String Phenomenology 2023

from Monday, July 3, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Friday, July 7, 2023 (5:45 PM)
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 3, 2023
Jul 4, 2023
Jul 5, 2023
Jul 6, 2023
Jul 7, 2023
AM
8:55 AM
Opening Remarks (until 9:00 AM)
9:00 AM
Plenary - Liam McAllister (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Challenges of Stringy de Sitter and Asymptotic Acceleration - Arthur Hebecker  
9:30 AM Scalar potentials from (classical) string theory - David Andriot  
10:00 AM Asymptotic limits in moduli space - Timm Wrase  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary - Ivonne Zavala (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Late-time Attractors and Cosmic Acceleration - Gary Shiu  
11:30 AM Quantum Gravity Constraints on Cosmic Acceleration - Marco Scalisi  
12:00 PM A non-perturbative test of the DGKT vacuum - Miguel Montero  
9:00 AM
Plenary - Kimyeong Lee (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Generalized Symmetries, Gravity, and Topological Non-Decoupling - Jonathan Heckman  
9:30 AM Generalized Charges of Symmetries - Lakshya Bhardwaj  
10:00 AM Tameness and Complexity in QFTs - Lorenz Schlechter  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary - Stuart Raby (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM The Taste of Flavor of (heterotic) string theory - Hans Peter Nilles  
11:30 AM Modular weights of matter fields in LEEFT from type II string theory - Tatsuo Kobayashi  
12:00 PM Aspects of potential matching across heterotic transitions - James Gray  
9:00 AM
Plenary - Piljin Yi (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Geometry of Higher Symmetries on (Non-) Compact F-/M-theory - Mirjam Cvetic  
9:30 AM Fermionic higher-form symmetries - Yi-Nan Wang  
10:00 AM An introduction to symmetry theories - Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary - Wolfgang Lerche (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Infinite distance limits with defects - Timo Weigand  
11:30 AM Taxonomy of Infinite Distance Limits - Ben Heidenreich  
12:00 PM Tadpoles and gauge symmetries - Severin Lust  
9:00 AM
Plenary - Mirjam Cvetic (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Species Entropy and Thermodynamics - Dieter Lust  
9:30 AM Bounds on Species Scale and the Distance Conjecture - Max Wiesner  
10:00 AM Sliding Towers, Dualities and the Species Scale - Irene Valenzuela  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary - Antonio Padilla (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Higher (s>2) spin field and parity measurement from galaxies - Donghui Jeong  
11:30 AM De Sitter Dialectics - Susha Parameswaran  
12:00 PM D-branes, Dark Energy and Pulsar Timing Arrays - Ivonne Zavala  
9:00 AM
Plenary - Timm Wrase (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM On Classical de Sitter Solutions and Quantum Transitions - Fernando Quevedo  
9:30 AM Axion-Photon couplings in type IIB string theory - Jakob Moritz  
10:00 AM Torsion in cohomology and dimensional reduction - Fernando Marchesano  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary - Susha Parameswaran (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Imprints of string theory in low energy observables - Sang Hui Im  
11:30 AM Ultralight axions in string cosmology - Michele Cicoli  
12:00 PM D-term Uplift, Moduli Fixing and SVD in Heterotic-String Vacua - Alon Faraggi  
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Plenary - Arthur Hebecker (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Heterotic de Sitter Beyond Modular Symmetry - Alexander Westphal  
2:30 PM Minimal matter supergravity and asymmetric orbifold - Yuta Hamada  
3:00 PM Goldstino Condensation - Fotis Farakos  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Plenary - Mariana Grana (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM New Calabi-Yau Manifolds from Genetic Algorithms - Andre Lukas  
4:30 PM A new perspective on flux vacua - Sven Krippendorf  
5:00 PM Massive string towers, level crossing, and black hole attractors - Fabian Ruehle  
6:00 PM --- Reception ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Parallel - Tatsuo Kobayashi (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Upper bound on the Atiyah–Singer index from tadpole cancellation - Hajime Otsuka  
2:15 PM Blow-up of magnetized T^2/Z_N and index theorem - Maki Takeuchi  
2:30 PM Small Kinetic Mixing in String Theory - Ruben Kuespert  
2:45 PM Phenomenology in magnetized orbifold models - Shohei Takada  
3:00 PM A dataset of R-symmetric Wess-Zumino models - Zheng Sun  
3:15 PM Meson scattering from string scattering in holographic QCD - Dorin Weissman  
2:00 PM
Parallel - Jonathan Heckman (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Reflection 7-branes and how to use them - Markus Dierigl  
2:15 PM The Branes Behind Generalized Symmetry Operators - Max Huebner  
2:30 PM Back to Heterotic Little String Theories on ALE Spaces - Muyang Liu  
2:45 PM Geometric Bounds on the 1-Form Gauge Sector - Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann  
3:00 PM Towards a complete classification of 6D supergravities - Gregory Loges  
3:15 PM Aspects of string theory compactifications with non trivial torsional homology - Matteo Zatti  
2:00 PM
Parallel - Gary Shiu (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Gravitational positivity bounds: implications for the swampland program - Junsei Tokuda  
2:15 PM Gravitational Positivity Bounds on Dark Gauge Boson - Sota Sato  
2:30 PM Massive spin-2 particles and the swampland - Joan Quirant  
2:45 PM Gravitino dynamics and the Swampland - Gabriele Casagrande  
3:00 PM AdS scale separation and the distance conjecture - Vincent Van Hemelryck  
3:15 PM on/off scale separation - George Tringas  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Parallel - Fabian Ruehle (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM Axion-Photon Couplings in the String Landscape - Naomi Gendler  
4:15 PM Line bundle cohomology - Andrei Constantin  
4:30 PM Decoding Nature with Nature's Tools - Thomas Harvey  
4:45 PM How many Calabi-Yau manifolds are known? Placing upper and lower bounds on the Kreuzer-Skarke list. - Cristofero Fraser-Taliente  
5:00 PM FTheoryTools: A computational tool for analysis of singular elliptic fibrations - Andrew Turner  
5:15 PM Fano 3-Folds, Ypk Manifolds and Brane Brick Models - Rak-Kyeong Seong  
4:00 PM
Parallel - Alexander Westphal (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM The cosmological constant is probably still zero - Antonio Padilla  
4:15 PM Smearing and Unsmearing KKLT AdS Vacua - Nicolas Kovensky  
4:30 PM Smearing and Unsmearing KKLT AdS Vacua Part II - Dimitrios Toulikas  
4:45 PM Fayet-Iliopoulos D-Term in Non-Supersymmetric Heterotic String Orbifolds - Alonzo Rodrigo Diaz Avalos  
5:00 PM Interpolation and cosmological constant in non-susy heterotic strings - Yuichi Koga  
5:15 PM Life-time of Metastable Vacuum in String Theory and Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture - Sohei Tsukahara  
4:00 PM
Parallel - Luca Martucci (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM Entropy bounds and the (Species Scale) Distance Conjecture - Alvaro Herraez  
4:15 PM The Quantum Gravity cut-off in a 'Nutshell' - Alberto Castellano  
4:30 PM On the origin of species thermodynamics - Niccolo Cribiori  
4:45 PM EFT strings and emergence - Luca Melotti  
5:00 PM Dark Graviton Dark Matter - Georges Obied  
5:15 PM Black hole extremality in nonlinear electrodynamics - Yoshihiko Abe  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Plenary - Fernando Quevedo (until 3:25 PM)
2:00 PM Carving out the open string effective field theory - Yu-tin Huang  
2:30 PM Non-supersymmetric heterotic strings: gauge symmetry enhancement and one-loop cosmological constant in toroidal compactifications - Mariana Grana  
3:00 PM GenHET - Mariana Grana  
3:25 PM
Conference Photo (until 3:30 PM)
3:30 PM --- Coffee Break ---
6:30 PM --- Conference Dinner ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Parallel - Kang-Sin Choi (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Full Landscape of Supersymmetric Pati-Salam Models from Intersection Brane Worlds - Rui Sun  
2:15 PM Flavor, CP and Metaplectic Modular Symmetries in Type IIB Chiral Flux Vacua - Takafumi Kai  
2:30 PM Quark and lepton hierarchies from S4' modular flavor symmetry - Junichiro Kawamura  
2:45 PM Root bundles: Applications to F-theory Standard model - Martin Bies  
3:00 PM Towards natural and realistic E7 GUTs in F-theory - Shing Yan Li  
3:15 PM Hairy Black Holes by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking - Miok Park  
2:00 PM
Parallel - Jakob Moritz (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM No Asymptotic Acceleration without Higher-Dimensional de Sitter Vacua - Gerben Venken  
2:15 PM Number Theory and the Road to Heterotic Vacua - Nicole Righi  
2:30 PM Challenges and new perspectives on dS vacua - Simon Schreyer  
2:45 PM Characterizing negative scalar potentials: an Anti-Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture - Ludwig Horer  
3:00 PM Perturbative de Sitter and Brane Inflation - Mario Ramos Hamud  
3:15 PM Sharpening the boundaries between flux landscape and Swampland by tadpole charge - Keiya Ishiguro  
2:00 PM
Parallel - Niccolo Cribiori (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM The Asymptotic Weak Gravity Conjecture in M-theory - Alessandro Mininno  
2:15 PM Towards AdS Distances in String Theory - Nicolo Petri  
2:30 PM Conserved Currents at Infinite Distance in the Conformal Manifold - Jose Calderon Infante  
2:45 PM Running Decompactification, Sliding Towers and the Distance Conjecture - Ignacio Ruiz  
3:00 PM Small Black Hole Explosions - Roberta Angius  
3:15 PM Emergent Ensemble Symmetries in Holography and Swampland - Jacob Leedom  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Parallel - Sungjay Lee (until 5:45 PM)
4:00 PM $(p-1)$-Bracket for D$p$-branes in Large R-R Field Background - Chen-Te Ma  
4:15 PM Generalised Bismut-Lichnerowicz formulae and quantum corrections in string theory - Yi Zhang  
4:30 PM Strings, D-branes, and supergravities from supermembranes with discrete spectra - Camilo las Heras  
4:45 PM Free Fermionic Webs of Heterotic T-folds - Benjamin Percival  
5:00 PM Wilson loops, holomorphic anomaly equations and blowup equations - Xin Wang  
5:15 PM Finiteness of flux vacua and the tadpole conjecture - Jeroen Monnee  
5:30 PM Reducing differential systems for Feynman integrals and cosmological correlators - Arno Hoefnagels  
4:00 PM
Parallel - Jai-chan Hwang (until 5:45 PM)
4:00 PM Perturbations in O(D,D) string cosmology - Stephen Angus  
4:15 PM Progress in constructing KKLT de Sitter vacua - Andreas Schachner  
4:30 PM Late-time accelerating cosmologies - Flavio Tonioni  
4:45 PM Cosmic Acceleration and Turns in the Swampland - Guoen Nian  
5:00 PM Implications of the gravitino mass/distance conjecture on inflation - Takahiro Terada  
5:15 PM Kination in String Theory - Filippo Revello  
5:30 PM A Boltzmann equation approach to string thermodynamics - Gonzalo Villa  
4:00 PM
Parallel - Erik Plauschinn (until 5:45 PM)
4:00 PM Heterotic strings and holomorphic factorization - Hector Parra De Freitas  
4:15 PM Affine algebras at infinite distance limits in the Heterotic string - Veronica Collazuol  
4:30 PM Open-Moduli Infinite-Distance Limits in Six-Dimensional F-Theory - Rafael Alvarez-Garcia  
4:45 PM Cosmological Constant Extrema in the O(16)xO(16) Heterotic String on S^1 - Bernardo Fraiman  
5:00 PM Non-geometric flux compactifications and the Swampland - Muthusamy Rajaguru  
5:15 PM Global Anomaly Cancellation in Non-Supersymmetric Strings - Matilda Delgado  
5:30 PM Cobordism and Bubble of Nothing Decays in String Theory - Bjoern Friedrich  
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
2:00 PM
Plenary - Dieter Lust (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Heterotic/F theory dual SU(5) model - Stuart Raby  
2:30 PM Emergence in Quantum Gravity and the Scales of Fundamental Physics - Luis Ibanez  
3:00 PM QG bounds, Gauss-Bonnet & wormholes - Luca Martucci