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June 1, 2026 – June 5, 2026 past

IGWN Digital Infrastructure for Operations and Management (IDIOM)

Penn State University's Innovation Hub

A logo for the IDIOM workshop

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 on collaboration membership, program, MOUs and project management. The agenda is currently TBD but we hope to attract developers of IGWN digital infrastructure as well as a from the IGWN program committee and the IGWN finance and resource allocation committee.

The location will be in downtown state college close to hotels and restaurants adjacent to the Penn State campus. More details on the venue will follow. The meeting is expected to end by noon on Friday.

Workshop Overview

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 on collaboration membership, program, MOUs and project management.

We hope to attract developers of IGWN digital infrastructure as well as members from the IGWN program committee and the IGWN finance and resource allocation committee.

Organizers

  • Chad Hanna (Penn State) crh184@psu.edu
  • Additional organizers TBD

Topics

  • Collaboration membership and onboarding
  • MOU management and tracking
  • Project management tools and workflows
  • Resource allocation
  • Tight integration of operation services
Registration

Registration is free but required for planning purposes. Please register by May 15, 2026.

Space is limited to 20 participants.

Register

Program

Date Time Speaker Title
2026-06-01 9:00 TBD TBD
2026-06-02 9:00 TBD TBD
2026-06-03 9:00 TBD TBD
2026-06-04 9:00 TBD TBD
2026-06-05 9:00 TBD TBD

Venue

Innovation Hub

The Innovation Hub is located in downtown State College, close to hotels and restaurants adjacent to the Penn State campus.

  • Address: 123 S Burrowes St, State College, PA 16801, USA
  • Wifi: eduroam is available throughout the building
  • Parking: Visitor parking is available in various public garages in the surrounding area

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Accommodations

Accommodations Near Penn State

Downtown State College (walking distance to campus)

  • Hyatt Place State College -- 219 W Beaver Ave, (814) 862-9808, hyatt.com | map
  • Graduate by Hilton State College -- 125 S Atherton St, (814) 231-2100, hilton.com | map
  • Scholar State College, Tapestry Collection by Hilton -- 205 E Beaver Ave, (814) 778-0300, hilton.com | map

On-Campus

Booking Tips

  • Book early during football season (September -- November) and Penn State graduation weekends
  • Ask the event organizers about Penn State rates or room blocks
  • Visit State College / Happy Valley has a full list of area lodging
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.