Jackson Henry

Jackson Henry — Mr. — Faculty

Office: 322 Whitmore Laboratory

jth58@psu.edu

+1 814 863 9605

Jackson Henry

Physics IGC

At RIT in undergrad I began work with LIGO under John Whelan. There I focused on characterizing the detecting geometry for LIGO. I later began to work with Richard O’Shaughnessy on the effect of orbital eccentricity on parameter estimation. At Penn State i have been working with Martin Bojowald and James Kennington on a numerical implementation of Causal Dynamical Triangulation. More recently I have begun to work with Sarah Shandera and Unnati Akhouri on the behavior of quantum open systems. I love volunteering for Astrofest most years and have also been collaborating with PAW+ designing new posters highlighting important and lesser known scientists. If you are interested in discussing my current work please reach out over e-mail.

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.