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Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has been working for more than 20 years to make a map of the Universe, and will continue for many years to come. The scientific goals of SDSS-V span the inner workings of our Sun’s nearest stellar neighbors to the growth of black holes from the earliest days of the Universe. [Text and image from https://www.sdss5.org/]

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Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
W. Niel Brandt W. Niel Brandt Faculty Astronomy, Physics wnbrandt@gmail.com +1 814 865 3509 514A Davey Laboratory CTOC Black Holes, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Quasars, Dynamic Universe
Laura Duffy Laura Duffy Graduate Student Astronomy lrd48@psu.edu +1 814 865 0419 537 Davey Laboratory CTOC Black Holes, Quasars
Michael Eracleous Michael Eracleous Faculty Astronomy mxe17@psu.edu +1 814 863 6041 414 Davey Laboratory CMA, CTOC Black Holes, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Quasars, Dynamic Universe
Niana Mohammed Niana Mohammed Graduate Student Astronomy nnm5189@psu.edu +1 814 865 0419 537 Davey Laboratory Davey Laboratory CMA, CTOC Black Holes, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Quasars
Mary Ogborn Mary Ogborn Graduate Student Astronomy mko5309@psu.edu 8148637111 8148637111 Davey Laboratory CMA, CTOC Black Holes, Quasars
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.