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February 1, 2025 – February 28, 2025

Announcements February 2025

Announcements February 2025
PUG Seminars Every Friday at 2pm, 321 Whitmore Laboratory

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Lattice QCD: Zoltan Fodor
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 3 – 4:30pm, 320 Whitmore Laboratory
Speaker: Zoltan Fodor

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Physics Colloquium '25 Peter Clay Eklund Awards
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 3:45 – 4:45pm, 117 Osmond Laboratory
Eklund Award Winners: Andrew Zeolla, Maria Barsukova, Zeyu Zhang
Honorable Mentions: Zijie Yan, Alexander Sredenschek and Sanika Khadkikar

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Ashtekar Frontiers of Science - A tale of two gases: Classical and quantum
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 11am – 12:30pm, 001 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building
Speaker: Marcos Rigol

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Physics Colloquium 2025: Physics and Astrophysics with Nanohertz Gravitational Waves
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 3:45 – 4:45pm, 117 Osmond Laboratory
Speaker: Sara Vigeland

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Ashtekar Frontiers of Science - Accurate quantum computing
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 11am – 12:30pm, 100 Thomas Building
Speaker: Abhinav Kandala

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Physics Colloquium 2025: Recent developments in relativistic non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Thursday, February 27, 2025, 3:45 – 4:45pm, 117 Osmond Laboratory
Speaker: Lorenzo Gavassino

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GAPP Seminar: Probing the Dense Matter Equation of State through Neutron Star Oscillations and Gravitational Waves
Tuesday, February 18th, 2025, 2:00 pm, 339 Davey Lab
Speaker: Tianqi Zhao

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.