Name: Seminar: ‘On the radiative decays of quarkonia and why they can be important for searches beyond the Standard Model’ by Damir Becirevic
Start: 2026-09-14T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-14T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Blue Room

June 2026
June 25 | 11:30 - 12:30

Quantum Information Journal Club: ‘Some Properties of Local One-Dimensional Hamiltonians’

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

Journal clubs

Speaker: José Garre Rubio Títle: 'Some Properties of Local One-Dimensional Hamiltonians' Venue&Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:30 Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss several properties of local Hamiltonians associated with the W state and matrix product states (MPS). I will begin by showing that the W state cannot be the unique ground state of […]
June 25 | 11:30 - 12:30

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

Speaker: Alberto Castellano (Chicago U.) Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30
June 25 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Differential observables for the Higgs-strahlung process to all orders in EFT’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'Differential observables for the Higgs-strahlung process to all orders in EFT.' Speaker: Sourav Bera from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: We develop methods to obtain the fully differential cross-section for the f f \to Z(ll) h process to any desired order in effective field theory (EFT). To […]
July 2026
July 2 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘NLO Running in the SMEFT’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'NLO Running in the SMEFT' Speaker: Lukas Born (University of Bern). Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a systematic framework for parameterizing heavy new physics in a model-independent way. A central ingredient for precision analyses within this framework is the renormalization group equations (RGEs), governing the […]
July 7 | 15:00 - 17:00

Seminar: ‘Sub-GeV Dark Matter, Neutrino Masses, and Astrophysical Signals from a Rich Dark Sector’

Scientific activities

Title: 'Sub-GeV Dark Matter, Neutrino Masses, and Astrophysical Signals from a Rich Dark Sector.' Speaker: Elina Merkel (University of Bologna) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Rich dark sectors provide an attractive framework for addressing several puzzles in particle physics and cosmology within a single model. In this talk, I will present a simple sub-GeV […]
July 9 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘The Hunt for Multiple Axions’

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

Scientific activities

Title: ‘The Hunt for Multiple Axions’ Speaker: Arturo de Giorgi (University of Durham). Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Axions and axion-like particles may arise in Nature as a spectrum rather than as a single field. Such a scenario naturally emerges in string-inspired constructions, as well as in reasonably simple bottom-up extensions of single axion […]
September 2026
September 1 - September 3

Pro(v/b)ing the Swampland

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

Scientific activities

The workshop Pro(v/b)ing the Swampland will take place from September 1 to 3, 2026, at the Instituto de Física Teórica IFT UAM-CSIC in Madrid, Spain. The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading experts in string compactifications, the Swampland programme, quantum field theory, conformal field theory, scattering amplitudes and other techniques that can […]
September 9 | 11:30 - 12:30

Coloquio IFT: Horacio Casini (Instituto Balseiro)

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

Colloquia

Title: "Entanglement as a tool in quantum field theory" Speaker: Horacio Casini (Instituto Balseiro) Venue & Time: Blue Room / 11:30-12:30 Abstract: Entanglement entropy and other information measures can be regarded as non conventional tools in QFT. After describing their general properties, arising from simple heuristic considerations, we will show applications to irreversibility theorems with […]
September 14 | 10:00 - 12:30

PhD Defense by Lorenzo Paoloni: “On the Moduli Space Curvature and Gravity Decoupling”

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

PhD Dissertation

Title: On the Moduli Space Curvature and Gravity Decoupling Venue & Time: Blue Room / 10:00-12:30 Abstract: This thesis investigates the asymptotic regimes of four-dimensional N = 2 supergravity moduli spaces, seeking a robust geometric definition of gravity decoupling. It does so in the context of the Swampland Program, whose primary objective is to delineate […]
September 14 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘On the radiative decays of quarkonia and why they can be important for searches beyond the Standard Model’ by Damir Becirevic

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

Scientific activities

Title: On the radiative decays of quarkonia and why they can be important for searches beyond the Standard Model Speaker: Damir Becirevic Venue&Time: Blue Room | 15:00 Abstract: I argue that the physics of quarkonia can offer fertile ground for searching for the effects of physics beyond the Standard Model at low energies. In this […]