Scientific activities

Name: Seminar: ‘Exploring Effective Theories of Gauged Chiral Symmetries at the LHC and Beyond’
Start: 2026-05-21T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-21T16:00:00+02:00
Location: IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

May 2026
May 13 | 15:30 - 16:00

DIFT Colloquium by Benjamin Grinstein (University of California, San Diego)

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

Colloquia

Title: Buckets versus pipes: the neutron lifetime puzzle Speaker: Benjamin Grinstein, University of California, San Diego Date and time: 15:30h (CEST), Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Location: CFTMAT Auditorium Abstract: A precise knowledge of the neutron lifetime is important because it serves as a fundamental input for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) models, which predict the primordial abundances of light […]
May 14 | 11:30 - 13:30

SPS Journal Club: ‘Type IIB at Eight Derivatives: A Status Report’

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 Title: 'Type IIB at Eight Derivatives: A Status Report' Speaker: Raffaele Savelli (Dipartimento di Fisica & INFN, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: Knowledge of ten-dimensional superstring effective actions beyond the leading order in the derivative expansion is of intrinsic interest and […]
May 14 | 12:00 - 13:00

Seminar: ‘Perturbative aspect of electroweak phase transitions in the Early Universe’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'Perturbative aspect of electroweak phase transitions in the Early Universe' Speaker: Andrii Dashko (DESY) Venue&Time: Blue Room / 12:00 Abstract: We present a study of the perturbative description of thermally driven electroweak phase transitions (EWPT) in the early universe. Focusing on strong first-order transitions, which are relevant for gravitational wave cosmology, we examine the […]
May 14 | 12:00 - 13:00

Pheno Journal Club

Journal clubs

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 2.
May 18 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘On the evidence for elastic interactions in the dark sector’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'On the evidence for elastic interactions in the dark sector' Speaker: Jose Beltrán Jiménez, University of Salamanca. Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The increasing quality of cosmological data has revealed > some tensions among different probes that could be signalling the necessity of incorporating new physics into our cosmological model. One […]
May 19 | 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
May 20 | 11:30 - 12:30

Quantum Information Journal Club: ‘Optimal strategies for near-term simulation of fermionic systems with scalable local fermion-to-qubit mappings’

Journal clubs

Title: 'Optimal strategies for near-term simulation of fermionic systems with scalable local fermion-to-qubit mappings' Speaker: Manuel G. Algaba Venue&Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: Quantum simulation of interacting fermions remains one of the most compelling applications of quantum computing, but its practical realization depends on more than the asymptotic promise of fault-tolerant quantum algorithms. […]
May 21 | 12:00 - 13:00

Pheno Journal Club

Grey Room 2 Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 2.
May 21 | 12:00 - 13:00

SPS Journal Club: ‘Generalised anomalies, QCD, and holography’

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

Journal clubs

Title: 'Generalised anomalies, QCD, and holography' Speaker: Mohammad Akhond (Dipartimento di Fisica & INFN, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: During the last decade, the notion of an 't Hooft anomaly has been generalised to the case of discrete symmetries. An interesting instance, discussed by Tanizaki, is the […]
May 21 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Exploring Effective Theories of Gauged Chiral Symmetries at the LHC and Beyond’

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

Scientific activities

Title: Exploring Effective Theories of Gauged Chiral Symmetries at the LHC and Beyond Speaker: Felix Yu (Mainz U.) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: I discuss theoretical issues with constructing effective theories of gauged chiral symmetries, taking a quark-universal U(1)_B symmetry as an example. I will review the phenomenology of the Z-Z’-photon vertex and point […]