String Theory, Geometry and String Model Building

10 Sept 2018, 08:00 → 21 Sept 2018, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

02.430 (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University)

This MITP program brings together mathematicians and theoretical physicists working at the interface of geometry and string theory. The focus will be on new developments in Calabi-Yau varieties and related supersymmetric backgrounds such as flux geometries and so-called non-geometries, as well as their applications to compactifications of string theory as models for particle physics and cosmology.

Executive Summary (PDF) String13.pdf

Participants (PDF) IndicoParticipantslist_STGEO2018.pdf

Timetable / Abstracts Timetable

Monday 10 September

10:00 → 11:00 GANs for generating EFT models

Speaker: Sven Krippendorf

14:00 → 15:00 Aspects of F-theory from CICYs

Speaker: James Gray

Tuesday 11 September

10:00 → 11:00 Classical de Sitter solutions, dimensional reduction and the swampland

Speaker: David Andriot

14:00 → 15:00 Singularities in F-theory

Speaker: Antonella Grassi

Wednesday 12 September

10:00 → 11:00 Heterotic/Heterotic and Heterotic/F-theory Duality

Speaker: Lara Anderson

14:00 → 15:00 Calabi-Yau Manifolds and SU(3) Structure

Speaker: Fabian Ruehle

Thursday 13 September

10:00 → 11:00 Lefschetz fibrations and symplectic structures

Speaker: Gil Cavalcanti

14:00 → 15:00 Instanton corrections to M theory and G2 manifolds

Speaker: Magdalena Larfors

16:00 → 17:00 Formulae for Line Bundle Cohomology on Calabi-Yau Threefolds

Speaker: Andrei Constatin

Friday 14 September

10:00 → 10:30 Attractor Points and Zeta Functions

Speaker: Mohamed Elmi

10:30 → 11:00 NS5-branes and Line Bundle Models in Heterotic/F-Theory Duality

Speaker: Callum Brodie

14:00 → 15:00 Evidence for Infinetely Diverse Non-Convex Mirrors

Speaker: Tristan Hubsch

Monday 17 September

10:00 → 11:00 Supersymmetric Higgs-Sneutrino Inflation and Reheating

Speaker: Burt Ovrut

14:00 → 15:00 Moduli and obstruciots of N=1 heterotic backgrounds

Speaker: Anthony Ashmore

Tuesday 18 September

10:00 → 11:00 Canonical metrics on holomorphic Courant agebroids

Speaker: Mario Garcia-Fernandez

14:00 → 15:00 Non-geometric Calabi-Yau Backgrounds in String Theory

Speaker: Chris Hull

Wednesday 19 September

08:00 → 09:00 GCG beyond supergravity

Speaker: Ruben Minasian

14:00 → 15:00 G-structure symmetries and anomalies in (1,0) non-linear sigma-models

Speaker: Marc-Antoine Fiset

15:00 → 16:00 Exceptional Complex Structures and their Deformations

Speaker: David Tennyson

Thursday 20 September

10:00 → 11:00 The Universal Geometry of Heterotic Vacua

Speaker: Jock McOrist

14:00 → 15:00 Limits of K3 metrics, with applications to G2 compactification

Speaker: Dave Morrison

Friday 21 September

10:00 → 11:00 Counting Associatives in G2 manifolds and Non-Pertubative Superpotentials

Speaker: Eirik Eik Svanes

12:00 → 13:00 Deformations of generalised structures and exactly marginal deformations of SCFT's

Speaker: Michela Petrini