December 9, 2024 – December 16, 2024 past

Events 2024-12-9

Various

Events 2024-12-9

• 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

Program

Date	Time	Speaker	Title
2024-12-10	14:00	Jason Pollack	Eigenstate Thermalization beyond the Microcanonical
2024-12-10	10:00	Greg Kaplanek	Feynman-Vemon goes cosmic: path intergrals for consmological open systems
2024-12-11	15:45	Niel Brandt	Searching for Radio Star-Planet Interaction

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.