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New edition of the Outreach Series on Fundamental Physics

The IFT returns to the Residencia de Estudiantes once again for Science Week on November 7, 14, and 15.

Carmen García, researcher at IFIC, receives the 2024 National Research Award in the category of Physical Sciences

Professor García has been awarded this prize for the impact of her scientific career, recognized both nationally and internationally, and for the excellence of her research in particle physics, focused on the study of the fundamental components of matter and their interactions.

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.

Upcoming Events

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
Abstract:
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
9:30am to 7:00pm
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
3:00pm to 4:00pm
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
3:00pm to 4:00pm