Seminars

Speaker: Julio Navarro Institution: University of Victoria Abstract: Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) is the most successful theory for the formation of structure in the Universe. Although its predictions have been verified on large scales, they are still contested on the scale of dwarf galaxies, whose dynamical properties are often cited as evidence for the […]

As part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, the workshop Entangle This VI will bring together experts at the forefront of quantum theory and experiment. It is organized by the Quantum groups at IFT and IFF. Read more >>

The JUNO reactor neutrino experiment has recently begun collecting data, marking the start of a new precision era in neutrino research. With its unparalleled precision, JUNO is poised to refine our understanding of most neutrino oscillation parameters. Its cornerstone measurement - the determination of the neutrino mass ordering -- holds the promise of a breakthrough. […]

Light Dark World 2025 (LDW'25) is the tenth meeting of the annual Light Dark World International Forum, which will take place between September 16 and September 19, 2025, at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) in Madrid (Spain). The workshop will gather international specialists from both experimental and theoretical backgrounds in order to examine recent […]

Speaker: Mauro Pieroni Institution: IEM-CSIC Location&Place: Red Room Abstract: My talk focuses on using Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) data to measure Gravitational Waves (GWs). In particular, I will focus on Stochastic GW Background (SGWB) measurements. After a general introduction to the topic, I will discuss a new (simplified) approach to constrain SGWBs with PTA data. […]

Speaker: Alessandro Tomasiello (Milano Bicocca) Venue&Time: 15:00 / Red Room Abstract: Compactifying from higher dimensions typically produces many different vacuum solutions; this leads to multiple possible decay channels, mediated by the nucleation of bubbles. In string theory, the latter can be expanding D-branes. Supersymmetry provides a stabilization mechanism; I will describe how to replicate it […]

Speaker: Bo Wang from Zhejiang U. Inst. Mod. Phys. Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: I will report recent progress on AdS Virasoro-Shapiro and Veneziano amplitudes for half-BPS operators with arbitrary Kaluza-Klein modes. The key ingredient is a bootstrap built directly in the world-sheet representation, together with a novel formalism. This approach yields a […]

Speaker: Go Ogiya from Zhejiang University Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The origin of the turbulent motion of the intracluster medium (ICM) has been a longstanding open question. Stirring by substructures (member galaxies and dark matter subhaloes) orbiting within a galaxy cluster is a possible mechanism to generate and maintain the ICM turbulence. […]

Speaker: André Walker-Loud (LBNL) Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30 AM Abstract: Our ability to understand the emergence of nuclear physics from the Standard Model requires an understanding two nucleon interactions from the underlying quark and gluon degrees of freedom. Due to the non-perturbative nature of QCD at low-energies, the only method to provide such predictions, […]

Speaker: Danilo Artigas Institution: Kyoto University Location&Place: IFT Seminar Room/Red Room Abstract: Linear-perturbation theory has proven to be an extremely powerful tool to compare inflationary models with observational data. Recently, the newcoming high-precision observations call for predictions beyond linear perturbations. Such effects are known to be relevant for example in the production of primordial black […]