Speaker
Dr
Anthony Ashmore
(University of Chicago & Sorbonne Universite)
Description
Little is known about explicit metrics on Calabi-Yau manifolds, leaving us unable, for example, to compute particle masses or couplings in string models. I will review recent progress on using numerical methods to compute these metrics and the spectrum of the Laplacian on these spaces. I will finish with an example of what one can do with this new "data", namely probing the swampland distance conjecture in complex structure moduli space.
