Scientific activities

Name: DIFT Colloquium by Paolo Dini: Can AI Save or Destroy the Planet? The Sustainability Challenge Behind Artificial Intelligence
Start: 2026-10-15T15:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-15T16:30:00+02:00
Location: IFT Auditorium

October 2026
October 5 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar by Héctor Villarrubia Rojo: “Gravitational wave lensing: wave optics and GW231123”

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

Scientific activities

Title: Gravitational wave lensing: wave optics and GW231123 Speaker: Héctor Villarrubia Rojo Venue & Time: Red Room | 15:00 Abstract: Light travelling through the Universe is deflected by the intervening gravitational fields, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This effect was an early prediction of General Relativity (GR) and it has become an essential tool […]
October 6 | 14:00 - 15:00

Cosmology Journal Club

Discussion room 5th floor C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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
October 8 | 15:30 - 17:00

DIFT Colloquium by Izaskun Jimenez-Serra: Towards prebiotic chemistry in the interstellar medium

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

Colloquia

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 […]
October 13 | 11:30 - 12:30

Holo-Club: Lanczos Meets Orthogonal Polynomials

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

Journal clubs

Title: Lanczos Meets Orthogonal Polynomials Speaker: Le-Chen Qu Venue & Time: 11:30 / Red Room Abstract: In this talk, I will explain the connection between the Lanczos algorithm and orthogonal polynomials and its application to spread complexity in large-$N$ random matrix models. The three-term recurrence relation for orthogonal polynomials has the same structure as the […]
October 13 | 14:00 - 15:00

Cosmology Journal Club

Discussion room 5th floor C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs

Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT quantum journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them
October 14 | 11:30 - 12:30

IFT Colloquium by Mark Srednicki (UC Santa Barbara): “Quantum chaos and the foundations of statistical mechanics”

Colloquia

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 […]
October 15 | 11:00 - 12:30

Seminar by Lina Castiblanco: “Forecasting cosmological constraints beyond two-point statistics with One-Point Statistics “

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

Scientific activities

Title: Forecasting cosmological constraints beyond two-point statistics with One-Point Statistics Speaker: Lina Castiblanco Bio: I am a cosmologist and postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University. My research focuses on extracting information about the large-scale structure of the Universe beyond traditional two-point statistics, particularly through one-point probability distribution functions of weak lensing and galaxy clustering. During my […]
October 15 | 11:30 - 12:30

Quantum Info JC: Joint quantum measurements on distant physical systems

Gray Room 3 Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs

Title: Joint quantum measurements on distant physical systems Venue & Time: 11:30 / Gray Room 3 Abstract: Joint measurements are pivotal in quantum theory, featuring prominently in key quantum information primitives such as entanglement swapping, teleportation, and dense coding. A historically important question has been whether joint measurements can be performed at a distance, without […]
October 15 | 12:00 - 13:00

SPS Journal Club: “The Gravitational Path Integral and Initial Conditions of the Universe” by Luis Zapata

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

Journal clubs

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland (SPS) Journal Club. Every Thursday at 12:00 in the Red Room. Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Speaker: Luis Zapata Title: "The Gravitational Path Integral and Initial Conditions of the Universe" Abstract: Tracing the cosmic evolution of the universe backward leads to a regime where any classical and effective description […]
October 15 | 15:30 - 16:30

DIFT Colloquium by Paolo Dini: Can AI Save or Destroy the Planet? The Sustainability Challenge Behind Artificial Intelligence

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

Colloquia

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 […]