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The IFT participates at Researchers' Night of the UAM with a gymkhana about physics

'Dare to investigate: understand the world to save it' encourages you to find the treasure using your wits and with the help of physics.
From 5:00 pm in the main square of the Cantoblanco Campus.

The CSIC centers in Cantoblanco Campus bring science to the streets with a mega event and concert at the 12 de Octubre Hospital

As in previous editions, these research institutes will host a school fair and another event for the general public, featuring a live band performance this year.

Cosmo '23 Conference in Madrid Leads the Future of Modern Cosmology

Last week, Madrid became the epicenter of Cosmology, where 300 experts from around the world gather to explore the mysteries of the universe.
 

"Swamplandia": International Experts Gather in Search of a Quantum Gravity Theory

Last week, the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT UAM-CSIC) and Harvard University organized the largest scientific conference on the Swampland to date.
 

New IFT video: Does the universe rotate as a whole?

Planets, stars, galaxies... it seems like everything is spinning in the universe. But does the universe as a "whole" spin?

Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory in search of new physics

Physicists from Fermilab now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their previous result by a factor of 2.

Upcoming Events

October 2, 2023
11:00am to 1:00pm
In this thesis we study String Theory compactifications to four dimensions focusing on the moduli stabilization process and the associated vacua structure in various frameworks, from Type IIA to F-
October 2, 2023
3:00pm to 4:00pm
The experimental sensitivity to a handful of mu<->e processes should improve by orders of magnitude in coming years.
October 5, 2023
11:00am to 12:00pm
Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at https://benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.
October 5, 2023
3:00pm to 4:00pm
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will soon start operations, marking an enormous boost in our optical transient discovery rate.
October 5, 2023
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Pau Garcia Romeu will present 'Eternal black holes in anti-de Sitter' (Juan Martin Maldacena, 2001, JHEP 04 (2003) 021).
October 6, 2023
11:30am to 12:30pm
October 9, 2023
11:30am to 1:00pm
arXiv: 2107.07516 (A. Belin, S. Colin-Ellerin)
October 9, 2023
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Supersymmetric gauge theories have been subject of many investigations which provide unique insights into non-perturbative mechanisms like confinement and relations between gauge theories and quant
October 16, 2023
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Over a decade after the Higgs discovery, the hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model faces the possibility that new particles might be too heavy to be seen at the LHC.
October 19, 2023 to October 20, 2023
9:00am to 6:00pm