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The Severo Ochoa Centres and Maria de Maeztu Units Alliance (SOMMa) aims at promoting Spanish science of excellence, and safeguarding its competitiveness

The Severo Ochoa Centres and Maria de Maeztu Units Alliance (SOMMa) gathers research centres and units that received the Spanish Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu excellence awards respectively.

At the IFT we are in great sorrow for the passing away of Prof. Stephen Hawking from Cambridge University

An inmense human figure in Science and Society, who definitely shaped our view of Gravity, Quantum Mechanichs and Black Holes. Our thoughts are with his family, colleagues and friends.

One of his main discoveries, the Hawking radiation, is explained in this outreach video by Esperanza López:

Postdoctoral positions at the IFT funded by the UAM Intertalentum MSCA COFUND grant

The Institute of Theoretical Physics IFT CSIC/UAM participates in the "Intertalentum" program offering 9 2-year postdoctoral positions at research centers in the UAM+CSIC Excellence Campus, starting in Fall 2018.

Hardware y software en la física fundamental. ¿El tamaño importa?, por Javier Martín, en en el Blog de Madri+d

Desde los tiempos de los grandes filósofos griegos, una de las mayores ambiciones intelectuales de la humanidad ha sido la de contestar a las grandes preguntas de la metafísica: ¿Qué somos? ¿De dónde venimos? ¿A dónde vamos?

The Institute of Theoretical Physics IFT UAM-CSIC in Madrid (Spain) is offering a PhD position in theoretical cosmology

The position will have a duration of 3 years and is funded by an “Atracción de Talento Investigador” grant awarded by the regional government of Madrid to Dr. Guillermo Ballesteros. An eventual extension of the position to a fourth year will be subject to the availability of funding.

I want to be a scientist. An analysis of gender bias in Science

Round table “I want to be a scientist. An analysis of gender bias in Science“, as part of the activities for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
When: 19th February, 2018, at 11:00. Where: Conference Hall, Science Building, Module 0, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Upcoming Events

June 23, 2025
3:00pm to 4:30pm
I will give a brief overview of  the so called flavor anomalies, describingthe main strategies followed to disclose physics beyond the Standard Model.
June 26, 2025
3:00pm to 4:15pm
Cluster cosmology is potentially one of the most powerful observational probes of structure formation.
July 1, 2025
12:00pm to 1:00pm
We entertain the possibility that transient astrophysical sources can produce a flux of dark particles that induce ultra-high-energy signatures at neutrino telescopes s
September 15, 2025 to September 19, 2025
9:00am to 8:00pm
September 15, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
September 16, 2025 to September 19, 2025
3:00pm to 2:00pm
Light Dark World 2025 (LDW'25) is the tenth meeting of the annual Light Dark World International Forum, which will take place between September 16 and September 19, 2025
September 18, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
September 22, 2025
3:00pm to 4:15pm
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September 25, 2025
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September 29, 2025
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