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Álvaro de Rújula receives the 2024 Bogoliubov Prize





PhD position in the theory of quantum algorithms




The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 goes to innovations in Machine Learning

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John J. Hopfield (Princeton University, NJ, USA) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto, Canada) “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

60 years of particle physics

Álvaro de Rújula will give an outreach conference at Fundación Ramón Areces on Thursday, October 10, at 7 PM.

The IFT analyzes the Riemann hypothesis from famous TV show

Germán Sierra, researcher at the IFT, has explained this formula on social media and television, which appears on the set of the popular show La Revuelta.

Why does STRING THEORY live in 10 DIMENSIONS?

The latest YouTube video from the IFT channel has reached 100,000 views in the first four days since its release.

Upcoming Events

December 17, 2024
3:00pm to 4:30pm
 In this talk, I will consider perturbing an AdS black hole with Brownian semiclassical sources, implementing the continuous version of a random quantum circuit for the black hole.
January 13, 2025 to January 17, 2025
11:30am to 1:00pm
This course, taught by Adrián Pérez-Salinas (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
January 13, 2025
11:30am to 1:00pm
This class will be dedicated to introduce basic notions of machine learning. In this chapter we will discuss the purpose
January 14, 2025
11:30am to 1:00pm
In this class we will cover the basic of regression and supervised classification, both theoretical notions (not so much)
January 15, 2025
11:30am to 1:00pm
In this class I will give some examples of TensorFlow, a library specifically designed to do machine learning.
January 16, 2025
10:30am to 12:00pm
This class will cover the basic concepts of quantum machine learning, together with examples of the problems in acomputer. I will use QIBO for it.
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January 16, 2025
12:00pm to 1:00pm
After the usual paper discussion, Luca Melotti will give a talk on TBA.
January 16, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm