Name: SPS Journal Club: ‘Type IIB at Eight Derivatives: A Status Report’
Start: 2026-05-14T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-14T13:30:00+02:00
Location: IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

May 2026
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 […]
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 […]