15–17 Jan 2020
Santiago de Compostela
Europe/Zurich timezone

The Swampland program in String Theory

15 Jan 2020, 15:00
1h
Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela

Hospederia de San Martiño Pinario Plaza de la Inmaculada, 3 15704 Santiago de Compostela

Speaker

Irene Valenzuela

Description

In this talk I will review the most important Swampland Conjectures and their string theoretical motivation. This includes the Weak Gravity and the Distance Conjectures among others. I will discuss the evidence that we have gathered in the past in support of these conjectures, as well as recent developments based on the asymptotic structure of moduli spaces of string compactifications. I will also comment on the phenomenological implications and the relation between the different conjectures.

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