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February 7, 2025 – February 8, 2025

Postdoc Symposium

Postdoc Symposium
Several of our incoming or prospective postdocs are visiting next Monday and Tuesday. There are a few opportunities to contribute to welcoming and recruiting them:

Monday, 9:15-10:15am they will give short talks to introduce themselves in 320 Whitmore
Monday, 2-3pm IGC informal meeting + snacks, Whitmore lobby

Several of our own postdocs will also give short presentations to introduce the science at IGC. These will take place in Whitmore 320, at various times Monday and Tuesday. Please feel free to stop in to listen to any part of those presentations.

We hope to see many of you there!
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.