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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Speaker: Alex Gagliano (IAIFI/MIT) Venue&Time: 12:00 / Grey Room 2 Absrtact: Supernovae are powered by diverse physical mechanisms such as radioactive decay, circumstellar interaction, and magnetar spin-down, but distinguishing among them from light curves alone remains a major challenge. In this talk, I’ll present a hierarchical simulation-based inference framework that jointly infers both the dominant […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Speaker: Alex Gagliano (IAIFI/MIT) Venue&Time: Blue Room / 3:00 PM Abstract: The time-evolving night sky is rich with variable stars, supernovae, and merging neutron stars. Wide-field imaging surveys that monitor this variability produce gappy, multi-modal observations that demand scalable, uncertainty-aware models for physical inference. In this talk, I’ll survey my recent work in building machine […]
Speaker: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) Venue & Time: Aula Polivalente, Plaza Mayor UAM / 15:30 Abstract: The dark sector — comprising dark energy and dark matter — has remained a profound mystery for decades. In this talk, I will review this subject and show how string theory naturally leads to a predictive framework for a unified […]