Its purposes are to perform multidisciplinary research, to educate students, to conduct outreach activities toward underrepresented minorities, and to spur the development of new technologies.
Lasers open the door to the ultrafast world.
Limited only by the wavelength of light itself, lasers can generate the shortest controllable bursts of energy available. Eventually, such questions as how molecules move in liquids or gases, how electrons collide in semiconductors, and how light initiates the vision process will be answered. The Center's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program is designed to encourage students, especially women and underrepresented minorities, to pursue graduate study and a research career in the math and sciences. It offers undergrads an opportunity to work in a laboratory environment for ten weeks in the summer. Undergrads will also work on a specific research project in the laboratory of a Center scientist, culminating in a paper and presentation.