On this month's Radio Physics show, summer intern Josie Jacobs speaks with physicist Monica Jinwoo Kang.
Monica is an Assistant Professor in the Physics & Astronomy Department of Texas A&M. Previously, she was a Center of Particle Cosmology Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center of Particle Cosmology and the High Energy Theory group, and a Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Particle Theory Group. Monica's research is on understanding quantum gravity and quantum field theory, aiming to describe our universe from large to small scales. As a mathematical physicist, she investigates the fundamental nature of quantum gravity and quantum field theory through discovering their mathematical and quantum error correcting structures. Her work draws from and contributes to a wide array of disciplines in theoretical physics and mathematics, including conformal field theory, (supersymmetric) field theory, string theory, semiclassical gravity, quantum information theory, lattice gauge theory, algebraic geometry, and operator algebra.
Intern Josie Jacobs is a student at Aspen High School.
