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Adrian Ocneanu

Adrian Ocneanu — Professor of Mathematics — Faculty
Office: 225 McAllister
Address: 0109B Mcallister Building Henderson Mall University Park, PA 16802 US
axo2@psu.edu
+1 814 865 4061
Adrian Ocneanu
Math Mathematical Structures CFT

Adrian Ocneanu's research group

Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
Jacob Canel Jacob Canel Graduate Student Math jmc8684@psu.edu 18579983102 417 McAllister CFT Mathematical Structures, Physical Mathematics
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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.