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Álvaro de Rújula Named CERN Emeritus Member

The recognition was officially announced on Thursday, December 19, through a letter from CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti, highlighting his exceptional scientific contributions and ongoing support for the Organization.

Season's Greetings and Happy 2025!

Best wishes for a 2025 full of artificial but mostly natural intelligence!

New DESI Results Weigh In On Gravity


A complex analysis of DESI’s first year of data provides one of the most stringent tests yet of general relativity and how gravity behaves at cosmic scales

I Symposium on Sound Art in Tribute to the Artist and Researcher Rebecca Collins


The event will be held at two venues: on November 19 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and on November 20 at the Institute of History.

La Caixa doctoral INPhINIT fellowships call is now open

The Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) in Madrid is offering PhD positions for talented Early Stage Researchers within the framework of the "la Caixa" doctoral INPhINIT fellowships, in the fields of String Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Information, Particle Physics, Astroparticles and Cosmology.

Solidarity and Support Following the DANA Tragedy in Spain

From the IFT, we wish to express our deepest solidarity and sorrow in light of the tragedy caused by the DANA in various regions of Spain, especially in Valencia.

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June 9, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
The elements of the CKM matrix are fundamental parameters of the Standard Model.
June 10, 2025
11:30am to 1:00pm
arXiv:2503.20943
June 10, 2025
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful observational tool in astrophysics and cosmology, which has been used to study the mass and light properties of galaxies and quasars, the scales and
June 11, 2025
11:30am to 12:30pm
Benedito, A., & Sierra, G. (2025). Visualizing three-qubit entanglement. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23638
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June 12, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
In recent times, quantum computational complexity has been a major interest to both QI and HEP communities.
June 16, 2025 to June 20, 2025
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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.
September 15, 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 18, 2025
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