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Yi Qiu

Yi Qiu — Student — Graduate Student
Office: 322 Whitmore Laboratory
Address: 130 Farmstead Ln, State College, PA, 16803
yiqiu@psu.edu
8142328268
Yi Qiu
Physics Black Holes Gravitational Waves Multimessenger Astrophysics Neutrinos IGC

I joined Penn State for a Physics Ph.D. in fall 2022. I am interested in study compact binary mergers and core-collapse supernovae numerically. My works involve running high-performance computing general-relativistic simulations, analyzing data from gravitational-waves to electromagnetic observations.

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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.