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January 20, 2023 – January 22, 2023 past

Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics

HUB Center

Penn State is one a site for the 2023 CUWiP, a student-organized, APS supported conference for undergraduate women in physics. The featured speakers include accomplished IGC alums Dr. Sydney Chamberlin  and Dr. Azadeh Keviani in the Explorers Talk Series. IGC will also host invited speaker Dr. Katie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, for an extended visit following her talk in the CUWiP Explorers Series. More details about the event can be found at https://sites.psu.edu/cuwip2023/.

Program

Date Time Speaker Title
2023-01-22 9:45 Katie Mack
2023-01-22 11:30 Azadeh Keivani
2023-01-23 9:00 Sydney Chamberlin
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.