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Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

HUB Center

2023-01-20 - 2023-01-22

Penn State is one a site for the 2023 CUWiP, a student-organized, APS supported conference for undergraduate women in physics. The featured speakers include accomplished IGC alums Dr. Sydney Chamberlin  and Dr. Azadeh Keviani in the Explorers Talk Series. IGC will also host invited speaker Dr. Katie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, for an extended visit following her talk in the CUWiP Explorers Series. More details about the event can be found at https://sites.psu.edu/cuwip2023/.

DateTimeSpeakerTitle
2023-01-229:45Katie Mack
2023-01-2211:30Azadeh Keivani
2023-01-239:00Sydney Chamberlin
About our wordmark
Monica The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez, while she was a graduate student at the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (IGC). Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work includes specialized topics in general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds. In particular, her thesis work focused on finding effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams, and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope and variety of research at the IGC. The base of the image represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity. These are among the approaches to fundamental questions studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle of the image represents the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology by galaxies embedded in a smooth surface, characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the much larger physical scales studied in cosmology. Finally, at the top, the surface curves to an extreme, representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet. These elements depict an active galactic nucleus, inspired by Centaurus A. Just to the right, a pair of black holes approaches merger. This top portion of the wordmark represents the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics, which specializes in the study of high-energy phenomena in the universe.