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.
SO(Colloquium). Tracy Slatyer (MIT) Abstract: 84% of the matter in the universe is “dark”, presently invisible to us except through its gravitational interactions. However, even… Read More »Testing decaying dark matter with the cosmic background radiation and the first stars
SO(Colloquium). Verónica Sanz (University of Sussex and IFIC). Abstract: This talk will be a discussion of our long-standing search for new phenomena in High-Energy Physics.… Read More »New Physics: Where do we stand?
SO(Colloquium). Leszek Roszkowski (Astrocent, Poland). Abstract: Nicolaus Copernicus and Half a Millennium of Modern Science. A discovery that was not supposed to happen, nor become… Read More »Nicolaus Copernicus and Half a Millennium of Modern Science
SO(Colloquium). Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (MIT). Abstract: Fusion energy using magnetic confinement devices such as tokamaks is becoming closer to its realization as an energy source. Records… Read More »Fusion energy at MIT: from empirical to first-principles understanding of burning plasmas
SO(Colloquium). Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and Institut für Kernphysik (Theoriezentrum), Technische Universität Darmstadt. Abstract: Half of the elements heavier than iron are produced… Read More »Probing heavy element nucleosynthesis through electromagnetic observations
SO(Colloquium). Peter Zoller, Center for Quantum Physics, University of Innsbruck, and IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria. Abstract: Progress in developing analog quantum simulation platforms… Read More »Programmable Quantum Simulators and Quantum Sensors with Atoms and Ions