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Events 2024-12-9

Events 2024-12-9

Various

2024-12-09 - 2024-12-16

• GAPP Seminar

  • Tuesday, December 10th, 2024, 2 - 3pm Davey 339
  • Guest speaker – Jason Pollack
  • Title: Generic ETH: Eigenstate Thermalization beyond the Microcanonical

• Special GAPP Seminar

  • Tuesday, December 10th, 2024, 10 - 11am Whitmore 320
  • Guest speaker – Greg Kaplanek
  • Title: Feynman-Vemon goes cosmic: path intergrals for consmological open systems

• Astronomy Colloquium

  • December 11th, 2024, 3:45 – 5pm 538 Davey Lab
  • Speaker - Niel Brandt
  • Title: Searching for Radio Star-Planet Interaction

DateTimeSpeakerTitle
2024-12-1014:00Jason PollackEigenstate Thermalization beyond the Microcanonical
2024-12-1010:00Greg KaplanekFeynman-Vemon goes cosmic: path intergrals for consmological open systems
2024-12-1115:45Niel BrandtSearching for Radio Star-Planet Interaction
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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.

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