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The Institute of Theoretical Physics

String Phenomenology 2015

Program

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Day 1:Monday, 8 June 2015
Chairs:  Quevedo, Graña
 
Schedule Speaker Title Video Slides
9:15 - 9:50 Registration

 

   
9:50 - 10:00 Welcome

 

   
10:00 - 10:30 Gratton

Planck 2015 Cosmology results

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10:30 - 11:00 Ahmed Updates from the BICEP/Keck Array Collaboration video pdf
11:00 - 11:30 Break

Break

   
11:30 - 12:00 Linde

Cosmological attractors and initial conditions for inflation

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12:00 - 12:30

Silverstein

Comments on CMB and GW observables from string theory

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12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break    
14:30 - 15:00

Kallosh

Alpha attractors: Planck, LHC and Dark Energy

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15:00 - 15:30

Puhm

Brane and anti-brane dynamics video pdf
15:30 - 16:00 Massai Anti-brane polarization and giant tachyons video pdf
16:00 - 16:30 Break

Break

   
16:30 - 17:00 Dudas

Backreaction of heavy moduli fields in inflationary models

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17:00 - 17:30 Blumenhagen High scale moduli stabilization and axion inflation video pdf
17:30 - 18:00 Martucci Warping the Kähler potential of flux compactifications video pdf
19:00 -  Reception Reception    
Day 2: Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Chairs: Nelson, Soler
 
Schedule Speaker Title Video Slides
9:30 - 10:00 Alcaraz

New Physics Experimental Results at the LHC

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10:00 - 10:30 Zwirner Learning from the LHC video pdf
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break    
11:00 - 11:30 Kaplan A Cosmological Solution to the Hierarchy Problem video pdf
11:30 - 12:00 Aparicio Looking for WIMPs in Type IIB video pdf
12:00 - 12:30

Takahashi

Axion and Higgs Domain Walls - inflation, GWs, and baryogenesis video pdf
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break    
14:30 - 15:00

Shiu

Fencing in the Swampland

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15:00 - 15:30

McAllister

Planckian Axions, String Theory, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture video pdf
15:30 - 16:00 Hebecker Evading the Weak Gravity Conjecture with New Models of Winding Inflation? video pdf
16:00 - 16:30 Break Break    
16:30 - 18:10 Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions    
Day 3: Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Chairs: Valandro, Morales
 
Schedule Speaker Title Video Slides
9:30 - 10:00 Palti

Discrete Symmetries and Torsion in F-theory

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10:00 - 10:30 Schäfer-Nameki U(1)s in F-theory: keeping things smooth and rational.  video pdf
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break    
11:00 - 11:30 Weigand Selection Rules and Instantons in F-theory    
11:30 - 12:00 Klevers New F-theory compactifications with U(1)'s and discrete gauge groups for particle physics video pdf
12:00 - 12:30

Grimm

Non-Abelian discrete gauge symmetries in F-theory video pdf
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break    
14:30 - 15:00

Leontaris

F-GUTs with discrete symmetry extensions

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15:00 - 15:30

Watari

Statistics of Effective Theories in F-theory Flux Compactifications video pdf
15:30 - 16:00 Bianchi Neutron Majorana mass from exotic instantons video pdf
16:00 - 16:30 Break Break    
16:30 - 18:10 Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions    
Day 4: Thursday, 11 June 2015
Chairs: Font, Gray
 
Schedule Speaker Title Video Slides
9:30 - 10:00 Halverson

Gauge Enhancement and Landscapes in G2 Compactifications of M-theory

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10:00 - 10:30 Taylor Gauge groups and matter in generic F-theory vacua video pdf
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break    
11:00 - 11:30 Garcia-Etxebarria Going beyond geometry with F-theory video pdf
11:30 - 12:00 Collinucci Probing T-branes with 3d mirror symmetry video pdf
12:00 - 12:30

Anderson

New Branches of Heterotic/F-theory Duality video pdf
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break    
14:30 - 15:00

Lukas

Yukawa Couplings in Heterotic Calabi-Yau Models

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15:00 - 15:30

Vaudrevange

Infinite number of MSSMs from heterotic line bundles? video pdf
15:30 - 16:00 Groot Nibbelink Recent developments in non-supersymmetric string model building video pdf
16:00 - 16:30 Break Break    
16:30 - 18:10 Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions    
21:00 -  Conference Dinner Conference Dinner    
Day 5: Friday, 12 June 2015
Chair: Aldazabal
 
Schedule Speaker Title Video Slides
9:30 - 10:00 Conlon

Galaxy Clusters as Tele-ALP-scopes

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10:00 - 10:30 Redondo Axions and BSM physics N/A N/A
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break    
11:00 - 11:30 Schellekens Towards a derivation of the Standard Model video pdf
11:30 - 12:00 van Riet The pros and cons of antibrane SUSY-breaking video pdf
12:00 - 

Quevedo

Overview Talk video pdf

 


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