Colloquia

Name: Joint Colloquium IFT + ICMAT: ‘Geometry of gauge theories in two dimensions’
Start: 2025-12-12T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-12T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Blue Room

November 2025
November 6 | 15:30 - 17:30

DIFT Colloquium: ‘String Theory and the Dark Sector’

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Spain

Colloquia

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 […]
November 17 | 15:00 - 16:00

Colloquium: ‘The Promise of Gravitational Wave Cosmology’

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Spain

Colloquia

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 […]
November 24 | 10:00 - 13:00

2 Minutes Meeting

Colloquia

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 […]
December 2025
December 12 | 09:30 - 14:00

Joint Colloquium IFT + ICMAT: ‘Geometry of gauge theories in two dimensions’

Blue Room Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) - C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Spain

Colloquia

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 […]