REU Introduction
Each summer the Department of Physics at Purdue runs a National Science Foundation funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program. This year's 10 week program runs from May 27th, 2008 until August 1st, 2008. The target date for applications is March 1, applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. We begin reviewing applications in early February. Allowances may be made for students whose Summer Break begins after this start date.
The main goal of the program is to give undergraduates an opportunity to participate in a forefront research project.
Research Experiences for Teachers
An associated program (RET)
offers a similar research opportunity to K-12 teachers. Details about the RET
program and the application materials are found in this announcement.
Some program highlights of the REU program are:
Research project - In each research project students
will work closely with a member of our faculty. The projects will be in a wide
variety of areas, including high energy physics, accelerator mass spectrometry,
condensed matter physics, geophysics, biophysics, nuclear physics and
astrophysics. Descriptions of the students' projects from previous years
can be found in the Projects
page.
Stipend -- Each student will receive a stipend of $400
per week. The costs of housing (in a campus residence hall) and meals will be
covered by the program. A travel allowance will also be available.
Weekly seminars - students will learn about current
research frontiers in physics.
Social programs -- outdoor activities (hiking,
canoeing, Cubs game etc.), and trips to Fermilab and Argonne National
Laboratory.
Student presentations and research symposium -- The
REU students make presentations on their work on two occasions during the
program. At the halfway point of the program, we have an afternoon
mini-symposium at which each student gives a short (15 minute) oral
presentation. At the end of the program we have a research mini-conference, to
which all students and faculty in the department are invited. These talks will
describe what has been accomplished, and plans or suggestions for the future.
Conferences -- In recent years many students from
Purdue have given presentations at undergraduate research conferences (e.g.
annual conferences at Butler University and at Argonne National Laboratory). We
encourage the REU students to present their work at these and other
undergraduate conferences, and provide funding to support this.
Ongoing research -- Where possible, students are
encouraged to continue work on their projects after the end of the formal
program. This is accomplished through visits to Purdue, collaboration through
the internet, and work at the student's home institution. Funding is available
to sponsor these activities.
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