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Speaker: Guillem Martí-Davesa (INFN-Trieste) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Supernovae have traditionally been invoked as the dominant cosmic ray factories within our Galaxy, capable of accelerating protons up to PeV energies. In this seminar we will discuss to what extent such a view holds today, and if alternative source populations could instead be relevant […] |
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Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.
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Speaker: Eduardo García-Valdecasas (SISSA, Trieste) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Entanglement asymmetry is a relative entropy that faithfully measures the breaking of a symmetry in a subregion. We explore some applications in theories with spontaneously broken higher form symmetries. We will start with discrete abelian symmetries and then discuss continuous symmetries. We will be […] |
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Speaker: Aram Harrow (MIT) Venue&Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: Given a vector v, what is the closest k-sparse vector? The answer to this question is usually that we should take the largest k entries of v. It turns out that we can do better with randomized approximations. When approximating pure bipartite entangled states […] |
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Speaker: Matteo Lotito (IFT) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: I present a brief summary of the derivation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture within perturbative string theory, following , and highlight possible gaps that may hinder a fully consistent proof. I then analyze the existence and properties of the black hole solutions whose extremality bounds […] Speaker: Matteo Lotito (IFT) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: I present a brief summary of the derivation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture within perturbative string theory, following , and highlight possible gaps that may hinder a fully consistent proof. I then analyze the existence and properties of the black hole solutions whose extremality bounds […]
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Pablo Blanco (IFT) will present Neutrino Masses and Mixings in Gauge Models with Spontaneous Parity Violation de Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Goran Senjanovic, Jul, 1980 Phys.Rev.D 23 (1981) 165. Abstract: Unified electroweak gauge theories based on the gauge group SU(2)L×SU(2)R×U(1)B−L, in which the breakdown of parity invariance is spontaneous, lead most naturally to a massive neutrino. […] |
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Speaker: Anthony Zee from Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Departmentof Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: I will list and discuss the ten foundational ideas of theoretical physics. The lecture is based on a popular book with the same title published by Princeton University […] |
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The IBS-IFT Workshop is a regular event organized jointly by IFT and IBS-CTPU, this year reaching its tenth anniversary. The aim of the workshop is share ideas, foster collaborations, and to discuss recent developments in theoretical physics. The event is organized over two weeks. The first week, November 4-7, will focus on String Phenomenology The Center […]
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Speaker: Sounak Pal (Indian Institute of Technology) Venue&Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: I will discuss some aspects of 2D and 3D quantum gravity in the language of Topological quantum field theory (TQFT). Recent developments include calculating various gravity partition functions in AdS3 using descriptions of Liouville conformal field theory (CFT). We extend this […]
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Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.
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Speaker: Seung-Joo Venue & Time: Tuesday, Nov. 4th / 17:00 Abstract: In this talk we will discuss spectral bounds in 6-dimensional N=(1,0) supergravity. Specifically, considering F-theory vacua on generic base surfaces, we will constrain the U(1) vector and the tensor sectors in turn, to present explicit spectral bounds on the respective sectors. Speculations […] |
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Speaker: Alex Gagliano (IAIFI/MIT) Venue&Time: Blue Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The time-evolving night sky is rich with variable stars, supernovae, and merging neutron stars. Wide-field imaging surveys that monitor this variability produce gappy, multi-modal observations that demand scalable, uncertainty-aware models for physical inference. In this talk, I’ll survey my recent work in building machine […] |
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Con motivo del Año Internacional de la Cuántica, el Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT, UAM-CSIC) celebra una nueva edición de su ya tradicional Ciclo de Conferencias de Física Fundamental en la Residencia de Estudiantes. A lo largo de cuatro jornadas, investigadoras e investigadores del IFT, junto a figuras internacionales invitadas, abordarán el papel central que […]
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Speaker: Alex Gagliano (IAIFI/MIT) Venue&Time: 11:00 / Grey Room 2 Absrtact: Supernovae are powered by diverse physical mechanisms such as radioactive decay, circumstellar interaction, and magnetar spin-down, but distinguishing among them from light curves alone remains a major challenge. In this talk, I’ll present a hierarchical simulation-based inference framework that jointly infers both the dominant […]
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Speaker: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) Venue & Time: Aula Polivalente, Plaza Mayor UAM / 15:30 Abstract: The dark sector — comprising dark energy and dark matter — has remained a profound mystery for decades. In this talk, I will review this subject and show how string theory naturally leads to a predictive framework for a unified […] |
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The IBS-MultiDark-IFT Workshop is a regular event organized jointly by MultiDark and IBS-CTPU, this year reaching its tenth anniversary. The aim of the workshop is share ideas, foster collaborations, and to discuss recent developments in the field of axion and Dark Matter physics. The second week, November 10-13, will focus on Dark Matter/Axions. PROGRAM Monday, […] |
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Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them. |
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Speaker: Antonia Paraskevopoulou (Munich, Max Planck Inst. and LMU Munich) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: In this talk, I will argue that the covariant entropy bound poses non-trivial restrictions on anti-de Sitter(AdS) flux vacua. After motivating the bound on AdS, we will see how it naturally arises in the context of the […]
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Speaker: Tarun Souradeep (Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The Cosmological Principle, a fundamental tenet of the 'standard model of cosmology’, predicates a statistically isotropic distribution of fluctuations in the measured cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization sky maps. Enigmatic anomalies claimed in the WMAP and […] |
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En 2025 celebramos el centenario de la mecánica cuántica, una revolución científica que transformó nuestra visión del mundo al revelar que, en lo más profundo de la naturaleza, rigen leyes desconcertantes, como el efecto túnel, el principio de incertidumbre, la superposición, el entrelazamiento… A través de esta charla divulgativa descubriremos la ciencia de los universos […] |
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Speaker: Tarun Souradeep (Raman Research Institute, India) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The 10th anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) is an apt time to assess the promise of this across all GW windows to the understanding of our Universe. The talk briefly reviews the status and successes […] |
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Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.
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Speaker: Anthony Zee (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: I give an overview and appreciation of quantum field theory, the most precisely tested theory in physics. The talk is addressed to those without any knowledge of quantum field theory. It is based […] |
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Speaker: Alexander Zlokapa (MIT) Venue & Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: In the classical setting, glassiness characterizes many natural problems (e.g., random k-SAT) and underlies average-case hardness by obstructing a family of "stable" classical algorithms (e.g., constant-time Langevin dynamics). In this work, we develop analogous quantum results. Our techniques, based on quantum optimal transport, […] |
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Speaker: Fien Apers (IFT) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: I will explain how the flux backtracking method (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03314) can be used to reconstruct the D-brane configuration whose near-horizon region realises the DGKT vacua. As an application, I will show how this reconstructed geometry allows one to verify whether the corresponding D-brane theory […]
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Speaker: Roberto Vega-Morales Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: In this talk I will discuss constant classical electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter space, which has potential implications for magnetogenesis and inflationary dark matter production. I will first go through the conditions for sustaining a constant electric field in de Sitter space […]
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Speaker: Marta F. Zamoro (IFT) Venue & Time: Aula M15-201. Facultad de Ciencias, UAM / 17:30 |
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The Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) and the Department of Theoretical Physics (DFT) would like to invite you to the “2 Minutes Meeting”, which will take place on Monday, November 24 at 10:00 AM in the Aula Polivalente (UAM). This event is open to all DFT and IFT members and aims to help us get to […]
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Speaker: Miguel Zumalacárregui from Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute). Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: Gravitational lensing, the bending of light by gravity, is essential for interpreting astronomical observations and provides key insight into astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. A new frontier in gravitational lensing intersects with another key prediction […] |
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Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.
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Speaker: Shannah Khan. Director of Intersect Madrid Venue & Time: Blue Room / 3:30 PM Abstract: This workshop offers a space for reflection and dialogue to explore how our personal identities, experiences, and social positions influence the way we participate in academic contexts. Through participatory activities, it seeks to foster a deeper understanding of intersectionality […] |
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Speaker: Suraj Prakash, IFIC (Valencia) Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The talk will present a study of the sensitivity of COHERENT-like experiments to non-standard neutrino interactions within the vWEFT framework, i.e. low-energy EFT with additional right-handed Dirac neutrinos. Our analysis incorporates, for the first time, flavor-general New Physics effects in both neutrino production […] |
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