Journal clubs

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.

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland Journal Club Title: 'Quantum Obstructions to N=1 Infinite Distance Limits' Speaker: Jeroen Monnee (U. Hamburg) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: We study limits in the field space of 4d N=1 orientifold compactifications of Type IIB string theory with O3/O7-planes that descend from infinite distance limits in the complex structure […]

Every Tuesday at 15:00 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.

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland (SPS) Journal Club  Speaker: Gonzalo F. Casas (IFT) Title: 'Axion-Scalar Systems and Dynamical Distances' Abstract: We study the cosmology of axion-scalar pairs, coupled by a hyperbolic field-space metric and with a string-motivated rational scalar potential. Borrowing tools from the theory of dynamical systems, we are able to classify all late-time […]

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: Pablo Páez-Velasco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Venue & Time: Gray Room 2 / 14:30 Abstract: Given some sufficiently smooth, generally non-convex, function F on a Riemannian manifold, and a fixed inverse temperature, the problem of sampling with respect to the associated Gibbs distribution has played a central role in several areas, such as statistical […]

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 2. Marta Fuentes (IFT), will present "Powerful Yukawas". We introduce a class of models where the masses of the light Standard Model fermions are due to an Effective Field Theory operator that appears beyond dimension-4 in the power counting expansion, resulting in a `Powerful Yukawa'. The effective Yukawa […]

Strings, Pheno & The Swampland Journal Club | Every Thursday at 12:00 in the Red Room. Speaker: Salvatore Raucci (IFT) Title: 'M-theory on S^1 \vee S^1 as Type 0A' Abstract: We propose an exotic geometric M-theory dual for the weak coupling Type 0A string: compactification on a sub-Planckian S^1 \vee S^1 (two circles connected at […]

Title: 'Semi-classical aspects of black holes: recent progress and future directions' Speaker: Juan F. Pedraza (IFT) Venue & Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: Semi-classical gravity provides a valuable framework for exploring quantum effects in black hole physics, particularly in regimes where a complete theory of quantum gravity remains out of reach. In this […]