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Special Topics February 17, 2022 · 10:00–12:00

AMON Future Directions Focus Sessions

Bryce Cousins, Doug Cowen, Becca Ewing, Fe McBride, Kohta Murase, Hugo Solares, Stephanie Wissel

339 Davey (Feb 17, Feb 21), 320 Whitmore (Feb 18)

AMON Future Directions Focus Sessions

We will host three days of informal discussions and presentations planning for the future of the AMON network and the associated multi-messenger astrophysics efforts at Penn State. The detailed program will be determined by the participants. Doug Cowen is as the primary scientific organizer for the session.

Discussions will take place during the following times and locations:

Thursday, February 17th, 10am - noon (339 Davey)
Friday, February 18th, noon - 2pm (320 Whitmore)
Monday, February 21st, 9 - 11am (339 Davey)

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.