Name: Seminar: ‘The Muon Magnetic Moment Mystery: a 20-year puzzle in high-energy physics’
Start: 2026-02-09T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-09T16:00:00+01:00
Location: IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

January 2026
January 29 | 17:00 - 18:00

Old Journal Club: ‘Topological Quantization and Cohomology’

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

Journal clubs

Gonzalo F. Casas (IFT) will present 'Topological Quantization and Cohomology' by Orlando Álvarez Commun.Math.Phys. 100 (1985) 279 Abstract: The relationships between topological charge quantization,Lagrangians and various cohomology theories are studied. A very general criterion for charge quantization is developed andapplied to various physical models. The relationship betweencohomology and homotopy is discussed. More info: https://inspirehep.net/literature/206164
February 2026
February 2 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘F(ℓ)avoured searches: new physics in the 3rd generation’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'F(ℓ)avoured searches: new physics in the 3rd generation' Speaker: Tamara Vázquez Schröder (IFAE) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The primary goal of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been to discover the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB). The discovery of the Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson in 2012 was the […]
February 3 | 14:00 - 15:00

Cosmology Journal Club

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.
February 4 | 11:30 - 12:30

Quantum Information Journal Club: Continuous and field tensor network states

Journal clubs

Speaker: Albert Gasull, Leiden University Venue & Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Title: 'Continuous and field tensor network states' Abstract: Tensor network methods have provided us with a powerful set of tools with which to study strongly interacting many-body systems on the lattice. Understanding the limitations of this ansatz is paramount for the success […]
February 4 | 11:30 - 17:00

Seminar: ‘Co-Scaling and Alignment of Electric and Magnetic States’

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

Scientific activities

Speaker: Tom Rudelius (Durham U., Dept. of Math.) Title: Co-Scaling and Alignment of Electric and Magnetic States Venue & Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: Towers of electrically and magnetically charged states in quantum gravity often exhibit two important properties. First, the ratio of the mass (or tension) of electrically charged states to magnetically charged […]
February 5 | 12:00 - 13:00

Pheno Journal Club

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

Journal clubs

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.
February 5 | 12:15 - 13:15

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.
February 5 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar by Yushi Mura (KEK)

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'UV completion of extended Higgs models via the confinement of SU(2) gauge' Speaker: Yushi Mura (KEK) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The extended Higgs sectors are often introduced to explain phenomena beyond the standard model. On the other hand, the existence of multiple scalar fields may cause the Landau pole below […]
February 5 | 17:00 - 18:00

Old Journal Club: ‘Threshold production of heavy top quarks: QCD and the Higgs boson’

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

Journal clubs

Sergio Rodríguez (IFT) will present "Threshold production of heavy top quarks: QCD and the Higgs boson" by Matthew J. Strassler and Michael E. Peskin. Abstract: We calculate the threshold cross section for 𝑒+𝑒−→tt¯ to leading-logarithmic order in QCD, using a nonrelativistic approximation suggested by Fadin and Khoze. We study the mass range 100≤𝑚𝑡≤250 GeV, and show […]
February 9 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘The Muon Magnetic Moment Mystery: a 20-year puzzle in high-energy physics’

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

Scientific activities

Speaker: Zoltan Fodor (Penn State U.) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Title: The Muon Magnetic Moment Mystery: a 20-year puzzle in high-energy physics Abstract: In the last two decades or so there have been stronger and stronger disagreements between direct measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the standard-model prediction. Such a […]