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Nearly fifty high school students explore particle physics at the IFT

Thanks to a new edition of the 'Hands-on Particle Physics' Masterclass

New measurement of cosmic distances in the Dark Energy Survey gives clues about the nature of dark energy


The measurement obtained fixes the scale of the universe when it was half its present age with an accuracy of 2%, the most accurate ever obtained for that time. The results were released yesterday.

Institutional visit of the CSIC President to the CFTMAT

Eloísa del Pino, President of the CSIC, has addressed the research and technical staff and held various meetings with the management teams of both centers, IFT and ICMAT.

Talk by Juan García-Bellido about new perspectives in modern cosmology

The outreach talk will take place on Tuesday, February 20, at 7:00 PM at the Ramón Areces Foundation - Auditorium. Address: Calle Vitruvio, 5, 28006, Madrid.

Awarding ceremony of the 2023 Julius Wess Award to Belen Gavela

In an event celebrated on the evening of February 9th at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology.


For pioneering research in particle physics.

Irene Valenzuela receives the Award for Young Female Scientific Talent from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences

The Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences grants her this award in the category of 'Physics and Chemistry.'
The objective of the awards is to create female role models in Spanish science.

Upcoming Events

April 17, 2024
11:30am to 12:30pm
This is a pedagogical review of essentially to families of works, Refs. [1, 2] on the one hand, and Refs. [3, 4] on the other hand, and it contains a few novelties.
April 18, 2024
12:00pm to 1:00pm
After the paper discussion, we will have a talk by Michelangelo Tartaglia based on the paper "The Boundary Proposal" (arXiv:
April 18, 2024
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Both parameters in the Higgs potential appear fine-tuned, relating to the hierarchy problem and the metastability of the electroweak vacuum.
April 18, 2024
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Xavi Ponce, de Padova University, will present the paper CP Conservation in the Presence of Pseudoparticles
April 22, 2024
3:00pm to 4:00pm
I will talk about the notion of Krylov complexity, its various recent applications and connections to quantum many-body systems and QCD.
April 25, 2024
3:00pm to 4:30pm
April 29, 2024
3:00pm to 4:15pm
May 6, 2024
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Gravitational wave signals from coalescing binary black holes aredetected, and analyzed, by using large banks of template waveforms.
May 7, 2024
11:30am to 4:00pm
JOINT ICMAT-IFT Colloquium.
May 9, 2024
3:00pm to 4:00pm
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