Colloquium

DIFT Colloquium. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard). Abstract:  The dark sector — comprising dark energy and dark matter — has remained a profound mystery for decades. In… Read More »String Theory and the Dark Sector

DIFT Colloquium. Álvaro De Rújula (CERN & IFT UAM/CSIC). Abstract:  Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Cosmic Rays (CRs) are not difficult to comprehend. Quasars and micro-quasars… Read More »Gamma-Ray Bursts, Cosmic Rays and the Sociology of Science

Colloquium. Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA & INFN). Abstract:  In 2025 we celebrate the centenary of quantum mechanics. A scientific revolution that forever changed our vision of the… Read More »The Story of Quantum Mechanics: ‘God Plays Dice with the World’

DIFT Colloquium. Lisa Randall (Harvard University).Distinguished SO(IFT) Professor (SO Chair) Abstract:  In this talk, I review the work done with Raman Sundrum and Andreas Karch… Read More »’25 Years of Warped Geometry’ by Lisa Randall

SO(Colloquium). Misao Sasaki (IPMU, Univ. of Tokyo). Abstract:  Thanks to the rapid progress in observational cosmology, we have begun to understand the physics of the… Read More »Inflation – my personal perspective –

JOINT ICMAT-IFT Colloquium. Tomás Ortín Miguel (IFT). Abstract:  Charges, whether they conserved or not, are a basic tool used to characterize states or configurations in… Read More »Some new results on symmetries, conserved charges and black-hole physics

SO(Colloquium). Eric Linder (Berkeley). Abstract:  Cosmic acceleration dominates the behavior of the recent universe, with some fundamentally new physics at its heart. Recent data gives… Read More »Who is afraid of the Dark Energy?

SO(Colloquium). Katherine Freese (University of Texas at Austin and the Oskar Klein Centre/NORDITA). Abstract:  The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is among… Read More »Dark Matter in the Universe

JOINT ICMAT-IFT Colloquium. Thibault Damour (HES, Paris). Abstract:  Gravitational waves and Black Holes are two of the most novel predictions of Einstein’s theory of General… Read More »Gravitational Waves and Binary Black Holes

JOINT ICMAT-IFT Colloquium. Diego Cordoba (ICMAT) When: December 21, 2023, 12:00pm to 13:00pm.Location&Place: Blue Room.