Name: Cosmology Journal Club
Start: 2026-03-10T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-10T15:00:00+01:00

March 2026
March 2 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘The tensions of LCDM: An update of observations and theoretical implications’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'The tensions of LCDM: An update of observations and theoretical implications' Speaker: Leandros Perivolaropoulos (Ioannina) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The standard LCDM cosmological model, despite its success in describing the large-scale structure of the Universe, is currently challenged by statistically significant discrepancies between early and late-universe observations. In this talk, I provide […]
March 3 | 10:00 - 11:00

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.
March 3 | 10:00 - 19:00

II Jornadas sobre Arte Sonoro “Rebecca Collins”

Outreach events

El 26 de junio de 2024 falleció Rebecca Louise Collins (1982-2024), artista sonora, investigadora de la escucha y comisaria de proyectos relacionados con la música experimental, cuya labor intelectual y creativa ha dejado una huella profunda e imborrable en el ámbito del arte sonoro contemporáneo. Tras la celebración de las primeras jornadas en noviembre de […]
March 3 | 11:30 - 13:00

Holo Club: ‘Brick wall Normal Modes and Emerging Thermality’

Gray Room 1 Instituto de Física Teórica, C/ Nicolás Cabrera 13-15, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs

Speaker: Suman Das (IFT) Title: 'Brick wall Normal Modes and Emerging Thermality' Venue & Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:00 Abstract: arXiv:2401.01417 The ’t Hooft brick wall model provides one of the earliest microscopic derivations of the black-hole area law within the probe approximation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. In this talk, I […]
March 5 | 11:30 - 17:00

Shannon’s Corner Journal Club

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

Journal clubs

Venue & Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Speaker: Franco Salinas Pytel (UCM) Abstract: "The debates between Einstein and Bohr on the foundations of quantum mechanics culminated in one of the most iconic statements in the history of physics: “God does not play dice.” In their seminal 1935 paper, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan […]
March 5 | 12:00 - 13:00

Pheno Journal Club

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

Journal clubs

Every Tuesday at 15:00 in Grey Room 2.
March 5 | 12:00 - 17:00

SPS Journal Club: ‘Self-gravitational Effects in the Black Hole-Tower Correspondence’

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 Journal Club: 'Self-gravitational Effects in the Black Hole-Tower Correspondence' Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Speaker: Miquel Aparici (IFT) Abstract: It is well-known that in weak coupling and near decompactification limits, towers of light particles appear in the spectrum of gravitational theories. These towers can be postulated to correspond to minimal […]
March 5 | 15:00 - 17:00

Seminar: ‘Cosmological Magnetic Fields from Ultralight Dark Matter’

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

Scientific activities

Title: Cosmological Magnetic Fields from Ultralight Dark Matter Speaker: Robert Brandenberger (McGill) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: A coherently oscillating ultralight dark matter field which couples to electromagnetism in the same way as an axion induces a tachyonic instability which leads to the generation of cosmological magnetic fields immediately after the time of recombination. […]
March 9 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘How string theory computes quantum gravity amplitudes’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'How string theory computes quantum gravity amplitudes' Speaker: Lorenz Eberhardt (U. Amsterdam) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: String theory provides a framework in which quantum gravitational scattering amplitudes are ultraviolet finite and computable in perturbation theory. These amplitudes are defined by integrating over the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, replacing the Feynman diagram […]
March 10 | 14:00 - 15:00

Cosmology Journal Club

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.