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 […]

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 […]

Title: Gravitational wave lensing: wave optics and GW231123 Speaker: Héctor Villarrubia Rojo Venue & Time: Red Room | 15:00 Abstract: Light travelling through the Universe is deflected by the intervening gravitational fields, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This effect was an early prediction of General Relativity (GR) and it has become an essential tool […]

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 […]