Name: IFT Colloquium by Mark Srednicki (UC Santa Barbara): “Quantum chaos and the foundations of statistical mechanics”
Start: 2026-10-14T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-14T12:30:00+02:00

September 2026
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 […]
September 30 | 11:15 - 16:00

Polygonal Gravity Seminars

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

Scientific activities

Madrid’s Polygonal Gravity Seminar Series Wednesday, September 30th. Red Room (IFT) 11:15h Welcome coffee ————————- 11:30h First talk Speaker: Sameer Murthy (Kingś College, London) Title: Near-extremal black holes in GR and in string theory Abstract:What happens to the thermodynamics of a black hole at very low temperatures as it approaches extremality? This question had remained […]
October 2026
October 1 | 12:30 - 13:30

Celebration of the New Severo Ochoa Accreditation

Celebration

Date and time: Thursday, 1 October 2026, at 12:30 PM Location: Ground-floor cafeteria The Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT UAM-CSIC) invites its community to mark the award of the new Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation, recognising the Institute’s scientific excellence and its commitment to research.
October 8 | 15:30 - 17:00

DIFT Colloquium by Izaskun Jimenez-Serra: Towards prebiotic chemistry in the interstellar medium

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

Colloquia

Date and time: 15:30h (CEST), Thursday, 8 October 2026 Location: CFTMAT Auditorium Speaker: Izaskun Jimenez-Serra Title: Towards prebiotic chemistry in the interstellar medium Abstract: In the past decade, Astrochemistry has witnessed an impressive increase in the number of detections of new molecular species in space. The majority of these detections are related to complex organic […]
October 12

Public Holiday

Public holiday

The IFT will be closed to local/national holiday. If you wish to visit the center, you must ask for an authorization here: secretaria.ift@csic.es / visitantes-eventos.ift@csic.es
October 14 | 11:30 - 12:30

IFT Colloquium by Mark Srednicki (UC Santa Barbara): “Quantum chaos and the foundations of statistical mechanics”

Colloquia

Coffee: 11:00 / Ground-floor cafeteria Date and time: 11:30h, Wednesday, 14 October 2026 Location: Blue Room Speaker: Mark Srednicki, University of California, Santa Barbara Title: "Quantum chaos and the foundations of statistical mechanics" Abstract: Understanding the emergence of the rules of statistical mechanics for an isolated many-body system from an underlying quantum-mechanical microdynamics is a […]