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This week and next

Nothing on the IGC calendar this week or next — see what is coming up. The recurring seminars run all semester:

Standing Events

Weekly seminars

Coming up

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 …

Past events

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A logo for the IDIOM workshop
June 1, 2026 – June 5, 2026
IGWN Digital Infrastructure for Operations and Management (IDIOM)
Penn State University's Innovation Hub
This will be a working meeting to accelerate development and deployment of digital infrastructure for the International Gravitational Wave observatory Network (IGWN) with a focus …
PUG Seminar
November 21, 2025
PUG Seminar
Whitmore 321
Abstract: The problem of quantum Gravity has been one of the forefronts of physics research for nearly half a century. There have been many attempts …
PUG Seminar
November 7, 2025
PUG Seminar
Whitmore 321
Abstract: Be/X-ray Binaries (BeXRB) are a common type of X-ray binary star system taht emit variable radiation across the electromagentic spectrum on all timescales. In …
PUG Seminar
October 31, 2025
PUG Seminar
Whitmore 321
Abstract: We will explore what it means for a set of gates to be universal. Then we will see the role symmetry plays when introduced …
PUG Seminar
October 24, 2025
PUG Seminar
Whitmore 321
Abstract: Many studies exploring how dark matter might leave imprints on compact objects build on the idea that WIMPs may scatter off nuclear matter inside …
PUG Seminar
October 17, 2025
PUG Seminar
Whitmore 321
Abstract: We live in a world of interactions. Everything you’ve ever experienced comes from something interacting with something else. No system is ever truly isolated. …

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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.