Office Hours / Open Positions

Undergraduate Research

The Jung group regularly offers UG research projects mostly in Detector R&D topics but also in data analysis, please use the Office Hours or contact Prof Jung directly for details on how to sign on for such UG research projects. During summer break the Jung group regularly hosts UG students from the SROP, UREP-C, SURF, REU, and other programs. Since summer 2018 Prof Jung offers a Study Abroad course for Purdue UG students to carry out a 2.5 months research project at the TU Dortmund, Germany. Furthermore, since summer 2018 the Jung group offers the exciting opportunity for UG students from the TU Dortmund, Germany, to carry out a 3-month research project - please check the News for a brief report of the first participants of the exchange program.

Undergraduate students at Purdue University can contact Prof Jung at any time and check for UG research projects in the Jung group. During summer breaks the Summer Stay Scholar program, see below, is open for applications by Purdue UG students as well. Other UG research opportunities are mentioned below.

• Students from Universities in the Americas please check the SROP, SURF, UREP-C, REU programs for UG research projects in the Jung group.

• UG students from Purdue University interested in going abroad - please check the Study Abroad program at Purdue University for a UG research project at the TU Dortmund, Germany. Typically, the official web page becomes available once the coming summer program is setup, typically by the end of September. A shortened version is provided below:

  • Prof Jung regularly offers a summer break study abroad program, intended for students pursuing a physics major (future iterations of this course could target students in the sciences in general). Its objective is to help students understand how basic science advances, and to introduce them to the large scientific collaborations (> 1000 scientists) of modern particle physics experiments. These large collaborations are multi-national entities and a variety of differences between a “research-culture” in any given country exists.

  • This course introduces students to basic research in a foreign country, namely Germany. Purdue study abroad candidates, who are accepted for the “Culture of research in Germany” study abroad course will be integrated into a high energy physics research group at the TU Dortmund. The local group members will supervise participants in daily research and non-research activities. It is expected that the Purdue Study Abroad participants will host the visitors of a similar “Study Abroad” program for students from the TU Dortmund at Purdue in the following year.

  • The study abroad programs destination is the TU Dortmund in the city of Dortmund, which is part of the former heavy industry “Ruhrpott” area in western Germany. Dortmund was founded around the year 882 and by now has about 600,000 inhabitants making it the 8th largest city in Germany. Dortmund represents the eastern boundary of the “Ruhr” area, a metropolitan city-like area, that is densily populated with about 8 million people. Many locals strongly support Borussia Dortmund, which is one of the most famous soccer clubs in Germany/Europe playing in Germany’s largest soccer stadium (capacity of 81,000).

  • The focus of the UG research projects at TU Dortmund (and within my group at Purdue) targets a similar goal: Development of novel particle detectors and data analysis for particle physics experiments. Hence, participants are integrated into research groups actively exchanging ideas and progress. Study abroad participants are expected to attend at least 4 group meetings of the Jung research group in the preceding spring semester.

  • A visit to CERN and the CMS experiment is usually done as part of the Study Abroad program.

• UG students from Germany interested in a research project at Purdue University - please check the german TU Dortmund - PeP et al. Study Abroad program and DAAD program for UG research projects in the Jung group.

• The Summer Stay Scholars is an on-campus summer scholarship for undergraduate students at Purdue University campuses that combines on-campus summer coursework with a research or internship experience in West Lafayette. If you are selected for Summer Stay Scholars, you will receive a $2,500 scholarship to go towards of your tuition and fees during the summer. A $2,500 scholarship would cover full tuition and fees for a resident student and be a sizeable decrease in the total cost for non-resident or international students. You'll not only receive the financial assistance, but the research or internship experience will greatly enhance your coursework as well as give you a head start on your career.
  
  My group regularly offers those opportunities for excellent Purdue Summer Stay scholars. The following link gives all relevant information including the scholarship application, which typically opens in mid January and has a deadline of end of February; as well as how to qualify for the scholarship: Purdue Summer Stay Scholar program