The IFT Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the Ramón y Cajal Programme
On December 5th, the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) held a small informal gathering to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Ramón y Cajal (RyC) programme. Thanks to the initiative of CSIC, commemorative pins were sent to recognize researchers who have been...
Join the #YoFísicaCuántica Challenge
Until January 31 A new February 11—the International Day of Women and Girls in Science—is approaching, and once again we invite you to participate in the #YoFísica challenge, in which you are the protagonists by bringing us the stories of great women scientists. The...
The Fermi space telescope detects gamma rays that could come from the decay of dark matter particles
A century ago, astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed that galaxies were moving faster than their mass should allow, leading him to infer the presence of an invisible structure, dark matter. Since the particles that make up dark matter do not interact with electromagnetic...
Claudio Bonanno, IFT postdoc, receives the 2025 Kenneth G. Wilson Award
For his contributions to topology in QCD and the development of new methods in lattice field theory. Postdoctoral researcher Claudio Bonanno, from the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT, UAM–CSIC), has been awarded the 2025 Kenneth G. Wilson Award for Excellence...