Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos | Amanpreet Kaur

Amanpreet Kaur - Assistant Research Professor - Faculty

Office: -- NONE

Address: 525 Davey Laboratory University Park, PA 16802 US

Email: auk971@psu.edu

Phone: +1 814 863 9341

Publications

Richard Barry, others, "Advanced Astrophysics Discovery Technology in the Era of Data Driven Astronomy." (2019)

Stephen Kerby, Amanpreet Kaur, Abraham Falcone, Ryan Eskenasy, Fredric Hancock, Michael Stroh, Elizabeth Ferrara, Paul Ray, Jamie Kennea, Eric Grove, "Multiwavelength Spectral Analysis and Neural Network Classification of Counterparts to 4FGL Unassociated Sources." Astrophys. J. 923 1 (2021)

Vaidehi Paliya, M. Ajello, H. Cao, M. Giroletti, Amanpreet Kaur, Greg Madejski, Benoit Lott, D. Hartmann, "Blazars at the Cosmic Dawn." Astrophys. J. 897 2 (2020)

Hester Schutte, Richard Britto, Markus Böttcher, Brian Soelen, Johannes Marais, Amanpreet Kaur, Abraham Falcone, David Buckley, Andry Rajoelimanana, Justin Cooper, "Modeling the Spectral Energy Distributions and Spectropolarimetry of Blazars—Application to 4C+01.02 in 2016–2017*." Astrophys. J. 925 2 (2022)

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.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope and variety of research at the IGC. The base of the image represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity. These are among the approaches to fundamental questions studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle of the image represents the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology by galaxies embedded in a smooth surface, characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the much larger physical scales studied in cosmology. Finally, at the top, the surface curves to an extreme, representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet. These elements depict an active galactic nucleus, inspired by Centaurus A. Just to the right, a pair of black holes approaches merger. This top portion of the wordmark represents the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics, which specializes in the study of high-energy phenomena in the universe.