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October 14, 2024 – October 21, 2024

Events 2024-10-14

Events 2024-10-14
GAPP Seminar

- October 15th, 2024, 2 – 3pm 339 Davey

- Guest speaker – Abigail Kopec

- Title: Catching the Fog: Low-Energy Particle Interactions in Liquid Xenon-based Detectors

Astronomy Colloquium

- October 23, 2024, 3:45 – 5pm 538 Davey Lab

- Speaker - Jeff Valenti

- Title: Brown Dwarf Science with the James Webb Space Telescope

Physics Colloquium

- Thursday, October 17th, 2024, 3:45 – 4:45pm 119 Osmond Laboratory

- Speaker – Alison Patteson

- Title: Squishy Physics of Simple Tissues

PUG

- 321 Whitmore, Friday, October 18th, 2024, 2 – 3pm
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.