Name: Holo-Club: From Volume as a Clock to Boundary Dynamics in JT Gravity
Start: 2026-06-02T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-02T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Blue Room

May 2026
May 21 | 12:00 - 13:00

SPS Journal Club: ‘Generalised anomalies, QCD, and holography’

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

Journal clubs

Title: 'Generalised anomalies, QCD, and holography' Speaker: Mohammad Akhond (Dipartimento di Fisica & INFN, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: During the last decade, the notion of an 't Hooft anomaly has been generalised to the case of discrete symmetries. An interesting instance, discussed by Tanizaki, is the […]
May 21 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Exploring Effective Theories of Gauged Chiral Symmetries at the LHC and Beyond’

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

Scientific activities

Title: Exploring Effective Theories of Gauged Chiral Symmetries at the LHC and Beyond Speaker: Felix Yu (Mainz U.) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: I discuss theoretical issues with constructing effective theories of gauged chiral symmetries, taking a quark-universal U(1)_B symmetry as an example. I will review the phenomenology of the Z-Z’-photon vertex and point […]
May 22 | 11:00 - 12:00

World Day for Cultural Diversity Celebration

Cafeteria (ground floor)

Scientific culture

Thursday May21st and Friday May 22nd (during the usual coffee time). Both in the cafeteria The EDI committee is hosting a small event this coming week to celebrate May 21st as the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, recognized by the UN and UNESCO. Thursday: World map set up with pins and […]
May 25 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Weak Particles with a strong impact’

Scientific activities

Title: 'Weak Particles with a strong impact' Speaker: Aritra Gupta (Krea University, India) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Dark matter and neutrinos are among the most elusive particles in nature, yet they play a central role in the evolution of the Universe. Their extremely weak interactions make them difficult to detect, but also allow […]
May 26 | 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
May 28 | 12:00 - 13:00

SPS Journal Club: Heterotic Ouroboros

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

Journal clubs

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland (SPS) Journal Club Title: Heterotic Ouroboros Speaker: Chiara Altavista (IFT) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: M-theory on {\mathbf{S}}^1\vee{\mathbf{S}}^1 has recently been proposed to yield, via quotients, ten-dimensional non-supersymmetric string theories. We revisit the construction that leads to the heterotic theories, finding a consistent set of rules that reproduces the […]
May 28 | 12:00 - 13:00

Pheno Journal Club

Grey Room 2 Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 2.
May 28 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar by Marco Finetti (U. Aveiro)

Scientific activities

Title: 'First Order Phase Transitions and Gravitational Waves' Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Speaker: Marco Finetti (U. Aveiro) Abstract: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be the first space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector, opening a new observational window for both astrophysics and early-Universe cosmology. Operating in the millihertz band, it will probe a rich […]
June 2026
June 1 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Classical Krylov probes and chaotic semiclassical strings’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'Classical Krylov probes and chaotic semiclassical strings' Speaker: Saskia Demulder (CUNEF) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Quantum chaos is a central theme in string theory, but classical chaos is also a generic feature of semiclassical string dynamics. Motivated by the need to explore the broad landscape of non-integrable string dynamics, I will introduce […]
June 2 | 11:30 - 13:00

Holo-Club: From Volume as a Clock to Boundary Dynamics in JT Gravity

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

Journal clubs

Title: From Volume as a Clock to Boundary Dynamics in JT Gravity Speaker: Farbod-Sayyed Rassouli (University of Nottingham) Venue&Time: 11:30 / Blue Room Abstract: Different notions of time arise from different choices of observer. In cosmological settings, a particularly natural choice is the spacetime volume, which is conjugate to the cosmological constant. This leads to […]