Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC

Informal Meeting 24-26 October 2012

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TITLE: Computational Cosmology
SPEAKER: Prof. Simon White (MPA Garching, Germany)
WHEN: Wednesday, Oct 24th, 2012 @ 15:00
WHERE: Sala de Conferencias, Modulo 00 (C-0), Facultad de Ciencias
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Our knowledge of the Universe beyond the edge of our Solar system is based entirely on what our telescopes can see, and so on objects which emit light or other radiation that we can detect. Despite this, we now believe that the current Universe is made primarily of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, each of which not only emits no detectable radiation, but also appears to be fundamentally different in nature from anything we have yet been able to measure in Earth-bound laboratories.

NAVIGATING THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHALLENGE
Wednesday 17 October
16:30
IFT Blue Room

Rajan Gupta
Los Alamos National Lab

15 Oct 2012 - 19 Oct 2012


The STRONGnet 2012 Workshop on Computational Hadron Physics will be held at the Institute for Theoretical Physics UAM/CSIC in Madrid, Spain, from October 15 to 19, 2012. The workshop is the annual meeting of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) STRONGnet, funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). More info here.

26 Sep 2012 - 28 Sep 2012

As a consequence of 2012 LHC data, String Phenomenology is about to enter an exciting and more dynamical phase, in which new questions will have to be answered. The aim of this workshop is to bring together top researchers in string phenomenology and to discuss the latest developments in this field. In addition to presenting such developments we request the speakers to highlight important outstanding challenges for string phenomenology, particularly in the context of current and upcoming LHC data.
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Madrid, 17 de septiembre de 2012

La cámara digital más potente del mundo abre los ojos y recoge las primeras imágenes a la caza de la energía oscura

Hace ocho mil millones de años, la luz procedente de lejanas galaxias inició su viaje hacia la Tierra. El 12 de septiembre de 2012, esa antiquísima luz estelar terminó su camino en la cima de una montaña en Chile, donde la recién terminada Cámara para la Energía Oscura (DECam, por sus siglas en inglés), la máquina de cartografiado del cielo más poderosa jamás creada, la capturó y almacenó por primera vez.

Esa luz podría contener la respuesta a uno de los mayores misterios de la física: Por qué la expansión del universo se acelera.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) has released the largest-ever three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help astronomers explain the mysterious "dark matter" and "dark energy" that scientists know makes up 96 percent of the universe. "Data Release 9" (DR9), posted online last week, makes available the first set of data, which includes more than 800,000 spectra over 3,300 square degrees of sky, from this six-year project. All the data are available now on the Data Release 9 website at http://www.sdss3.org/dr9/. MultiDark is member of the SDSS-III collaboration and contributes to this effort supporting the participation of F. Prada at the IFT-UAM/CSIC.

More info: http://www.sdss3.org/press/dr9.php

Un equipo de científicos del CERN ha anunciado el descubrimiento de una partícula subatómica que podría ser el bosón de Higgs, una partícula considerada clave para la compresión del Universo y que ha sido perseguida durante los últimos 40 años.

• Link a las charlas del 4 de Julio donde se realiza el anuncio aquí.
• Link a participaciones de miembros del IFT en diferentes medios aquí.

The 3rd Madrid Meeting on Ultracold Atoms will be held on Friday the 1st of June 2012 at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (IFT) of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM/CSIC). These semestral informal meetings aim at bringing together researchers in the Madrid area working on cold atom physics and a wide variety of related fields. This 3rd meeting is especially structured to open the discussion to adjacent fields under the common theme of "quantum simulations".
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MultiDark ofrece a estudiantes de últimos cursos universitarios la oportunidad de integrarse durante una estancia de verano en alguno de los Grupos que forman el proyecto de investigación en el campo de la Materia Oscura.
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