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Rodney Jones

Rodney Jones — Undergraduate Researcher — Undergraduate Student
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Address: Irvin Hall room 108, WEST 72 Curtin Road, University Park, PA 16802
rjj5488@psu.edu
9412878113
Rodney Jones
Astronomy Dark Matter CTOC

I am a sophomore astrophysics major at The Pennsylvania State University. Currently, I am working in Dr. Donghui Jeong's research group, developing AI models to study the Large Scale Structure of the Universe: galaxy clusters and dark matter halos. In the future, I intend to pursue a PhD in astrophysics and continue my research in computational astrophysics and data science.

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ORCID: 0009-0000-1544-2838

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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.