Conveners
Plenary: 1
- Liam McAllister
Plenary: 2
- Ivonne Zavala
Plenary: 3
- Arthur Hebecker
Plenary: 4
- Mariana Grana
Plenary: 5
- Kimyeong Lee
Plenary: 6
- Stuart Raby
Plenary: 7
- Piljin Yi
Plenary: 8
- Wolfgang Lerche
Plenary: 9
- Fernando Quevedo
Plenary: 10
- Mirjam Cvetic
Plenary: 11
- Antonio Padilla
Plenary: 12
- Timm Wrase
Plenary: 13
- Susha Parameswaran
Plenary: 14
- Dieter Lust
In this talk, I will discuss the implications of Swampland quantum gravity constraints on various aspects of cosmic acceleration. Specifically, based on the results of recent and ongoing work, I will show that the Swampland Distance Conjecture alone imposes a wide range of stringent limitations on both inflation and dark energy.
I will present ongoing work with I. Valenzuela on consistency checks of the DGKT scenario coming from the dynamics of the D4-branes that mediate flux transitions and that parametrize the moduli space of the dual field theory
We study the vacua of 4d heterotic toroidal orbifolds using effective theories consisting of an overall Kahler modulus, the dilaton, and non-perturbative corrections to both the superpotential and Ka ̈hler potential that respect modular invariance. We prove three de Sitter no-go theorems for several classes of vacua and thereby substantiate and extend previous conjectures. Additionally, we...
We discuss the formation of goldstino condensates in theories with spontaneously broken supersymmetry. Our analysis shows that the standard Volkov-Akulov model with a large number of non-linear supersymmetries develops an instability towards such a condensation.
We discuss recent progress on using methods in topology to study questions in string compactification, with an eye towards applications in string phenomenology.
In this talk I will introduce tameness as a generalized finiteness principle and explore its appearance in perturbative as well as non-perturbative quantum field theories. Several swampland conjectures regarding tameness are formulated and tested in solvable models. As an application the structures arising from tameness are used to create a well-defined notion of complexity.
Modular transformations of string theory are shown to play a crucial role in the discussion of discrete flavor symmetries in the Standard Model. They include CP transformations and provide a unification of CP with traditional flavor symmetries within the framework of the eclectic flavor scheme. The unified flavor group is non-universal in moduli space and exhibits the phenomenon of "Local...
I will give a brief overview of what symmetry theories are,I will give a brief overview of what symmetry theories are, and how we can compute them in string theory constructions.
The species scale provides a generic UV cut-off in quantum gravity. In this talk I discuss a thermodynamic interpretation of the species scale in terms of species entropy and species temperature. Species thermodynamics is closely related to recent swampland constraints.
In this talk, I'll present the method of measuring higher (s>2) spin spectator field during inflation and parity violation from the four-point correlation function of galaxy clustering.
