Name: IFT Colloquium by Mark Srednicki (UC Santa Barbara): “Quantum chaos and the foundations of statistical mechanics”
Start: 2026-10-14T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-14T12:30:00+02:00

September 2026
September 28 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: Alba Cervera Lierta [Barcelona Supercomputing Centre]: “Quantum Information as a Guiding Principle (and a Tool) for Fundamental Interactions”

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

Scientific activities

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 […]
September 30 | 11:15 - 16:00

Polygonal Gravity Seminars

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

Scientific activities

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 […]
October 2026
October 1 | 12:30 - 13:30

Celebration of the New Severo Ochoa Accreditation

Celebration

Date and time: Thursday, 1 October 2026, at 12:30 PM Location: Ground-floor cafeteria The Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT UAM-CSIC) invites its community to mark the award of the new […]
October 5 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar by Héctor Villarrubia Rojo: “Gravitational wave lensing: wave optics and GW231123”

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

Scientific activities

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 […]
October 6 | 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
October 8 | 15:30 - 17:00

DIFT Colloquium by Izaskun Jimenez-Serra: Towards prebiotic chemistry in the interstellar medium

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

Colloquia

Date and time: 15:30h (CEST), Thursday, 8 October 2026 Location: CFTMAT Auditorium Speaker: Izaskun Jimenez-Serra Title: Towards prebiotic chemistry in the interstellar medium Abstract: In the past decade, Astrochemistry has […]
October 12

Public Holiday

Public holiday

The IFT will be closed to local/national holiday. If you wish to visit the center, you must ask for an authorization here: secretaria.ift@csic.es / visitantes-eventos.ift@csic.es
October 13 | 11:30 - 12:30

Holo-Club: Lanczos Meets Orthogonal Polynomials

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

Journal clubs

Title: Lanczos Meets Orthogonal Polynomials Speaker: Le-Chen Qu Venue & Time: 11:30 / Red Room Abstract: In this talk, I will explain the connection between the Lanczos algorithm and orthogonal […]
October 13 | 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 quantum journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them […]
October 14 | 11:30 - 12:30

IFT Colloquium by Mark Srednicki (UC Santa Barbara): “Quantum chaos and the foundations of statistical mechanics”

Colloquia

Coffee: 11:00 / Ground-floor cafeteria Date and time: 11:30h, Wednesday, 14 October 2026 Location: Blue Room Speaker: Mark Srednicki, University of California, Santa Barbara Title: "Quantum chaos and the foundations […]