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 […]

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

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.

Every Thursday at 12:00 in the Red Room.

Title: Holographic transport in anisotropic systems Speaker: Claire Moran (Utrecht University) Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: Understanding transport in strongly coupled quantum systems remains a central challenge across high-energy physics, condensed matter, and quantum many-body theory. Of particular interest is systems exhibiting anisotropy, where the anisotropy leads to a much richer transport structure, with […]

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