Name: SPS Journal Club: ‘Probing the Rigidity of String Theory’
Start: 2025-10-16T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-16T13:00:00+02:00
Location: IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

October 2025
October 3 | 10:00 - 17:30

César Gómez (1954–2025): A rich life in theory

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

Seminars_es

Venue&Time: Blue Room / 10:20 – 17:30 More info: workshops.ift.uam-csic.es/CesarGathering/ César Gómez, whose profound contributions to gauge theory, string theory and quantum gravity were matched by his vision and generosity, passed away on 7 April 2025. After earning his PhD in Salamanca, he held positions at Harvard, the IAS and CERN before joining the CSIC […]
October 7 | 14:00 - 15:00

Cosmology Journal Club

Discussion room 5th floor C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs_en

Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.
October 8 | 09:30 - October 10 | 18:00

Dragon School: cosmic-ray theory, phenomenology and beyond

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

IFT Courses_es

This school is intended to provide an overview about a variety of topic centered around the problem of cosmic-ray transport in the Galaxy and non-thermal diffuse emissions. We will provide both dedicated seminars and hands-on sessions on the modeling and computation of cosmic-ray propagation and the correlated non-thermal emissions in different astrophysical environments. In particular, […]
October 9 | 12:00 - 13:00

SPS Journal Club: Symmetric Moduli Spaces, the Swampland Distance Conjecture (…and the Emergent String Conjecture?)

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

Journal clubs_en

Speaker: Bernardo Fraiman (IFT) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: For non-compact, locally symmetric moduli spaces M, the set of geodesics and the geometry of the boundary can be completely characterised using group theory. Under the assumption that M is "compactifiable" and some mild conditions on the spectrum of states, we prove the SDC for […]
October 9 | 15:00 - 16:00

Large neutrino mass in cosmology and keV sterile neutrino dark matter from a dark sector

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

Seminars_es

Speaker: Thomas Schwetz from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: Recent results from cosmology place sever upper bounds on the sum of neutrino masses, starting to be in conflict with lower bounds from neutrino oscillations. If this neutrino tension persists, it may indicate new physics in cosmology and/or neutrino […]
October 10 | 11:00 - 13:30

Searching for New Physics through the Neutrino (bag)pipe

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

PhD Dissertation_es

Daniel Naredo Tuero PhD dissertation Searching for New Physics through the Neutrino (bag)pipe Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:00 Abstract: Among the many open problems that plague the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, the massive nature of neutrinos stands out as it is one of the few indications of New Physics that we have observed […]
October 14 | 11:30 - 13:00

Holo Club: Explicit Connections Between Krylov and Nielsen Complexity

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

Journal clubs_en

Speaker: Le-Chen Qu (IFT) Venue&Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: We establish a precise correspondence between Krylov complexity and Nielsen complexity in quantum many-body systems. By identifying the Krylov basis with the generators of elementary gates in Nielsen's geometric framework, the Krylov complexity of precursor operators acquires a geometric interpretation as the length of […]
October 14 | 14:00 - 15:00

Cosmology Journal Club

Discussion room 5th floor C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs_en

Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.
October 16 | 11:00 - 12:00

Machine Learning and AI Journal Club

Gray Room 1 Instituto de Física Teórica, C/ Nicolás Cabrera 13-15, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs_en

Venue&Time: Grey Room 1
October 16 | 12:00 - 13:00

SPS Journal Club: ‘Probing the Rigidity of String Theory’

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

Journal clubs_en

Speaker: Georgina Staudt (Max Planck Institute Munich) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: We investigate the deformability of the Veneziano amplitude. If string theory is the unique theory of quantum gravity, the tree level amplitudes of weak coupling limits should be non-deformable. We make progress in this direction for tachyon-free superstring theories by deriving a […]