String Phenomenology 2019

from Monday, 24 June 2019 (08:00) to Friday, 28 June 2019 (18:30)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 Jun 2019
25 Jun 2019
26 Jun 2019
27 Jun 2019
28 Jun 2019
AM
09:00 Branes and the Swampland - Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin & HKUST)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:30 Swampland conjectures at the limits in field space - Thomas Grimm   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:00 A Strong WGC from the Modular Bootstrap - Miguel Montero (KU Leuven)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Instantons and Infinite Distances - Fernando Gabriel Marchesano Buznego (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (ES))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:30 The Two Faces of T-branes - Raffaele Savelli   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:00 A Swampland Update - Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:30 Asymptotic flux vacua and the Swampland - Irene Valenzuela   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:00 The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Repulsive Forces - Ben Heidenreich   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 de Sitter vacua in string theory: the landscape or the swampland? - Mariana Grana (Unknown)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:30 Three Swampland Variations - Ralph Blumenhagen   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:00 Distance Conjecture and Potentials - Eran Palti   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:30 A discrete life in the swampland - Angel Uranga (IFT, Madrid)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:00 Generic matter and global gauge group structure in 6D and 4D supergravity and F-theory models - Washington Taylor   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:30 --- Conference Photo ---
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Inflation as an Information Bottleneck - Alexander Westphal (DESY Hamburg)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:30 Polarisation everywhere - Thomas Van Riet   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:00 On Towers and Scalars - Luis Ibanez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:30 String theory compactifications with sources - Alessandro Tomasiello (University of Milano-Bicocca)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:00 Hope or No Hope for a String Landscape? - Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Complexity and Random Matrix Approximations - James Halverson   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:30 Deep Reinforcement Learning and the Type IIA Landscape - Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:00 What’s new with G2? - Sakura Schafer-Nameki   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
09:30 A 3-form exploration of the landscape - Luca Martucci (University of Padova)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:00 Anomalies in various dimensions - Iñaki Garcia-Etxebarria   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Moduli Stars and False Vacuum Bubbles - Fernando Quevedo (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:30 Landscape of F-theory Standard Models - Mirjam Cvetic (University of Pennsylvania)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
PM
12:00 Chern-Simons and Heterotic Superpotentials - James Gray (Virginia Tech)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Constraining the early universe with gravitational waves - Chiara Caprini (APC Paris)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:00 Dark Energy in String Theory - Susha Louise Parameswaran (University of Liverpool)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:30 de Sitter Vacua from Ten Dimensions - Liam McAllister   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 R-Parity Violating Decays of Chargino and Neutralino LSPs in the B-L MSSM - Burt Ovrut (University of Pennsylvania)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:00 Line Bundles in String Model Building - Andre Lukas (U)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:30 A new approach to heterotic moduli and dualities - Lara Anderson   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
18:30 --- Reception CERN Restaurant 1 ---
12:00 Non-supersymmetric D-branes - Timm Michael Wrase (Vienna University of Technology)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session (until 16:00) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:30 Moduli stabilisation and inflation in a Type IIB/F-theory framework - Georgios Leontaris (University of Ioannina (GR))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:45 Non-Minimal M-flation - Dr Amjad Ashoorioon (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:00 Two-field Cosmological alpha-attractors with Noether Symmetry - Lilia Anguelova (Utrecht University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:15 O(D,D) completion of the Friedmann equations - Stephen Angus (IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:30 Axion RG flows and a bound on axion excursions - Lukas Witkowski (Laboratoire APC)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:45 Transplanckian axion monodromy!? - José Calderón Infante (Instituto de Física Teórica (UAM/CSIC))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:30
Parallel Session (until 16:00) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:30 Walls of Marginal Stability and the Swampland Distance Conjecture - Markus Dierigl (Utrecht University)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:45 Testing the weak gravity conjecture in type I strings with broken supersymmetry - Quentin Bonnefoy   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:00 The Swampland Distance Conjecture for Kähler moduli and emergence - Pierre Corvilain (Utrecht U)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:15 A Strong Scalar Weak Gravity Conjecture and Some Implications - Eduardo Gonzalo   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:30 The Swampland Distance Conjecture and Towers of Tensionless Branes - Alvaro Herraez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/ Instituto de Física Teórica UAM)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:45 Swampland Distance Conjecture for One-Parameter Calabi-Yau Threefolds - Abhinav Joshi (University of Bonn)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:30
Parallel Session (until 16:00) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
14:30 No-Go theorems for ekpyrosis from ten-dimensional supergravity - Kunihito Uzawa (Kwansei Gakuin University)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
14:45 Black Hole Superradiance Constraints on the KS Axiverse - Viraf Mehta (University of Goettingen)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:00 Moduli Stars - Dr Francesco Muia   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:15 Moduli Portal between visible and hidden sectors - Igor Broeckel (University of Bologna)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:30 Spontaneous dark-matter mass generation along cosmological attractors in string theory - Thibaut Coudarchet (Ecole Polytechnique)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:45 Shift Symmetric Orbital Inflation - Yvette Welling (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Parallel Session (until 18:00) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:30 U(1)R inspired inflation model in no-scale supergravity - Prof. Shaaban Khalil Ibrahim (ENHEP Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (EG))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:45 Holography, relaxions and the self-tuning of the cosmological constant - Yuta Hamada (University of Crete)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:00 The supersymmetric anti-D3-brane action in KKLT - Niccolo Cribiori (Vienna University of Technology)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:15 On the stability of SUSY breaking Warped Throats. - Eduardo Garcia-Valdecasas Tenreiro (IFT UAM-CSIC)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:30 Geometrical destabilisation of light fields in String Inflation - Veronica Guidetti (University of Bologna)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:45 A Landscape of AdS Flux Vacua - Joan Quirant (IFT (UAM/CSIC))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:30
Parallel Session (until 18:00) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
16:30 Carving out the Swampland of 6D SCFTs - Florent Baume (IFT Madrid)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
16:45 A CICY scan for orientifolds - Federico Carta (DESY)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
17:00 Fibers and 5d SCFTs - Craig Lawrie (University of Pennsylvania)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
17:15 Yukawa Hierarchies in Global F-theory Models - Ling Lin (University of Pennsylvania)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
17:30 F-theory on quotient elliptic threefolds - Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann (Virginia Tech)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
17:45 T-branes in G2 backgrounds - Gianluca Zoccarato (University of Pennsylvania)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
16:30
Parallel Session (until 18:00) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:30 Gravitational waves from axion clumps - Sichun Sun (Sapienza University of Rome)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:45 Observing axion potentials through gravitational waves - Evangelos Sfakianakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
17:00 Wavefunctions and their implications on S^2 with flux and branes - Yoshiyuki Tatsuta (Waseda Univ.)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
17:15 Matrix model and Yukawa couplings on the magnetized noncommutative torus - Honda Masaki (Waseda University)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
17:30 Discrete Flavor Symmetries from Orbifold GUTs - Andreas Muetter (Technical University of Munich)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
17:45 Classification of Left-Right Symmetric Heterotic String vacua - Benjamin Percival (liverpool)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
12:00 The Flatness of Axionic Potentials and a 10d Approach to KKLT - Arthur Hebecker (Heidelberg University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
15:00 The String Landscape, the Swampland, and the Observed Universe - Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 --- Guided tour AD ---
17:00 --- Guided tour CMS ---
17:30 --- Guided Tour ALICE ---
20:00 --- Dinner at Cercle du Rhone ---
12:00 Dualities in and from Machine Learning - Sven Krippendorf (University of Oxford)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Parallel Session (until 16:00) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:30 Uplifting Runaways - Severin Luest (IPhT, CEA Saclay)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:45 On non-perturbative effects and moduli stabilization from 10D - Dr Ander Retolaza (IPhT CEA Saclay)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:00 On gaugino condensation in ten dimensions - Pablo Soler (ITP Heidelberg)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:15 Gaugino condensation and small uplifts in KKLT - Jakob Moritz (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:30 Scaling limits of dS vacua and the swampland - Christoph Roupec (TU Vienna)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:45 Consistent truncation and de Sitter space from gravitational instantons - Robin Terrisse (Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:30
Parallel Session (until 16:00) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:30 A Tower Weak Gravity Conjecture from Infrared Consistency - Stefano Andriolo (Hong Kong university of science and technology)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:45 Supersymmetry Breaking Warped Throats and the Weak Gravity Conjecture - Ginevra Buratti (Instituto de Fisica Teorica (IFT) UAM-CSIC)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:00 Swampland Variations on a Theme by KKLT - Daniel Klaewer (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:15 (Mis-)aligned Winding in and applying Genetic Algorithms to Type IIB String Theory - Andreas Schachner (Heidelberg University)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:30 Infinite Distances and the Axion Weak Gravity Conjecture - Damian Van de Heisteeg (Utrecht University)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
15:45 Instantons and Infinite Distances - Max Wiesner (IFT UAM-CSIC)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:30
Parallel Session (until 16:00) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
14:30 M5 branes and Theta Functions - Rui Sun (Yau mathematical science center, Tsinghua University)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
14:45 Cosmological constant at finite string coupling in F-theory flux compactification - Hajime Otsuka (KEK)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:00 Branes, quiver gauge theories and discrete symmetries - Jamie Rogers (Liverpool University)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:15 Multi-field Inflation in High-Slope Potentials - Robert Rosati (University of Texas at Austin)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:30 Triangulating the Landscape - Andres Rios (Cornell University)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:45 What does Inflation say about Dark Energy given the Swampland Conjectures? - Jacob Leedom (University of California, Berkeley)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Parallel Session (until 18:00) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:30 The dS Swampland Conjecture, Non-BPS branes and K-theory - Max Brinkmann (MPI Munich)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:45 Inflation and the Swampland Distance Conjecture - Dr Marco Scalisi (KU Leuven)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:00 Thraxions: Ultralight Throat Axions - Sasha Leonhardt (Heidelberg University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:15 Instantons Away From Equilibrium - John Stout (University of Amsterdam)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:30 Effective multi-axion cosmology and constraints from black hole superradiance - Matthew Stott (King's College London)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:30
Parallel Session (until 18:00) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
16:30 Local Heterotic Reductions - Eirik Eik Svanes (University of Oxford)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
16:45 SCFT sectors in F-theory landscape - Dr Yinan Wang (Mathematics, University of Oxford)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
17:00 Topological formulae for line bundle cohomology - Andrei Constantin (University of Oxford)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
17:15 Index Formulae for Line Bundle Cohomology on Complex Surfaces - Callum Brodie   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
17:30 The Calabi-Yau Hypersurface Landscape - Mehmet Demirtas (Cornell University)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
12:00 String Phenomenology From a Worldsheet Perspective - Alon Faraggi (University of Liverpool)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Flavour as probe of New Physics - Marco Nardecchia (CERN)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:00 String axiverse and gamma-ray spectral modulation of galactic pulsars - Kiwoon Choi   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:30 F-theory and Dark Energy - Jonathan Heckman   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Higher Spin Theories, AdS Distances and the Swampland - Dieter Luest (Munich-University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:00 Sypersymmetry breaking and the swampland - Emilian Dudas (Ecole Polytechnique)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:30 Unified Flavor- and CP-Symmetries from String Theory - Hans Peter Nilles (Univ. Bonn)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)