Cosmology Journal Club
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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.
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SPS Journal Club: Holographic constraints on AdS flux vacua
IFT Seminar Room/Red Room Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, SpainJournal clubs_enSpeaker: Antonia Paraskevopoulou (Munich, Max Planck Inst. and LMU Munich) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: In this talk, I will argue that the covariant entropy bound poses non-trivial restrictions on anti-de Sitter(AdS) flux vacua. After motivating the bound on AdS, we will see how it naturally arises in the context of the […]
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Seminar: ‘BipoSH: Structured test bed for cosmic isotropy violation’
IFT Seminar Room/Red Room Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, SpainSeminars_esSpeaker: Tarun Souradeep (Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The Cosmological Principle, a fundamental tenet of the 'standard model of cosmology’, predicates a statistically isotropic distribution of fluctuations in the measured cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization sky maps. Enigmatic anomalies claimed in the WMAP and […]
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Charla abierta: ‘Los fundamentos invisibles de la naturaleza’
Outreach events_esEn 2025 celebramos el centenario de la mecánica cuántica, una revolución científica que transformó nuestra visión del mundo al revelar que, en lo más profundo de la naturaleza, rigen leyes desconcertantes, como el efecto túnel, el principio de incertidumbre, la superposición, el entrelazamiento… A través de esta charla divulgativa descubriremos la ciencia de los universos […]
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Colloquium: ‘The Promise of Gravitational Wave Cosmology’
IFT Seminar Room/Red Room Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, SpainColloquia_esSpeaker: Tarun Souradeep (Raman Research Institute, India) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The 10th anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) is an apt time to assess the promise of this across all GW windows to the understanding of our Universe. The talk briefly reviews the status and successes […]
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Cosmology Journal Club
Discussion room 5th floor C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Madrid, SpainJournal clubs_enEvery 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.
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Seminar: ‘Quantum Field Theory, an Overview’
IFT Seminar Room/Red Room Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, SpainSeminars_esSpeaker: Anthony Zee (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA) Venue & Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: I give an overview and appreciation of quantum field theory, the most precisely tested theory in physics. The talk is addressed to those without any knowledge of quantum field theory. It is based […]
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Pheno Journal Club
Gray Room 3 Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, SpainJournal clubs_enEvery Tuesday at 15:00 in Grey Room 3.
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Seminar: Average-case quantum complexity from glassiness
IFT Seminar Room/Red Room Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, SpainSeminars_esSpeaker: Alexander Zlokapa (MIT) Venue & Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: In the classical setting, glassiness characterizes many natural problems (e.g., random k-SAT) and underlies average-case hardness by obstructing a family of "stable" classical algorithms (e.g., constant-time Langevin dynamics). In this work, we develop analogous quantum results. Our techniques, based on quantum optimal transport, […]
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SPS Journal Club: ‘Flux Backtracking and Decoupling of Scale Separated AdS Vacua’
IFT Seminar Room/Red Room Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, SpainJournal clubs_enSpeaker: Fien Apers (IFT) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: I will explain how the flux backtracking method (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03314) can be used to reconstruct the D-brane configuration whose near-horizon region realises the DGKT vacua. As an application, I will show how this reconstructed geometry allows one to verify whether the corresponding D-brane theory […]
