Contact
monicarizzo2023_at_northwestern.edu
CIERA, Northwestern University
1800 Sherman Ave, Floor 8
Evanston IL, 60201
About
I am currently a student in the Astronomy PhD program at Northwestern University. During the spring of 2018, I graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Physics and an immersion in Mathematics.
For the past four years, I have been a member of the LIGO scientific collaboration, and have contributed to various studies of gravitational waves. In particular, I work on ways to optimize and automate the methods we use to interpret gravitational wave signals. For more on my research, see here.
Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives....These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. That each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction.
-David Mitchell