Stringy Geometry

14 Sept 2015, 08:00 → 25 Sept 2015, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

02.430 (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics<br>Johannes Gutenberg University)

The scientific program will be focused on several approaches devoted, in recent years, to the understanding of the geometrical aspects underlying perturbative and non-perturbative String Theory. The subject is of relevance not only from a purely theoretical point of view, where it could give insights on the very nature of String/M-Theory, but also at a more `phenomenological' level, driving toward a better formulation of the structure of the lower dimensional models emerging from ten or eleven dimensions.

Dates of Participants Indico_Stringy_Geometry.pdf

Executive Summary finalreport20151109.pdf

Monday 14 September

Welcome

1 Loops in exceptional field theory

Speaker: Dr Axel Kleinschmidt

Slides MainzEFTAxelKleinschmidt.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

2 Doubled-yet gauged, Semi-covariance and Twofold spins

Speaker: Prof. Jeong-Hyuck Park

Slides Park@Mainz

Tuesday 15 September

3 Classical and Quantum Aspects of the String Double Sigma Model

Speaker: Dr Franco Pezzella

Slides Mainz(1).pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

4 Supersymmetric gauged double field theory: systematic derivation by virtue of twist

Speaker: Dr Imtak Jeon

Slides ImtakJeon_MITP.pdf

Wednesday 16 September

5 String origin and Chern Simons duals of N=8 dyonic supergravity

Speaker: Dr Oscar Varela

Slides 1509_Mainz.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

6 Asymptotic Conformal Symmetry and Gravity Localisation on Braneworlds

Speaker: Prof. Kellogg Stelle

Slides Stelle-Mainz.pdf

Thursday 17 September

7 Windings, Enhancing and DFT

Speaker: Prof. Gerardo Aldazabal

Slides windingsDFTfnn-expanded.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

8 A twistor transform for exceptional field theory

Speaker: Prof. Martin Cederwall

Friday 18 September

9 T-folds, T-fects and 6d SCFTs

Speaker: Dr Stefano Massai

11:00 Coffee Break

10 AdS solutions in various dimensions from pure spinor methods

Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Tomasiello

Slides tomasiello.pdf

Monday 21 September

11 On (4+6)-dimensional SUSY vacua with geometric or non-geometric fluxes

Speaker: Dr David Andriot

Slides Andriot.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

12 New AdS/CFT duals through non-Abelian T-duality

Speaker: Prof. Yolanda Lozano

Slides Mainz2015.pdf

Tuesday 22 September

13 Complex geometry and M-theory non-geometric compactification backgrounds

Speaker: Dr Carlos Shahbazi

11:00 Coffee Break

14 Double field theory and strings at the self-dual radius

Speaker: Dr Mariana Grana

Slides Grana.pdf

Wednesday 23 September

15 Double Field Theory and Stringy Geometry

Speaker: Prof. Chris Hull

11:00 Coffee Break

16 Generalising Calabi-Yau geometries

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Waldram

Slides mainz2015.pdf

Thursday 24 September

17 IIB Supergravity and the E_6(6) Covariant Vector-Tensor Hierarchy

Speaker: Prof. Bernard DeWit

Slides Mainz_2015.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

18 Topological string theory in a scaling limit and logarithmic corrections to BPS entropy

Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Cardoso

Friday 25 September

19 M theory black holes and 3d gauge theories

Speaker: Prof. Alberto Zaffaroni

Slides ZaffaroniBHMainz.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

20 F-theory at order alpha’^3

Speaker: Prof. Ruben Minasian

Slides Minasian.pdf