的合作项目以及新的合作项目。所有项目的研究都将涉及使用超快激光器在广泛的领域发现非常当前的、最先进的现象，包括相对论光学、等离子体物理、材料光谱学、纳米加工、图像化生物细胞模板、高功率光纤激光器、等离子体x射线源、纳米磁性材料动力学、太赫兹成像、形状脉冲生物医学成像、材料疲劳寿命研究以及其他主题。该网站由物理REU计划和国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site in Physics hosted at the University of Michigan. This international REU site, Modern Optics in the City of Light, will bring eight undergraduates to Paris each summer to conduct research, collaboratively, with faculty at the University of Michigan's Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences (CUOS) and several Parisian research institutions: the University of Paris-Sacley, Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), the Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Université Paris-Sud 11, and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. The students will be in research teams that include the student, a faculty member at UM and a faculty member in one of the Parisian institutions. The students will spend one week in Ann Arbor, followed by nine weeks in Paris. Each student will keep weekly on-line research diaries to aid in communication with each full group. A CUOS faculty member or research scientist will accompany the students to Paris and stay for one week to ensure that the students get a good start. The students will be housed in a local hotel in Ann Arbor and at the Cité Universitaire in Paris. The research that will be conducted will include both on-going collaborative projects between CUOS and the French institutions and new collaborative projects. The research in all projects will all involve the use of ultrafast lasers to discover very current, state-of-the art phenomena in a wide range of fields including  relativistic optics, plasma physics, materials spectroscopy, nano-machining, patterned biological cell templating, high power fiber lasers, plasma x-ray sources, dynamics of nano-magnetic materials, terahertz imaging, biomedical imaging with shaped pulses, and the fatigue life studies of materials , as well as other topics. This site is supported by the Physics REU program and by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.