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Open call for postdocs positions at the IFT within the 'La Caixa Junior Leader' program

There is an open call for postdoc positions in Theoretical Physics at the IFT Madrid: 3-year positions, due to start between 2nd May and 31st December 2023. They are endowed with a competitive salary plus additional funds for research expenses.

Participation of the IFT in Campus Gutenberg's outreach efforts in science

The YouTube channel is the flagship of the outreach activity of the Institute for Theoretical Physics IFT UAM/CSIC. With more than 653,000 followers and more than 86 000 000 views, the channel addresses fundamental physics issues every week and answers questions posed by users.

The IFT joins the European Night of Researchers at CSIC


On Friday, September 23rd and Friday, September 30th, 2022, the centers of the National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) located on the Cantoblanco campus will join together one more year to celebrate the European Night of Researchers.

Welcome to the IFT

We are very happy to welcome you to the Institute of Theoretical Physics UAM-CSIC (IFT).

Netflix premieres ‘Watch Beyond the Stars: Photographing a Black Hole’ with the participation of the IFT

After its premiere in May 2021, the film Watch Beyond the Stars: Photographing a Black Hole was released this week on Netflix.
Featuring several IFT scientists, the documentary aims to be a faithful portrait of the Spanish scientific community, including the team that took the first black hole photograph ever.

The JAE Intro fellowships are granted to introduce new researchers

JAE Intro Introduction to Research fellowships resolution has already been posted. The fellowships will last from November 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.

Upcoming Events

September 15, 2025 to September 19, 2025
9:00am to 8:00pm
September 16, 2025
10:00am to 11:45am
This thesis aims to explore various corners of the string theory moduli spaces using symmetries as a guiding principle to uncover properties of the corresponding theories a
September 16, 2025
12:00pm to 1:45pm
This thesis investigates the intricate relationship between topology, gravity, and quantum field theory within String Theory, centering on the Cobordism Conjecture, which asserts that any consisten
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 17, 2025
10:00am to 11:45am
In this thesis, we explore two departures from the single field, slow-roll paradigm of inflation. The first part is dedicated to warm inflation.
September 18, 2025
12:00pm to 1:00pm
After the usual paper discussion, our guest George Tringas (Lehigh U.) will give a talk on Dualities and scale-separated AdS3 vacua
September 18, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
My talk focuses on using Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) data to measure Gravitational Waves (GWs).
September 22, 2025
3:00pm to 4:15pm
TBA
September 23, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
What is matter? A question that has fascinated—and at times tormented—some of the brightest minds of the twentieth century.
September 24, 2025
3:00pm to 4:15pm
I will report recent progress on AdS Virasoro-Shapiro and Veneziano amplitudes for half-BPS operators with arbitrary Kaluza-Klein modes.