Sailent Features for Student Participants

NuPUMAS is presently laid out to support four undergraduate students per year, although the existing resources make it easily scalable should more funding become available. The size of the minority student body interested in Physics at the four participating institutions is certainly large. The program tries to balance fair wages for the students, the experience of working at a laboratory, and being embedded in programs with strong minority support with, at the same time, minimizing the overhead to be spent on coordinators and teachers.

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Employment Opportunity

The students will be paid for 40 hours per week during the eight-week summer program (parts 1 and 2 above), and will be supported at 15 hours per week during the subsequent Spring and Fall semesters (39 weeks). In addition, all housing and travel expenses will be paid for the students. This includes their time in Houston for non-local students, and for the laboratory experiences at BNL and SURF.
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Research Opportunity

Upon completion of the Summer program the students, in coordination with their local supervisor and the program coordinator at UH, will receive a research project to be completed over the next two semesters at their home institutions. They will include several projects related to evaluations of major sources of uncertainties for DUNE analyses, including neutrino-argon interactions models, argon nuclear models and hadron production models for the flux. Other projects will include contributions to NOvA calibrations and energy scale uncertainties, building a muon telescope, studying the properties of geoneutrinos, measuring Deep Compton Virtual Scattering using data from Jefferson Lab, helping to suppress cosmogenic backgrounds in nuclear reaction analyses, and studying non-Rutherford scattering using the TSU accelerator.
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Career Planning

The proposed program has the potential to provide underrepresented minority students trained across subfields of HEP/Particle Physics for advancement into STEM careers and graduate/professional school. Specific career planning seminars are also part of week six of the Summer program at UH.  The program includes at least two days dedicated to career planning seminars and Q&A sessions with trainees and former colleagues and students who have succeeded in a variety of professional careers.
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Anticipated Skills at the end of Program

The anticipated skill set will range from basic programming skills, analysis and plot making, implementation and evaluation software, and detector and electronics expertise. These Physics-based knowledge components will be complemented by presentation and publication skills as well as confidence and community-building components, which can be applied at the small local level, all the way up through to the large international collaborations in which we work. The balance between fundamental and applied components of Particle Physics and interconnection with Nuclear Physics is emphasized throughout the program and will lead to well-rounded scientists.

Logistics

The QUAD University Housing

Students are supposed to arrive in Houston on the weekend of May 15th and depart on the weekend of July 1st.
All external students will be hosted at the On-campus Housing. Housing arrangements will be made for students by the program administrators.

Phone

+1 (713) 743 6000

Email

housing@uh.edu

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Funding

This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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Department of Physics, University of Houston

Science and Research Building 1
3507 Cullen Blvd., Room 617
Houston, TX 77204-5005

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