Name: HoloClub: ‘N=1 Supergravity from Super Virasoro TQFT’
Start: 2025-11-04T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-04T13:00:00+01:00

October 2025
October 27 | 15:00 - 16:00

Recent results on the origin of Galactic CRs from gamma-ray astronomy

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

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Speaker: Guillem Martí-Davesa (INFN-Trieste) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Supernovae have traditionally been invoked as the dominant cosmic ray factories within our Galaxy, capable of accelerating protons up to PeV energies. In this seminar we will discuss to what extent such a view holds today, and if alternative source populations could instead be relevant […]
October 28 | 14:00 - 15:00

Cosmology Journal Club

Discussion room 5th floor C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Journal clubs_en

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 28 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Entanglement asymmetry and spontaneously broken symmetries’

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

Seminars_es

Speaker: Eduardo García-Valdecasas (SISSA, Trieste) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Entanglement asymmetry is a relative entropy that faithfully measures the breaking of a symmetry in a subregion. We explore some applications in theories with spontaneously broken higher form symmetries. We will start with discrete abelian symmetries and then discuss continuous symmetries. We will be […]
October 28 | 15:00 - 16:00

Pheno Journal Club

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

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Every Tuesday at 15:00 in Grey Room 3.
October 29 | 11:30 - 12:30

Quantum Information Journal Club: Randomized truncation

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

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Speaker: Aram Harrow (MIT) Venue&Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: Given a vector v, what is the closest k-sparse vector? The answer to this question is usually that we should take the largest k entries of v. It turns out that we can do better with randomized approximations. When approximating pure bipartite entangled states […]
October 30 | 12:00 - 13:00

SPS Journal Club: Weak Gravity and Perturbative Black Holes

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Speaker: Matteo Lotito (IFT) Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: I present a brief summary of the derivation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture within perturbative string theory, following , and highlight possible gaps that may hinder a fully consistent proof. I then analyze the existence and properties of the black hole solutions whose extremality bounds […]
October 30 | 17:00 - 18:00

Old Journal Club: Neutrino Masses and Mixings in Gauge Models with Spontaneous Parity Violation

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

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Pablo Blanco (IFT) will present Neutrino Masses and Mixings in Gauge Models with Spontaneous Parity Violation de Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Goran Senjanovic, Jul, 1980 Phys.Rev.D 23 (1981) 165. Abstract: Unified electroweak gauge theories based on the gauge group SU(2)L×SU(2)R×U(1)B−L, in which the breakdown of parity invariance is spontaneous, lead most naturally to a massive neutrino. […]
November 2025
November 3 | 15:00 - 16:00

Top Ten Foundational Ideas of Theoretical Physics

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

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Speaker: Anthony Zee from Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Departmentof Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Venue&Time: Red Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: I will list and discuss the ten foundational ideas of theoretical physics. The lecture is based on a popular book with the same title published by Princeton University […]
November 4 | 09:00 - November 7 | 19:00

10th IBS/IFT workshop: Dark World to the Swampland

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

Workshops_es

The IBS-IFT Workshop is a regular event organized jointly by IFT and IBS-CTPU, this year reaching its tenth anniversary. The aim of the workshop is share ideas, foster collaborations, and to discuss recent developments in theoretical physics. The event is organized over two weeks. The first week, November 4-7, will focus on String Phenomenology The Center […]
November 4 | 11:30 - 13:00

HoloClub: ‘N=1 Supergravity from Super Virasoro TQFT’

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Speaker: Sounak Pal (Indian Institute of Technology) Venue&Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: I will discuss some aspects of 2D and 3D quantum gravity in the language of Topological quantum field theory (TQFT). Recent developments include calculating various gravity partition functions in AdS3 using descriptions of Liouville conformal field theory (CFT). We extend this […]