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The Institute of Theoretical Physics

Fine-Tuning, Anthropics and the String Landscape

Program

 

All talks are available on streaming at this link

 

Day 1: October 8th 2014
Chairs: J. Garriga & 
B. Schellekens
Schedule Speaker Title Video Slides
10:00-10:30 Guth Eternal Inflation and the Measure Problem min 00:00 - 35:50 pdf
10:30-11:00 Hogan The QCD Scale and Cosmic Acceleration min 37:00 - 01:01:31 pdf
11:00-11:30 Break Break    
11:30-12:00 Vilenkin Topological defects from the multiverse min 00:00 - 34:25 pdf
12:00-12:30 Brown The natural selection of the cosmological constant min 35:20 - 01:07:15 pdf
12:30-13:00 Blanco-Pillado A Transdimensional Landscape min 01:08:05 - 01:39:05 pdf
13:00-15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break    
15:00-15:30 Randall Double Disk Dark Matter min 00:00 - 35:30 pdf
15:30-16:00 Kleban Unwinding the Landscape min 36:40 - 01:14:58 pdf
16:00-16:30 Break Break    
16:30-17:00 Meissner Fine-tuning and the anthropic principle in nuclear physics min 00:00 -40:00 pdf
17:00-17:30 Donoghue The importance of quark masses in landscape theories min 41:05 - 01:09:56 pdf
18:00-19:30 Reception Reception    

 

Day 2: October 9th 2014
Chairs: T. van Riet & P. Langacker
Schedule Speaker Title Video Slides
10:00-10:30 Banks The Multiverse of Holographic Space-time min 00:00 - 30:45 pdf
10:30-11:00 Bousso Why Now and Why Comparable? min 31:40 - 01:04:07  
11:00-11:30 Break Break    
11:30-12:00 Bena Tachyonic Antibranes and the Landscape min 00:00 - 32:15 pdf
12:00-12:30 Sethi Pruning the String Landscape min 33:10 - 01:01:53 pdf
12:30-13:00 Danielsson Fatal Attraction  min 01:02:50 - 01:34:06 pdf
13:00-15:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break    
15:00-15:30 Ruderman The Weak Scale from BBN min 00:00 - 34:00 pdf
15:30-16:00 Freivogel How did inflation begin? min 35:30 - 01:12:16  pdf
16:00-16:30 Break Break    
16:30-17:30 Discussion Convener: Bousso link  
         
21:00 Conference Dinner Conference Dinner    

 

Day 3: October 10th 2014
Chair: G. Dvali
Schedule Speaker Title Video Slides
10:00-10:30 Denef 7 Things To Ask Because You Can min 00:00 - 35:15  
10:30-11:00 Vercnocke de Sitter landscaping in supergravity and string theory min 36:20 - 01:05:48  pdf
11:00-11:30 Break Break    
11:30-12:00 Watari Statistics of Gauge Groups and Number of Generations min 00:00 - 28:50 pdf
12:00-12:30 Westphal Building an explicit de Sitter min 29:40 - 01:06:30 pdf
12:30-13:00 McAllister Kähler Metrics for Vacuum Statistics min 01:07:45 - 01:42:39  pdf

 


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