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January 1, 2020

Eberly College of Science 2020 Frontiers of Science Lecture Series entitled `Predicting the Future Improving Lives and Communities through Modeling'

The series will consist of 6 public lectures, held on consecutive Saturdays in 101 Thomas Building at the University Park Campus.

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  • February 15: `Disease outbreak control: Harnessing the power of multiple models to work smarter, not harder,' Katriona Shea (Ecology, Penn State)
  • February 1: `Understanding wildlife connectivity and disease spread through GPS tracking,' Ephraim Hanks (Statistics, Penn State)
  • February 22: `Predicting Mutation and Disease Occurrence from DNA and Omics Data,' Kateryna Makova (Biology, Penn State)
  • February 8: `Characterizing potentially habitable planets,' Eric Ford (Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State)
  • January 18: `Statistics and the future of the Antarctic ice sheet,' Murali Haran (Statistics, Penn State)
  • January 25: `Predicting the future of plant diversity: New applications for digitized herbarium data,' Pamela Soltis (Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida)
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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.