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September 10, 2024 – September 15, 2024

Announcements 9/9/24

Announcements 9/9/24
GAPP Seminar
- September 10th 2-3pm 339 Davey
- Guest speaker will be Dr. George Zahariade
- Title: Semi classical Backreaction in Quantum Mechanics

Special GAPP Seminar
- September 13th 1pm-2pm Whitmore 320
- Guest speaker: Wen Yin, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- Title: eV Dark Matter and Experimental Searches

Astronomy Colloquium
- September 11th 3:45-5pm in 538 Davey Lab
- Speaker John Ruan
- Title: Shedding Light on Electromagnetic Counterparts Across the Gravitational Wave Spectrum"

Physics Colloquium
- 119 Osmond Thursday, September 12th, 2024, 3:45-4:45pm
- Speaker Glennys Farrar
- Title: Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays—finally, a smoking gun as to their origin?

PUG Seminar
- September 13th 2pm in Whitmore Lounge

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.