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Jacob Fields

Jacob Fields — Graduate Student — Graduate Student
Office: 321E Whitmore Laboratory
Address: 104 Davey Lab, Box 214, University Park, PA 16802
jmf6719@psu.edu
Jacob Fields
Physics NP3M Black Holes Gravitational Waves Multimessenger Astrophysics CMA

I am a graduate student working in numerical relativity with David Radice. My current work focuses on simulating binary neutron star and black hole-neutron star mergers.

ORCID: 0000-0001-5705-1712

Publications
  1. Jacob Fields, Hengrui Zhu, David Radice, James Stone, William Cook, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Boris Daszuta “Performance-portable Binary Neutron Star Mergers with AthenaK.” Astrophys. J. Suppl. 276 2 (2025) doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ad9687
  2. Jacob Fields, Aviral Prakash, Matteo Breschi, David Radice, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, André Schneider “Thermal Effects in Binary Neutron Star Mergers.” Astrophys. J. Lett. 952 (2023) doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ace5b2
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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.