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October 26 – November 1, 2026

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November 17, 2026 – November 19, 2026
Open Quantum Universe Workshop
Innovation Hub at Penn State
The Open Quantum Universe Workshop at The Pennsylvania State University, supported by the Gravity Theory Trust, will be a focused event that aims to coordinate …

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GAPP - Gravity, Astrophysics and Particle Physics
October 23, 2026
GAPP - Gravity, Astrophysics and Particle Physics
339 Davey Laboratory
The DAMIC-M (DArk Matter In CCDs at Modane) experiment will use skipper CCDs to search for low mass (sub-GeV) dark matter underground at the Laboratoire …
PUG Talk
October 16, 2026
PUG Talk
IGC Lounge
When two black holes merge, the final black hole settles down by "ringing" at a characteristic set of frequencies called quasinormal modes, which gravitational-wave detectors …
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October 16, 2026
Strong Gravity Seminar
Whitmore 320
I will review the status of dark energy probes in recent cosmological observations, distinguishing geometric probes of cosmic expansion from dynamical probes of structure growth. …
October 9, 2026
PUG Seminar
Whitmore 321
Abstract: Have you ever wondered if the diffeomorphism invariance of GR imply that spacetime without matter is not real, or if gravitational waves carry energy …
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October 2, 2026
Strong Gravity Seminar
Whitmore 320
Binary black hole mergers probe the highly dynamical, fully nonlinear regime of general relativity, where the emergence of a common horizon marks the formation of …
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October 2, 2026
Strong Gravity Seminar
Whitmore 320
What replaces Kerr when Einstein’s equations are modified, how does such a black hole ring, and can gravitational-wave data tell the difference? Answering these questions …

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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.