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Srinikitha Bhagvati

Srinikitha Bhagvati — Graduate Student — Graduate Student
Office: 108 Osmond Laboratory
Address: 104 Davey Lab, Box 213 University Park PA 16802
skb6413@psu.edu
Srinikitha Bhagvati
Physics Project 8 Dark Matter CMA

Member of the Project 8 Neutrino Mass Experiment

ORCID: 0000-0003-0213-7345

Publications
  1. K. Makwana, S. Bhagvati, J. Sharma “Linear Dispersion and Nonlinear Interactions in 2.5D Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Kinetic Alfvén Waves.” Plasma Physics Reports 49 6 (2023) doi:10.1134/S1063780X2260133X
  2. Srinikitha Bhagvati, Shantanu Desai “Bayesian analysis of time dependence of DAMA annual modulation amplitude.” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2021 09 (2021) doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2021/09/022
  3. Srinikitha Bhagvati, Shantanu Desai “Search for variability in Newton’s constant using local gravitational acceleration measurements.” Classical and Quantum Gravity 39 1 (2021) doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ac3c8c
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.