Time-exposure photograph of electrical flashover arcs produced over the surface of the water in the accelerator tank as a byproduct of Z operation. These flashovers are much like strokes of lightning
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SEERI is a collaboration between universities and Sandia National Laboratories to entice top-rated undergraduate students into pursuing graduate study and careers in the critical disciplines of pulsed power, high energy density science, and radiation effects. This is done by identifying top-rated students at nationally-rated schools, bringing in them in as summer student interns, preferably as upper-level undergraduates, and exposing them to the interesting and challenging work at Sandia. We invite them back for subsequent summers, and in many cases, help with graduate education expenses through either research contracts through their universities, or direct fellowships. In addition, we do seminars at the universities to solicit interest, host professors for summer positions at Sandia, and serve as members of Master’s and PhD degree defense committees. With this close coordination with the university staff we are able to provide input to their curriculum, and to be in a position to get recommendations for outstanding students.
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Pictures: selected photographs of students involved in SEERI
Funding: criteria, what a proposal should include, how funding is used