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September 2, 2025 – September 7, 2025

Weekly Annoncements 9.2.25

Weekly Annoncements 9.2.25
• IGC Meeting
- Monday, September 8th, 2025, 2 – 3pm 538 Davey

• CAMP Seminar
- September 3rd, 2025, 2:45 – 3:45pm 339 Davey
- Guest speaker – Chunhao Wang
- Title: Quantum Algorithmic Tools for Simulating Quantum Systems and Beyond

• Astronomy Colloquium
- September 3, 3:45 – 5pm 538 Davey Lab
- Speaker - Henric Krawczynski, Washington University in St. Louis
- Title: Observations of Stellar Mass Black Holes with the IXPE and XL-Calibur X-ray Polarimetry Missions

• Physics Colloquium
- Thursday, September 4, 2025, 3:30 – 4:30pm 117 Osmond Laboratory
- Speaker - Stephanie Law
- Title: Synthesis of 2D and Quantum Materials using AI/ML
About our wordmark
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.