Title: 'Probabilistic modeling and Bayesian inference for collider data' Speaker: Santiago Tanco (IFLP-CONICET/UNLP) Venue&Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:00
Madrid's Polygonal Gravity Seminar Series Wednesday, January 29th. Blue Room (IFT) 11:30h First talk Speaker: Robie Hennigar (U. Durham, UK) Title: Building Regular Black Holes Abstract: The study of regular (singularity-free) black holes has a long history, but progress has been limited by the absence of a dynamical framework in which they form and by […]
Strings, Pheno and the Swampland Journal Club Title: 'Mapping moduli across heterotic conifolds' Speaker: Christian Aoufia (IFT) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: In this work, we provide evidence for a duality between 4-dimensional Calabi-Yau compactifications of the heterotic string, in which the base manifolds are linked by a conifold transition. In recent […]
Title: 'GeV-scale QCD Axion' Speaker: Thomas Steingasser (IFT) Venue & Time: 12:00 / Gray Room 3 Abstract: In order to solve the strong CP problem, we study the possibility that the Peccei–Quinn symmetry is broken below the QCD scale. We find that a QCD axion can be above GeV, and may be among the observed […]
Title: 'Probing the Dark Sector with Large Scale Structure' Speaker: Ennio Salvioni (IFAE) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Precision cosmology offers opportunities to test the nature of dark matter independently of any interactions with the visible sector. I will discuss how data from galaxy surveys, including the ongoing DESI and Euclid projects, can be […]
Gonzalo F. Casas (IFT) will present 'Topological Quantization and Cohomology' by Orlando Álvarez Commun.Math.Phys. 100 (1985) 279 Abstract: The relationships between topological charge quantization,Lagrangians and various cohomology theories are studied. A very general criterion for charge quantization is developed andapplied to various physical models. The relationship betweencohomology and homotopy is discussed. More info: https://inspirehep.net/literature/206164
Title: 'F(ℓ)avoured searches: new physics in the 3rd generation' Speaker: Tamara Vázquez Schröder (IFAE) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The primary goal of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been to discover the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB). The discovery of the Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson in 2012 was the […]
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Speaker: Albert Gasull, Leiden University Venue & Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Title: 'Continuous and field tensor network states' Abstract: Tensor network methods have provided us with a powerful set of tools with which to study strongly interacting many-body systems on the lattice. Understanding the limitations of this ansatz is paramount for the success […]
Speaker: Tom Rudelius (Durham U., Dept. of Math.) Title: Co-Scaling and Alignment of Electric and Magnetic States Venue & Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: Towers of electrically and magnetically charged states in quantum gravity often exhibit two important properties. First, the ratio of the mass (or tension) of electrically charged states to magnetically charged […]