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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]