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100 Years of Quantum Physics, with Juan Ignacio Cirac, José Ignacio Latorre, and Miguel Peiró
On Wednesday, September 17 (5:00 – 7:00 pm) in the Auditorium of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. 2025 has been declared the International Year of Quantum Science to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its final formulation. The IFT and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza...
Ten years after the discovery, gravitational waves verify Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Area Theorem
LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA celebrate the anniversary of the first gravitational waves detection and announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem. The exceptionally clear GW250114 signal confirms Hawking’s area law and may open a window onto...
The CSIC Calls You Tonight: European Researchers’ Night 2025
The IFT co-organizes the science fair together with the other CSIC research centers on the Cantoblanco campus. There will be various educational workshops, a Nobel and non-Nobel Women Escape Road, and a scientific talent show. The event will take place on September 26...
UAM researcher Ana Cueto obtains an ERC Starting Grant for the Plusphoton project
This line of research will explore new modes of Higgs boson production using data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Ramón y Cajal researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Ana Cueto, has...
Elisa Ramírez García, physicist, mathematician and young science communicator, begins her stay at the IFT thanks to a CSIC-Fundación BBVA grant
As a beneficiary of the CSIC-BBVA Foundation 2024 grant for science communication, Elisa will spend time at the IFT from September 1 to October 15, joining the communications department. This opportunity will allow her to experience the center's research work...
What are D-branes in STRING THEORY and how do they bring us closer to the Standard Model
New video from #IFTResponde YouTube series. In this video, Ignacio Ruiz, predoctoral investigator from the IFT, clearly explains what D-branes are in the context of String Theory. D-branes let us understand the relation between open and close strings and force...
Outreach Events
100 Years of Quantum Physics, with Juan Ignacio Cirac, José Ignacio Latorre, and Miguel Peiró
On Wednesday, September 17 (5:00 – 7:00 pm) in the Auditorium of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
God plays dice with the world. The story of quantum mechanics
What is matter? A question that has fascinated—and at times tormented—some of the brightest minds of the twentieth century.
The CSIC Calls You Tonight: European Researchers’ Night 2025
The IFT co-organizes the science fair together with the other CSIC research centers on the Cantoblanco campus. There will be various educational workshops, a Nobel and non-Nobel Women Escape Road, and a scientific talent show.
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