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 […]
Joint ICMAT-IFT Colloquium After the colloquium, the traditional “Farewell to the Year” party will take place in the CFTMAT cafeteria. Speaker: Oscar García-Prada (ICMAT-CSIC) Date: Friday, 12 December 2025 - 12:00 Place: Blue Room Abstract: I will describe several geometric aspects of different gauge theories on Riemann surfaces that originate in four-dimensional Yang–Mills theories. A common theme […]
Title: The Mystery of Cosmic Acceleration Speaker: Prof. David Weinberg, The Ohio State University, USA Date and time: 15:30h (CET), Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 Location: CFTMAT Auditorium After the talk, we will have a coffee gathering, providing an opportunity to continue the discussion and interact with the speaker in an informal setting. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87376882248?pwd=ydvE94nhe7Wq03As62XTn9aj0Nwgqh.1 […]
Title: 'QCD critical point and the predictable randomness of relativistic fluids' Speaker: Misha A. Stephanov (Illinois U., Chicago) Venue&Time: 12:00 / Red Room Abstract: Quantum Chromodynamics predicts a variety of unusual states of matter in which relativity and quantum many-body physics strongly intertwine. Discovering phase transitions between these extreme forms of matter in a laboratory […]
Title: Buckets versus pipes: the neutron lifetime puzzle Speaker: Benjamin Grinstein, University of California, San Diego Date and time: 15:30h (CEST), Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Location: CFTMAT Auditorium Abstract: A precise knowledge of the neutron lifetime is important because it serves as a fundamental input for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) models, which predict the primordial abundances of light […]
Venue&Time: Blue Room / 15:00 Coffee will be served in the cafeteria at 16:15h Title: 'Black holes, quantum entanglement, and the geometry of spacetime' Speaker: Matthew Headrick (Brandeis & IHES) Abstract: Black holes are by far the most entropic objects in the universe, and their enormous entropy directly connects the macroscopic world governed by general […]
Title: "Entanglement as a tool in quantum field theory" Speaker: Horacio Casini (Instituto Balseiro) Venue & Time: Blue Room / 11:30-12:30 Abstract: Entanglement entropy and other information measures can be regarded as non conventional tools in QFT. After describing their general properties, arising from simple heuristic considerations, we will show applications to irreversibility theorems with […]
Date and time: 15:30h (CEST), Thursday, 8 October 2026 Location: CFTMAT Auditorium Speaker: Izaskun Jimenez-Serra Title: Towards prebiotic chemistry in the interstellar medium Abstract: In the past decade, Astrochemistry has witnessed an impressive increase in the number of detections of new molecular species in space. The majority of these detections are related to complex organic […]
Coffee: 11:00 / Ground-floor cafeteria Date and time: 11:30h, Wednesday, 14 October 2026 Location: Blue Room Speaker: Mark Srednicki, University of California, Santa Barbara Title: "Quantum chaos and the foundations of statistical mechanics" Abstract: Understanding the emergence of the rules of statistical mechanics for an isolated many-body system from an underlying quantum-mechanical microdynamics is a […]
Date and time: 15:30h, Thursday, 15 October 2026 Location: CFTMAT Auditorium Speaker: Paolo Dini Afiliación: Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA) Title: “Can AI Save or Destroy the Planet? The Sustainability Challenge Behind Artificial Intelligence” Abstract: Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being presented as a powerful enabler of sustainability. From climate change mitigation and renewable […]