24–28 Jun 2019
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
There is a live webcast for this event.

Hope or No Hope for a String Landscape?

27 Jun 2019, 10:00
30m
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Speaker

Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago)

Description

Whether string theory admits a multiverse of de Sitter solutions that look approximately like our universe is a hotly debated current topic. I will overview the basics of landscape constructions and explain my view on this question. I will also outline a possible construction of de Sitter solutions.

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