Name: Seminar: Alba Cervera Lierta [Barcelona Supercomputing Centre]: “Quantum Information as a Guiding Principle (and a Tool) for Fundamental Interactions”
Start: 2026-09-28T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-28T16:00:00+02:00
Location: IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

September 2026
September 9 | 11:30 - 12:30

Coloquio IFT: Horacio Casini (Instituto Balseiro)

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

Colloquia

Title: "Entanglement as a tool in quantum field theory" Speaker: Horacio Casini (Instituto Balseiro) Venue & Time: Blue Room / 11:30-12:30 Abstract: Entanglement entropy and other information measures can be regarded as non conventional tools in QFT. After describing their general properties, arising from simple heuristic considerations, we will show applications to irreversibility theorems with […]
September 14 | 10:00 - 12:30

PhD Defense by Lorenzo Paoloni: “On the Moduli Space Curvature and Gravity Decoupling”

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

PhD Dissertation

Title: On the Moduli Space Curvature and Gravity Decoupling Venue & Time: Blue Room / 10:00-12:30 Abstract: This thesis investigates the asymptotic regimes of four-dimensional N = 2 supergravity moduli spaces, seeking a robust geometric definition of gravity decoupling. It does so in the context of the Swampland Program, whose primary objective is to delineate […]
September 14 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘On the radiative decays of quarkonia and why they can be important for searches beyond the Standard Model’ by Damir Becirevic

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

Scientific activities

Title: On the radiative decays of quarkonia and why they can be important for searches beyond the Standard Model Speaker: Damir Becirevic Venue&Time: Blue Room | 15:00 Abstract: I argue that the physics of quarkonia can offer fertile ground for searching for the effects of physics beyond the Standard Model at low energies. In this […]
September 15 | 15:00 - 16:30

PhD Defense by Jesús Gambín Egea: “Quantum Properties of Inflationary Perturbations”

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

PhD Dissertation

Title: Quantum Properties of Inflationary Perturbations Venue & Time: Orange Room / 15:00-16:30 Abstract: This thesis studies quantum aspects of inflationary perturbations beyond tree level, with particular emphasis on loop corrections and renormalization. We develop a practical implementation of dimensional regularization for inflationary in-in calculations, based on separating infrared and ultraviolet contributions and exploiting the […]
September 18 | 11:00 - 13:30

PhD Defense by David Alonso-González: Into The Dark: Novel and Complementary Searches in Hidden Sectors

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

PhD Dissertation

Title: Into The Dark: Novel and Complementary Searches in Hidden Sectors Venue & Time: Blue Room / 11:00-13:30 Abstract: This thesis explores weakly coupled extensions of the Standard Model, focusing on hidden sectors that may evade conventional experimental searches while addressing some of the main open questions in particle physics, such as the nature of […]
September 21 | 11:00 - 13:00

PhD Defense by Indira Ocampo Justiniano: A machine learning approach for unraveling the nature of dark matter and dark energy

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

PhD Dissertation

Title: A machine learning approach for unraveling the nature of dark matter and dark energy Venue & Time: Orange Room / 11:00-13:00 Abstract: Cosmology nowadays is benefiting from an exponential increase of data, transforming into a precision science. This will help us understand better two of the most important open issues in theoretical physics, namely […]
September 21 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar by Georg Weiglein (DESY): “Exploring the Higgs potential and the evolution of the early universe”

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

Scientific activities

Title: Exploring the Higgs potential and the evolution of the early universe Speaker: Georg Weiglein (DESY) Venue&Time: Orange Room | 15:00 Abstract: The Higgs potential is of central importance for addressing fundamental open questions in our understanding of the dynamics of electroweak symmetry breaking, its connection to the electroweak phase transition in the early universe […]
September 23 | 11:30 - 12:30

Quantum Information Journal Club: “Quantum information transitions and the breakdown of non-Abelian topological quantum memories”

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

Journal clubs

Speaker: Pablo Sala (ift) Title: “Quantum information transitions and the breakdown of non-Abelian topological quantum memories” Venue&Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: How much noise can a system tolerate before encoded quantum information becomes irrecoverable? This question connects quantum error correction to the stability of quantum matter. In this talk, I will explore the […]
September 24 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar by Rome Samanta (SSM and INFN Naples): “Topological-defect searches in the mHz (LISA) band”

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

Scientific activities

Title: "Topological-defect searches in the mHz (LISA) band" Speaker: Rome Samanta (SSM and INFN Naples) Venue & Time: Red Room | 15:00-16:00 Abstract: Topological defects, such as domain walls and cosmic strings, generically arise in a wide range of field-theory and particle-physics models. One of their most intriguing features is their potential to produce stochastic […]
September 28 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: Alba Cervera Lierta [Barcelona Supercomputing Centre]: “Quantum Information as a Guiding Principle (and a Tool) for Fundamental Interactions”

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

Scientific activities

Title: "Quantum Information as a Guiding Principle (and a Tool) for Fundamental Interactions" Speaker: Alba Cervera Lierta Venue & Time: Red Room | 15:00-16:00 Abstract: The interactions of the Standard Model are usually presented as consequences of gauge symmetry. In this talk I explore a complementary viewpoint: fundamental interactions are quantum, and the S-matrix generates […]