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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 for the discovery of neutrino oscillations

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to Takaaki Kajita (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, Japan) and Arthur B. McDonald (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration, Canada) “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”.

Former IFT student Pablo Bueno cornering entanglement entropy

A new set of results by former IFT student Pablo Bueno, in collaboration with Rob Myers and William Witczak-Krempa at Perimeter Institute relate the entanglement entropy of  different materials to the central charge of the conformal field theory describing their dynamics.
 

El IFT en el programa “Fábrica de Ideas de TVE”

FECYT produce trece reportajes de centros de I+D para la 7ª temporada del programa “Fábrica de Ideas de TVE”. Uno de estos reportajes está dedicado al Instituto de Física Teórica IFT UAM-CSIC.

Outreach talk at Planetario de Madrid by Juan García-Bellido

Juan García-Bellido will give an outreach talk entitled “100 años de Cosmología Relativista” at Planetario de Madrid. It will take place on 1st October. More information: here  

Angel M. Uranga, nuevo Director del IFT

Tras completarse los tres años en la Dirección estipulados en el reglamento del IFT de Carlos Muñoz López como Director y Margarita García Pérez como Vicedirectora, se ha procedido al relevo con la elección de Ángel M. Uranga Urteaga como nuevo Director. Le acompaña Luis E. Ibáñez Santiago como Vicedirector.

The IFT participates in the European Researchers' Night

On September 25 we will be part of the European Researcher's Night, with the activity 

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