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Welcome to the IFT

We are very happy to welcome you to the Institute of Theoretical Physics UAM-CSIC (IFT).

Netflix premieres ‘Watch Beyond the Stars: Photographing a Black Hole’ with the participation of the IFT

After its premiere in May 2021, the film Watch Beyond the Stars: Photographing a Black Hole was released this week on Netflix.
Featuring several IFT scientists, the documentary aims to be a faithful portrait of the Spanish scientific community, including the team that took the first black hole photograph ever.

The JAE Intro fellowships are granted to introduce new researchers

JAE Intro Introduction to Research fellowships resolution has already been posted. The fellowships will last from November 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.

James Webb: the clearest image to date of the early universe

The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful to be placed in orbit, has revealed the clearest image to date of the early universe, going back 13 billion years, US space agency NASA said Monday.

LHC run 3 at record energies begins today

A new data collection period begins today, Tuesday, July 5, for the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, after more than three years of work updates, improvements and maintenance. The beams have already been flowing around CERN's accelerator complex since April, when the LHC and its injectors were turned on.

Higgs boson discovery is 10 years old


The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider ten years ago, and progress made since then, has enabled the scientific community to make enormous progress in understanding the universe.

Upcoming Events

September 9, 2025
11:30am to 1:00pm
In this talk, I will discuss some new interesting properties of geodesic bit threads in static backgrounds.
September 15, 2025 to September 19, 2025
9:00am to 8:00pm
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
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 25, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm
TBD
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.
September 29, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm