Instituto de Física Teórica

Understanding thermalization in a non-Abelian gauge theory
2025-05-22 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Madrid) | IFT Seminar Room/Red Room, Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, 28049,, Spain
Understanding the mechanism of thermalization in gauge theories is one of the challenging problems of contemporary research.

Bootstrapping line defects in AdS3/CFT2
2025-05-20 15:00 - 16:30
We study correlators of insertions along 1/2 BPS line defects in the holographic dual to type IIB string theory in AdS3×S3×T4 with mixed Ramond-Ramond and Neveu Schwarz-Neveu Schwarz three-form flux.

Generalized Symmetries Branes and Holography
2025-05-19 15:00 - 16:15
The notion of global symmetry in quantum field theory has been generalized in many interesting directions including p-form symmetries higher-form symmetries and non-invertible symmetries.

Bootstrapping CFTs with moduli spaces
2025-05-13 15:00 - 16:00
Many SUSY CFTs have a continuous space of vacua known as a moduli space. Understanding how moduli spaces manifest in CFT data is crucial for classifying and constraining SUSY CFTs yet remains an open problem.

Unraveling the DAMA/LIBRA Puzzle: last results from the ANAIS-112 Experiment
2025-05-12 12:00 - 13:30
For over two decades the DAMA/LIBRA experiment has reported an annual modulation in the low-energy region consistent with the expectation from dark matter (DM) in the galactic halo due to Earth’s motion around the Sun.

Bubble wall velocity from hydrodynamics
2025-05-08 15:00 - 16:00
Terminal velocity reached by bubble walls in cosmological first-order phase transitions is an important parameter determining both primordial gravitational wave spectrum and the production of baryon asymmetry in models of electroweak baryogenesis.

Extra dimensions of space: science or fiction?
2025-05-05 15:00 - 16:15
In this (hopefully) pedagogical talk I explain why it is useful to contemplate extra dimensions of space and how it can change the way we think about the cosmological constant problem.

Continuous spin particles on-shell
2025-04-28 15:00 - 16:15
Continuous spin particles (CSPs) arise naturally in the classification of unitarity representations of the Poincaré group but have long been dismissed because of their unintuitive nature.

Hadronic resonances from Lattice QCD
2025-04-24 15:00 - 16:00
The majority of known hadrons in the low-energy QCD spectrum are resonances observed in multi-particle scattering processes.

Gravitational Particle Production and Leptogenesis
2025-04-10 15:00 - 16:00
In a curved spacetime the definition of particles depends on the observer’s frame of reference.

Multiparticle correlators coherent operators and the emergence of spacetime
2025-04-07 15:00 - 16:15
Understanding the emergence of spacetime from quantum mechanics is a theoretical question of fundamental importance. Implicit in the AdS/CFT correspondence and more generally in the holographic principle.

Di-Higgs Production at the LHC
2025-04-03 15:00 - 16:30
The next major goal of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) program is to explore the shape of the Higgs potential by measuring the trilinear Higgs self-coupling.

Dark photon portal to dark matter long-lived particles and gravitational waves
2025-03-31 15:00 - 16:15
Dark photons arising at or below the GeV scale from a spontaneously broken gauge symmetry are one of the simplest and most exciting extensions of the Standard Model.

Fractional-charge hadrons and leptons to tell the Standard Model group apart
2025-03-27 15:00 - 16:00
Generalised symmetries have expanded our insight into theory but their impact has not fully translated into phenomenology yet.

GRASS Seminar | Chronicles of Regular Black Holes: The Higher-Curvature Saga
2025-03-25 15:00 - 16:00
In this talk I will show how an infinite tower of higher-curvature corrections to Einstein gravity gives rise to the formation of regular black holes in space-time dimensions larger than four.

Atom interferometers as particle detectors
2025-03-24 15:00 - 16:15
Despite the remarkable success of the Standard Model in describing nature experimental evidence suggests the existence of new physics beyond its framework.

Dynamics of metastable particle and neutrinos in the primordial era
2025-03-20 15:00 - 16:00
Cosmological observations like BBN and CMB offer crucial insights into the Early Universe enabling us to trace its evolution back to lifetimes as short as 0.01 seconds and testing different extensions of the Standard model if they decay at such times.

Computations that matter
2025-03-17 15:00 - 16:00
Everything in our universe is made of matter and not antimatter and we do not understand why. An exciting possibility is that this asymmetry between baryons and antibaryons was created during the electroweak phase transition.

GRASS Seminar: Supersymmetric black holes and the gravitational path integral
2025-03-11 15:00 - 16:00
The semi-classical contribution of black holes to the grand-canonical partition function of gravity is obtained by evaluating their Euclidean on-shell action.

Stability of nonsingular black holes
2025-03-10 15:00 - 16:00
We show that nonsingular black holes (BHs) realized in nonlinear electrodynamics are always prone to Laplacian instability around the center because of a negative squared sound speed in the angular direction.

Indications for New Higgs Bosons at the Electroweak Scale
2025-03-06 15:00 - 16:00
I review the status of the experimental signs of new Higgs bosons at the electroweak scale in particular the excesses at 95 GeV and 152 GeV.

Gravitational wave science in the SKAO era
2025-03-05 14:00 - 15:00
SKAO scientific potential will revolutionize multiple fields in Astrophysics. In this seminar after introducing the role of the observatory in future Astronomy we will present its scientific potential in Gravitational Waves science.

Cosmic censorship in a (dual) collider
2025-03-03 15:00 - 16:00
We investigate cosmic censorship in anti-de Sitter space in holographic models in which the ground state is described by a good singularity.

In Search of Cosmic Topology Using Artificial Intelligence
2025-02-27 15:00 - 16:00
While there has been tremendous success in measuring the geometry of the Universe the question of cosmic topology remains unresolved.

Madrid's Polygonal Gravity Seminar Series
2025-02-25 10:30 - 13:00
We are currently living an outstanding time in the field of cosmology and gravitation where more and more data are being collected constantly.

Causality constraints on relativistic transport
2025-02-24 15:00 - 17:00
Relativistic hydrodynamics is an effective field theory capturing the infrared behavior of interacting QFTs near thermal equilibrium.

Inflation: scopes and cautions in model building
2025-02-20 15:00 - 16:00
CMB observations have been testing inflation at scales ranging from a few Mpc to Gpc delivering stringent limits on the amplitudes of inflationary perturbations and their scale-dependence and pointing to an effectively single field behaviour.

New constraints on axion-like particles at colliders
2025-02-17 15:00 - 16:00
Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear in several well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. In this talk we will discuss collider constraints on axion-like particles.

Probing Ultralight Dark Matter with Atomic Molecular and Nuclear Clocks
2025-02-13 15:00 - 16:00
Ultralight dark matter can induce oscillations in fundamental constants of nature such as the fine-structure constant the strength of the strong interaction and particle masses.

Lessons from the LHC Run 2 on the Nature of the Electroweak Phase Transition and Future Prospects
2025-02-06 15:00 - 16:30
The unprecedented energy of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offers us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to explore the nature of the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in the early universe.
