Name: Seminar by Lina Castiblanco: “Forecasting cosmological constraints beyond two-point statistics with One-Point Statistics “
Start: 2026-10-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-16T12:30:00+02:00
Location: IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

September 2026
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 […]
October 15 | 15:30 - 16:30

DIFT Colloquium by Paolo Dini: Can AI Save or Destroy the Planet? The Sustainability Challenge Behind Artificial Intelligence

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

Colloquia

Date and time: 15:30h, Thursday, 15 October 2026 Location: CFTMAT Auditorium Speaker: Paolo Dini Afiliación: Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA) Title: “Can AI Save or Destroy the Planet? The Sustainability Challenge Behind Artificial Intelligence” Abstract: Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being presented as a powerful enabler of sustainability. From climate change mitigation and renewable […]
October 16 | 11:00 - 12:30

Seminar by Lina Castiblanco: “Forecasting cosmological constraints beyond two-point statistics with One-Point Statistics “

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

Scientific activities

Title: Forecasting cosmological constraints beyond two-point statistics with One-Point Statistics Speaker: Lina Castiblanco Bio: I am a cosmologist and postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University. My research focuses on extracting information about the large-scale structure of the Universe beyond traditional two-point statistics, particularly through one-point probability distribution functions of weak lensing and galaxy clustering. During my […]