IceCube-Gen2: A new frontier in detecting the elusive neutrino messenger

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory made several breakthrough discoveries over the past decade including the detection of high energy astrophysical neutrinos and the first likely sources of astrophysical neutrinos. We now plan for an extension of the detector, IceCube-Gen2, which will include an expanded optical array with a factor of ~8 more instrumented volume compared to IceCube and a radio array to extend the energy reach for neutrinos up to the EeV scale. This will move the field beyond the discovery era of to allow for robust observation of astrophysical neutrino sources, and will probe new territory in the highest energies. In this talk, I will discuss the improved technologies we plan to deploy and the new opportunities for science expected with IceCube-Gen2, including multi-messenger observations of sources, new classes of sources that can be observed, and new physics effects to which we might be sensitive.