Name: Pheno Journal Club: “On the Inverse Problem in Effective Field Theory”
Start: 2026-05-07T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-07T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Grey Room 2

April 2026
April 30 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Quantum computing for lattice gauge theories: from the Schwinger model to an SO(3) Quantum Link model’

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

Scientific activities

Title: Quantum computing for lattice gauge theories: from the Schwinger model to an SO(3) Quantum Link model Speaker: Bipasha Chakraborty (University of Southampton) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Quantum computing provides a promising framework for simulating strongly coupled gauge theories relevant to high-energy physics. In this talk, I will discuss quantum simulations of lattice […]
May 2026
May 4 | 15:00 - 16:00

Seminar: ‘Gravitational waves from phase transitions in the early Universe: sound waves and MHD turbulence’

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

Scientific activities

Title: Gravitational waves from phase transitions in the early Universe: sound waves and MHD turbulence Speaker: Alberto Roper Pol (Geneva) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Gravitational waves (GWs) can be produced by a first-order phase transition in the early Universe via the fluid perturbations induced in the primordial plasma by the expansion and collision […]
May 5 | 11:00 - 12:00

ML-AI Journal Club: ‘Machine Learning in Astroparticle Physics’

Journal clubs

Title: 'Machine Learning in Astroparticle Physics' Speaker: Daniel Nieto Castaño (IPARCOS/UCM) Venue&Time: Gray Room 2 / 11:00 Abstract: This seminar presents the motivation for employing machine learning (ML) techniques to mitigate some experimental limitations within the field of astroparticle physics. We will briefly review selected applications across various detection domains, specifically addressing astrophysical neutrinos, cosmic […]
May 5 | 11:30 - 13:00

Holo Club: Holographic transport in anisotropic systems

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

Journal clubs

Title: Holographic transport in anisotropic systems Speaker: Claire Moran (Utrecht University) Venue&Time: Blue Room & Zoom / 11:30 Abstract: Understanding transport in strongly coupled quantum systems remains a central challenge across high-energy physics, condensed matter, and quantum many-body theory. Of particular interest is systems exhibiting anisotropy, where the anisotropy leads to a much richer transport […]
May 5 | 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 6 | 11:00 - 12:00

Seminar: ‘Are string vacua connected?’ by Ashoke Sen (ICTS-Infosys)

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

Scientific activities

Title: 'Are string vacua connected?' Speaker: Ashoke Sen (ICTS-Infosys) Venue&Time: 11:00 / Blue Room Abstract: String theory has many vacua. We shall examine the question of whether these vacua are connected from an experimentalist's perspective. Ashoke Sen is the ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru. His major honours include […]
May 6 | 11:30 - 12:30

Quantum Information Journal Club: “Symmetry-protected topology and deconfined solitons in a multi-link Z2 gauge theory”

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

Journal clubs

Speaker: Enrico Calogero Domanti Title: "Symmetry-protected topology and deconfined solitons in a multi-link Z2 gauge theory" Venue&Time: Gray Room 3 / 11:30 Abstract: With the advent of quantum simulators, exploring exotic collective phenomena in lattice models with local symmetries and unconventional geometries is at reach of near-term experiments. Motivated by recent progress in this direction, […]
May 7 | 11:30 - 12:30

Shannon’s Corner Journal Club: “Zeros of the partition function and their algorithmic application”

Journal clubs

Speaker: Aram Harrow (MIT) Title: "Zeros of the partition function and their algorithmic application" Venue&Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:30 Abstract: "At high temperatures quantum systems generally lose long-range order. We would expect that this makes them easier to simulate. One way to understand this is through the analytic properties of the partition function. Viewing […]
May 7 | 11:30 - 12:30

SPS Journal Club: ‘Calibration, fuzziness: new results on AdS vacuum decay’

Journal clubs

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland (SPS) Journal Club Speaker: Vincent Menet (Università Milano Bicocca) Title: 'Calibration, fuzziness: new results on AdS vacuum decay' Venue&Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: Motivated by swampland conjectures, we study the stability of AdS type II supergravity vacua. In the literature, vacuum decay mediated by abelian D-branes […]
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 […]