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Mark Alaverdian

Mark Alaverdian — _
Office: 204 Osmond Laboratory
Address: Davey Laboratory, 251 Pollock Road, Box 251
mxa895@psu.edu
Mark Alaverdian
Physics Black Holes Gravitational Waves Physical Mathematics IGC

My research interests mostly lie within high energy theory and include (but not limited to)
* supersymmetric quantum field theories and supergravities
* classical gravitational dynamics of binary systems
* string theory and holography
* conformal field theory

In my current work, I apply the powerful techniques developed in the field of scattering amplitudes to the subjects listed above in various contexts.

ORCID: 0000-0002-8200-3090

Publications
  1. Mark Alaverdian, Zvi Bern, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Andres Luna, Radu Roiban, Trevor Scheopner, Fei Teng “Conservative Spin-Magnitude Change in Orbital Evolution in General Relativity.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 10 (2025) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.101602
  2. Mark Alaverdian, Zvi Bern, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Andres Luna, Radu Roiban, Trevor Scheopner, Fei Teng “Observables and unconstrained spin tensor dynamics in general relativity from scattering amplitudes.” JHEP 12 (2025) doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2025)054
  3. Mark Alaverdian, Aidan Herderschee, Radu Roiban, Fei Teng “Difference equations and integral families for Witten diagrams.” JHEP 12 (2024) doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2024)070
About our wordmark
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.