Name: Seminar: Average-case quantum complexity from glassiness
Start: 2025-11-19T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-19T13:00:00+01:00
Location: IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

November 2025
November 10 | 09:00 - November 13 | 19:00

10th IBS/MultiDark WS: Dark Matter and Axions

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

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The IBS-MultiDark-IFT Workshop is a regular event organized jointly by MultiDark and IBS-CTPU, this year reaching its tenth anniversary. The aim of the workshop is share ideas, foster collaborations, and to discuss recent developments in the field of axion and Dark Matter physics. The second week, November 10-13, will focus on Dark Matter/Axions. PROGRAM Monday, […]
November 11 | 14:00 - 15:00

Cosmology Journal Club

Journal clubs_en

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.
November 13 | 12:00 - 13:00

SPS Journal Club: Holographic constraints on AdS flux vacua

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

Journal clubs_en

Speaker: Antonia Paraskevopoulou (Munich, Max Planck Inst. and LMU Munich) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: In this talk, I will argue that the covariant entropy bound poses non-trivial restrictions on anti-de Sitter(AdS) flux vacua. After motivating the bound on AdS, we will see how it naturally arises in the context of the […]
November 13 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘BipoSH: Structured test bed for cosmic isotropy violation’

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

Seminars_es

Speaker: Tarun Souradeep (Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The Cosmological Principle, a fundamental tenet of the 'standard model of cosmology’, predicates a statistically isotropic distribution of fluctuations in the measured cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization sky maps. Enigmatic anomalies claimed in the WMAP and […]
November 15 | 11:00 - 12:00

Charla abierta: ‘Los fundamentos invisibles de la naturaleza’

Outreach events_es

En 2025 celebramos el centenario de la mecánica cuántica, una revolución científica que transformó nuestra visión del mundo al revelar que, en lo más profundo de la naturaleza, rigen leyes desconcertantes, como el efecto túnel, el principio de incertidumbre, la superposición, el entrelazamiento… A través de esta charla divulgativa descubriremos la ciencia de los universos […]
November 17 | 15:00 - 16:00

Colloquium: ‘The Promise of Gravitational Wave Cosmology’

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

Colloquia_es

Speaker: Tarun Souradeep (Raman Research Institute, India) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The 10th anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) is an apt time to assess the promise of this across all GW windows to the understanding of our Universe. The talk briefly reviews the status and successes […]
November 18 | 14:00 - 15:00

Cosmology Journal Club

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

Journal clubs_en

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.
November 18 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Quantum Field Theory, an Overview’

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

Seminars_es

Speaker: Anthony Zee (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: I give an overview and appreciation of quantum field theory, the most precisely tested theory in physics. The talk is addressed to those without any knowledge of quantum field theory. It is based […]
November 18 | 15:00 - 16:00

Pheno Journal Club

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

Journal clubs_en

Every Tuesday at 15:00 in Grey Room 3.
November 19 | 11:30 - 13:00

Seminar: Average-case quantum complexity from glassiness

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

Seminars_es

Speaker: Alexander Zlokapa (MIT) Venue & Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: In the classical setting, glassiness characterizes many natural problems (e.g., random k-SAT) and underlies average-case hardness by obstructing a family of "stable" classical algorithms (e.g., constant-time Langevin dynamics). In this work, we develop analogous quantum results. Our techniques, based on quantum optimal transport, […]