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Divya Singh

Divya Singh — Graduate Student — Faculty
Office: 301 Whitmore Laboratory
Address: The Pennsylvania State University Department of Physics 104 Davey Lab Box 104 University Park, PA 16802
dus960@psu.edu
Divya Singh
Physics LIGO Black Holes Dark Matter Gravitational Waves IGC

I'm a 5th year graduate student working in the PSU-LIGO group.

Publications
  1. Divya Singh, Anuradha Gupta, Emanuele Berti, Sanjay Reddy, B. Sathyaprakash “Constraining properties of asymmetric dark matter candidates from gravitational-wave observations.” Phys. Rev. D 107 8 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.107.083037
  2. R. Abbott, others “Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s Third Observing Run.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 129 6 (2022) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061104
  3. R. Abbott, others “Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run.” (2022)
  4. Divya Singh, Michael Ryan, Ryan Magee, Towsifa Akhter, Sarah Shandera, Donghui Jeong, Chad Hanna “Gravitational-wave limit on the Chandrasekhar mass of dark matter.” Phys. Rev. D 104 4 (2021) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.044015
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.