Name: POSTPONED: HoloClub: ‘Holographic transport in anisotropic systems’
Start: 2026-04-14T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-14T13:00:00+02:00
Location: IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

March 2026
March 25 | 12:00 - 13:30

IFT Colloquium: ‘QCD critical point and the predictable randomness of relativistic fluids’

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

Colloquia

Title: 'QCD critical point and the predictable randomness of relativistic fluids' Speaker: Misha A. Stephanov (Illinois U., Chicago) Venue&Time: 12:00 / Red Room Abstract: Quantum Chromodynamics predicts a variety of unusual states of matter in which relativity and quantum many-body physics strongly intertwine. Discovering phase transitions between these extreme forms of matter in a laboratory […]
March 25 | 14:30 - 15:30

Quantum Information Journal Club: ‘Rapid mixing for Gibbs measures in Riemannian manifolds’

Grey Room 2 Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs

Speaker: Pablo Páez-Velasco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Venue & Time: Gray Room 2 / 14:30 Abstract: Given some sufficiently smooth, generally non-convex, function F on a Riemannian manifold, and a fixed inverse temperature, the problem of sampling with respect to the associated Gibbs distribution has played a central role in several areas, such as statistical […]
March 26 | 12:00 - 13:00

Pheno Journal Club: ‘Powerful Yukawas’

Grey Room 2 Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 2. Marta Fuentes (IFT), will present "Powerful Yukawas". We introduce a class of models where the masses of the light Standard Model fermions are due to an Effective Field Theory operator that appears beyond dimension-4 in the power counting expansion, resulting in a `Powerful Yukawa'. The effective Yukawa […]
March 26 | 12:00 - 13:00

SPS Journal Club: ‘M-theory on S^1 \vee S^1 as Type 0A’

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

Journal clubs

Strings, Pheno & The Swampland Journal Club | Every Thursday at 12:00 in the Red Room. Speaker: Salvatore Raucci (IFT) Title: 'M-theory on S^1 \vee S^1 as Type 0A' Abstract: We propose an exotic geometric M-theory dual for the weak coupling Type 0A string: compactification on a sub-Planckian S^1 \vee S^1 (two circles connected at […]
April 2026
April 7 | 11:30 - 13:00

HoloClub: ‘Semi-classical aspects of black holes: recent progress and future directions’

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

Journal clubs

Title: 'Semi-classical aspects of black holes: recent progress and future directions' Speaker: Juan F. Pedraza (IFT) Venue & Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: Semi-classical gravity provides a valuable framework for exploring quantum effects in black hole physics, particularly in regimes where a complete theory of quantum gravity remains out of reach. In this […]
April 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

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
April 9 | 12:00 - 13:00

Pheno Journal Club

Grey Room 2 Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.
April 9 | 12:00 - 17:00

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland (SPS) Journal Club

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

Journal clubs

Every Thursday at 12:00 in the Red Room.
April 9 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘EFTs for BSM: Counting, Ambiguities, and Application’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'EFTs for BSM: Counting, Ambiguities, and Application' Speaker: Shakeel Ur Rahaman (IPPP Durham). Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The two principal frameworks for modeling the Beyond Standard Model physics as an Effective Field Theory (EFT) are the Standard Model EFT (SMEFT) and the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT). SMEFT is constructed in the […]
April 14 | 11:30 - 13:00

POSTPONED: HoloClub: ‘Holographic transport in anisotropic systems’

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

Journal clubs

Title: Holographic transport in anisotropic systems Speaker: Claire Moran (Utrecht University) Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: Understanding transport in strongly coupled quantum systems remains a central challenge across high-energy physics, condensed matter, and quantum many-body theory. Of particular interest is systems exhibiting anisotropy, where the anisotropy leads to a much richer transport structure, with […]