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Postdocs 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, within the framework of the H2020 MSCA-COFUND program.
These are 3-year positions, due to start between April and September 2021. They are endowed with a competitive salary plus additional funds for research expenses.

Euclid space telescope's Near-Infrared instrument ready to draw a 3-D map of galaxies of the distant Universe

ESA’s Euclid mission to study more than a billion galaxies is a step closer to launch as its two instruments are now built and fully tested, including the complex Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument delivered by an international consortium coordinated by France, with partners from Italy, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Nor

CIENCIA, y el "Cosmos" del siglo XXI

El investigador del Instituto de Física Teórica IFT UAM-CSIC, José L. F. Barbón, ha contribuido con un artículo publicado en el libro de divulgación titulado “CIENCIA, y el `Cosmos´ del siglo XXI”.

¿Es real el Tiempo Imaginario?, por Ángel J. Murcia, en el Blog de Madri+d

¿Cómo serían nuestras vidas si no tuviéramos la noción de tiempo? Desde luego, resultaría prácticamente imposible concebir tal sociedad, ajena al concepto de tiempo. Al fin y al cabo, toda actividad humana empieza en un determinado momento, tiene una duración y finaliza. Cuando quedamos con nuestros amigos, concretamos una hora para vernos.

Inclusive science is the only possible one

CSIC centers at the UAM campus join the celebration of the 28th of June, International LGTBIQA+ Pride Day 2020,  asserting that inclusive science is the only possible one

Europe updates its strategy for Particle Physics

On June 19 the CERN council has unanimously voted the 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. The press release can be found here

Upcoming Events

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 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.
September 25, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
TBD
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.