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September 19, 2022 past

CMA Faculty Meeting

538 Davey

CMA Faculty Meeting

The Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics is hosting the next IGC meeting on Monday, Sept 19 at 2-3:00 PM in Davey 538.

The meeting is dedicated to a broad discussion of the CMA's plans going forward for the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON). The meeting will be led by Stephanie Wissel and Hugo Ayala Solares.

Attendees are welcome to submit a slide to showcase highlights from their research,including any IGC-CMA members that are involved using this link:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1b4qiKOQA_E9C1qttdCTxKYblxmWCXTwcEGczjN5TY1Q/edit?usp=sharing

Program

Date Time Speaker Title
2022-09-19 14:00 Stephanie Wissel and Hugo Solares The monthly MMA Faculty Meeting
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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.