September 16, 2024 – September 23, 2024

National Postdoc Appreciation Week

National Postdoc Appreciation Week

The IGC would like to thank all of our Postdoctoral Scholars!

Every September the NPA sponsors an annual celebration of the National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW). This year’s ninth annual celebration of NPAW will be held around the globe from September 17-21. This year NPAW coincides with the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, therefore PDAs and PDOs are encouraged to tailor or extend their planned activities to be inclusive of all postdocs. NPAW is an important week of events that recognizes postdoctoral scholars’ contributions to research and scientific discovery. It is a wonderful way to let postdocs know that they are valued and recognized at their respective institutions.

See the full article on https://www.nationalpostdoc.org/page/postdocket_08181

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.