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James DeLaunay

James DeLaunay — Assistant Research Professor — Faculty
Office: 520 Davey Laboratory
Address: 301 Science Park Road (ARL West IV)
jjd330@psu.edu
+1 814 865 6834
James DeLaunay
Astronomy IceCube SWIFT CMA

As a member of both the Swift team and IceCube collaboration I study multi-messenger astrophysics.
My main interests are searching for prompt GRB counterparts to GWs and searching for astrophysical sources of high-energy neutrinos.

James DeLaunay's research group

Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
Victor Liu Victor Liu Graduate Student Astronomy vql5180@psu.edu 6467255201 537 Davey Laboratory IGC Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Quasars
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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.