Frontier Research


IFCA organizes a group of seminars in the context of the course 'Frontier research in astrophysics and particle physics', belonging to the "Master in Particle Physics and Physics of the Cosmos":


The aim of this course is to offer a series of seminars covering some of the most recent developments in astrophysics and particle physics, but including also a general introduction to the subject.

Each seminar consists of one hour lecture open to the scientific public, to any member of the IFCA and, in particular, to students of the master. Afterwards, there is a one-hour discussion with the master's students only. Examples of seminars on YouTube: 

 
 School Year 2021/2022

Speaker: Simona Murgia (University of California at Irvine)

Title: "Indirect DM searches or LSST overview"

Date: Friday, 27th May, 16:30


Speaker: Tim Tait (University of California at Irvine)

Title: "Particle Physics of Dark Matter: Connecting Particle Physics to Cosmology"

Date: Monday, 23th May, 16:30


Speaker: Prof. Clare Burrage (University of Nottingham)

Title: "Searching for fifth forces from cosmology to the laboratory"

Date: Monday, 25th April, 10:45


Speaker: Prof. Dr. Lidia Oskinova (University of Postdam)

Title: "Implications of gravitational wave detections for stellar astrophysics"

Date: Friday, 8th March, 10:45


Speaker: Dr. Juan Estrada (Fermilab)

Title: "Search for Dark Matter below the mass of the proton"

Date: Friday, 25th March, 16:00


Speaker: Dr. Panja Luukka (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

Title: "Semiconductors in the instrumentation of High Energy Physics"

Date: Friday, 25th February, 10:45


Speaker: Dr. Diego Sáez-Chillón (University of Valladolid)

Title: "Formation of shadows around compact objects as observational proofs of new gravitational physics"

Date: Monday, 21th February, 10:45


Speaker: Dr. Germano Bonomi, from the University of Brescia (Italy)

Title: "Antimatter: experiments and applications"

Date: Friday, 21th January, 10:45


Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas H. Reiprich, from the University of Bomm

Title: "A ~50 million lightyear warm/hot emission filament crossing through the A3391/95 galaxy cluster system?"

Date: Friday, 14th January, 10:45

 School Year 2020/2021

Speaker: Bradley Kavanagh, from IFCA

Title: "Can the Dark Matter in the Universe be Black Holes?"

Date: lunes, 31 de mayo de 2021, 10:30


Speaker: Dr. Valerie Domcke, from CERN

Title: "Gravitational waves from metastable cosmic strings"

Date: lunes, 10 de mayo de 2021, 11:45


Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer, from the Institute of Theoretical Fhysics in Madrid

Title: "Why the Standard Model is not enough"

Date: viernes, 7 de mayo de 2021, 11:45


Speaker: Dr. Esra Bulbul, from MPE (Garching)

Title: "Dark Science with Clusters of Galaxies"

Date: viernes, 30 de abril de 2021, 11:45


Speaker: Eusebio Sánchez (CIEMAT)

Title: "Large-scale structure galaxy surveys"

Date: lunes, 19 de abril de 2021, 11:45


Speaker: Eulalia Pérez (CSIC)

Title: "Estereotipos y capacidades: Cuestiones de sexo y género en ciencia"

Date: viernes, 26 de marzo de 2021, 12:00


Speaker: Dr. Juan Estrada (Fermilab)

Title: "Search for Dark Matter below the mass of the proton"

Date: viernes, 26 de febrero de 2021, 17:00


Speaker: Prof. Nabila Aghanim (IAS, Paris Sud)

Title: "Unveiling the hot baryons in tnhe large cosmic structure"

Date: lunes, 1 de febrero de 2021, 11:45


Speaker: Antonio Martín Carrillo (University College Dublin)

Title: "Gamma Ray Bursts and Gravitational Waves"

Date: viernes, 8 de enero de 2021, 11:45

 School Year 2019/20

Speaker: Juan Cruz Estrada (Fermilab, Chicago)

Title: "The hunt for dark matter bellow the mass of the proton"

Date: viernes, 25 de octubre de 2020, 10:30


Speaker: Elisabeta Lusso (Universidad de Florencia)

Title: "Active Galactic Nuclei as Cosmological Probes"

Date: viernes, 13 de diciembre de 2020, 10:30


Speaker: Licia Verde (ICC-UB)

Title: "Beyond precision cosmology"

Date: viernes, 7 de febrero de 2020, 10:30


Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer (IFT/IFCA)

Title: "Why the discovered Higgs boson is not the SM Higgs boson"

Date: viernes, 21 de febrero de 2020, 10:30


Speaker: Ileyk El Mellah

Title: "Mass transfer via wind accretion in binaries"

Date: viernes, 13 de marzo de 2020, 10:30


Speaker: Bernard Jones

Title: "The Cosmic Web"

Date: viernes, 20 de marzo de 2020, 11:30


Speaker: Javier Moldón (IAA)

Title: "Astrophysics and particle physics with SKA"

Date: miércoles, 1 de abril de 2020, 10:30


Speaker: Olga Mena (IFIC)

Title: "The Cosmic NeuTRIVIA game"

Date: lunes, 20 de abril de 2020, 10:30


Speaker: José Luis Gómez (IAA)

Title: "Seeing the invisible: imaging black holes with the Einstein 

Horizon Telescope"

Date: martes, 21 de abril de 2020, 10:30


Speaker: Aurelio Juste (IFAE)

Title: "New physics searches at ATLAS and CMS"

Date: viernes, 8 de mayo de 2020, 17:00


Speaker: Pilar Coloma (IFT)

Title: "Introduction to neutrino physics"

Date: martes, 19 mayo de 2020, 17.00


Speaker: Germano Bonomi (Università degli Studi di Brescia)

Title: "Antimatter: facts, mysteries and experiments"

Date: jueves, 28 mayo 2020, 17:00

 School Year 2018/19

Speaker: Sergio Pastor (IFIC)

Title: "Testing neutrino properties with cosmological observables"

Date: jueves, 25 de octubre de 2018, 10:30am


Speaker: Xavier Barcons (ESO)

Title:"Large infrastructures in astronomy: ESO"

Date: jueves, 10 de enero de 2019, 10:30am


Speaker: Teopisti Dafni (UniZar)

Title: "Direct detection of Dark Matter"

Date: jueves, 28 de febrero de 2019, 10:30am


Speaker: Gabriela Barenboim (IFIC)

Title: "A nu hope. Oscilaciones de neutrinos"

Date: jueves, 21 de marzo de 2019, 10:30am


Speaker: Bjoern Schaefer (Universidad de Heidelberg)

Title: "Weak Lensing"

Date: lunes, 1 de abril de 2019, 10:30am


Speaker: Tim Tait (UC Irvine)

Title: "Particle Physics of Dark Matter: Connecting Particle Physics to Cosmology"

Date: miércoles, 17 de abril de 2019, 10:30am


Speaker: Sven Heynemayer (IFCA/IFT)

Title: "Fenomenología de búsquedas de nueva física (TBD)"

Date: martes, 30 de abril de 2019, 10:30am


Speaker: Aurelio Juste (UAM)

Title: New physics searches at ATLAS and CMS"

Date: viernes, 3 de mayo de 2019, 10:30am


Speaker: Guillem Anglada-Escude (Queen Mary, London)

Title: "Exo-planetas"

Date: martes, 7 de mayo de 2019, 10:30am


Speaker: Carlos Sopuerta (IEEC)

Title: "Unveiling the Science of the Gravitational-Wave Low-Frequency Band with LISA"

Date: miércoles, 8 de mayo de 2019, 10:00am


Speaker: Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA, Garching)

Title: "Gravitational waves from the early Universe"

Date: martes, 4 de junio de 2019, 10:30am

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