Name: Hasta la Física y Más Allá – Próxima parada, el futuro
Start: 2026-05-14T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-14T18:30:00+02:00
Location: IFT Auditorium

May 2026
May 7 | 12:00 - 13:00

Pheno Journal Club: “On the Inverse Problem in Effective Field Theory”

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

Journal clubs

Jaime Fernandez Tejedor (IFT) will present "On the Inverse Problem in Effective Field Theory". Venue&Time: Gray Room 2 / 12:00 Abstract: We show that the tree-level spectrum of heavy particles can be directly extracted from the Wilson coefficients of the corresponding effective field theory at low energies. This procedure is exact when the number of […]
May 7 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar by Christian Northe (Institute of Physics, Prague)

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

Scientific activities

Title: Entanglement through topological interfaces in CFT revisited Speaker: Christian Northe (Institute of Physics, Prague) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Present theoretical predictions for the entanglement entropy through topological defects are violated in numerical simulations of critical systems. In this talk, I discuss a paradigm shift in the preparation of reduced density matrices in […]
May 11 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Primordial Black Holes — Positivist Perspective, Quantum Quiddity and Galaxy Genesis’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'Primordial Black Holes -- Positivist Perspective, Quantum Quiddity and Galaxy Genesis' Speaker: Florian Kühnel, (TU Dortmund & LMU Munich) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Primordial black holes are black holes that may have formed in the early Universe. Their masses potentially span a range from as low as the Planck mass up to […]
May 12 | 11:30 - 12:30

Holo-Club: ‘Emergence of Closed Universes in Holography’

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

Journal clubs

Speaker: Martin Sasieta (U. Berkeley) Title: 'Emergence of Closed Universes in Holography' Venue&Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: I will present recent constructions of closed universes in AdS/CFT and AdS2 holography, and discuss some of the puzzles they pose.
May 12 | 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 13 | 15:30 - 16:00

DIFT Colloquium by Benjamin Grinstein (University of California, San Diego)

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

Colloquia

Title: Buckets versus pipes: the neutron lifetime puzzle Speaker: Benjamin Grinstein, University of California, San Diego Date and time: 15:30h (CEST), Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Location: CFTMAT Auditorium Abstract: A precise knowledge of the neutron lifetime is important because it serves as a fundamental input for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) models, which predict the primordial abundances of light […]
May 14 | 11:30 - 13:30

SPS Journal Club: ‘Type IIB at Eight Derivatives: A Status Report’

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: 'Type IIB at Eight Derivatives: A Status Report' Speaker: Raffaele Savelli (Dipartimento di Fisica & INFN, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”) Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: Knowledge of ten-dimensional superstring effective actions beyond the leading order in the derivative expansion is of intrinsic interest and […]
May 14 | 12:00 - 13:00

Seminar: ‘Perturbative aspect of electroweak phase transitions in the Early Universe’

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'Perturbative aspect of electroweak phase transitions in the Early Universe' Speaker: Andrii Dashko (DESY) Venue&Time: Blue Room / 12:00 Abstract: We present a study of the perturbative description of thermally driven electroweak phase transitions (EWPT) in the early universe. Focusing on strong first-order transitions, which are relevant for gravitational wave cosmology, we examine the […]
May 14 | 12:00 - 13:00

Pheno Journal Club

Journal clubs

Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 2.
May 14 | 15:00 - 18:30

Hasta la Física y Más Allá – Próxima parada, el futuro

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

Outreach events

Cuatro charlas breves sobre investigación puntera, futuro y salidas profesionales. Los ponentes son personas que han seguido caminos variados dentro de la Física. Este evento es una oportunidad para conocer experiencias reales en la carrera investigadora –y fuera de ella–, descubrir ciencia puntera, opciones que quizá no te habías planteado y hacerte una idea de […]