REU Site: Applying the Tools of Physics to Explore the Macroscopic, Microscopic, and Quantum Worlds

该奖项支持伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校本科生研究经验（REU）网站的更新。每年，12名本科生将从事动手，前沿的物理研究。这些学生将与高级教师一起从事各种物理分支学科的前沿研究项目，主题包括绘制奇异超导体的相图，确定DNA折纸物体的原子尺度结构，以及为大型强子对撞机的ATLAS实验设计辐射硬量热计组件。除了学习先进的研究方法和获得物理见解外，REU的学生还将接受技术交流、团队合作和领导技能方面的培训，并接受研究生学习和职业指导。REU的学生将被纳入由高级教师领导的研究小组，并为各种物理领域的正在进行的研究项目做出贡献。UIUC的REU项目既不是“食谱”练习，也不是简单的体力劳动。学生将有机会编写随后用于实际实验的代码，模拟和测试实际仪器的组件，构建和表征新设备，培养用于原始研究的样本，以及分析实际数据。他们将接触到负责任的研究行为和数据管理和保存的原则。他们将接受专业技术沟通技巧的指导，并练习领导能力和团队合作技能，这对他们未来成为科学家和工程师的成功至关重要。他们将体验一个全面的项目，不仅教他们如何做物理研究，还教他们如何成为成功的物理学家。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 renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Each year, 12 undergraduate students will engage in hands-on, cutting-edge physics research. These students will work with senior faculty on forefront research projects in a variety of physics subdisciplines, with topics ranging from mapping the phase diagram of exotic superconductors, to determining the atomic-scale structure of DNA origami objects, to designing radiation-hard calorimeter components for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. In addition to learning advanced research methods and gaining physics insight, the REU students will receive training in technical communications, teamwork, and leadership skills and receive graduate-school and career guidance.The REU students will be integrated into senior-faculty-led research groups and contribute to on-going research projects in a variety of physics areas. The REU projects at UIUC are neither "cookbook" exercises nor simple manual labor. Students will have opportunities to write code that is subsequently used in real experiments, simulate and test components for real instruments, build and characterize novel devices, grow samples that are used in original research, and analyze real data. They will be exposed to principles of the responsible conduct of research and data management and preservation. They will receive instruction in professional technical communication skills and practice leadership and teamwork skills essential to their success as future scientists and engineers. They will experience a holistic program that teaches them not only how to do physics research, but also how to be successful physicists.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.