The September 29-October 2 2025 four-day workshop in Madrid of the LHC Physics Centre at CERN (LPCC) Forward Physics Working Group provides a forum at CERN for experimental collaborations and theorists to meet and exchange latest results across all topics of forward physics at the LHC. The workshop will take place at the Institute of Theoretical Physics […]
Speaker: Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab) Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: This seminar consists of two parts. First, it is discussed how various approaches to the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, g-2, are connected. Second, results for the HVP from lattice QCD are presented, focusing on the work […]
Speaker: Muthusamy Rajaguru (IFT Madrid) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 PM Abstract: In this talk, I will give an overview of recent progress that has been made in constructing non-geometric flux vacua. In particular, I will focus on type IIB string compactifications where the internal geometry is described by the 2^6 and 1^9 Landau-Ginzburg (LG) models. These […]
Speaker: Jesús Torrado from IEM-CSIC Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: Inference for slow likelihoods can require weeks or months, if possible at all, with traditional Monte Carlo samplers. This would be the case, for example, when fitting expensive non-linear matter spectrum models, or when characterizing individual long-duration GW events. I will introduce a […]
Venue&Time: Blue Room / 10:20 – 17:30 More info: workshops.ift.uam-csic.es/CesarGathering/ César Gómez, whose profound contributions to gauge theory, string theory and quantum gravity were matched by his vision and generosity, passed away on 7 April 2025. After earning his PhD in Salamanca, he held positions at Harvard, the IAS and CERN before joining the CSIC […]
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.
This school is intended to provide an overview about a variety of topic centered around the problem of cosmic-ray transport in the Galaxy and non-thermal diffuse emissions. We will provide both dedicated seminars and hands-on sessions on the modeling and computation of cosmic-ray propagation and the correlated non-thermal emissions in different astrophysical environments. In particular, […]
Speaker: Bernardo Fraiman (IFT) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: For non-compact, locally symmetric moduli spaces M, the set of geodesics and the geometry of the boundary can be completely characterised using group theory. Under the assumption that M is "compactifiable" and some mild conditions on the spectrum of states, we prove the SDC for […]
Speaker: Thomas Schwetz from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: Recent results from cosmology place sever upper bounds on the sum of neutrino masses, starting to be in conflict with lower bounds from neutrino oscillations. If this neutrino tension persists, it may indicate new physics in cosmology and/or neutrino […]
Daniel Naredo Turero PhD dissertation Searching for New Physics through the Neutrino (bag)pipe Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:00 Abstract: Among the many open problems that plague the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, the massive nature of neutrinos stands out as it is one of the few indications of New Physics that we have observed […]
Speaker: Daniel González Cuadra (IFT) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) describe a broad range of phenomena in condensed matter and particle physics. A prominent example is confinement, responsible for bounding quarks inside hadrons such as protons or neutrons. When quark-antiquark pairs are separated, the energy stored in the […]
Speaker: Le-Chen Qu (IFT) Venue&Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: We establish a precise correspondence between Krylov complexity and Nielsen complexity in quantum many-body systems. By identifying the Krylov basis with the generators of elementary gates in Nielsen's geometric framework, the Krylov complexity of precursor operators acquires a geometric interpretation as the length of […]
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.
Speaker: Georgina Staudt (Max Planck Institute Munich) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: We investigate the deformability of the Veneziano amplitude. If string theory is the unique theory of quantum gravity, the tree level amplitudes of weak coupling limits should be non-deformable. We make progress in this direction for tachyon-free superstring theories by deriving a […]
Speaker: Álvaro de Rújula from IFT & CERN Venue & Time: Aula Polivalente UAM Abstract: Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Cosmic Rays (CRs) are not difficult to comprehend. Quasars and micro-quasars are seen to emit highly relativistic “Cannonballs” (CBs), though the underlying mechanism remains unfathomable. The observation that core-collapse supernovae also emit CBs —plus some trivial […]