XXXI IFT Xmas Workshop

9 Dec 2025, 10:00 → 11 Dec 2025, 13:00 Europe/Madrid

IFT: sala azul https://maps.app.goo.gl/Beo6LzXYK8AzLZd19

Alejandro Bermudez (IFT) , David Cerdeño , Gregorio Herdoíza (IFT, UAM-CSIC) , Miguel Montero (IFT) , Pilar Coloma (IFT UAM/CSIC) , Sven Heinemeyer (IFT/CSIC (Madrid)) , Yashar Akrami (IFT)

Description

From December 9th to December 11th 2025 we will celebrate the XXXI edition of our annual Christmas Workshop at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) UAM-CSIC.

Leading experts will meet at the IFT to discuss recent developments in (astro) particle physics, phenomenology, cosmology, string theory, and quantum information.

Tuesday, 9 December
- 10:00 → 11:00
  
  Formal Gravity (tbc) 1h
  
  Speaker: Yolanda Lozano (U. Oviedo)
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Interdiciplinary II (tbc) 1h
  
  Speaker: Alexander Westphal (DESY)
- 12:30 → 14:30
  
  Lunch break 2h
- 14:30 → 15:30
  
  Can Top Stars tell a Fuzz-hole from a Black-ball? 1h
  
  Speaker: Massimo Bianchi (Rome)
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 17:00
  
  BSM searches at the intensity frontier 1h
  
  Speaker: Ryan Plestid (CERN)
- 17:30 → 18:30
  
  Reception 1h
Wednesday, 10 December
- 10:00 → 11:00
  
  Fleeting messengers: neutrinos in KM3NeT 1h
  
  Speaker: Rebecca Gozzini (IFIC)
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 12:30
  
  Quantum sensors for GW and DM 1h
  
  Speaker: Diego Blas (IFAE)
- 12:30 → 14:30
  
  Lunch break 2h
- 14:30 → 15:30
  
  Precision Calculations for Higgs Production at Colliders 1h
  
  Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (MPI Munich)
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:00 → 17:00
  
  On the infrared behavior of QFTs in de Sitter: loops, logarithms and the stochastic formalism 1h
  
  Speaker: Gonzalo Palma (U. Chile)
- 21:00 → 23:59
  
  Workshop dinner 2h 59m
Thursday, 11 December
- 10:00 → 11:00
  
  Hadron Physics (tbc) 1h
  
  Speaker: Carsten Urbach (U. Bonn)
- 11:00 → 12:00
  
  QI theory (tbc) 1h
  
  Speaker: Aram Harrow (MIT)
- 12:00 → 12:30
  
  Coffee break 30m