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March 2, 2026 – March 9, 2026

Announcements 3/2/26

IGC apple Logo created by Monica Rincon Ramirez
• IGC ALL Meeting
Monday, March 3, 2026, 2 – 3pm-538 Davey Lab

• Astro Lunch Talk
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 12 – 1pm-538 Davey Lab
Speaker: Emily Wilson, Lycoming College
Title: When Cannibal Stars Shine: How Common Envelope Evolution May Be Observable with the Vera C. Rubin Telescope

• Astronomy and Astrophysics Colloquium
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 3:45 – 5pm 538 Davey Lab
Speaker - Brendan O'Connor, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions in the Einstein Probe Era

• Physics Colloquium
Thursday, March 26, 2026, 3:30 – 4:30pm, 117 Osmond Laboratory
Speaker – Katelin Schutz, McGill University
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.