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Opening for PhD positions at the IFT

There is a new opening for PhD positions at the IFT, including four positions associated to the Severo Ochoa Excellence Center grant.

IFT YouTube channel awarded with Prismas Honorary Prize

The IFT YouTube channel has been awarded with the Honorary prize of the Premios Prismas Casa de las Ciencias a la Divulgación by Museos Científicos Coruñeses, in the category of web site / social network.

La sub-estructura del halo y la búsqueda de la materia oscura, por Javier Coronado y Miguel Ángel Sánchez Conde, en el Blog de Madri+d

Durante los últimos 40 años se han diseñado diferentes estrategias de búsqueda de materia oscura, aunque todas han resultado infructuosas de momento. Sin embargo, en todo este tiempo el conocimiento sobre sus propiedades a gran escala y cómo afecta a la formación y evolución de galaxias ha evolucionado enormemente.

Book "Enjoy our Universe. You have no other choice", by Álvaro de Rújula

Álvaro de Rújula from IFT has just published the popular science book "Enjoy our Universe. You have no other choice" in Oxford University Press.

Invitaciones disponibles para el Show de Física de Partículas

Las entradas para la sesión dirigida a público general del Show de Física de Partículas, que tendrá lugar el día 24 de Septiembre a las 19h en Caixa Fórum, están agotadas.

Renewal of the collaboration agreement IFT - IBS Korea

Angel Uranga and Kiwoon Choi, as Directors of IFT and Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe of the Institute for Basic Science, Korea, have signed the renewal of the collaboration agreement between their institutions, to foster the exchange of visitors and promote joint scientific projects.
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September 15, 2025 to September 19, 2025
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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 22, 2025
3:00pm to 4:15pm
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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.
September 25, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
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September 26, 2025
11:30am to 12:30pm
Our ability to understand the emergence of nuclear physics from the Standard Model requires an understanding two nucleon interactions from the underlying quark and gluon degrees of freedom.
September 26, 2025
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Linear-perturbation theory has proven to be an extremely powerful tool to compare inflationary models with observational data.
September 29, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
This seminar consists of two parts.  First, it is discussed how various approaches to the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, g-2, are connected.  Seco
October 2, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm