October 12, 2026 – October 19, 2026

Weekly Announcements 10/12/2026

• IGC Meeting
Monday, October 12, 2026, 2 – 3pm – 538 Davey Lab

• GAPP Seminar
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 2 – 3pm – 339 Davey Lab
Speaker: Zoha Laraib
Title: "Quantum Many-Body Dynamics of Neutrino Flavor Instabilities in Extreme Astrophysical Environments"

• Astro Lunch Talk
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 12 – 1pm-538 Davey Lab
Speaker: Matthew Belyakov, Caltech
Title: TBA

• Astronomy and Astrophysics Colloquium
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 3:45 – 5:00pm, 538 Davey Laboratory
Speaker – Shane Davis, University of Virginia
Title: “The Radiation (Magneto-)Hydrodynamics of Tidal Disruption Events”

• Physics Colloquium
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 3:30 – 4:30pm, 117 Osmond Laboratory
Speaker – Lea Ferreira dos Santos – University of Connecticut
Title: TBA

Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.