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 USA - Wisconsin - Milwaukee - The University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee - Physics Department - Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities for Physics Majors.
The Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has been a Research Experience for Undergraduates site (REU) funded by the NSF and UWM since 2001. With continued NSF funding, the program will continue during the summer of 2005. At least 10 students will be recruited each year, two from within UWM and eight or more from other institutions. The Department is especially interested in receiving applications from women and minorities. Externally recruited REU students will receive a stipend of $3,100 (no benefits) plus free accommodation in our dormitories and a travel allowance. (Internally recruited students will receive a stipend of $3,500 but no additional accommodation allowance.) UWM gratefully acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation.
As well as the formal research activities, the program will include regular enrichment classes, in which the REU students will be taken through core physics at an appropriate level. These classes will also serve as a forum in which students' difficulties in understanding fundamental physical principles encountered in their research can be addressed. There will also be a weekly colloquium, at which the speaker will be a faculty member from the physics, chemistry, or engineering departments on campus, a visiting professor, a senior administrator from the College of Letters and Science, or a scientist or engineer from local industry. The Physics Department will provide an intellectually enriching atmosphere for REU students, and the Department is especially interested in attracting more women and minority students to the UWM graduate program.
Research Activities
Applicants may choose from a broad selection of experimental and theoretical projects. Please go to the individual web pages of the faculty members listed below for information about their research. Links are provided at the Physics Department's homepage, which include:
Biospectroscopy. (Carol Hirschmugl)
Electron microscopy. (Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska)
Infrared spectroscopy (Carol Hirschmugl)
Low energy electron diffraction (LEED), reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED), and scanning tunneling microscopy. (Lian Li)
Magnetism and superconductivity, floating zone growth of single crystals, low temperature techniques and ultrasonic propagation in solids. (Prasenjit Guptasarma and Debashis Dasgupta)
Molecular beam epitaxy and nanomaterials. (Lian Li)
Nanophotonic and Biophotonics. Optical spectroscopy and laser physics. Ultrafast lasers and nonlinear optics. (Vlad Yakovlev)
General Relativity, Astrophysics and the analysis of data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO). (John Friedman, Patrick Brady, Jolien Creighton, Alan Wiseman)
Surface and protein crystallography. (Dilano Saldin)
Surface structure and thin film growth. X-ray scattering studies. UV and X-ray photoemission. (Paul Lyman)
Theoretical condensed matter: superconductivity and electronic structure calculations. (Dan Agterberg and Michael Weinert)
General eligibility
Eligible students must be:
US citizens or legal permanent residents.
Full-time students at a college in the United States.
Physics Majors. Applications from majors in related disciplines may be considered in exceptional circumstances.
For more information phone +001 414-229-5303/4474 or click on request information link above.
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