Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos

Honors College, the College of Information Science and Technology, the World University Network and four departments in the Eberly College of Science. Abhay Ashtekar, holder of the Eberly Chair in Physics serves as the IGC Director and Doug Cowen, Professor of Physics, as the Associate Director. The Institute integrates the theoretical and observational research carried out in its three centers: the Center for Fundamental Theory (https://sites.psu.edu/centerfundamentaltheory/), headed by Murat Gunaydin, Professor of Physics; the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology (https://sites.psu.edu/ctoc/), headed by Don Schneider, Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics; and the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics (https://sites.psu.edu/cmma/) by Peter Mészáros, the Eberly Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Chief Theorist for the Swift GRBE mission.