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The First Telescope on a Cherenkov Telescope Array Site Makes its Debut

The Cherenkov telescope array (CTA) celebrated on October 10th 2018 the inauguration of its first telescope. The new telescope, named LST-1, is intended to become the first of the four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs) on the CTA-North site, which is located at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma island.

The IFT and the Department of Theoretical Physics UAM participate in a new H2020 project

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (MSCA-ITN) funded by the European Union H2020 programme named "European network for Particle physics, Lattice field theory and Extreme computing" (EuroPLEx) has recently been approved (Grant Agreement: 813942; duration: Jan

100xCiencia.3 - Bridging Science and Society

100xCiencia.3, the successor to last year's 100xCiencia.2, is almost here (Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 09:30 - Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 19:00).

Belén Gavela appointed for the European Strategy Physics Preparatory Group

Belén Gavela has been appointed as particle theory representative of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee at the Physics Preparatory Group for the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, that starts now and is scheduled to conclude in May 2020.
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El evento "Cultube" reunirá un elenco de reconocidos Youtubers en La Casa Encendida

El evento "Cultube" tendrá lugar el 28 de Octubre de 2018, desde las 18:00h hasta aproximadamente las 20:30h, en el patio principal de La Casa Encendida.

IFT Postdoctoral positions 2019

The Institute of Theoretical Physics IFT CSIC/UAM welcomes applications to postdoctoral positions, starting October 2019, under various  programs:
- Several positions within the IFT Severo Ochoa Excellence Center program

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Understanding the mechanism of thermalization in gauge theories is one of the challenging problems of contemporary research.