Journal clubs

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.

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: Marta Florido Llinás (MPQ) Title: 'Generalizing the framework of translationally invariant MPS' Abstract: In this talk I will present our recent work on developing a canonical form for uniform matrix product states (MPS) with a boundary matrix (https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.11968). Starting from the standard canonical description of uniform MPS with periodic boundary conditions, I will explain […]

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland Journal Club (SPS) Speaker: Michelangelo Tartaglia (IFT) Title: 'Anomaly-induced vanishing of brane partition functions' Abstract: In the presence of 't Hooft anomalies, backgrounds for the symmetries of a quantum field theory can lead to non-conservation of Noether currents, or more generally, to the presence of charged insertions in the path […]

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.

Miquel Aparici Domingo (IFT) will present Generalized Global Symmetries by Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Brian Willett,  JHEP 02 (2015) 172 Abstract: A q-form global symmetry is a global symmetry for which the charged operators are of space-time dimension q, e.g. Wilson lines, surface defects, etc., and the charged excitations have q spatial dimensions, e.g. […]

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: Suman Das (IFT) Title: 'Brick wall Normal Modes and Emerging Thermality' Venue & Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:00 Abstract: arXiv:2401.01417 The ’t Hooft brick wall model provides one of the earliest microscopic derivations of the black-hole area law within the probe approximation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. In this talk, I […]

Venue & Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Speaker: Franco Salinas Pytel (UCM) Abstract: "The debates between Einstein and Bohr on the foundations of quantum mechanics culminated in one of the most iconic statements in the history of physics: “God does not play dice.” In their seminal 1935 paper, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan […]

Every Tuesday at 15:00 in Grey Room 2.